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).