Chalcides delislei

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Chalcides delislei

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Chalcides
Species:
C. delislei
Binomial name
Chalcides delislei
Synonyms[2]
  • Allodactylus de l'Islei
    Lataste & Rochebrune, 1876
    in Lataste, 1876
  • Chalcides delislei
    — Boulenger, 1887
  • Sphenops delislei
    — Pappenfus, 1969
  • Chalcides delislei
    — Carranza et al., 2008

Chalcides delislei, also known

Scincidae. The species is native to northern Africa
.

Etymology

The specific name, delislei, is in honor of French anthropologist Fernand Delisle.[3]

Geographic range

C. delislei is found in Algeria, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, and Western Sahara.[2]

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of C. delislei are desert and shrubland, at altitudes up to 700 m (2,300 ft).[1]

Behavior

C. delislei is diurnal, terrestrial, and fossorial.[1]

Diet

C. delislei preys upon small beetles and their larvae.[1]

Reproduction

C. delislei is viviparous.[2]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T198511A2527728.en
    . Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Chalcides delislei Lataste & Rochebrune, 1876. The Reptile Database". www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5
    . (Sphenops delislei, p. 69).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. Lacertidæ, Gerrhosauridæ, Scincidæ, Anelytropidæ, Dibamidæ, Chamæleontidæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I–XL. ("Chalcides delislii [sic]", new combination, p. 407).
  • Lataste F (1876). "Description d'un genre nouveau et d'une espèce nouvelle de scincoidien saurophthalme ". Journal de Zoologie 5: 237–243 + Plate X. ("Allodactylus de l'Islei F. Lataste et Tremeau de Rochebrune", new species). (in French).
  • Padial JM (2006). "Commented distributional list of the reptiles of Mauritania (West Africa)". Graellsia 62 (2): 159–178. (Sphenops delislei, p. 167). (in English, with an abstract in Spanish).
  • ISBN 978-88-89504-14-7
    .
  • ISBN 978-2709917261
    . (in French).



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