''Nubeoscincus stellaris'' is a 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 ...

. It is endemic to New Guinea and is known from both Indonesian and Papua New Guinean parts of the island with records from elevations of

above sea level Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''. The comb ...

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Nubeoscincus Skinks of New Guinea Endemic fauna of New Guinea Reptiles of Western New Guinea Reptiles of Papua New Guinea Reptiles described in 2005 Taxa named by Allen Allison Taxa named by Harold Cogger Taxa named by Allen Eddy Greer {{Skink-stub