Chesterfield Skink

Description: English: Skink tail tips in alcohol, from reptile specialists from the Department of Conservation processing and photographing Kapitia skinks (Oligosoma salmo), Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand. The Kapitia or Chesterfield skink is a critically endangered lizard (numbering just a few hundred individuals) found along a narrow 1 km stretch of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika. DOC biodiversity officers regularly catch skinks, collect their tail tips for DNA recovery, measure, and photograph them. Individuals have unique scale patterns and can be matched against a book of photographs to be identified. Each skink is temporarily labelled with white paint and released again. Date: 15 April 2021, 10:46:32. Source: Own work. Author: Mike Dickison . . Description: New Zealand scientist, Wikimedian in Residence, curator, zoologist and Wikimedian in Residence. Location of birth: Christchurch. Authority control: : Q56458901 VIAF: 39207814 ISNI: 0000 0000 5138 4113 ORCID: 0000-0003-1183-2550 ResearcherID: AAC-1488-2020[does not match ^[A-Z]%-%d%d%d%d%-[12][90]%d%d$ pattern] LCCN: no2008181932 WorldCat. creator QS:P170,Q56458901. Camera location42° 44′ 29.92″ S, 170° 59′ 32.75″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-42.741644; 170.992431.

Description: English: Oligosoma salmo (the Chesterfield or Kapitia skink) is confined to a small strip of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika, New Zealand. Date: 2018. Source: https://www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-releases/2020-media-releases/beachfront-home-and-new-te-reo-name-for-rare-skink/. Author: Lynn Adams | Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai. Other versions: This file has an extracted image: File:Oligosoma salmo DOC 03 (cropped).jpg..

Description: English: A reptile specialist from the Department of Conservation processing and photographing Kapitia skinks (Oligosoma salmo), Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand. The Kapitia or Chesterfield skink is a critically endangered lizard (numbering just a few hundred individuals) found along a narrow 1 km stretch of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika. DOC biodiversity officers regularly catch skinks, collect their tail tips for DNA recovery, measure, and photograph them. Individuals have unique scale patterns and can be matched against a book of photographs to be identified. Each skink is temporarily labelled with white paint and released again. Date: 15 April 2021, 11:08:32. Source: Own work. Author: Mike Dickison . . Description: New Zealand scientist, Wikimedian in Residence, curator, zoologist and Wikimedian in Residence. Location of birth: Christchurch. Authority control: : Q56458901 VIAF: 39207814 ISNI: 0000 0000 5138 4113 ORCID: 0000-0003-1183-2550 ResearcherID: AAC-1488-2020[does not match ^[A-Z]%-%d%d%d%d%-[12][90]%d%d$ pattern] LCCN: no2008181932 WorldCat. creator QS:P170,Q56458901. Camera location42° 44′ 30.69″ S, 170° 59′ 32.15″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-42.741858; 170.992264.

Description: English: Individual skink mugshots used by reptile specialists from the Department of Conservation processing and photographing Kapitia skinks (Oligosoma salmo), Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand. The Kapitia or Chesterfield skink is a critically endangered lizard (numbering just a few hundred individuals) found along a narrow 1 km stretch of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika. DOC biodiversity officers regularly catch skinks, collect their tail tips for DNA recovery, measure, and photograph them. Individuals have unique scale patterns and can be matched against a book of photographs to be identified. Each skink is temporarily labelled with white paint and released again. Date: 15 April 2021, 10:49:27. Source: Own work. Author: Mike Dickison . . Description: New Zealand scientist, Wikimedian in Residence, curator, zoologist and Wikimedian in Residence. Location of birth: Christchurch. Authority control: : Q56458901 VIAF: 39207814 ISNI: 0000 0000 5138 4113 ORCID: 0000-0003-1183-2550 ResearcherID: AAC-1488-2020[does not match ^[A-Z]%-%d%d%d%d%-[12][90]%d%d$ pattern] LCCN: no2008181932 WorldCat. creator QS:P170,Q56458901. Camera location42° 44′ 29.72″ S, 170° 59′ 32.48″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-42.741589; 170.992356.

Description: English: Oligosoma salmo (the Chesterfield or Kapitia skink) is confined to a small strip of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika, New Zealand. Date: 2018. Source: https://www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-releases/2020-media-releases/beachfront-home-and-new-te-reo-name-for-rare-skink/. Author: Lynn Adams | Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai. Other versions: : This file has been extracted from another file: Oligosoma salmo DOC 03.jpg : .

