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Chalcides thierryi (Thierry's Cylindrical Skink)

Wikipedia Abstract

Thierry's Cylindrical Skink, (Chalcides thierryi), is a species of skink found in northern Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal.
View Wikipedia Record: Chalcides thierryi

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  39 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1 grams
Female Weight [1]  53 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Fossorial, Saxicolous, Terrestrial
Litter Size [1]  6
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  14 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  4.331 inches (11 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
West Sudanian savanna Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Parc National du Niokolo-Koba National Park II 2046878 Senegal  

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2Meiri, 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
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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