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.
[(''Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand'' 24: 125 – 132)] It is a moderately small (80 mm snout to vent)
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 ...
, that lives in one of the most inhospitable (to lizards) environments on earth.
References
Oligosoma
Endemic reptiles of New Zealand
Reptiles described in 1994
Taxa named by Geoff B. Patterson
Taxa named by Charles H. Daugherty
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