Taxonomical update: September 10th, 2022
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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 Dactyloidae
Anolis viridulus

Family Gekkonidae
Cyrtodactylus aravindi
Hemidactylus almakhwah
Hemidactylus farasani
Lygodactylus fritzi
Lygodactylus hapei
Lygodactylus hodikazo
Lygodactylus petteri (new status)
Lygodactylus roellae
Lygodactylus salvi
Lygodactylus tantsaha
Lygodactylus ulli
Lygodactylus winki

Family Gymnophthalmidae
Proctoporus katerynae
Proctoporus optimus

Family Lacertidae
Eremias killasaifullahi
Eremias rafiqi
Heliobolus bivari
Heliobolus crawfordi
Zootoca carniolica (new status)

Family Phyllodactylidae
Tarentola panousei (new status)

Family Pygopodidae
Delma vescolineata

Family Scincidae
Calorodius
Calorodius thorntonensis (new genus assignment)

Family Sphaerodactylidae
Sphaerodactylus verdeluzicola

Snakes (Serpentes)

Family Colubridae
Calamaria arcana
Dispholidus pembae
Leptodeira tarairiu
Oligodon teyniei
Phalotris illustrator
Phalotris spegazzinii (new status)
Phalotris suspectus (new status)

Family Elapidae
Sinomicrurus annularis (new status)
Sinomicrurus boettgeri (new status)
Sinomicrurus iwasakii (new status)
Sinomicrurus swinhoei (new status)

Family Uropeltidae
Teretrurus hewstoni (new status)
Teretrurus travancoricus (new status)

Family Viperidae
Gloydius lateralis

Family Xenodermidae
Achalinus vanhoensis

Turtles (Testudines)

Family Chelidae
Chelodina ipudinapi
Elseya auramemoria
Elseya eidolon
Elseya nabire
Elseya papua