English: Oligosoma salmo (the Chesterfield or Kapitia skink) is confined to a small strip of coastal vegetation north of Hokitika, New Zealand. It has a prehensile tail, demonstrated here, so was probably arboreal before its forest habitat was cut down for farming.
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