The cryptic skink (''Oligosoma inconspicuum'') is a nationally vulnerable species of

skink Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae, a family in the infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one of the most diverse families of lizards. Ski ...

native to

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

Conservation status

As of 2012 the Department of Conservation (DOC) classified the cryptic skink as At Risk under the

New Zealand Threat Classification System The New Zealand Threat Classification System is used by the Department of Conservation to assess conservation priorities of species in New Zealand. The system was developed because the IUCN Red List, a similar conservation status system, had some ...

. It was judged as meeting the criteria for ''At Risk'' threat status as a result of it having a low to high ongoing or predicted decline.

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Holotype specimen of Oligosoma inconspicuum held at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Oligosoma Endemic fauna of New Zealand Endemic reptiles of New Zealand Reptiles described in 1990 Taxa named by Geoff B. Patterson Taxa named by Charles H. Daugherty {{Lygosominae-stub