Small-eared skink
Appearance
Small-eared skink | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Scincidae |
Genus: | Oligosoma |
Species: | O. stenotis
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Binomial name | |
Oligosoma stenotis (Patterson & Daugherty 1994)
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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.[1] It is a moderately small (80 mm snout to vent) skink, that lives in one of the most inhospitable (to lizards) environments on earth.
References
[edit]- ^ (Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 24: 125 – 132)