The small-eared skink (''Oligosoma stenotis'') is found only on Stewart Island/Rakiura,

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 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.

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Oligosoma Endemic reptiles of New Zealand Reptiles described in 1994 Taxa named by Geoff B. Patterson Taxa named by Charles H. Daugherty {{NewZealand-stub