The Eyres skink (''Oligosoma repens'') 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 ...

. It is named in honour of the location of its habitat, the

Eyre Mountains Eyre Mountains/Taka Ra Haka Conservation Park is a protected area and mountain range in the Southland District and Southland Region of New Zealand's South Island The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major island ...

Conservation Status

As of 2012 the Department of Conservation (DOC) classified the Eyres skink as Nationally Vulnerable 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 ...

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Holotype specimen of Oligosoma repens held at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Oligosoma Reptiles of New Zealand Reptiles described in 2011 Taxa named by David G. Chapple Taxa named by Trent Bell Taxa named by Stephanie N.J. Chapple Taxa named by Kimberly A. Miller Taxa named by Geoff B. Patterson Taxa named by Charles H. Daugherty {{Lygosominae-stub