Chalcides parallelus

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• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Endangered

Description

Habitat

Ecology: This coastal species occurs in sandy areas, overgrown dunes with Mediterranean vegetation and pine and Eucalyptus plantations. This species can be found among and under stones . It is not known to exist in modified habitats . Females give birth to fully formed young.


List of Habitats:3.8Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation 6Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs , mountain peaks) 12.1Marine Intertidal - Rocky Shoreline 13.3Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Coastal Sand Dunes 14.3Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Chalcides ghiarai Caputo & Mellado 1992
2. Chalcides ghiarai — Schleich, KÄstle & Kabisch 1996: 340
3. Chalcides polylepis Mellado Et Al. 1987

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Uetz P.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Chalcides

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 80 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. (Hapalolepis) · C. abendrothi · C. armitagei (Armitage's Cylindrical Skink) · C. bedriagai (Spanish Cylindrical Skink) · C. bedriagai albaredae · C. bedriagai bedriagai (Spanish Cylindrical Skink) · C. bottegi · C. bottegi var. thierryi Tornier, 1901 · C. boulengeri · C. chalcides · C. chalcides chalcides · C. chalcides mertensi · C. striatus · C. chalcides vittatus · C. coeruleopunctatus · C. colosii (Colosi's Cylindrical Skink) · C. cophias · C. delislei (Delisle's Wedge-Snouted Skink) · C. deslislii · C. dorbignyi · C. ebneri (Ebner's Cylindrical Skink) · C. flavescens · C. guentheri (Günther's Cylindrical Skink) · C. guntheri · C. heteropus · C. lanzai · C. levitoni (Leviton's Cylindrical Skink) · C. lineatus · C. manueli · C. mauritanicus (Cylindrical Skink) · C. mertensi · C. minutus · C. mionecton (Morocco Cylindrical Skink) · C. mionecton mionecton · C. mionecton trifasciatus · C. monodactylus · C. montanus · C. occidentalis · C. ocellata · C. ocellatus · C. ocellatus ebneri · C. ocellatus linosae · C. ocellatus montanus · C. ocellatus ocellatus · C. ocellatus polylepis · C. ocellatus subtypicus · C. ocellatus tiligugu · C. ocellatus var. polylepis · C. ocellatus zavattarii · C. parallelus · C. pentadactylus · C. pinnata · C. polylepis (Many-Scaled Cylindrical Skink) · C. polylepis occidentalis · C. polylepis polylepis · C. pseudostriatus · C. pulchellus (Mocquard's Cylindrical Skink) · C. ragazzi · C. ragazzii (Ragazzi's Cylindrical Skink) · C. sepoides · C. seposides · C. sepsoides (Wedge-Snouted Skink) · C. sexlineatus · C. sexlineatus bistriatus · C. sexlineatus sexlineatus · C. simonyi · C. sphenopsiformis (Duméril's Wedge-Snouted Skink) · C. striatus · C. tetradactylus · C. thierryi (Thierry's Cylindrical Skink) · C. thierryi pulchellus · C. thierryi thierryi (Thieny's Cylindrical Skink) · C. tiligngu · C. tiligugu · C. chalcides · C. trilineatus · C. viridanus (Canaryan Cylindrical Skink) · C. viridanus coeruleopunctatus · C. viridanus viridanus · C. viridianus

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Further Reading

• Caputo et al. (1992) BOLLETTINO DI ZOOLOGIA 59 (3): 335-342
• Caputo, V., Mellado, J. (1992): A new species of Chalcides (Reptilia: Scincidae) from northeastern Morocco. - Boll. Zool. 59, pp. [335-342]
• Doumergue (1901) Essai sur la faune erpétologique de l'Oranie.
• Mateo, J.A., Geniez, P., Bons, J. (1995): Saurians of the genus Chalcides Laurenti 1778 (Reptilia, Scincidae) in Morocco. I. Review and distribution. - Rev. Esp. Herp. 9, pp. [7-36]
• Mellado et al. (1987) Rev. Esp. Herpetol. 2: 183-186
• Mellado, J., Caputo, V. and Nascetti, G. 1987. Sobre las publicaciónes de Chalcides (Reptilia: Scincidae) del Nordeste de Marruecos. Revista Española de Herpetologia 2: 183–186
• Pleguezuelos, J.M., Márquez, R. and Lizana, M. 2002. Atlas y Libro Rojo de los Anfibios y Reptiles de España. Dirección General de la Conservación de la naturaleza-Associación Herpetológica Española, Madrid.
• Schleich et al. (1996) Amph. Rept. North Africa.
• Schleich, H H., Kästle, W. and Kabisch, K. 1996. Amphibians and Reptiles of North Africa. Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed November 4, 2006.
• Geniez, P., Miras, J.A.M., Joger, U., Pleguezuelos, J., Slimani, T. & El Mouden, H., 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2537527
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-5468
• IUCN ID: 61484
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 636730

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