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Chew Bahir Cylindrical Skink
Chalcides bottegi
Chalcides bottegi, also known commonly as Bottego's cylindrical skink or the ocellated skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is native to East Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Northeast Africa.
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Description
Large for its genus, the holotype of C. bottegi has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of 12.5 cm (4.9 in) and a regenerated tail.
Range & habitat
The preferred natural habitats of C. bottegi are savanna and forest, at altitudes of 300–500 m (980–1,640 ft).
Wikipedia: “Habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 53644.