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Chalcides humilis BOULENGER, 1896

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Ragazzi's Cylindrical Skink, Ragazzi's Bronze Skink 
SynonymChalcides ocellatus var. humilis BOULENGER 1896: 552
Chalcides ocellatus humilis — MERTENS 1921: 117
Chalcides cf. humilis — BAHA EL DIN 2006
Chalcides ocellatus humilis — CARRANZA et al. 2008
Chalcides humilis — KORNILIOS et al. 2010
Chalcides cf. humilis — MAZUCH 2013
Chalcides humilis — SPAWLS et al. 2023 
DistributionEgypt, Sudan, Eritrea, N Ethiopia, Algeria, Mali

Type locality: Dahlac [Dahlak] Islands, Mareb and Ghinda, Eritrea  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: MSNG (Boulenger only mentions the “Genoa Museum” without details) 
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CommentSynonymy: Previsouly considered a subspecies of Ch. ocellatus or a synonym of Chalcides ragazzii. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin humilis, humble, obscure, poor, insignificant. [“…This form may be distinguished as a variety, intermediate between the typical form and the var. ragazzi, for which I propose the name humilis…] 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1896. A list of the reptiles and batrachians collected by Dr. Ragazzi in Shoa and Eritrea. Annali Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Genova, Giacomo Doria, (2) 16: 545-554 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1890. On the varieties of Chalcides ocellatus, Forsk. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 5: 444-445 - get paper here
  • Calabresi, Enrica 1925. Anfibi e rettili raccolti dal Signor Ugo Ignesti nell'Abissinia settentrionale. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali, e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milano 64: 100-109 - get paper here
  • 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 - get paper here
  • Greenbaum, E.; Campbell, A.C. & Raxworthy, C.J. 2006. A revision of sub-saharan Chalcides (Squamata: Scincidae) with redescriptions of two East African species. Herpetologica 62 (1): 71-89 - get paper here
  • Ineich, I. 1999. Reptiles & Amphibiens de la République de Djibouti. BNDB, UICN, PNUD, Djibouti & MNHN, Paris, 60 pp. - get paper here
  • Kornilios, P.; P. Kyriazi, N. Poulakakis, Y. Kumlutaş, Ç. Ilgaz, M. Mylonas, P. Lymberakis 2010. Phylogeography of the ocellated skink Chalcides ocellatus (Squamata, Scincidae), with the use of mtDNA sequences: A hitch-hiker’s guide to the Mediterranean. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 54 (2): 445-456 - get paper here
  • Lanza, B. 1990. Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography. Biogeographia, 14: 407-465 [1988] - get paper here
  • Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. 2006. Lizards of Ethiopia (Reptilia Sauria): an annotated checklist, bibliography, gazetteer and identification. Tropical Zoology 19 (1): 21-109 - get paper here
  • Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. 2010. Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 694 pp.
  • Mazuch, Tomáš 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of Somaliland and Eastern Ethiopia. Tomáš Mazuch Publishing, 80 pp. ISBN: 978-80-905439-0-4 - get paper here
  • Mertens,R. 1921. Zur Kenntnis der geographischen Formen von Chalcides ocellatus FORSKAL (Rept., Lac.). Senckenbergiana 3: 116-120 - get paper here
  • Pasteur,G. 1981. A survey of the species groups of the the old world scincid genus Chalcides. Journal of Herpetology 15 (1): 1-16 - get paper here
  • Schleich, H.H., Kästle,W., Kabisch, K. 1996. Amphibians and Reptiles of North Africa. Koeltz, Koenigstein, 627 pp.
  • Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch & Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
 
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