''Chioninia nicolauensis'' (English: São Nicolau skink) is a species of skinks in the family Scincidae. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to the

Cape Verde Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...

island of São Nicolau. Until around 2010, it was treated as a subspecies of '' Chioninia fogoensis''.

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