Oligosoma gracilicorpus
Oligosoma gracilicorpus, the narrow-bodied skink or narrow skink, is a species of skink in the family Scincidae. Only the holotype specimen (AIM Rep 31.1) is known, collected before 1955 on the North Island of New Zealand, probably in the vicinity of the Hokianga; it is possibly a juvenile. If so, this species could be the kawekaweau or kaweau (sometimes written koeau) of Māori lore, which by others is identified with a tuatara though its description does not match the tuatara well.(Hardy 1977)
| Oligosoma gracilicorpus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Oligosoma |
| Species: | O. gracilicorpus |
| Binomial name | |
| Oligosoma gracilicorpus (Hardy, 1977) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Leiolopisma gracilicorpus Hardy, 1977 | |
Classified as "data deficient" by the IUCN (ARAG 1996), the New Zealand Department of Conservation treats it as extinct.
References
- Australasian Reptile & Amphibian Specialist Group (1996). "Oligosoma gracilicorpus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 1996: e.T15266A4508504. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T15266A4508504.en. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
- Hardy, Graham S. (1977): The New Zealand Scincidae (Reptilia: Lacertilia); a taxonomic and zoogeographic study. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 4: 221–325. PDF fulltext
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