Cryptic skink

{{Short description|Species of lizard}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}

{{Speciesbox

| name = Cryptic skink

| image = Oligosoma inconspicuum 1.jpg

| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Hitchmough, R. |author2=van Winkel, D. |author3=Lettink, M. |author4=Chapple, D. |date=2019 |title=Oligosoma inconspicuum |volume=2019 |page=e.T120189469A120192599 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T120189469A120192599.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| genus = Oligosoma

| species = inconspicuum

| authority = (Patterson & Daugherty, 1990){{cite journal|last1=Chapple|first1=David G.|last2=Bell|first2=Trent P.|last3=Chapple|first3=Stephanie N. J.|last4=Miller|first4=Kimberly A.|last5=Daugherty|first5=Charles H.|last6=Patterson|first6=Geoff B.|title=Phylogeography and taxonomic revision of the New Zealand cryptic skink (Oligosoma inconspicuum; Reptilia: Scincidae) species complex|journal=Zootaxa|date=3 March 2011|volume=2782|pages=1–33|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2782.1.1|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285816391|accessdate=12 October 2016|issn=1175-5334}}

| synonyms = {{Specieslist

|Leiolopisma inconspicuum| Patterson & Daugherty 1990

|Oligosoma inconspicuum| CHAPPLE et al 2009

| range_map = Oligosoma inconspicuum - map.svg

| range_map_caption = Distribution of the cryptic skink on a map of the South Island {{leftlegend|#05833E|Known native range}}

}}

|synonyms_ref= {{cite web|title=Species Synopses Oligosoma inconspicuum Cryptic skink|url=https://nzlizards.landcareresearch.co.nz/Synopses/SpeciesSynopses.aspx?id=ff33d5b6-991a-4a93-9ae4-41357f4dc276|website=nzlizards.landcareresearch.co.nz|publisher=Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd|accessdate=12 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013072111/https://nzlizards.landcareresearch.co.nz/Synopses/SpeciesSynopses.aspx?id=ff33d5b6-991a-4a93-9ae4-41357f4dc276|archive-date=13 October 2016|url-status=dead}}

}}

The cryptic skink (Oligosoma inconspicuum) is a nationally vulnerable species of skink native to New Zealand.{{cite web|last1=Hitchmough|first1=Rod|last2=Anderson|first2=Peter|last3=Barr|first3=Ben|last4=Monks|first4=Jo|last5=Lettink|first5=Marieke|last6=Reardon|first6=James|last7=Tocher|first7=Mandy|last8=Whitaker|first8=Tony|title=Conservation status of New Zealand reptiles, 2012|url=http://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/science-and-technical/nztcs2entire.pdf|website=Department of Conservation|publisher=The Government of New Zealand|accessdate=18 July 2015}}