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. www.reptile-database.org. 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. (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).