Description: English: Les Moran and Lynn Adams, reptile specialists from the Department of Conservation, photographing a Kapitia skink (Oligosoma salmo), Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand. The Kapitia or Chesterfield skink is a critically endangered lizard (numbering just a few hundred individuals) found along a narrow 1 km stretch of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika. DOC biodiversity officers regularly catch skinks, collect their tail tips for DNA recovery, measure, and photograph them. Individuals have unique scale patterns and can be matched against a book of photographs to be identified. Each skink is temporarily labelled with white paint and released again. Date: 15 April 2021, 10:54:34. Source: Own work. Author: Mike Dickison . . Description: New Zealand scientist, Wikimedian in Residence, curator, zoologist and Wikimedian in Residence. Location of birth: Christchurch. Authority control: : Q56458901 VIAF: 39207814 ISNI: 0000 0000 5138 4113 ORCID: 0000-0003-1183-2550 ResearcherID: AAC-1488-2020[does not match ^[A-Z]%-%d%d%d%d%-[12][90]%d%d$ pattern] LCCN: no2008181932 WorldCat. creator QS:P170,Q56458901. Camera location42° 44′ 29.83″ S, 170° 59′ 32.59″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-42.741619; 170.992386.

Description: English: Les Moran clipping the very tip of a skink's tail; along with Juzah Zammit-Ross, one of several reptile specialists from the Department of Conservation processing and photographing Kapitia skinks (Oligosoma salmo), Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand. The Kapitia or Chesterfield skink is a critically endangered lizard (numbering just a few hundred individuals) found along a narrow 1 km stretch of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika. DOC biodiversity officers regularly catch skinks, collect their tail tips for DNA recovery, measure, and photograph them. Individuals have unique scale patterns and can be matched against a book of photographs to be identified. Each skink is temporarily labelled with white paint and released again. Date: 15 April 2021, 10:45:37. Source: Own work. Author: Mike Dickison . . Description: New Zealand scientist, Wikimedian in Residence, curator, zoologist and Wikimedian in Residence. Location of birth: Christchurch. Authority control: : Q56458901 VIAF: 39207814 ISNI: 0000 0000 5138 4113 ORCID: 0000-0003-1183-2550 ResearcherID: AAC-1488-2020[does not match ^[A-Z]%-%d%d%d%d%-[12][90]%d%d$ pattern] LCCN: no2008181932 WorldCat. creator QS:P170,Q56458901. Camera location42° 44′ 30.46″ S, 170° 59′ 32.48″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-42.741794; 170.992356.

Description: English: Individual skink mugshots used by reptile specialists from the Department of Conservation processing and photographing Kapitia skinks (Oligosoma salmo), Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand. The Kapitia or Chesterfield skink is a critically endangered lizard (numbering just a few hundred individuals) found along a narrow 1 km stretch of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika. DOC biodiversity officers regularly catch skinks, collect their tail tips for DNA recovery, measure, and photograph them. Individuals have unique scale patterns and can be matched against a book of photographs to be identified. Each skink is temporarily labelled with white paint and released again. Date: 15 April 2021, 10:48:51. Source: Own work. Author: Mike Dickison . . Description: New Zealand scientist, Wikimedian in Residence, curator, zoologist and Wikimedian in Residence. Location of birth: Christchurch. Authority control: : Q56458901 VIAF: 39207814 ISNI: 0000 0000 5138 4113 ORCID: 0000-0003-1183-2550 ResearcherID: AAC-1488-2020[does not match ^[A-Z]%-%d%d%d%d%-[12][90]%d%d$ pattern] LCCN: no2008181932 WorldCat. creator QS:P170,Q56458901. Camera location42° 44′ 29.72″ S, 170° 59′ 32.53″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-42.741589; 170.992369.

Description: English: Skink poo from muslin capture bags, saved by from reptile specialists from the Department of Conservation processing and photographing Kapitia skinks (Oligosoma salmo), Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand. The Kapitia or Chesterfield skink is a critically endangered lizard (numbering just a few hundred individuals) found along a narrow 1 km stretch of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika. DOC biodiversity officers regularly catch skinks, collect their tail tips for DNA recovery, measure, and photograph them. Individuals have unique scale patterns and can be matched against a book of photographs to be identified. Each skink is temporarily labelled with white paint and released again. Date: 15 April 2021, 10:47:11. Source: Own work. Author: Mike Dickison . . Description: New Zealand scientist, Wikimedian in Residence, curator, zoologist and Wikimedian in Residence. Location of birth: Christchurch. Authority control: : Q56458901 VIAF: 39207814 ISNI: 0000 0000 5138 4113 ORCID: 0000-0003-1183-2550 ResearcherID: AAC-1488-2020[does not match ^[A-Z]%-%d%d%d%d%-[12][90]%d%d$ pattern] LCCN: no2008181932 WorldCat. creator QS:P170,Q56458901. Camera location42° 44′ 29.73″ S, 170° 59′ 32.59″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-42.741592; 170.992386.

