Chalcides
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).
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 ghiarai
- 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, East Canary Skink
- Chalcides striatus, Western Three-toed Skink
- Chalcides thierryi, Thierry's Cylindrical Skink
- Chalcides viridanus, West Canary Skink
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)