Three-toed skink

Weight

5.44 g – 21.9 gsrc for Weight

Length

12.7 cm – 14.2 cmsrc for Length

Lifespan

11.5 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Carnivoresrc for Diet

Longest recorded lifespan

14 years

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

shrubland, woodlandsrc for Habitat

Young per litter or clutch

3 – 19src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

21 monthssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

1 – 1.2src for Litters or clutches a year

Reproduction

Live birthsrc for Reproduction

Active

Day and night (cathemeral)src for Active

Brain mass

55.5 mgsrc for Brain mass

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

1 countrysrc for Countries on record

The three-toed skink is listed for 1 country.

The same countries as a list

1. Italy

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ReptileDB (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classReptilia
4. orderSquamata
5. familyScincidae
6. genusChalcides
7. SpeciesChalcides chalcides (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms Chalcides tridactylus, Lacerta chalcides, Lyogsoma akeleyi, Seps chalcides, Seps chalcides f. bilineata, Seps chalcidica, Seps concolor, Seps tridactylus, Seps vittatus

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISTAXREFTAXREFWikidata

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@misc{chalcides_chalcides_2026,
  title = {Three-toed skink (Chalcides chalcides)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/chalcides-chalcides},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}