Falla's skink
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Oligosoma |
| Species: | O. fallai
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| Binomial name | |
| Oligosoma fallai (McCann, 1955)
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Falla's skink or the Three Kings skink (Oligosoma fallai) is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae.
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
- ^ Chapple DG (2010). "Oligosoma fallai ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T15263A4507899. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T15263A4507899.en.
- ^ "Oligosoma fallai ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ 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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