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<p> <em>Chalcides bedriagai</em> (Bosc&aacute;, 1880)</p>

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  • Bedriaga's skink

  • Chalcides bedriagai (Boscá, 1880)

  • Scincidae

  • The Bedriaga's skink is a serpentine reptile, with a round body and small limbs with five fingers. Its general colouration is brown, grey or green, with metallic reflections, exhibiting dark bands and yellow spots on its back. It can measure up to 16.6 cm long.

  • Peneda-Gerês National Park

    Serra de S. Mamede Nature Park

    Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina Nature Park

    Albufeira do Azibo Protected Landscape

  • Algarve

    Norte

    Alentejo

  • Least Concern

  • Iberian Peninsula

  • The Bedriaga's skink inhabits dry areas in low to moderate altitudes, on sandy or rocky areas with scarce vegetable covering, or shrub lands and relatively open woods.

  • Spring

  • The Bedriaga's skink feeds on beetles, spiders ad snails.

  • There is no estimate for the Portuguese population of this species.