Chalcides

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.

• 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.

References

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. <small></small> (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).