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It is usually placed in the subfamily Scincinae (= Scincidae sensu Hedges 2014), a monophyletic clade of primarily African skinks.

Species

The following species are recognized as being valid.

  • Chalcides armitagei Boulenger, 1922 – Armitage's cylindrical skink
  • Chalcides bedriagai (Boscá, 1880) – Bedriaga's skink
  • Chalcides bottegi Boulenger, 1898 – Bottego's cylindrical skink, ocellated skink
  • Chalcides boulengeri J. Anderson, 1892 – Boulenger's feylinia, Boulenger's wedge-snouted skink
  • Chalcides chalcides (Linnaeus, 1758) – cylindrical skink, Italian three-toed skink
  • Chalcides coeruleopunctatus Salvador, 1975 – La Gomera skink
  • Chalcides colosii Lanza, 1957 – Colosi's cylindrical skink
  • Chalcides delislei (Lataste & Rochebrune, 1876) – Delisle's wedge-snouted skink
  • Chalcides ebneri F. Werner, 1931 – Ebner's cylindrical skink
  • Chalcides guentheri Boulenger, 1887 – Günther's cylindrical skink
  • Chalcides lanzai G. Pasteur, 1967 – Lanza's skink
  • Chalcides levitoni G. Pasteur, 1978 – Leviton's cylindrical skink
  • Chalcides manueli Hediger, 1935 – Manuel's skink
  • Chalcides mauritanicus (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – two-fingered skink
  • Chalcides mertensi Klausewitz, 1954 – Algerian three-toed skink
  • Chalcides minutus Caputo, 1993 – small three-toed skink
  • Chalcides mionecton (Boettger, 1874) – Mionecton skink, Morocco cylindrical skink
  • Chalcides montanus F. Werner, 1931
  • Chalcides ocellatus (Forskål, 1775) – eyed skink, gongilo, ocellated skink
  • Chalcides parallelus Doumergue, 1901 – Chafarinas's skink
  • Chalcides pentadactylus (Beddome, 1870) – five-fingered skink
  • Chalcides polylepis Boulenger, 1890 – many-scaled cylindrical skink
  • Chalcides pseudostriatus Caputo, 1993 – Moroccan three-toed skink
  • Chalcides pulchellus Mocquard, 1906 – Mocquard's cylindrical skink
  • Chalcides ragazzii Boulenger, 1890 – Ragazzi's cylindrical skink
  • Chalcides sepsoides (Audouin, 1829) – wedge-snouted skink
  • Chalcides sexlineatus Steindachner, 1891 – Gran Canaria skink
  • Chalcides simonyi Steindachner, 1891 – East Canary skink, Fuerteventura skink
  • Chalcides sphenopsiformis (A.H.A. Duméril, 1856) – Duméril's wedge-snouted skink
  • Chalcides striatus (Cuvier, 1829) – western three-toed skink
  • Chalcides thierryi Tornier, 1901 – Thierry's cylindrical skink
  • Chalcides viridanus (Gravenhorst, 1851) – Canaryan cylindrical skink, East Canary Islands skink, Tenerife skink, West Canary skink

Nota bene: In the above list, a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Chalcides.

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