11003-86009 Ornate skink (Oligosoma ornatum ornatum) widespread and occasionally locally abundant in places throughout the North Island. However this skink is ranked 'at risk', because their long term future is probably only secure on predator free offshore islands. Secretive, and most active at dawn and dusk. Lives in dense cover in forests, shrublands and heavily vegetated coastlines. May be part of an unresolved species complex as individuals from different regions show variation in eye colour and degree of patterning. This individual is from the Aupouri Peninsula population, where exaggerated lateral head and neck patterning is typical. Te Kao Bay, Parengarenga *
11003-86010 Ornate skink (Oligosoma ornatum ornatum) widespread and occasionally locally abundant in places throughout the North Island. However this skink is ranked 'at risk', because their long term future is probably only secure on predator free offshore islands. Secretive, and most active at dawn and dusk. Lives in dense cover in forests, shrublands and heavily vegetated coastlines. May be part of an unresolved species complex as individuals from different regions show variation in eye colour and degree of patterning. This individual is from the Aupouri Peninsula population, where exaggerated lateral head and neck patterning is typical. Te Kao Bay, Parengarenga *
