The Species Black List

Chalcides pentadactylus

five-fingered cylindrical skink

The five-fingered cylindrical skink (Chalcides pentadactylus) is known only from a single specimen (since lost) collected in 1870 from the sandy banks of a tidal river in southwestern India (Kerala).

Status

Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List

Restriction tier

5, type locality or a single collection

Class

Reptilia

Realm

Indo-Malaysian

Locality

not specified in the source

As IUCN records it

Chalcides pentadactylus (Beddome, 1870)