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Chalcides pentadactylus (BEDDOME, 1870)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymSphenocephalus ? pentadactylus BEDDOME 1870: 30
Chalcides pentadactylus — BOULENGER 1890: 224
Chalcides pentadactylus — SMITH 1935: 350
Chalcides pentadactylus — DAS 1996: 45 
DistributionIndia (Kerala)

Type locality: "Kuddle Poondy, a tidal river near Beypore" (= Kadal Undi, Beypur, 11º 11'N; 75º 49'E, in Kerala State, south-western India), Malabar district  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost fide SMITH 1935 
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CommentAbundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). 
EtymologyPresumably from the Greek pente (five) plus daktylos (finger), in allusion to the pentadactyle limbs, unusual for elongate skinks that often show reduction in the number of digits. 
References
  • Beddome, R.H. 1870. Descriptions of some new lizards from the Madras Presidency. Madras Monthly J. Med. Sci. 1: 30-35
  • Boulenger, George A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis, London, xviii, 541 pp. - get paper here
  • Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24 (2): 262-273 - get paper here
  • Palot, M.J. 2015. A checklist of reptiles of Kerala, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(13): 8010–8022 - get paper here
  • Smith, M.A. 1935. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Reptiles and Amphibia, Vol. II. Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London, 440 pp.
 
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