Small-eared skink

Small-eared skink
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Scinciformata
Infraorder: Scincomorpha
Superfamily: Lygosomoidea
Family: Eugongylidae
Genus: Oligosoma
Species:
O. stenotis
Binomial name
Oligosoma stenotis
(Patterson & Daugherty, 1994)
Distribution of the small-eared skink on a map of Stewart Island
  Known native range

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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