Sphenodon

We examined Maori traditional ecological knowledge of tuatara (Sphenodon spp., reptiles that resemble lizards but are the last living representatives of the order Sphenodontia) through semidirected interviews of elders of Te Atiawa, Ngati Koata, and Ngati Wai Iwi (similar to tribes), the guardians of several islands currently inhabited by tuatara.

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

Cladistically inclined zoologists avoid the word ‘reptiles’ altogether, splitting them into Archosaurs (crocodiles, dinosaurs and birds), Lepidosaurs (snakes, lizards and the rare Sphenodon of New Zealand) and Testudines (turtles and tortoises).

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Cladistically inclined zoologists avoid the word ‘reptiles’ altogether, splitting them into Archosaurs (crocodiles, dinosaurs and birds), Lepidosaurs (snakes, lizards and the rare Sphenodon of New Zealand) and Testudines (turtles and tortoises).

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Other species found on these islands include tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus), Duvaucel's gecko (Hoplodactylus duvauceli), chevron skink (Leiopisma homalotum).

Northland temperate kauri forests 2008

Two remaining species, Sphenodon punctatus and S. guntheri, are confined to 30 predator-free offshore islands where the New Zealand Department of Conservation is hoping the species 'small populations will rebound.

Biological diversity in New Zealand 2008

Red panda and three-toed sloth at left, Tanystropheus and Moschops at right, also Procynosuchus and Sphenodon.

Toys toys toys Darren Naish 2006

Red panda and three-toed sloth at left, Tanystropheus and Moschops at right, also Procynosuchus and Sphenodon.

Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

But in the middle of the nineteenth century, as the subcontinent of Australia and its surrounding territory came to be explored, a flurry of zoological interest centered upon a lizard native to the area, the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatum).

LSD and the Third Eye 1966

Zealand -- the "tuatara" or Sphenodon -- entered its area at a still earlier stage of surface change.

More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

The lizard (Hatteria punctata = Sphenodon punctatus) of

The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876