Taxonomical update: November 2025
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The taxa (species or genera) below were described or revalidated since the deadline for the 1st edition of the RepFocus e-book (31st December, 2018). Most of the taxa are new to science, but some may be former synonyms revalidated to species (or genus) status, subspecies elevated to species status, or subgenera elevated to genus status. They have now been added to the taxonomic lists of this website, but not the regional checklists, the biodiversity pages, or the literature lists. As mentioned, most of the descriptions were published after 31st December, 2018, however, some may have been published earlier, but were omitted in the 1st edition.



Lizards (Sauria)

Family Agamidae
Coryphophylax maximiliani (new status)
Phrynocephalus helioscopus cameranoi (new status)
Phrynocephalus helioscopus karatauensis
Phrynocephalus helioscopus sergeevi (new status)
Phrynocephalus helioscopus turcomanus (new status)
Phrynocephalus saidalievi orlovae

Family Anolidae
Dactyloa cyanophthalma

Family Chamaeleonidae
Calumma hofreiteri
Calumma pinocchio

Family Cordylidae
Cordylus cultratus

Family Dibamidae
Dibamus annae

Family Gekkonidae
Cyrtodactylus arnei
Cyrtodactylus chure
Cyrtodactylus makwanpurgadhiensis
Dravidogecko coonoor
Hemiphyllodactylus venkatadri

Family Leiosauridae
Urostrophus grilli (new genus assignment)
Urostrophus longicauda (new genus assignment)
Urostrophus undulatus (new genus assignment)

Family Pygopodidae
Delma branchia
Delma hades
Delma reticulata (new status)

Family Scincidae
Ablepharus flammeus
Scincella balluca
Sphenomorphus valentinae
Sphenomorphus veunsaiensis (new genus assignment)

Snakes (Serpentes)

Family Colubridae
Calamaria synergis
Hebius shantianfangi
Lycodon duytan
Lycodon walli (new status)
Natrix astreptophora soumiafahdae
Oligodon amabilis (new status)
Plagiopholis acuta
Plagiopholis pluvialis
Pseudalsophis eibli (new status)
Rhabdophis shuichengensis
Tantilla equatoriana (new status)
Tantilla fraseri (new status)

Family Pareidae
Pareas melanops

Family Uropeltidae
Rhinophis siruvaniensis

Family Viperidae
Viridovipera pretiosus (= Trimeresurus pretiosus)

Turtles (Testudines)

Family Trionychidae
Pelodiscus shipian (new status)