The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·37860SpeciesReptilia14 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Chordates
  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Reptiles
  5. ›Snakes and Lizards
  6. ›Lizards
  7. ›Skinks and allies
  8. ›Skinks
  9. ›Eugongyline skinks
  10. ›Oligosoma
Small-eared skink
Plate 1 of 3. (c) Oscar Thomas, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Oscar Thomas · via iNaturalist
IUCN EN · Endangered

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.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Oligosoma stenotis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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.