Chalcides ebneri Werner, 1931:296
Ebner's cylindrical skink, Ebner's skink
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing (Miras et al., 2006; Bouazza & Martínez del Mármol, 2025)
Last record: 1970 (Miras et al., 2006; Bouazza & Martínez del Mármol, 2025)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution & Habitat
northern Morocco
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Werner, F. (1931). Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Forschungreise nach Marokko. Unternommen 1930 mit Unterstützing der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien von Franz Werner und Richard Ebner. III. Amphibien und Reptilien . Sitzungberichte der Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 140: 271-318 + Plates I-IV + Maps I-III.
Other references:
Bons, J. and Geniez, P. (1996). Amphibiens et Reptiles du Maroc (Sahara Occidental compris), Atlas biogéographique. Asoc. Herpetol. Espanola, Barcelona. 320 pp.
Bouazza, A. and Martínez del Mármol, G. (2025). Chalcides ebneri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T61475A137847645. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-2.RLTS.T61475A137847645.en. Accessed on 06 August 2026.
Geniez, P., Lutgen, D., Hingrat, Y., Rivière, V., Beddek, M., Peyre, O. and Crochet, P.-A. (2024). Resolving the identity of Pallary's Skink: a new taxon of the genus Chalcides (Squamata: Scincidae) from Morocco and Algeria. Salamandra 60: 1-16.
Martínez del Mármol, G., Harris, D. J., Geniez, P., de Pous, P. and Salvi, D. (2019). Amphibians and Reptiles of Morocco. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt au Main.
Miras, J. A. M., El Mouden, H., Pleguezuelos, J. and Slimani, T. (2006). Chalcides ebneri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2006: e.T61475A12474421. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2006.RLTS.T61475A12474421.en. Accessed on 07 August 2026.
Pasteur, G. (1981). A survey of the species groups of the the old world scincid genus Chalcides. Journal of Herpetology 15(1): 1-16.
Schleich, H. H., Kästle, W. and Kabisch, K. (1996). Amphibians and Reptiles of North Africa. Koenigstein: Koeltz Scientific Books.
Sindaco, R. and Jeremčenko, V. K. (2008). The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic. 1. Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Turtles, Crocodiles, Amphisbaenians and Lizards of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. (Monographs of the Societas Herpetologica Italica). Latina, Italy: Edizioni Belvedere. 580 pp.