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Chalcides sepsoides (AUDOUIN, 1829)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Wedge-snouted Skink 
SynonymScincus sepsoides AUDOUIN 1829: 132, 180
Sphenops capistratus WAGLER 1830: 161
Sphaenops sepsoïdes — REUSS 1834: 54
Sphenops capistratus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 578
Sphenops capistratus — BOETTGER 1879: 72
Sphenops capistratus — BOETTGER 1880
Chalcides sepoides [sic] — BOULENGER 1887: 407
Sphenops capitstratae — TORNIER 1899 (fide BAUER 2004)
Chalcides sepoides [sic] — LOVERIDGE 1936: 74
Sphenops sepsoides — PASTEUR & BONS 1960
Chalcides sepsoides — JOHANN 1981
Sphenops sepsoides — SCHLEICH, KÄSTLE & KABISCH 1996: 369
Sphenops sepoides — BAUER 2004
Chalcides sepsoides — CARRANZA et al. 2008
Sphenops sepsoides — IBRAHIM 2013
Sphenops sepsoides — BAHA EL DIN 2013
Chalcides sepsoides — MEIRI et al. 2019 
DistributionTunisia, Libya, Egypt, Sinai, S Israel, W Jordan

Type locality: Egypt  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA (fide I. Ineich, pers. comm., 3 Apr 2019) 
Diagnosis 
CommentSubspecies: Sphenops sepsoides boulengeri (ANDERSON 1896) has been treated as a valid species by SCHLEICH et al. 1996 and subsequent authors.

Distribution: see Bar et al. 2021 for a map. 
References
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  • Baha el Din, S. 2006. A guide to the reptiles and amphibians of Egypt. The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo. xvi + 359 pp.
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  • Bar, A., Haimovitch, G. and Meiri, S. 2021. Field guide to the amphibians and reptiles of Israel. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main. ISBN 9783-89973-120-0 - get paper here
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  • Bauer, Aaron M.; Jonathan C. DeBoer , Dylan J. Taylor 2017. Atlas of the Reptiles of Libya. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 64 (8): 155-318 - get paper here
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