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. (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).