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Cryptic skink
Oligosoma inconspicuum 1.jpg
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Genus:
Oligosoma
Species:
inconspicuum
Synonyms
  • Leiolopisma inconspicuum Patterson & Daugherty 1990
  • Oligosoma inconspicuum CHAPPLE et al 2009

The cryptic skink (Oligosoma inconspicuum) is a nationally vulnerable species of skink native to New Zealand.

Conservation Status

As of 2012 the Department of Conservation (DOC) classified the cryptic skink as At Risk under the New Zealand Threat Classification System. It was judged as meeting the criteria for At Risk threat status as a result of it having a low to high ongoing or predicted decline.

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