Description: English: Skink tail tips in alcohol, from reptile specialists from the Department of Conservation processing and photographing Kapitia skinks (Oligosoma salmo), Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand. The Kapitia or Chesterfield skink is a critically endangered lizard (numbering just a few hundred individuals) found along a narrow 1 km stretch of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika. DOC biodiversity officers regularly catch skinks, collect their tail tips for DNA recovery, measure, and photograph them. Individuals have unique scale patterns and can be matched against a book of photographs to be identified. Each skink is temporarily labelled with white paint and released again. Date: 15 April 2021, 10:46:44. Source: Own work. Author: Mike Dickison . . Description: New Zealand scientist, Wikimedian in Residence, curator, zoologist and Wikimedian in Residence. Location of birth: Christchurch. Authority control: : Q56458901 VIAF: 39207814 ISNI: 0000 0000 5138 4113 ORCID: 0000-0003-1183-2550 ResearcherID: AAC-1488-2020[does not match ^[A-Z]%-%d%d%d%d%-[12][90]%d%d$ pattern] LCCN: no2008181932 WorldCat. creator QS:P170,Q56458901. Camera location42° 44′ 29.83″ S, 170° 59′ 32.48″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-42.741619; 170.992356.

Description: English: Oligosoma salmo (the Chesterfield or Kapitia skink) is confined to a small strip of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika, New Zealand. Date: 2018. Source: https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/reptiles-and-frogs/lizards/skinks/chesterfield-skink/. Author: Lynn Adams | Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai.

Description: English: Les Moran and Lynn Adams, reptile specialists from the Department of Conservation, photographing a Kapitia skink (Oligosoma salmo), Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand. The Kapitia or Chesterfield skink is a critically endangered lizard (numbering just a few hundred individuals) found along a narrow 1 km stretch of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika. DOC biodiversity officers regularly catch skinks, collect their tail tips for DNA recovery, measure, and photograph them. Individuals have unique scale patterns and can be matched against a book of photographs to be identified. Each skink is temporarily labelled with white paint and released again. Date: 15 April 2021, 10:55:44. Source: Own work. Author: Mike Dickison . . Description: New Zealand scientist, Wikimedian in Residence, curator, zoologist and Wikimedian in Residence. Location of birth: Christchurch. Authority control: : Q56458901 VIAF: 39207814 ISNI: 0000 0000 5138 4113 ORCID: 0000-0003-1183-2550 ResearcherID: AAC-1488-2020[does not match ^[A-Z]%-%d%d%d%d%-[12][90]%d%d$ pattern] LCCN: no2008181932 WorldCat. creator QS:P170,Q56458901. Camera location42° 44′ 30.03″ S, 170° 59′ 32.92″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-42.741675; 170.992478.

Description: English: Oligosoma salmo (the Chesterfield or Kapitia skink) is confined to a small strip of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika, New Zealand. It has a prehensile tail, demonstrated here, so was probably arboreal before its forest habitat was cut down for farming. Date: 19 March 2013, 23:41:57. Source: Supplied by Lynn Adams, Department of Conservation. Author: Lynn Adams | Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai.

Description: English: University of Otago student Jade Christiansen processing and photographing Kapitia skinks (Oligosoma salmo), Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand. The Kapitia or Chesterfield skink is a critically endangered lizard (numbering just a few hundred individuals) found along a narrow 1 km stretch of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika. DOC biodiversity officers regularly catch skinks, collect their tail tips for DNA recovery, measure, and photograph them. Individuals have unique scale patterns and can be matched against a book of photographs to be identified. Each skink is temporarily labelled with white paint and released again. Date: 15 April 2021, 10:50:33. Source: Own work. Author: Mike Dickison . . Description: New Zealand scientist, Wikimedian in residence, curator, zoologist and Wikimedian in residence. Location of birth: Christchurch. Authority control: : Q56458901 VIAF: 39207814 ISNI: 0000 0000 5138 4113 ORCID: 0000-0003-1183-2550 ResearcherID: AAC-1488-2020[does not match ^[A-Z]%-%d%d%d%d%-[12][90]%d%d$ pattern] LCCN: no2008181932 WorldCat. creator QS:P170,Q56458901. Camera location42° 44′ 29.95″ S, 170° 59′ 32.37″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-42.741653; 170.992325.

