Chalcides parallelus DOUMERGUE, 1901

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Chafarinas' skink G: Chafarinas-Skink
Synonym	Chalcides parallelus DOUMERGUE 1901 Chalcides polylepis MELLADO et al. 1987 Chalcides ghiarai CAPUTO & MELLADO 1992 Chalcides ghiarai — SCHLEICH, KÄSTLE & KABISCH 1996: 340 Chalcides parallelus — SINDACO & JEREMČENKO 2008
Distribution	NE Morocco, NW Algeria, Chafarinas Island Type locality: Plateau de Canastal, Oran area
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: unknown (lost), collected F. Doumerge Holotype: ZFMK 34549, paratypes in ZFMK, MZUF and Coll. Mellado [ghiarai]
Diagnosis
Comment
References	Böhme, Wolfgang 2014. Herpetology in Bonn. Mertensiella 21. vi + 256 pp. - 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 Caputo, Vincenzo;Sorice, Marina;Crescimbent, Laura 1999. A molecular taxonomy of some Mediterranean Scincid lizards, Genus Chalcides Laurenti 1768 (Reptilia, Scincidae). Russ. J. Herpetol. 6 (1): 23-32 - get paper here Civantos, E., Arribas, R. and Martin, J. 2020. Niche occupancy of two (congeneric) skinks in an islands environment. Amphibia-Reptilia 41 (3): 337–347 - get paper here Civantos, Emilio; Jesús Ortega, Pilar López, Ana Pérez-Cembranos, Valentín Pérez-Mellado & José Martín 2013. Diet selection by the threatened Chafarinas' skink Chalcides parallelus in North Africa. African Journal of Herpetology 62 (2): 78-89 - get paper here Doumergue,F. 1901. Essai sur la faune erpétologique de l'Oranie avec des tableaux analytiques et des notations pour la détermination de tous les reptiles et batraciens du Maroc, de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie. L. Fouque, Oran, 404 pp. - 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 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 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 http://linnaeus.nrm.se/zool/herp/madserp.html.en (as Coluber/Boa) Google images

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