Falla's skink

Falla's skink or the Three Kings skink (Oligosoma fallai) is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae.

Falla's skink
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Oligosoma
Species:
O. fallai
Binomial name
Oligosoma fallai
(McCann, 1955)
Synonyms[2]
  • Leiolopisma fallai
    McCann, 1955
  • Lygosomella fallai
    — Wells & Wellington, 1985
  • Oligosoma fallai
    — Patterson & Daugherty, 1995

Etymology

The specific name, fallai, is in honor of New Zealander ornithologist Robert Falla.[3]

Geographic range

O. fallai is endemic to the Three Kings Islands off the coast of New Zealand. It is found nowhere else in the world.

References
  1. Hitchmough, R.; Chapple, D.G. (2021). "Oligosoma fallai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T15263A120191092. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T15263A120191092.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. "Oligosoma fallai ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Oligosoma fallai, p. 88).

Further reading
  • McCann C (1955). "The lizards of New Zealand. Gekkonidae and Scincidae". Dominion Mus. Bull. (17): 1–127. (Leiolopisma fallai, new species, pp. 76–77).


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