McCann’s skink (Oligosoma maccanni) mokomoko (Māori) is a small to medium endemic skink that grows up to 73mm. It has a pointed head, a long tail which tapers downwards, and comparatively long limbs and toes.  It has shiny scales on their skin and two pale and key dorsolateral (back lines).  It has creamy-grey, yellow or brown soles of the feet and belly. The throat often has fine black speckling. Some have grey spots spread along the strips which make a herringbone pattern. In Canterbury, they can have stripes but in Otago, they are speckled.

Being cold-blooded, it needs warmth to digest food and is commonly seen basking in the sun on warm rocks.