Chalcides armitagei

Chalcides armitagei, commonly known as Armitage's cylindrical skink, is a species of skink endemic to West Africa.

Chalcides armitagei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Chalcides
Species:	C. armitagei
Binomial name
Chalcides armitagei E. Boulenger, 1922

Etymology

The specific name, armitagei, is in honor of Cecil Hamilton Armitage (1869-1933), who collected the type specimen while he was Governor of the Gambia.[1]

Geographic range

Chalcides armitagei is found in Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Senegal.[2]

Note

There have been several errors in the scientific literature concerning C. armitagei. For the year of description, Frank & Ramus (1995) give 1896, while Pasteur (1981)[3] gives 1920 and 1921 respectively.[2]

References

1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Chalcides armitagei, p. 11).
2. "Chalcides armitagei BOULENGER, 1922. The Reptile Database".
3. Pasteur G (1981). "A survey of the species groups of the old world scincid genus Chalcides ". J. Herpetol. 15 (1): 1-16.

Further reading

• Boulenger EG (1922). "Description of a New Lizard of the genus Chalcides, from the Gambia, living in the Society's Gardens". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1922: 899. (Chalcides armitagei, new species).