Ornate skink

Ornate skink
Near Palmerston North, New Zealand
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Oligosoma
Species:
O. ornatum
Binomial name
Oligosoma ornatum
(Gray, 1843)
Distribution of the ornate skink in the North Island
  Known native range
Synonyms
  • Cyclodina pseudornata (Robb 1986)
  • Cyclodina ornata (Gray, 1843)
  • Tiliqua ornata Gray, 1843

The ornate skink (Oligosoma ornatum) is a rare species of skink endemic to New Zealand. Once widespread across the North Island, habitat destruction and predation by introduced species has now reduced their range to scattered localities throughout the North Island and offshore islands.

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