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Genus of reptiles
Chalcides is a
genus of
skinks (
family
Scincidae ).
It is usually placed in the
subfamily
Scincinae (= Scincidae sensu
Hedges 2014), a
monophyletic
clade of primarily
African skinks.
Species
The following
species are recognized as being valid.
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Chalcides armitagei
Boulenger , 1922 – Armitage's cylindrical skink
Chalcides bedriagai (
Boscá , 1880) – Bedriaga's skink
Chalcides bottegi Boulenger, 1898 – Bottego's cylindrical skink, ocellated skink
Chalcides boulengeri
J. Anderson , 1892 – Boulenger's feylinia, Boulenger's wedge-snouted skink
Chalcides chalcides (
Linnaeus , 1758) – cylindrical skink, Italian three-toed skink
Chalcides coeruleopunctatus
Salvador , 1975 – La Gomera skink
Chalcides colosii
Lanza , 1957 – Colosi's cylindrical skink
Chalcides delislei (
Lataste &
Rochebrune , 1876) – Delisle's wedge-snouted skink
Chalcides ebneri
F. Werner , 1931 – Ebner's cylindrical skink
Chalcides guentheri Boulenger, 1887 – Günther's cylindrical skink
Chalcides lanzai
G. Pasteur , 1967 – Lanza's skink
Chalcides levitoni G. Pasteur, 1978 – Leviton's cylindrical skink
Chalcides manueli
Hediger , 1935 – Manuel's skink
Chalcides mauritanicus (
A.M.C. Duméril &
Bibron , 1839) – two-fingered skink
Chalcides mertensi
Klausewitz , 1954 – Algerian three-toed skink
Chalcides minutus
Caputo , 1993 – small three-toed skink
Chalcides mionecton (
Boettger , 1874) – Mionecton skink, Morocco cylindrical skink
Chalcides montanus F. Werner, 1931
Chalcides ocellatus (
Forskål , 1775) – eyed skink, gongilo, ocellated skink
Chalcides parallelus
Doumergue , 1901 – Chafarinas's skink
Chalcides pentadactylus (
Beddome , 1870) – five-fingered skink
Chalcides polylepis Boulenger, 1890 – many-scaled cylindrical skink
Chalcides pseudostriatus Caputo, 1993 – Moroccan three-toed skink
Chalcides pulchellus
Mocquard , 1906 – Mocquard's cylindrical skink
Chalcides ragazzii Boulenger, 1890 – Ragazzi's cylindrical skink
Chalcides sepsoides (
Audouin , 1829) – wedge-snouted skink
Chalcides sexlineatus
Steindachner , 1891 – Gran Canaria skink
Chalcides simonyi Steindachner, 1891 – East Canary skink, Fuerteventura skink
Chalcides sphenopsiformis (
A.H.A. Duméril , 1856) – Duméril's wedge-snouted skink
Chalcides striatus (
Cuvier , 1829) – western three-toed skink
Chalcides thierryi
Tornier , 1901 – Thierry's cylindrical skink
Chalcides viridanus (
Gravenhorst , 1851) – Canaryan cylindrical skink, East Canary Islands skink, Tenerife skink, West Canary skink
Nota bene : In the above list, a
binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Chalcides .
References
Further reading
Austin, J.J. &
Arnold, E.N. (2006). "Using ancient and recent DNA to explore relationships of extinct and endangered Leiolopisma skinks (Reptilia: Scincidae) in the Mascarene islands". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39 (2): 503–511.
doi :
10.1016/j.ympev.2005.12.011 (HTML abstract)
Hedges, S. Blair (2014). "The high-level classification of skinks (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincomorpha)". Zootaxa 3765 (4): 317–338.
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Laurenti, Josephi Nicolai (1768). Specimen medicum, exhibens synopsin reptilium emendatam cum experimentis circa venena et antidota reptilium austriacorum . Vienna: "Joan. Thom. Nob. de Trattnern". 214 pp. + Plates I–V. (Chalcides , new genus, p. 64). (in Latin).