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Small-eared skink
Oligosoma stenotis
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.
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Description
The small-eared skink is a moderately small (80 mm snout to vent) skink, that lives in one of the most inhospitable (to lizards) environments on earth. O. stenotis can be distinguished from the other four or five species of skink on Stewart Island by its very small ear (hence the name stenotis), and also occasionally by the number of scales on mid-row in the back, and by the coloration. It is occasionally a very bright green, which can sometimes be confused for the aptly named O. chloronoton, which means 'green backed' in Greek.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 37860.