Bone fragments collected from the Aupouri Peninsula
Conservation status
Extinct (NZ TCS)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Squamata
Family:
Scincidae
Genus:
Oligosoma
Species:
†O. northlandi
Binomial name
†Oligosoma northlandi
(Worthy, 1991)
Synonyms
Cyclodina northlandi
The Northland skink (Oligosoma northlandi) is an extinct species of skink which was endemic to the Northland Region of North Island, New Zealand. It is known from late Holocene subfossil remains.[1][2]
^ abUetz, P. "Species details : Oligosoma northlandi (Worthy, 1991)". Catalogue of Life. ITIS. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
^Worthy, T.H. (December 1991). "Fossil skink bones from Northland, New Zealand, and description of a new species of Cyclodina, Scincidae". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 21 (4): 329–348. doi:10.1080/03036758.1991.10420831.
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Retrieved 23 May 2022. Worthy, T.H. (December 1991). "Fossil skink bones from Northland, New Zealand, and description of a new species of Cyclodina, Scincidae"...
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(Nycticorax kalavikai) in 1995. In 1991, he also described the Northlandskink, a fossil skink species new to science. In 1998, Worthy excavated subfossil...
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Haast's eagle. Other indigenous animals are represented by reptiles (tuatara, skinks and geckos), frogs, such as the protected endangered Hamilton's Frog, spiders...
(17 in) recorded in February 1869. Some flooding also occurred in the Northland region on 27 January. On 28 and 29 January, the rain spread south of Auckland...
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Lutheran Church in DeForest, Orfordville Lutheran Church in Rock County and Northland Lutheran Church in Iola. Lutefisk is also eaten in Canada, which has a...
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a small group of uninhabited islands in the Far North District of the Northland Region of New Zealand. The islands lie about 1 km north of Granville Point...
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on the recovery of native skink and gecko populations.: 257 Killing rabbits and possums, which compete for food with skinks and geckos, may also have...
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waders and allies (Charadriiformes), passerine birds, tuatara, geckos, skinks, Pacific reptiles and New Zealand bats. Established in 1966, the Museum's...
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...
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