Falla's skink

Falla's skink or the Three Kings skink (Oligosoma fallai) is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae.

Falla's skink
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Oligosoma
Species:
O. fallai
Binomial name
Oligosoma fallai
(McCann, 1955)
Synonyms[2]
  • Leiolopisma fallai
    McCann, 1955
  • Lygosomella fallai
    — Wells & Wellington, 1985
  • Oligosoma fallai
    — Patterson & Daugherty, 1995

Etymology

The specific name, fallai, is in honor of New Zealander ornithologist Robert Falla.[3]

Geographic range

O. fallai is endemic to the Three Kings Islands off the coast of New Zealand. It is found nowhere else in the world.

References
  1. Chapple DG (2010). "Oligosoma fallai ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T15263A4507899. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T15263A4507899.en.
  2. "Oligosoma fallai ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Oligosoma fallai, p. 88).

Further reading
  • McCann C (1955). "The lizards of New Zealand. Gekkonidae and Scincidae". Dominion Mus. Bull. (17): 1–127. (Leiolopisma fallai, new species, pp. 76–77).


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