Description: English: Oligosoma salmo (the Chesterfield or Kapitia skink) is confined to a small strip of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika, New Zealand. Date: 2018. Source: https://www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-releases/2018/captive-population-of-rare-skink-established/. Author: Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai.

Description: English: Lynn Adams, reptile specialist from the Department of Conservation, with a Kapitia skink (Oligosoma salmo), Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand. The Kapitia or Chesterfield skink is a critically endangered lizard (numbering just a few hundred individuals) found along a narrow 1 km stretch of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika. DOC biodiversity officers regularly catch skinks, collect their tail tips for DNA recovery, measure, and photograph them. Individuals have unique scale patterns and can be matched against a book of photographs to be identified. Each skink is temporarily labelled with white paint and released again. Kapitia skinks have prehensile tails (seen in the skink Lynn is holding), suggesting their former habitat was coastal forest. Date: 15 April 2021, 11:06:42. Source: Own work. Author: Mike Dickison . . Description: New Zealand scientist, Wikimedian in Residence, curator, zoologist and Wikimedian in Residence. Location of birth: Christchurch. Authority control: : Q56458901 VIAF: 39207814 ISNI: 0000 0000 5138 4113 ORCID: 0000-0003-1183-2550 ResearcherID: AAC-1488-2020[does not match ^[A-Z]%-%d%d%d%d%-[12][90]%d%d$ pattern] LCCN: no2008181932 WorldCat. creator QS:P170,Q56458901. Camera location42° 44′ 30.16″ S, 170° 59′ 32.2″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-42.741711; 170.992278.

Description: English: University of Otago student Jade Christiansen processing and photographing Kapitia skinks (Oligosoma salmo), Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand. The Kapitia or Chesterfield skink is a critically endangered lizard (numbering just a few hundred individuals) found along a narrow 1 km stretch of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika. DOC biodiversity officers regularly catch skinks, collect their tail tips for DNA recovery, measure, and photograph them. Individuals have unique scale patterns and can be matched against a book of photographs to be identified. Each skink is temporarily labelled with white paint and released again. Date: 15 April 2021, 10:50:17. Source: Own work. Author: Mike Dickison . . Description: New Zealand scientist, Wikimedian in residence, curator, zoologist and Wikimedian in residence. Location of birth: Christchurch. Authority control: : Q56458901 VIAF: 39207814 ISNI: 0000 0000 5138 4113 ORCID: 0000-0003-1183-2550 ResearcherID: AAC-1488-2020[does not match ^[A-Z]%-%d%d%d%d%-[12][90]%d%d$ pattern] LCCN: no2008181932 WorldCat. creator QS:P170,Q56458901. Camera location42° 44′ 31.09″ S, 170° 59′ 32.04″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-42.741969; 170.992233.

Description: English: Lynn Adams, reptile specialist from the Department of Conservation, photographing a Kapitia skink (Oligosoma salmo), Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand. The Kapitia or Chesterfield skink is a critically endangered lizard (numbering just a few hundred individuals) found along a narrow 1 km stretch of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika. DOC biodiversity officers regularly catch skinks, collect their tail tips for DNA recovery, measure, and photograph them. Individuals have unique scale patterns and can be matched against a book of photographs to be identified. Each skink is temporarily labelled with white paint and released again. Date: 15 April 2021, 10:55:34. Source: Own work. Author: Mike Dickison . . Description: New Zealand scientist, Wikimedian in Residence, curator, zoologist and Wikimedian in Residence. Location of birth: Christchurch. Authority control: : Q56458901 VIAF: 39207814 ISNI: 0000 0000 5138 4113 ORCID: 0000-0003-1183-2550 ResearcherID: AAC-1488-2020[does not match ^[A-Z]%-%d%d%d%d%-[12][90]%d%d$ pattern] LCCN: no2008181932 WorldCat. creator QS:P170,Q56458901. Camera location42° 44′ 29.99″ S, 170° 59′ 32.81″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-42.741664; 170.992447.