Chalcides
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| Chalcides ocellatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Scincinae |
| Genus: | Chalcides Laurenti, 1768 |
| Species | |
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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 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
- ^ Genus Chalcides at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
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.
- 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).
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