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Chalcides montanus WERNER, 1931

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
SubspeciesChalcides montanus montanus WERNER 1931
Chalcides montanus pallaryi GENIEZ, LUTGEN, HINGRAT, RIVIÈRE, BEDDEK, PEYRE & CROCHET 2024 
Common Names 
SynonymChalcides ocellatus montanus WERNER 1931: 295
Chalcides montanus — CAPUTO & MELLADO 1992
Chalcides montanus — SCHLEICH, KÄSTLE & KABISCH 1996: 344
Chalcides montanus — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Chalcides montanus montanus — GENIEZ et al. 2024

Chalcides montanus pallaryi GENIEZ, LUTGEN, HINGRAT, RIVIÈRE, BEDDEK, PEYRE & CROCHET 2024 
DistributionMorocco (Haut Atlas)

Type locality: “Tizi Tamaterte, Grand Atlas, 2400 m” elevation.  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesSyntypes: MCZ R31459-60; NMW 13465, collected by Werner, 26.iv.1930
Holotype. MNHN-RA-1925.215, adult female from Missour
(eastern Morocco) collected by Paul Pallary on 30 De-
cember 1925 [pallaryi] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1348 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Latin “montanus”, meaning “pertaining to mountains.

C. m. pallaryi was named after Paul Pallary (1869–1942) who collected the holotype. Paul Pallary was a teacher working in Algeria and a knowledgeable zoologist (particularly in continental malacology and arachnology) exploring Al-
geria and Morocco). 
References
  • Avella, Ignazio; Nahla Lucchini, Urtzi Enriquez-Urzelai, Frederico Corga & Fernando Martínez-Freiría 2019. New records for the reptile fauna of the Tichka plateau (western High Atlas, Morocco). Bol. Asoc. Herpetol. Esp. 30 (2) - get paper here
  • Caputo V; Mellado J 1992. A new species of Chalcides (Reptilia: Scincidae) from northeastern Morocco. BOLLETTINO DI ZOOLOGIA 59 (3): 335-342 - 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
  • Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248
  • Geniez, P., Lutgen, D., Hingrat, Y., Rivière, V., Beddek, M., Peyre, O., & Crochet, P. A. 2024. Resolving the identity of Pallary’s Skink: a new taxon of the genus Chalcides (Squamata: Scincidae) from Morocco and Algeria. SALAMANDRA, 60(1): 1-16 - get paper here
  • Martínez del Mármol, Gabriel; D. James Harris, Philippe Geniez, Philip de Pous, and Daniele Salvi 2019. Amphibians and Reptiles of Morocco. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 478 pp - get paper here
  • Schleich, H.H., Kästle,W., Kabisch, K. 1996. Amphibians and Reptiles of North Africa. Koeltz, Koenigstein, 627 pp.
  • Sindaco, R. & Jeremcenko, V.K. 2008. The reptiles of the Western Palearctic. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 579 pp. - get paper here
  • Werner,F. 1931. Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Forschungsreise nach Marokko. III. Unternommen 1930 mit Unterstützung der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien von Franz Werner und Richard Ebner. III. Amphibien und Reptilien. Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien Mathem.-Naturw., Sect. 1, 140: 272-318 - get paper here
 
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