Due to time of year not commonly seen. These images taken from a male individual found with a gravid female in a Chatham Island Petrel (Pterodroma axillaris) artificial burrow.
Images taken by Dave M. Houston (the gurt big mits are mine). Although abundant on this predator free island, we saw very few individuals, no doubt because of the time of the year (freezing cold, watery sun etc. etc).
Oligosoma nigriplantare
Holotype
Collected: 16 December 1937
Collected by: E. G. Turbott
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_naturalsciences-object-120862
It's just one, and best I got, but still counts! Moderately pleased to spot one, though not so much with the bleh photo.
Seen on rocks during the day while doing albatross research on The Forty-Fours Motuhara.
Seen on rocks during the day while doing albatross research on The Forty-Fours Motuhara.
Seen on rocks during the day while doing albatross research on The Pyramid Tarakoikoia.
Transplanted to this site from Limestone Creek, Limestone Co., Alabama, in 2003 as part of a USFWS Nonessential Experimental Population. The population apparently did not persist but a few years, though low levels of reproductions were observed.
This poor guy couldn't get out of the way of my weedwacking in time. He was still able to hop away, so I'm hoping he'll somehow pull through...