Endangered
Mackenzie Skink
Oligosoma prasinum
Mackenzie Skink is a skink in the family Scincidae — Oligosoma prasinum, recorded as Endangered and tied to New Zealand.
The skink
Skinks are smooth-scaled lizards, often with reduced limbs in burrowing forms. Most eat insects and other small invertebrates.
Range and habitat
The Mackenzie skink is a skink found in New Zealand.
The type locality — the place tied to the name-bearing specimen — is “Tekapo, Mt Hay (43° 59’S, 170° 28’E)”, New Zealand.
GBIF currently lists 6 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Most skinks forage in leaf litter or under cover. Burrowing species slip through sand or soil more than they climb.
In crisis
Mackenzie Skink is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Mackenzie Skink — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q46999316 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
