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Table 9.25: Summary of the conservation status and distribution of New Zealand's reptiles.
| Taxon | Living Species | Extinct species x |
Number and percentage of species which are rare and threatened | Number and percentage distributed mainly or entirely on islands | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daugherty et al. | DoC | |||||||
| Tuataras | 2 | 1 | 2 | 100% | 2 | 100% | 2 | 100% |
| Skinks | 30 | 2 | 17 | 57% | 15 | 50% | 15 | 50% |
| Cyclodina | 8 | 1 | 5 | 62% | 5 | 62% | 6 | 75% |
| Oligosoma | 22 | 1* | 12 | 54% | 10 | 45% | 9 | 41% |
| Geckos | 29 | 1 | 7 | 24% | 8 | 28% | 7 | 24% |
| Naultinus | 7 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - |
| Hoplodactylu | 22 | 1** | 7 | 32% | 8 | 36% | 7 | 32% |
| All reptiles | 61 | 4 | 26 | 43% | 25 | 41% | 24 | 39% |
Sources: Daugherty et al. (1994); Department of Conservation, (1994b) Towns and Daugherty (1994)
* One species, Oligosoma gracilicorpus , whose taxonomic affinities remain unclear.
** One species, Hoplodactylus delcourti , for which evidence of a New Zealand origin is still circumstantial.
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