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Cape Verde Skinks
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Cape Verde Skinks

Chioninia

Chioninia is a genus of skinks, lizards in the subfamily Lygosominae. For long, this genus was included in the "wastebin taxon" Mabuya. The genus Chioninia contains the Cape Verde mabuyas.

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7 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 6 known species

Sal Island Skink

speciesChioninia spinalis

Fogo Island Skink

speciesChioninia fogoensis

Cape Verde Skink

speciesChioninia delalandii

Vaillant's Cape Verde Skink

speciesChioninia vaillantii

São Nicolau Skink

speciesChioninia nicolauensis

Stanger's Cape Verde Skink

speciesChioninia stangeri

Cocteau's Skink

speciesChioninia coctei

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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 87421.