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Chalcides bedriagai (Spanish Cylindrical Skink)

Synonyms: Chalcides bedriagai albaredae; Chalcides bedriagai montanus; Chalcides pistaciae; Gongylus bedriagai (homotypic); Gongylus ocellatus bedriagai

Wikipedia Abstract

The Cylindrical skink (Chalcides pistaciae) is a species of skink that lives in Spain and Portugal. Some authorities classify this species as a subspecies of Chalcides bedriagai and state the year 1967 as the date of its description.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  7 grams
Female Weight [2]  8 grams
Habitat Substrate [3]  Fossorial
Litter Size [2]  2
Litters / Year [2]  1
Reproductive Mode [3]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  3.15 inches (8 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey No

Predators

Coronella girondica (Southern Smooth Snake)[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
3Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
4Geographic variation in the diet composition of a secretive Mediterranean colubrid snake: Coronella girondica from Spain and Italy, Luca Luiselli, Juan M. Pleguezuelos, Massimo Capula, Carmen Villafranca, Ital. J. Zool., 68: 57-60 (2001)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0