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Chalcides viridanus (Canaryan Cylindrical Skink)

Synonyms: Chalcides polylepis occidentalis; Gongylus viridanus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The West Canary skink or lisa dorada (Chalcides viridanus) is a species of skink in the Scincidae family.It is found only on Canary Islands.Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, temperate grassland, rocky areas, rocky shores, sandy shores, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, and urban areas where they're found in altitudes up to 2,000 m. They reach about 18 cm in length. They are active during days and the dusk. Both their life in nature and their requirements in a terrarium are very similar to the Gran Canaria Skink.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  28 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1 grams
Female Weight [1]  28 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Terrestrial
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  1
Reproductive Mode [2]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  4.331 inches (11 cm)

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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
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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