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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. www.repfocus.dk (Compilation date: 14th April, 2023).

Checklist General remarks: The list includes only formally described species. Newly discovered, but still unnamed species are excluded. However, unnamed species or species unassigned to species level are included, if they are the only representatives of their genus in the region. Species counts exclude extinct and introduced species. Doubtful records, typically older voucher specimens of uncertain origin, have been excluded if considered questionable, as are records based on sources considered unreliable or controversial. Note: Your comments to the checklist (omissions, errors, etc.) are welcomed, preferably if they are provided with reliable references. If possible, please attach a pdf file of the relevant reference to an email addressed to:

	Lizards (Sauria)
	= endemicEX = extinct or assumed extinct Species References  Family Iguanidae (Greater Iguanas) Genus Cachryx (Yucatan Spiny-tailed Iguanas)   Cachryx alfredschmidti Campeche Spiny-tailed Iguana Calderon-Mandujano, Cedeno-Vazquez & Pozo 2003 Cedeno-Vazquez, Calderon-Mandujano & Pozo 2003 Gonzalez-Sanchez, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Heimes 2022 Koehler 1995 Koehler 2002 Liner 2007 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   Cachryx defensor Northern Yucatan Spiny-tailed Iguana Calderon-Mandujano & Mora-Tembre 2004 Calderon-Mandujano, Cedeno-Vazquez & Pozo 2003 Duellman 1965 Dundee, White & Rico-Gray 1986 Etheridge in Burghardt & Rand 1982 Flores-Villela 1993 Gonzalez-Sanchez, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Heimes 2022 Koehler 2000 Koehler 2002 Lee 1996 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Ortiz Medina, Cabrera-Cen, Nahuat-Cervera & Chable-Santos 2020 Smith & Taylor 1950 [as erythromelas] Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Genus Ctenosaura (Northern Spiny-tailed Iguanas)   Ctenosaura acanthura Northeastern Spiny-tailed Iguana Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Canseco Marquez & Gutierrez Mayen 2006 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Camarillo 1996 Etheridge in Burghardt & Rand 1982 Flores-Villela 1993 Garcia-Vazquez, Canseco-Marquez, Gutierrez-Mayen & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Heimes 2022 Johnson, Mata-Silva, Garcia-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Koehler 2000 Koehler 2002 Lazcano, Farr, Lavin-Murcio, Contreras-Lozano, Kardon, Narvaez-Torres & Chaves-Cisneros 2009 Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2015 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Pina 2018 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Luz, Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Martin 1958 Mata-Silva, Garcia-Padilla, Rocha, DeSantis, Johnson, Ramirez-Bautista & Wilson 2021 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & Garcia-Padilla 2015 Mendoza-Quijano, Mejenes-Lopez, Hernandez-Aquino & Koehler 2002 Percino-Daniel, Cruz-Ocana, Pozo-Ventura & Velazquez-Velazquez 2013 Ramirez-Bautista, Hernandez-Salinas, Cruz-Elizalde, Berriozabal-Islas, Moreno-Lara, DeSantis, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2020 Ramirez-Bautista, Hernandez-Salinas, Mendoza-Quijano, Cruz-Elizalde, Stephenson, Vite-Silva & Leyte-Manrique 2010 Smith & Taylor 1950 Taylor 1949 Taylor 1952 Teran-Juarez, Garcia-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Torres-Hernandez, Ramirez-Bautista, Cruz-Elizalde, Hernandez-Salinas, Berriozabal-Islas, DeSantis, Johnson, Rocha, Garcia-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Fucsko & Wilson 2021 Vasquez-Cruz, Olivares-Blanco & Reynoso-Martinez 2021 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Pina, Garcia-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017   * Ctenosaura clarki Balsas Armed Iguana Ahumada-Carillo, Perez Rivera, Reyes-Velasco, Grunwald & Jones 2014 Alvarado-Diaz, Suazo-Ortuno, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Cruz-Saenz, Munoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Duellman 1965 Etheridge in Burghardt & Rand 1982 Flores-Villela 1993 Gicca 1982 Heimes 2022 Koehler 2002 