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Chalcides chalcides LINNAEUS, 1758

           
 

Higher Taxa

Scincidae, Sauria (lizards

Subspecies

Chalcides chalcides chalcides (LINNAEUS 1758)
Chalcides chalcides mertensi KLAUSEWITZ 1954
Chalcides chalcides striatus (CUVIER 1829

Common Name

E: Algerian Cylindrical Skink
G: Erzschleiche

Synonym

Lacerta Chalcides LINNAEUS 1758: 209
Chalcides tridactylus LAURENTI 1768
Seps vittatus LEUCKART 1828
Seps tridactylus DAUDIN 1838
? Seps Chalcides — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 768
Seps (Seps) chalcides f. bilineata BOETTGER 1882
Chalcides lineatus — BOULENGER 1889: 305 (?)
Chalcides lineatus — BOULENGER 1891: 139
Chalcides tridactylus — BOULENGER 1891: 140
Chalcides tridactylus — SIEBENROCK 1895
Lygosoma chalcides — DE ROOIJ 1915: 225
Chalcides tridactylus — BELLAIRS & SHUTE 1954
Chalcides chalcides — ENGELMANN et al 1993
Chalcides chalcides — SCHLEICH, KÄSTLE & KABISCH 1996: 324

Chalcides chalcides striatus (CUVIER 1829)
Chalcides chalcides striatus — MALKMUS 1982: 280

Location

Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, S France, Italy (Sardinia, Elba)
N Morocco, N Algeria, N Tunisia

mertensi: extreme border of W Tunisia to Morocco.

Type locality: “Europa australi, Africa

Holotype

Comment

The subspecies C. c. chalcides and C. c. mertensi are considered as "incipient" species by some authors (SCHLEICH et al. 1996). The holotype of mertensi is in SMF 15972 (= Kat. BOETTGER 6403, la).

bilineata BOETTGER: Holotypus: SMF 15982 from “Palermo, Sizilien

References

  • Bassu, L.; V. Nulchis, M. G. Satta, C. Fresi & C. Corti 2008. Atlas of amphibians and reptiles of Sardinia - state of the art and general considerations. Herpetologia Sardiniae (Claudia Corti, ed.), Edizioni Belvedere, 504 pp.
  • Bellairs, A.; Shute, C.C.D. 1954. Notes on the herpetology of an Algerian beach. Copeia 1954 (3): 224-226
  • Boettger,O. 1882. Ber. senckenb. naturf. Ges. 1882: 257
  • Bonetti, Mathilde 2002. 100 Sauri. Mondadori (Milano), 192 pp.
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1889. On the reptiles and batrachians obtained in Morocco by M. Henry Vaucher. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 3: 303-307
  • Boulenger, George A. 1891. Catalogue of the reptiles and batrachians of Barbary (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia), based chiefly upon the notes and collections made in 1880-1884 by M. Fernand Lataste. Tr. Zool. Soc. 13: 93-164
  • Boulenger,E.G. 1920. On some lizards of the genus Chalcides. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1920: 77-83
  • Busack, S. D. 1986. Taxonomic implications of biochemical and morphological differentiationin Spanish and Moroccan populations of three-toed skinks, Chalcides chalcides (Lacertilia, Scincidae) [Chalcides mertensi comb. nov.]. Herpetologica 42 (2): 230-236
  • Caputo,V. & Odierna,G. 1992. Karyological differentiation between two forms of the Chalcides chalcides complex (Scincidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 13: 193-196
  • Carranza, S.; E.N. Arnold, Ph. Geniez, J. Roca and J.A. Mateo 2008. Radiation, multiple dispersal and parallelism in the skinks, Chalcides and Sphenops (Squamata: Scincidae), with comments on Scincus and Scincopus and the age of the Sahara Desert Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46 (3): 1071-1094
  • Cortés, J.E. 1982. The herpetofauna of Gibraltar - status, recent history and current research. Br. J. Herp. 6: 273-275
  • de Rooij, N. de 1915. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 384 pp.
  • Duméril, A. M. C. and G. Bibron. 1839. Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Vol.5. Roret/Fain et Thunot, Paris, 871 pp.
  • Engelmann,W.E. et al. 1993. Lurche und Kriechtiere Europas. Neumann Verlag (Radebeul, Germany), 440 pp.
  • Giovannotti, M; Cerioni, PN; Kalboussi, M; Aprea, G; Caputo, V 2007. Phylogeographic inferences from the mtDNA variation of the three-toed skink, Chalcides chalcides (Reptilia: Scincidae). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 308 (3): 297-307
  • Klausewitz,W. 1954. Eidonomische, taxonomische und tiergeographische Untersuchungen über den Rassenkreis der Scinciden Chalcides chalcides und Ch. striatus. Senckenbergiana Biol. 35: 187-203
  • Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiæ. 10th Edition: 824 pp.
  • Malkmus, R. 1982. Beitrag zur Verbreitung der Amphibien und Reptilien in Portugal Salamandra 18 (3-4): 218-299.
  • Peracca, M.G. 1882. Di un Seps chalcides travato il 18 Maggio 1882 sul versante meridionale del colle la Maddalena, presso Torino. Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze di Torino. Classe di Scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali 18: 74
  • Rugiero, Lorenzo; Luiselli, Luca 2007. Null model analysis of lizard communities in five urban parks of Rome. Amphibia-Reptilia 28 (4): 547-553
  • Schleich,H.H., Kästle,W., Kabisch, K. 1996. Amphibians and Reptiles of North Africa. Koeltz, Koenigstein, 627 pp.
  • Schwarzer, U.; Epperlein, C. & Kühnel, K.-D. 1982. Bemerkungen zur Herpetofauna der Toskana, Teil 1: Die Reptilien. Herpetofauna 4 (20): 17-20
  • Siebenrock, Friedrich 1895. Zur Kenntnis des Rumpfskeletes der Scincoiden, Anguiden und Gerrhosauriden. Annalen des Königlichen Kaiserlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseum in Wien (Wien), 10 (1): 17-41.


 
 
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