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Cryptic skink

Cryptic skink

Gradual Decline (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Oligosoma
Species: O. inconspicuum
Binomial name
Oligosoma inconspicuum
Chapple, Bell, Chapple, Miller, Patterson & Daugherty, 2011
Synonyms
  • Leiolopisma inconspicuum Patterson & Daugherty 1990
  • Oligosoma inconspicuum CHAPPLE et al 2009

The cryptic skink, Oligosoma inconspicuum, is a nationally vulnerable species of skink native to New Zealand.

As of 2012 the Department of Conservation (DOC) classified the cryptic skink as At Risk under the New Zealand Threat Classification System. It was judged as meeting the criteria for At Risk threat status as a result of it having a low to high ongoing or predicted decline.


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