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Perez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Pena 2000 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Ctenosaura conspicuosa San Esteban Island Spiny-tailed Iguana Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Grismer 1999 Grismer 2002 Heimes 2022 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Koehler 2002 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Rorabaugh 2019 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Ctenosaura hemilopha Cape Spiny-tailed Iguana Alvarez, Galina & Ortega-Rubio 1989 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Banks & Farmer 1963 Etheridge 1961 Etheridge in Burghardt & Rand 1982 Flores-Villela 1993 Grismer 2002 Heimes 2022 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Koehler 2002 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Ctenosaura macrolopha Sonoran Spiny-tailed Iguana Enderson, Devender & Bezy 2014 Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Etheridge in Burghardt & Rand 1982 Heimes 2022 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Koehler 2002 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2020 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Chiszar 2006 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Rorabaugh 2019 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Woolrich-Pina & Cruz 2017 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Rorabaugh 2008 Smith, Lemos-Espinal & Heimes 2005 Tanner 1987 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Ctenosaura nolascensis San Pedro Nolasco Island Spiny-tailed Iguana Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Grismer 1999 Grismer 2002 Heimes 2022 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Koehler 2002 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Rorabaugh 2019 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Ctenosaura oaxacana Oaxacan Spiny-tailed Iguana Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Camarillo 1996 [as C. quinquecarinata] Castaneda-Hernandez, Canseco-Marquez & Vargas-Orrego 2015 Hasbun & Koehler 2009 Heimes 2022 Koehler & Hasbun 2001 Koehler 2002 Liner 2007 Martin-Regalado, Gomez-Ugalde & Cisneros-Palacios 2011 Mata-Silva, Garcia-Padilla, Rocha, DeSantis, Johnson, Ramirez-Bautista & Wilson 2021 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & Garcia-Padilla 2015 Peterson, Canseco-Marquez, Contreras-Jimenez, Escalona-Segura, Flores-Villela, Garcia-Lopez, Hernandez-Banos, Jimenez-Ruiz, Leon-Paniagua, Amaro, Navarro-Siguenza, Sanchez-Cordero & Willard 2004 Rioja-Paradela, Carrillo-Reyes, Castaneda & Lopez 2013 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Ctenosaura pectinata West Mexican Spiny-tailed Iguana Ahumada-Carillo, Grunwald, Lopez-Cuellar & Jones 2020 Ahumada-Carillo, Vazquez-Huizar, Vazquez-Diaz & Garcia-Vazquez 2011 Alvarado-Diaz, Suazo-Ortuno, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Alvarez del Toro 1982 Andrade-Soto, Perez-Perez, Lopez-Moreno, Suarez-Varon, Suarez-Rodriguez, Gribbins & Hernandez-Gallegos 2017 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Baker, Webb & Dalby 1967 Camarillo-R. & Smith (in Strimple & Strimple) 1992 Camarillo-Rangel 1983 Camarillo-Rangel, Aguilar-Cortes & Gonzalez-Ruiz-1985 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Camarillo 1996 Castro-Franco & Bustos-Zagal 1994 Castro-Franco & Bustos-Zagal 2003 Chavez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, Garcia-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magana 2015 Chrapliwy & Fugler 1955 Crossin, Soule, Webb & Baker 1973 Cruz-Saenz, Guerrero-Vazquez, Lazcano & Tellez-Lopez 2009 Cruz-Saenz, Munoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Davis & Dixon 1961 Davis & Smith 1953 Duellman 1958 Duellman 1965 Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Etheridge in Burghardt & Rand 1982 Flores-Villela 1993 Garcia-Vazquez, Canseco-Marquez, Gutierrez-Mayen & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Hardy & McDiarmid 1969 Heimes 2022 Holman 1964 Johnson 1990 Johnson, Mata-Silva, Garcia-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Koehler 2000 Koehler 2002 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2020 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Gadsden-Esparza, Valdez-Lares & Woolrich-Pina 2018 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Pierce & Painter 2020 Lewis & Johnson 1955 Lewis & Johnson 1956 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Loc-Barragan & Lazcano 2018 Loc-Barragan, Lazcano & Woolrich-Pina 2018 Loc-Barragan, Sosa-Hernandez, Grunwald, Miramontes-Medina, Banuelos-Alamillo, Woolrich-Pina & Lazcano 2019 Martin-Regalado, Gomez-Ugalde & Cisneros-Palacios 2011 Mata-Silva, Garcia-Padilla, Rocha, DeSantis, Johnson, Ramirez-Bautista & Wilson 2021 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & Garcia-Padilla 2015 McCoy & Horn 1962 McDiarmid, Copp & Breedlove 1976 Medina-Aguilar, Alvarado-Diaz & Suazo-Ortuno 2011 Nolasco-Luna, Barraza-Soltero, Lopez-Montes, Moreno-Lopez & Escobedo-Galvan 2022 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Perez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Pena 2000 Quintero-Diaz, Reyes-Ardit, Garcia-Balderas, Valdez-Jimenez, Chaves-Floriano, Muniz-Salas & Sosa-Vargas 2013 Reyes-Velasco, Grunwald, Jones & Ahumada-Carrillo 2020 Rioja-Paradela, Carrillo-Reyes, Castaneda & Lopez 2013 Smith & Gelder 1955 Smith & Taylor 1950 Valdez-Lares, Muniz-Martinez, Gadsden, Aguirre-Leon, Castaneda-Gaytan & Gonzalez-Trapaga 2013 Webb & Baker 1962 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Pina, Garcia-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017 Woolrich-Pina, Ponce-Campos, Loc-Barragan, Ramirez-Silva, Mata-Silva, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla & Wilson 2016 Zweifel 1959 Zweifel 1960   Ctenosaura similis Central American Black Iguana Alvarez del Toro 1982 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Barragan-Vazquez, Rios-Rodas, Fucsko, Porras, Mata-Silva, Rocha, DeSantis, Garcia-Padilla, Johnson & Wilson 2022 Cabrera-Hernandez, Toledo Gonzalez & Enriquez Robles 2018 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Camarillo 1996 Duellman 1965 Dundee, White & Rico-Gray 1986 Etheridge in Burghardt & Rand 1982 Flores-Villela 1993 Gonzalez-Sanchez, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Heimes 2022 Hernandez-Ordonez, Arroyo-Rodriguez, Gonzalez-Hernandez, Russildi, Luna-Reyes, Martinez-Ramos & Reynoso 2015 Johnson 1990 Johnson, Mata-Silva, Garcia-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Koehler 2000 Koehler 2002 Lee 1996 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Lopez-Gonzalez & Gonzalez-Romero 1997 Mata-Silva, Garcia-Padilla, Rocha, DeSantis, Johnson, Ramirez-Bautista & Wilson 2021 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & Garcia-Padilla 2015 Nahuat-Cervera, Hernandez-Betancourt & Diaz-Gamboa 2020 Perez-Higareda 1978 Rioja-Paradela, Carrillo-Reyes, Castaneda & Lopez 2013 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Genus Dipsosaurus (Desert Iguanas)   * Dipsosaurus catalinensis Santa Catalina Island Desert Iguana Grismer 1999 Grismer 2002 Heimes 2022 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   Dipsosaurus dorsalis Common Desert Iguana Alvarez, Galina & Ortega-Rubio 1989 Banks & Farmer 1963 Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Etheridge 1961 Flores-Villela 1993 Grismer 2002 Hardy & McDiarmid 1969 Heimes 2022 Hulse 1992 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Langebartel & Smith 1954 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2020 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Rorabaugh 2019 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Rorabaugh 2008 Smith & Taylor 1950 Smith, Lemos-Espinal & Heimes 2005 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Genus Iguana (Green Iguanas)   Iguana rhinolopha Northern Green Iguana Alvarado-Diaz, Suazo-Ortuno, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 [as I. iguana] Alvarez del Toro 1982 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 [as I. iguana] Barragan-Vazquez, Rios-Rodas, Fucsko, Porras, Mata-Silva, Rocha, DeSantis, Garcia-Padilla, Johnson & Wilson 2022 Cabrera-Hernandez, Toledo Gonzalez & Enriquez Robles 2018 [as I. iguana] Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 [as I. iguana] Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Camarillo 1996 [as I. iguana] Cedeno-Vazquez, Calderon-Mandujano & Pozo 2003 [as