Not to be confused with chalcogenides.
Chalcides skinks (family Scincidae).
It is usually placed in the subfamily Scincinae (= Scincidae sensu Hedges 2014), a monophyletic clade of primarily African skinks.
The following species are recognized as being valid.
Chalcides armitagei Boulenger , 1922Chalcides bedriagai (Boscá, 1880) – Bedriaga's skinkChalcides bottegi Boulenger, 1898 Chalcides boulengeri J. Anderson , 1892Chalcides chalcides (Linnaeus , 1758) – Italian three-toed skinkChalcides coeruleopunctatus Salvador, 1975 Chalcides colosii Lanza, 1957 – Riffian skinkChalcides delislei (Lataste & Rochebrune, 1876) Chalcides ebneri F. Werner , 1931Chalcides guentheri Boulenger, 1887 – Günther's cylindrical skinkChalcides lanzai G. Pasteur, 1967 – Lanza's skinkChalcides levitoni G. Pasteur, 1978 – Leviton's cylindrical skinkChalcides manueli Hediger , 1935Chalcides mauritanicus (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron , 1839) – two-fingered skinkChalcides mertensi Klausewitz , 1954Chalcides minutus Caputo, 1993 – small three-toed skinkChalcides mionecton (Boettger , 1874) – Mionecton skinkChalcides montanus F. Werner, 1931 Chalcides ocellatus (Forskål, 1775) – ocellated skinkChalcides parallelus Doumergue, 1901 – Doumergue's skinkChalcides pentadactylus (Beddome , 1870) – five-fingered skinkChalcides pistaciae Valverde, 1966 = C. bedriagai pistaciae Valverde, 1966 – cylindrical skinkChalcides polylepis Boulenger, 1890 – many-scaled cylindrical skinkChalcides pseudostriatus Caputo, 1993 – Moroccan three-toed skinkChalcides pulchellus Mocquard, 1906 – Mocquard's cylindrical skinkChalcides ragazzii Boulenger, 1890 – Ragazzi's cylindrical skinkChalcides sepsoides (Audouin, 1829) Chalcides sexlineatus Steindachner , 1891Chalcides simonyi Steindachner, 1891 – East Canary skinkChalcides sphenopsiformis (A.H.A. Duméril, 1856) Chalcides striatus (Cuvier , 1829) – western three-toed skinkChalcides thierryi Tornier , 1901Chalcides viridanus (Gravenhorst , 1851) – West Canary skinkNota bene binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the Species was originally described in a genus other than Chalcides .
