Chalcides
Chalcides is a genus of skinks (family Scincidae).
| Chalcides | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Chalcides ocellatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Scincinae |
| Genus: | Chalcides Laurenti, 1768 |
| Species | |
|
About 30, see text. | |
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.[1]
- Chalcides armitagei Boulenger, 1922 – Armitage's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides bedriagai (Boscá, 1880) – Bedriaga's skink
- Chalcides bottegi Boulenger, 1898
- Chalcides boulengeri J. Anderson, 1892
- Chalcides chalcides (Linnaeus, 1758) – Italian three-toed skink
- Chalcides coeruleopunctatus Salvador, 1975
- Chalcides colosii Lanza, 1957 – Riffian skink
- Chalcides delislei (Lataste & Rochebrune, 1876)
- Chalcides ebneri F. Werner, 1931 – Ebner's skink
- Chalcides guentheri Boulenger, 1887 – Günther's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides lanzai G. Pasteur, 1967 – Lanza's skink
- Chalcides levitoni G. Pasteur, 1978 – Leviton's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides manueli Hediger, 1935 – Manuel's skink
- Chalcides mauritanicus (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – two-fingered skink
- Chalcides mertensi Klausewitz, 1954 – Algerian three-toed skink
- Chalcides minutus Caputo, 1993 – small three-toed skink
- Chalcides mionecton (Boettger, 1874) – Mionecton skink
- Chalcides montanus F. Werner, 1931
- Chalcides ocellatus (Forskål, 1775) – ocellated skink
- Chalcides parallelus Doumergue, 1901 – Doumergue's skink
- Chalcides pentadactylus (Beddome, 1870) – five-fingered skink
- Chalcides polylepis Boulenger, 1890 – many-scaled cylindrical skink
- Chalcides pseudostriatus Caputo, 1993 – Moroccan three-toed skink
- Chalcides pulchellus Mocquard, 1906 – Mocquard's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides ragazzii Boulenger, 1890 – Ragazzi's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides sepsoides (Audouin, 1829)
- Chalcides sexlineatus Steindachner, 1891 – Gran Canaria skink
- Chalcides simonyi Steindachner, 1891 – East Canary skink
- Chalcides sphenopsiformis (A.H.A. Duméril, 1856)
- Chalcides striatus (Cuvier, 1829) – western three-toed skink
- Chalcides thierryi Tornier, 1901 – Thierry's cylindrical skink
- Chalcides viridanus (Gravenhorst, 1851) – 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.
Further reading
- 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)
- Hedges, S. Blair. 2014. The high-level classification of skinks (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincomorpha),
gollark: It would be weird if the optima were right in the small explored bit, maybe. On the other hand, there are evolutionary processes at work selecting things.
gollark: The space of possible economic/political/social systems is very large. I doubt much of it has been explored.
gollark: Obviously conventional things are right because yes.
gollark: It's not like you can't run it under existing capitalistic systems, to some extent.
gollark: The countercounterargument is that workers can be wrong/non-altruistic managementwise too.
References
- "Chalcides ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.