Chalcides is a genus of skinks (family Scincidae).

Chalcides
Chalcides ocellatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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 edit

The following species are recognized as being valid.[1]

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 edit

  1. ^ Genus Chalcides at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading edit

  • 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)". Zootaxa 3765 (4): 317–338. [1]
  • Laurenti, Josephi Nicolai (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).