Chalcides

Chalcides
Chalcides ocellatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Sauria
Infraorder:	Scincomorpha
Family:	Scincidae
Subfamily:	Scincinae
Genus:	Chalcides Laurenti, 1768
Species
About 30, see text.

Not to be confused with chalcogenides.

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
• Chalcides boulengeri J. Anderson, 1892
• Chalcides chalcides (Linnaeus, 1758) – Italian three-toed skink
• Chalcides coeruleopunctatus Salvador, 1975
• Chalcides colosii Lanza, 1957 – Riffian skink
• Chalcides delislei (Lataste & Rochebrune, 1876)
• Chalcides ebneri F. Werner, 1931 – Ebner's 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
• Chalcides montanus F. Werner, 1931
• Chalcides ocellatus (Forskål, 1775) – ocellated skink
• Chalcides parallelus Doumergue, 1901 – Doumergue's skink
• Chalcides pentadactylus (Beddome, 1870) – five-fingered skink
• Chalcides pistaciae Valverde, 1966 = C. bedriagai pistaciae Valverde, 1966 – cylindrical 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)
• Chalcides sexlineatus Steindachner, 1891 – Gran Canaria skink
• Chalcides simonyi Steindachner, 1891 – East Canary skink
• Chalcides sphenopsiformis (A.H.A. Duméril, 1856)
• Chalcides striatus (Cuvier, 1829) – western three-toed skink
• Chalcides thierryi Tornier, 1901 – Thierry's cylindrical skink
• Chalcides viridanus (Gravenhorst, 1851) – 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

• 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),

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