Chalcides Explained
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.[1]
- Chalcides armitagei – Armitage's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides bedriagai – Bedriaga's skink
- Chalcides bottegi – Bottego's cylindrical skink, ocellated skink
- Chalcides boulengeri – Boulenger's feylinia, Boulenger's wedge-snouted skink
- Chalcides chalcides – cylindrical skink, Italian three-toed skink
- Chalcides coeruleopunctatus – La Gomera skink
- Chalcides colosii – Colosi's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides delislei – Delisle's wedge-snouted skink
- Chalcides ebneri – Ebner's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides guentheri – Günther's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides lanzai – Lanza's skink
- Chalcides levitoni – Leviton's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides manueli – Manuel's skink
- Chalcides mauritanicus – two-fingered skink
- Chalcides mertensi – Algerian three-toed skink
- Chalcides minutus – small three-toed skink
- Chalcides mionecton – Mionecton skink, Morocco cylindrical skink
- Chalcides montanus
- Chalcides ocellatus – eyed skink, gongilo, ocellated skink
- Chalcides parallelus – Chafarinas's skink
- Chalcides pentadactylus – five-fingered skink
- Chalcides polylepis – many-scaled cylindrical skink
- Chalcides pseudostriatus – Moroccan three-toed skink
- Chalcides pulchellus – Mocquard's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides ragazzii – Ragazzi's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides sepsoides – wedge-snouted skink
- Chalcides sexlineatus – Gran Canaria skink
- Chalcides simonyi – East Canary skink, Fuerteventura skink
- Chalcides sphenopsiformis – Duméril's wedge-snouted skink
- Chalcides striatus – western three-toed skink
- Chalcides thierryi – Thierry's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides viridanus – 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.
Further reading
- (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. (HTML abstract)
- (2014). "The high-level classification of skinks (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincomorpha)". Zootaxa 3765 (4): 317–338. http://www.hedgeslab.org/pubs/258.pdf
- (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).
Notes and References
- www.reptile-database.org.