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    Species Accepted

    Oligosoma suteri (Boulenger, 1906)

    Egg Laying/Suter's Skink
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Oligosoma
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

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      Egg Laying/Suter's Skink English
      Egg-laying Skink English
      Suter's Skink English
      Suters Skink English
      Suter’s skink English

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      25 results
      Boulenger, GEORGE A. (1906). Descriptions of two new lizards from New Zealand. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 17: 369-371.
      STEPHENSON, & BRENT. (2012). Suter’s skink (Oligosoma suteri) scavenging from a dolphin carcass. BioGecko (1): 44.
      JANSSEN, & JORDI. (2015). A first-recorded case of hypomelanism in a wild Suter’s skink (Oligosoma suteri) following eradication of invasive alien species. BioGecko (3): 43-45.
      Hare, Kelly M., Shirley Pledger and Charles H. Daugherty. (2008). Low incubation temperatures negatively influence locomotor performance and behavior of the nocturnal lizard Oligosoma suteri (Lacertidae: Scincidae). Copeia 2008 (1): 16-22.
      Stenhouse, Vaughn I. (2017). Modelling the distribution of an oviparous skink, Oligosoma suteri. MSc Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 77 Pp.
      Cree, Alison and Kelly M. Hare. (2016). Reproduction and Life History of New Zealand Lizards. In: Chapple, D.G. (Ed). New Zealand Lizards. Springer, Pp. 169-206.
      Stewart, J. R., Hare, K. M., & Thompson, M. B. (2024). Evolution of Placentation in Eugongylini (Squamata: Scincidae): Ontogeny of Extraembryonic Membranes in Oviparous and Viviparous Species of New Zealand. Journal of Morphology, 285(11), E70001.
      Hardy, G. (1977). The New Zealand Scincidae: a taxonomic study. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 4: 221-325.
      Janssen, J., Towns, D.R., Duxbury, M. and Heitkönig, I.M.,. (2015). Surviving in a semi-marine habitat: Dietary salt exposure and salt secretion of a New Zealand intertidal skink. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 189: 21-29.
      Patterson, G. B., & Daugherty, C. H. (1995). Reinstatement of the genus Oligosoma (Reptilia: Lacertilia: Scincidae). J. Royal Soc. New Zealand 25 (3): 327-331.

      Citation

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