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Ocellated Skink
Chalcides ocellatus (Forskål, 1775)

Current SSAR Comments:
Native to the Mediterranean region, Middle East, and northern Africa. It is established in Arizona (Gunn et al., 2012, Herpetological Review 43: 551–553), California (Pauly et al., 2024, Herpetological Review 54: 402–403), and Florida (Krysko et al., 2011, Zootaxa 3028: 1–64; Enge and Krysko, 2019, Chalcides ocellatus. Pages 406–407 in Krysko et al. (Editors) Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Eyed Galley-wasp (Tiliqua ocellatus: Gray, John E. 1830. A synopsis of the species of the class reptilia. Pages 1-110 in The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with its Organization by the Baron Cuvier, member of teh Institute of France, with Additional Descriptions of all the Species Hitherto Named, and of many not before noticed. Ninth Volume. Whittaker, Treacher, and Company, London, England. pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1775 Forskål, Petrus. Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere Orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. [Descriptions of animals, birds, amphibians, fish, insects, worms; which Peter Forskål observed in his journey to the East.] Mölleri, Hauniae, . 164pp.
2011 Krysko, Kenneth L., Joseph P. Burgess, Michael R. Rochford, Christopher R. Gillette, Daniel Cueva, Kevin M. Enge, Louis A. Somma, Jennifer L. Stabile, Dustin C. Smith, Joseph A. Wasilewski, Guy N. Kieckhefer III, Michael C. Granatosky & Stuart V. Nielsen. Verified non-indigenous amphibians and reptiles in Florida from 1863 through 2010: Outlining the invasion process and identifying invasion pathways and stages. Zootaxa 3028(1):1-64
2012 Gunn, John, Robert W. Bowker, Keith O. Sullivan, and Brian K. Sullivan. An Old World Skink, Chalcides ocellatus, with a long history of anthropogenically assisted dispersal, now established in Mesa, Arizona, USA Herpetological Review 43(4):551–553
2024 Pauly, Gregory B., Joseph D. Kennedy, Dane R. Spurlock, and Myke Clarkson. Geographic distribution: Chalcides ocellatus. Herpetological Review 54(3):402-403

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