Chalcides mauritanicus (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1839)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Cylindrical Skink
Synonym	Heteromeles mauritanicus DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1839: 772 Heteromeles mauritanicus —GUICHENOT 1850: 18 Lerista dumerilii — GERVAIS 1836 (fide BOULENGER 1891) Chalcides mauritanicus — BOULENGER 1887: 405 Chalcides mauritanicus —PASTEUR 1981 Chalcides mauritanicus — SCHLEICH, KÄSTLE & KABISCH 1996: 327 Chalcides mauritanicus — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008 Chalcides mauritanicus — BOGAERTS 2020
Distribution	NW Algeria (coastal area), NE Morocco Type locality: “Alger”
Reproduction	ovoviviparous (Bogaerts 2020).
Types	Holotype: MNHN-RA 6997
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Comment
Etymology	After the Roman province Mauritania.
References	Bogaerts, Sergé 2020. Keeping and breeding the Two-fingered skink Chalcides mauritanicus (DUMÉRIL & BIBRON, 1839), and the first proof of its viviparity. Podarcis 11 (1): 17-25 - get paper here Boulenger, G. A. 1887. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) III. Lacertidae, Gerrhosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropsidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleontidae. London: 575 pp. - get paper here 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 Brygoo, E.R. 1985. Les types des scincidés (Reptiles, Sauriens) du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, catalogue critique. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. (4e sér.) 7 (sect. A 3), suppl.: 1-126 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. - get paper here Gervais, Paul 1836. Enumération de quelques espèces de reptiles provenant de Barbarie. Ann. Sci. Nat. (2) VI: 308-313 - get paper here Guichenot, A. 1850. Histoire naturelle des reptiles et des poissons. Exploration Scientifique de l’Algérie pendant les annees 1840, 1841, 1842. Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, 147 pp. (+ atlas) - get paper here Martín, José; Roberto García-Roa, Jesús Ortega, Pilar López, Ana Pérez-Cembranos, Alicia León, Luis V. García & Valentín Pérez-Mellado 2015. Occurrence and ecological aspects of the two-fingered skink Chalcides mauritanicus in the Chafarinas Islands in North Africa. African Journal of Herpetology 64 (1): 67-79 - 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 Mediani, Mohamed; José Carlos Brito, Soumia Fahd 2015. Atlas of the amphibians and reptiles of northern Morocco: updated distribution and patterns of habitat selection. Basic and Applied Herpetology 29: - get paper here Mellado, J. V. CAPUTO & G. NASCETTI 1987. Sobre las publicaciónes de Chalcides (Reptilia: Scincidae) del Nordeste de Marruecos. Rev. Esp. Herpetol. 2: 183-186 - 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 Rouag R, Ziane N, De Sousa M 2024. A tentative list of reptilian fauna of Algeria and their conservation status. Biodiversity Data Journal 12: e120471 - 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
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.chalcides.de/Alle_Arten.html Google images

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