I. iguana] Chavez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, Garcia-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magana 2015 [as I. iguana] Cruz-Saenz, Guerrero-Vazquez, Lazcano & Tellez-Lopez 2009 [as I. iguana] Cruz-Saenz, Munoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla & Wilson 2017 [as I. iguana] Duellman 1958 Duellman 1965 [as I. iguana] Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 [as I. iguana] Etheridge in Burghardt & Rand 1982 [as I. iguana] Farr, Lavin Murcio & Lazcano 2007 [as I. iguana] Flores-Villela 1993 [as I. iguana] Garcia-Vazquez, Canseco-Marquez, Gutierrez-Mayen & Trujano-Ortega 2009 [as I. iguana] Gonzalez-Sanchez, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 [as I. iguana] Hardy & McDiarmid 1969 [as I. iguana] Heimes 2022 [as I. iguana] Hernandez-Ordonez, Arroyo-Rodriguez, Gonzalez-Hernandez, Russildi, Luna-Reyes, Martinez-Ramos & Reynoso 2015 [as I. iguana] Johnson 1990 [as I. iguana] Johnson, Mata-Silva, Garcia-Padilla & Wilson 2015 [as I. iguana] Koehler 2000 [as I. iguana] Lee 1996 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2020 [as I. iguana] Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Pierce & Painter 2020 [as I. iguana] Lewis & Johnson 1955 [as I. iguana] Liner 1994 [as I. iguana] Liner 2007 [as I. iguana] Loc-Barragan & Lazcano 2018 [as I. iguana] Loc-Barragan, Lazcano & Woolrich-Pina 2018 [as I. iguana] Lopez-Gonzalez & Gonzalez-Romero 1997 [as I. iguana] Luz, Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 [as I. iguana] Martin-Regalado, Gomez-Ugalde & Cisneros-Palacios 2011 [as I. iguana] Mata-Silva, Garcia-Padilla, Rocha, DeSantis, Johnson, Ramirez-Bautista & Wilson 2021 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & Garcia-Padilla 2015 [as I. iguana] Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 [as I. iguana] Percino-Daniel, Cruz-Ocana, Pozo-Ventura & Velazquez-Velazquez 2013 [as I. iguana] Perez-Higareda 1978 [as I. iguana] Perez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Pena 2000 [as I. iguana] Peters & Donoso-Barros 1970 Reyes-Velasco, Grunwald, Jones & Ahumada-Carrillo 2020 [as I. iguana] Rioja-Paradela, Carrillo-Reyes, Castaneda & Lopez 2013 [as I. iguana] Smith & Gelder 1955 Smith & Taylor 1950 Teran-Juarez, Garcia-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 [as I. iguana] Torres-Hernandez, Ramirez-Bautista, Cruz-Elizalde, Hernandez-Salinas, Berriozabal-Islas, DeSantis, Johnson, Rocha, Garcia-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Fucsko & Wilson 2021 [as I. iguana] Vasquez-Cruz, Olivares-Blanco & Reynoso-Martinez 2021 [as I. iguana] Wilson & Johnson 2010 [as I. iguana] Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 [as I. iguana] Woolrich-Pina, Garcia-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017 [as I. iguana] Woolrich-Pina, Ponce-Campos, Loc-Barragan, Ramirez-Silva, Mata-Silva, Johnson, Garcia-Padilla & Wilson 2016 [as I. iguana] Genus Sauromalus (North American Chuckwallas)   Sauromalus ater Common Chuckwalla Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Grismer 2002 Heimes 2022 Hollingsworth 1998 Hollingsworth, Grismer, Wong & Cryder 1997 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Rorabaugh 2019 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Rorabaugh 2008 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Sauromalus hispidus Spiny Chuckwalla Dugan, Murray, Mills, Fischer, Lohr & Faust 2017 Grismer 2002 Heimes 2022 Hollingsworth 1998 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Reynoso, Monteverde, Martinez-Gonzalez, Zarza & Cerda-Ardura 2017 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Sauromalus klauberi Spotted Chuckwalla Grismer 1999 Grismer 2002 Heimes 2022 Hollingsworth 1998 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Sauromalus slevini Monserrat Island Chuckwalla Grismer 1999 Grismer 2002 Heimes 2022 Hollingsworth 1998 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Montanucci 2004 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Sauromalus varius Piebald Chuckwalla Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Heimes 2022 Hollingsworth 1998 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Rorabaugh 2019 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013