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    Species Accepted

    Sphenodon punctatus (Gray, 1842)

    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

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      39 results
      Beak-head English
      Beakhead English
      Brothers Island Tuatara English
      Brothers Island tuatara)
      Broøgle Norwegian Bokmål
      Brughagedis Dutch
      Brückenechse German
      Cook Strait Tuatara English
      Gunther's Tuatara English
      Hatteria Ponctu French

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      112 results
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      Gans, C., J.C. Gillingham & D.L. Clark. (1984). Courtship, Mating and Male Combat in Tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus. Journal of Herpetology 18 (2): 194-197.
      Evans, & SE. (2008). The skull of lizards and tuatara. In Biology of the Reptilia, Vol. 20, Morphology H: the skull of Lepidosauria, Gans C, Gaunt A S, Adler K. (eds). Ithaca, New York, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Pp1–344.
      Hay, Jennifer M.; Stephen D. Sarre, David M. Lambert, Fred W. Allendorf and Charles H. Daugherty. (2010). Genetic diversity and taxonomy: a reassessment of species designation in tuatara (Sphenodon: Reptilia). Conservation Genetics 11 93): 1063-1081.
      Simões, T. R., Caldwell, M. W., & Pierce, S. E. (2020). Sphenodontian phylogeny and the impact of model choice in Bayesian morphological clock estimates of divergence times and evolutionary rates. BMC Biol 18: 191.
      Sharell, R. (1966). The tuatara, lizards and frogs of New Zealand. Collins, London 94 Pp [Reprint with Addenda 1975].
      Lamar, S K, N J Gemmell, and N J Nelson. (2021). Genome Sequencing of an Archaic Reptile Both Answers and Asks Questions. Zoology 144: 125862.
      Schultze, F. E. (1886). Vorzeigung eines lebenden Exemplares der neuseeländischen Hatteria punctata GRAY. S. Ber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 1886: 125.
      Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger. (2019). Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248.
      Jones, Marc E. H. (2008). Skull Shape and Feeding Strategy in Sphenodon and Other Rhynchocephalia (Diapsida: Lepidosauria). Journal of Morphology 269:945–966.

      Citation

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