Oligosoma infrapunctatum (Boulenger, 1887)
Speckled skink
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (Hitchmough, 2021) or Data Deficient (Hitchmough et al., 2021/2024, 2026)
Last record: pre-1888 (Melzer et al., 2019)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution & Habitat
New Zealand
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Boulenger, G. A. (1887). Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 3. Taylor and Francis, London. 575 pp.
Other references:
Hitchmough, Rod. (2021). Oligosoma infrapunctatum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T156731593A120191280. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T156731593A120191280.en. Accessed on 30 July 2022.
Hitchmough, Rod, Barr, Ben, Knox, Carey, Lettink, Marieke, Monks, Joanne M., Patterson, Geoff B., Reardon, James T., van Winkel, Dylan, Rolfe, Jeremy and Michel, Pascale. (2021/2024). Conservation status of New Zealand reptiles, 2021. New Zealand threat classification series 35. Wellington: New Zealand Department of Conversation. [addendum added in 2024]
Hitchmough, Rod, Barr, Ben, Knox, Carey, Lettink, Marieke, Monks, Joanne M., Patterson, Geoff B., Reardon, James T., van Winkel, Dylan, Makan, Troy and Michel, Pascale. (2026). Conservation status of reptiles in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2025. New Zealand threat classification series 50. Wellington: New Zealand Department of Conversation.
Hitchmough, R., Barr, B., Lettink, M., Monks, J., Reardon, J., Tocher, M., van Winkel, D. and Rolfe, J. (2016). Conservation status of New Zealand reptiles, 2015. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 17. Department of Conservation, Wellington. 14 pp.
Melzer, Sabine et al. (2019). Lost and Found: Taxonomic revision of the speckled skink (Oligosoma infrapunctatum; Reptilia; Scincidae) species complex from New Zealand reveals a potential cryptic extinction, resurrection of two species, and description of three new species. Zootaxa 4623(3): 441-484. [Abstract]
Wahle, Anna et al. (2021). Skinks in Zoos: A global approach on distribution patterns of threatened Scincidae in zoological institutions. Global Ecology and Conservation 30: e01800. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01800 [modern captive record; probably a misidentification]