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Mountain skink

Chalcides montanus Werner, 1931

Status not recordedlizards

The mountain skink (Chalcides montanus) is a species in the family Scincidae, order Squamata. Recorded adults weigh 39.1 g to 53.2 g, reach 11.2 cm in length and live up to 11.5 years. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Morocco.

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Quick facts about the mountain skink

Weight
39.1 g – 53.2 gsrc for Weight
Length
11.2 cmsrc for Length
Lifespan
11.5 yearssrc for Lifespan
Longest recorded lifespan
14 years
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
shrubland, woodlandsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
6 – 7src for Young per litter or clutch
Litters or clutches a year
1.4src for Litters or clutches a year
Reproduction
Live birthsrc for Reproduction
Active
By day (diurnal)src for Active
Lifestyle
Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

How big is the mountain skink?

MOUNTAIN SKINK · LENGTH 11.2 CMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 11.2 cm, the recorded maximum length of the mountain skink is about 6.6% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does the mountain skink live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The mountain skink is listed for 1 country.

Morocco
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Morocco

Why a country list is not a range map

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

Is the mountain skink endangered?

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.

How is the mountain skink classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classReptilia
  4. orderSquamata
  5. familyScincidae
  6. genusChalcides
  7. SpeciesChalcides montanus Werner, 1931
Other names and names in other languages (4)
  • Mountain cylindrical skinkEnglish
  • Eslizón MontanoSpanish
  • Eslizón del AtlasSpanish
  • Seps du Haut AtlasFrench

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISWikidata

Relatives of the mountain skink

Other species in the same genus Chalcides.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the mountain skink?

An adult mountain skink weighs 39.1 g – 53.2 g and measures 11.2 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the mountain skink live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the mountain skink for 1 country: Morocco. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

How long does the mountain skink live?

The mountain skink has a recorded lifespan of 11.5 years.

What kind of animal is the mountain skink?

The mountain skink (Chalcides montanus) belongs to the family Scincidae in the order Squamata.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Mountain skink (Chalcides montanus). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/chalcides-montanus

MLA

“Mountain skink (Chalcides montanus).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/chalcides-montanus.

BibTeX
@misc{chalcides_montanus_2026,
  title = {Mountain skink (Chalcides montanus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/chalcides-montanus},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}