Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/West Coast task force/Natural History

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West Coast Reptiles project

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Priority for the team is getting Wikidata and Wikipedia coverage of obscure West Coast lizard and gecko species, especially endangered ones, and working with DOC to release photos to Commons,

West Coast Reptiles
Wikipedia Quality Wikidata Commons category Done Notes
Cobble skink Start Q106918135 Ref, ref, ref Contact editor of BioGecko for back issues.
Oligosoma salmo B Q88635390 Oligosoma salmo Could use habitat and skink-collecting photos
West Coast green gecko Stub Q3020142 Nautinus tuberculatus Need more pics
Westport skink
Hokitika skink
Oligosoma albornense C Q420499 Oligosoma albornense
Oligosoma taumakae Start Q3350595 Change to Taumaka skink
Open Bay Islands gecko
Ōkarito gecko Q49608348 Move to broad-cheeked gecko. Ref, ref, ref, NZTCS

References

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  • van Winkel, Dylan; Baling, Marleen; Hitchmough, Rod (2018). Reptiles and Amphibians of New Zealand (1st ed.). Auckland: Auckland University Press. ISBN 978-1-86940-937-1. OL 40449345M. Wikidata Q76013985.
  • Sabine Melzer; Rod A Hitchmough; Trent Bell; David G Chapple; Geoff B Patterson (26 June 2019). "Lost and Found: Taxonomic revision of the speckled skink (Oligosoma infrapunctatum; Reptilia; Scincidae) species complex from New Zealand reveals a potential cryptic extinction, resurrection of two species, and description of three new species". Zootaxa. 4623 (3): 441–484. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.4623.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 31716246. Wikidata Q69500090.

West Coast nature

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These are articles that willbe the focus of an edit-a-thon in 2022.

Conservation Week list
Wikipedia Quality Wikidata Commons category Done Notes
Barrytown Flats Ilmenite mining
Denniston Plateau B Q99497614 Denniston Plateau update species, more refs
Escarpment Mine Project C Q5397132 Updating, link to Plateau more refs needed
Kororā C Q203628 Eudyptula minor Sort Australian vs NZ species
Westland petrel C Q276196 Procellaria westlandica More photos needed, mining
South Island kōkako C Q760949 Callaeas cinereus
Open Bay Island leech C Q3698936 Hirudobdella antipodum photos
Wall Island Q99466422 Wall Island, New Zealand Article in German!
Seal Island Q104551163 Article in German!
Open Bay Islands Stub Q7095956 Expansion, photos. DOC? Te Papa?

Reference: Parks, Geoff. (1995). Ngā Uruora: the Groves of Life. Wellington: Victoria University Press. See the chapter on the Barrytown Flats.

Other natural history topics

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Conservation
Wikipedia Quality Wikidata Commons category Done Notes
Pakihi C Q100252623 Pakihi local landscape with no article
Barrytown Flats Ilmenite mining
Denniston Plateau B Q99497614 Denniston Plateau more refs needed
Escarpment Mine Project C Q5397132 Updating, link to Plateau more refs needed
Ōkārito Q65430464 no article! Just the lagoon
Dracophyllum townsonii Q15376033 North Westland
Dracophyllum densum Q15376957 Denniston and Paparoas
Chionochloa juncea Q15512382 North Westland snow tussock (only on Denniston Plateau)
Ngakawau Gorge daisy Celmisia morganii 1
Lepidium naufragorum Q17255351
Epipterygium opararense Q17282272 Found on just one rock face. Photos?
Kororā C Q203628 Eudyptula minor Sort Australian vs NZ species
Westland petrel C Q276196 Procellaria westlandica More photos needed
Whio Start Q420499 Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos
South Island kōkako C Q760949 Callaeas cinereus
Open Bay Island leech C Q3698936 Hirudobdella antipodum photos
Powelliphanta snails Start Q2741119 many See new PhD thesis on classification
Powelliphanta annectens Stub Q7236129 Powelliphanta annectens
Nelson cave spider Start Q2376193 Spelungula cavernicola
Austrosimulium ungulatum Stub Q14657445