The Fiordland skink (Oligosoma acrinasum) is a species of skink endemic to the Fiordland temperate forests ecoregion of South Island, New Zealand. The Fiordland skink is found on one mainland locations and the exposed rocky shores of numerous islands along the Fiordland coast.[2] Their distribution has declined due to introduced predators. Currently it lives only on foreshore rocks and boulder beaches on the Fiordland coast. It is abundant, even extremely abundant, in areas free from mammalian predators, but it barely survives where predators are present.[1]
This species was successfully translocated to Hāwea Island in 1988. It has managed to naturally recolonize another island after rats were eradicated.[1]
^ abcHitchmough, R.; Chapple, D.G. (2021). "Oligosoma acrinasum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T178264A120191980. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T178264A120191980.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^Adams, Lynn (2 August 2019). "Fiordland skink – what do we know about the species?". blog.doc.govt.nz. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
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and Otago. They were also found in the central mountains and possibly Fiordland. Specimens of N. a. albifacies were collected from Stewart Island/Rakiura...
environments like above the permanent snow line and in the wettest parts of Fiordland. Since coming to New Zealand the hedgehog has grown a little smaller and...
highest of which is Aoraki / Mount Cook at 3,724 metres (12,218 ft). Fiordland's steep mountains and deep fiords record the extensive ice age glaciation...
Falla participated for a brief time in the 1949 New Zealand American Fiordland Expedition. He also led the 1962–1963 Dominion Museum expedition to the...
gecko species (aff. Hoplodactylus granulatus), and a skink (Oligosoma taumakae). In 2010 the skink was discovered on the Barn Islands, two rock stacks...
monitor are known to take little penguin chicks and common blue-tongued skinks are known to take eggs. At sea, Australian little penguins are eaten by...
Islands leech feeds primarily on the feet of nesting seabirds, especially Fiordland penguins (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus). Leeches are able to ingest several...
invertebrate populations, specifically the Isoplectron sp. population in Fiordland, altered their behaviour in environments that contained predators such...
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orchids. In January 2010 a German man who tried to smuggle 44 live geckos and skinks out of the country in his underwear was sentenced to 12 weeks in jail. He...
Gee, Samantha (20 March 2018). "First population of takahē outside of Fiordland released into wild". Stuff. Archived from the original on 20 October 2022...
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