Small-eared skink
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Oligosoma stenotis Patterson & Daugherty 1994 |
The small-eared skink, Oligosoma stenotis, is found only on Stewart Island, 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.
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- ^ (Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 24: 125 - 132)