Suter's skink, Oligosoma suteri, is the only native skink in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 to lay eggs - hence its other common name, the egg-laying skink. The egg laying Australian rainbow skink

Rainbow skink

The Delicate Skink, Dark-flecked Garden Sun Skink or Garden Skink is a skink of the subfamily Lygosominae, originally from Eastern Australia...

 also is present in some parts of New Zealand. O. suteri lives on northern offshore islands from the Three Kings Islands

Three Kings Islands

The Three Kings Islands or Manawa Islands are a group of 13 islands about northwest of Cape Reinga, the northernmost point of the North Island of New Zealand, where the South Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea converge. They measure about 4.86 km² in area...

 to the Alderman Islands

Alderman Islands

The Aldermen Islands are a small group of rocky islets to the southeast of Mercury Bay in the North Island of New Zealand. They are located off the coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, east of the mouth of the Tairua River....

 where it inhabits the coastal region, often very close to the water. It is known to hunt for prey in rock pools and is a capable swimmer in this situation.

It is named after Henry Suter

Henry Suter

Henry Suter was a New Zealand zoologist, naturalist, palaeontologist, and malacologist.- Biography :...

(1841 – 1918), New Zealand zoologist, naturalist and palaeontologist.