Small-eared skink

Small-eared skink
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Oligosoma
Species: O. stenotis
Binomial name
Oligosoma stenotis
Patterson & Daugherty 1994

The small-eared skink, Oligosoma stenotis, is found only on Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand. It was first described in 1994 by Geoff Patterson and Charles Daugherty.[1] It is a moderately small (80 mm snout to vent) skink, that lives in one of the most inhospitable (to lizards) environments on earth.

References

  1. (Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 24: 125 - 132)


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