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Oligosoma stenotis (small-eared skink)

Synonyms: Leiolopisma stenotis

Wikipedia Abstract

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. It is a moderately small (80 mm snout to vent) skink, that lives in one of the most inhospitable (to lizards) environments on earth.
View Wikipedia Record: Oligosoma stenotis

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Oligosoma stenotis

Attributes

Habitat Substrate [1]  Terrestrial
Reproductive Mode [1]  Viviparous

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0