Roller skink
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Southern Canary Skink ( Chalcides coeruleopunctatus ) |
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| Laurenti , 1768 |
The roller skinks (genus Chalcides ) include shapes with short legs and five toes that have adapted to life in sandy soils, as well as snake-like species that have their legs reduced to short three-toed stumps. The latter inhabit biotopes with low vegetation as "grass hatchers".
distribution
On European soil the spotted roller skink ( Chalcides ocellatus ) lives on Sardinia , Sicily , Malta , Crete , the Ionian Islands , the Peloponnese and Attica , the Iberian roller skink ( Chalcides bedriagai ) and the western ore crawl ( Chalcides striatus ) on the Iberian Peninsula , and the Italian ore crawl ( Chalcides chalcides ) in Italy south of the Po Valley . The ore sneaks belong to the grass-slipper type and have greatly reduced limbs.
Four species are endemic to the Canary Islands . The other species live in North Africa and the Middle East.
species
- Chalcides armitagei
- Iberian roller skink ( Chalcides bedriagai )
- Italian ore sneak ( Chalcides chalcides )
- Southern Canary Skink ( Chalcides coeruleopunctatus )
- Chalcides colosii
- Chalcides ebneri
- Chalcides guentheri
- Chalcides lanzai
- Chalcides levitoni
- Chalcides manueli
- Chalcides mauritanicus
- Chalcides minutus
- Chalcides mionecton
- Chalcides montanus
- Spotted roller skink ( Chalcides ocellatus )
- Chalcides parallelus
- Chalcides pentadactylus
- Chalcides pistaciae
- Moroccan roller skink ( Chalcides polylepis )
- Chalcides pseudostriatus
- Chalcides pulchellus
- Chalcides ragazzii
- Striped Canary Island Skink ( Chalcides sexlineatus )
- Eastern Kanarenskink ( Chalcides simonyi )
- Western ore creep ( Chalcides striatus )
- Chalcides thierryi
- Northern Canary Island Skink ( Chalcides viridanus )
literature
- Manfred Rogner: Echsen 2 , Ulmer Verlag, ISBN 3-8001-7253-4
