Chalcides
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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.
SpeciesEdit
The following species are recognized as being valid.<ref>Template:EMBL genus www.reptile-database.org.</ref>
- Chalcides armitagei Template:Small – Armitage's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides bedriagai Template:Small – Bedriaga's skink
- Chalcides bottegi Template:Small – Bottego's cylindrical skink, ocellated skink
- Chalcides boulengeri Template:Small – Boulenger's feylinia, Boulenger's wedge-snouted skink
- Chalcides chalcides Template:Small – cylindrical skink, Italian three-toed skink
- Chalcides coeruleopunctatus Template:Small – La Gomera skink
- Chalcides colosii Template:Small – Colosi's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides delislei Template:Small – Delisle's wedge-snouted skink
- Chalcides ebneri Template:Small – Ebner's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides guentheri Template:Small – Günther's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides lanzai Template:Small – Lanza's skink
- Chalcides levitoni Template:Small – Leviton's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides manueli Template:Small – Manuel's skink
- Chalcides mauritanicus Template:Small – two-fingered skink
- Chalcides mertensi Template:Small – Algerian three-toed skink
- Chalcides minutus Template:Small – small three-toed skink
- Chalcides mionecton Template:Small – Mionecton skink, Morocco cylindrical skink
- Chalcides montanus Template:Small
- Chalcides ocellatus Template:Small – eyed skink, gongilo, ocellated skink
- Chalcides parallelus Template:Small – Chafarinas's skink
- Chalcides pentadactylus Template:Small – five-fingered skink
- Chalcides polylepis Template:Small – many-scaled cylindrical skink
- Chalcides pseudostriatus Template:Small – Moroccan three-toed skink
- Chalcides pulchellus Template:Small – Mocquard's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides ragazzii Template:Small – Ragazzi's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides sepsoides Template:Small – wedge-snouted skink
- Chalcides sexlineatus Template:Small – Gran Canaria skink
- Chalcides simonyi Template:Small – East Canary skink, Fuerteventura skink
- Chalcides sphenopsiformis Template:Small – Duméril's wedge-snouted skink
- Chalcides striatus Template:Small – western three-toed skink
- Chalcides thierryi Template:Small – Thierry's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides viridanus Template:Small – 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.
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- Template:Aut (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. {{#invoke:doi|main}} (HTML abstract)
- Template:Aut (2014). "The high-level classification of skinks (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincomorpha)". Zootaxa 3765 (4): 317–338. [1]
- Template:Aut (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).