Chalcides

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Chalcides
Chalcides ocellatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia (paraphyletic) (unranked) Sauria Order: Squamata (paraphyletic) Infraorder: Scincomorpha Family: Scincidae Subfamily: Scincinae (paraphyletic) Genus: Chalcides
Species
Some 25, see text.

Chalcides is a genus of skinks (family Scincidae).

It is usually placed in the subfamily Scincinae which seems to be paraphyletic however. It belongs to a major clade of this group which does not seem to include the type genus Scincus however. Thus, it will probably be eventually assigned to a new, yet-to-be-named subfamily (Austin & Arnold 2006).

[edit] Species

• Chalcides armitagei, Armitage's Cylindrical Skink
• Chalcides bedriagai, Bedriaga's Skink
• Chalcides chalcides, Italian Three-toed Skink
• Chalcides colosii, Riffian Skink
• Chalcides ebneri, Ebner's 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
• Chalcides montanus
• Chalcides ocellatus, Ocellated Skink
• Chalcides parallelus, Doumergue's Skink
• Chalcides pentadactylus, Five-fingered Skink
• Chalcides pistaciae, Cylindrical 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 sexlineatus, Gran Canaria Skink
• Chalcides simonyi
• Chalcides striatus, Western Three-toed Skink
• Chalcides thierryi, Thierry's Cylindrical Skink
• Chalcides viridanus, West Canary Skink

[edit] References

• 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)