Sauria (Lacertilia) (Lizards, Geckoes, Skinks, Iguanas etc)
Family: Agamidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Agama schleichi | Joshi & Kotlia, 2010 | Schleich's agama | c. 72,000 BC | India | Extinct | Access |
Bronchocela burmana | Blanford, 1878 | (rediscovered) | Myanmar (=Burma) | Rediscovered | Access | |
Diploderma brevicaudum | (Manthey, Wolfgang, Hou, Wang, 2012) | (rediscovered) | Yunnan, China | Rediscovered | Access | |
Harpesaurus beccarii | Doria, 1888 | (rediscovered) | Sumatra, Indonesia | Rediscovered | Access | |
Harpesaurus modiglianii
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Vinciguerra, 1933 | Modigliani’s nose-horned lizard | (rediscovered) | North Sumatra, Indonesia | Rediscovered | Access |
Harpesaurus tricinctus
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(Duméril in Duméril & Duméril, 1851) | 1851 or before | "Java" | Missing | Access | |
Hypsilurus sp. nov. 'Palau' | - | subfossil | Palau | Missing | Access | |
Japalura austeniana | (Annandale, 1908) | (rediscovered) | Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India | Rediscovered | Access | |
Japalura yulongensis | Manthey, Denzer, Hou, and Wang 2012 | Mountain dragon | (rediscovered) | Yunnan Province (northwest), People's Republic of China | Rediscovered | Access |
Pseudocalotes andamanensis | Boulenger, 1891 | (rediscovered) | Andaman Islands, India | Rediscovered | Access | |
Tympanocryptis pinguicolla | Mitchell, 1948 | Victorian grassland earless dragon | (rediscovered) | Victoria, Australia | Rediscovered | Access |
Tympanocryptis uniformis |
Mitchell, 1948 | Even-scaled earless dragon | 1911 | "near Darwin", Northern Territory, Australia | Missing | Access |
Family: Anguidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Abronia bogerti | Tihen, 1954 | Bogert's arboreal alligator lizard | - | Oaxaca, Mexico | Rediscovered | Access |
Abronia campbelli | Brodie & Savage, 1993 | Campbell's alligator lizard | (rediscovered) | Guatemala | Rediscovered | Access |
Abronia frosti | Campbell, Sasa, Aceedo & Mendelson, 1998 | Frost’s arboreal alligator lizard | (rediscovered) | Guatemala | Rediscovered | Access |
Abronia leurolepis | Campbell & Frost, 1993 | Smoothback arboreal alligator lizard | 1930's | Mexico | Missing | Access |
Abronia mitchelli | Campbell, 1982 | Mitchell's arboreal alligator lizard | 5 September 1974 | Oaxaca state, Mexico | Missing | Access |
Abronia ochoterenai | (Campo, 1939) | Northern Chiapas arboreal alligator lizard | 1930's | Chiapas state, Mexico | Rediscovered | Access |
Celestus anelpistus | Schwartz, Graham & Duval, 1979 | Giant Hispaniolan galliwasp, San Cristobal galliwasp | 1977 | Dominican Republic (south-central), Hispaniola | Missing | Access |
Celestus duquesneyi | Grant, 1940 | Duquesney's galliwasp, Blue-tailed galliwasp | - | Jamaica | Rediscovered | Access |
Celestus fowleri | (Schwartz, 1971) | Fowler's galliwasp, Bromeliad galliwasp, Bromeliad-inhabiting galliwasp | 15 August 1970 or later | Cockpit Country (karst region), Jamaica (north-western) | Missing | Access |
Celestus microblepharis | Underwood, 1959 | Tiny-eyelid galliwasp | 3 May 1952 | Jamaica | Missing | Access |
Celestus molesworthi | Grant, 1940 | Portland Coast galliwasp | 1960's | Jamaica | Missing | Access |
Celestus occiduus | Shaw, 1802 | Jamaican giant galliwasp, Sinking galliwasp | 1840 | Jamaica | Extinct | Access |
Mesaspis antauges | (Cope, 1866) | - | Mount Orizaba, Veracruz State, Mexico | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Anolidae1
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Anolis darlingtoni | Cochran, 1935 | Darlington's lizard | - | Haiti, Hispaniola | Rediscovered | Access |
Anolis lamari | Williams, 1992 | (rediscovered) | Colombia | Rediscovered | Access | |
Anolis loveridgei | Schmidt, 1936 | Honduran giant anole, Loveridge's anole | (rediscovered) | Honduras | Rediscovered | Access |
Anolis luteogularis sanfelipensis | Garrido, 1975 | San Felipe western giant anole | - | Cayo Real, Cuba (western) | Rediscovered | Access |
Anolis milleri | Smith in Smith & Taylor, 1950 | Miller's anole | (rediscovered) | Oaxaca, Mexico | Rediscovered | Access |
Anolis nasofrontalis | Amaral, 1933 | - | Brazil | Rediscovered | Access | |
Anolis proboscis | Peters & Orces, 1956 | Proboscis anole, Pinocchio anole, Pinocchio lizard | - | Pichincha, Ecuador | Rediscovered | Access |
Anolis pseudotigrinus | Amaral, 1933 | - | Brazil | Rediscovered | Access | |
Anolis roosevelti | Grant, 1931 | Culebra Island giant anole, Roosevelt's giant anole, Giant anole | 1932 | Culebra, Vieques (= Bieque = Crab Island), St. John, and Tortola islands, Puerto Rico | Missing | Access |
1 de Queiroz, Kevin. (2022). The Correct Name for the Taxon Ranked as a Family Containing the Genus Anolis under Rank-based Nomenclature and the Author of the Name Anolis loysiana. Herpetological Review 53(3): 418-420.
Family: Chamaeleonidae (Chameleons)
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Archaius seychellensis | Kuhl, 1820 | (rediscovered) | Seychelles | Rediscovered | Access | |
Furcifer voeltzkowi | (Boettger, 1893) | (rediscovered) | Madagascar | Rediscovered | Access | |
Rhampholeon chapmanorum | Tilbury, 1992 | Chapman's pygmy chameleon | (rediscovered) | Natundu Hills range, near Nsanje, Malawi | Rediscovered | Access |
Trioceros conirostratus | Tilbury, 1998 | Sudanese unicorn chameleon | (rediscovered) | Kenya & South Sudan | Rediscovered | Access |
Trioceros pfefferi | (Tornier, 1900) | Pfeffer's chameleon, Bakossi two-horned chameleon, Pfeffer’s two-horned chameleon | (rediscovered) | Cameroon | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Cordylidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Cordylus angolensis | (Bocage, 1895) | (rediscovered) | Benguela Province, Angola | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Diplodactylidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Mokopirirakau sp. nov. "Cupola" | - | Cupola gecko | (rediscovered) | South Island, New Zealand | Rediscovered | Access |
Mokopirirakau sp. nov. “Okarito” | - | Okarito gecko, Broad-cheek gecko | (rediscovered) | South Island, New Zealand | Rediscovered | Access |
Rhacodactylus ciliatus | Guichenot, 1866 | Crested gecko, Eyelash gecko | (rediscovered) | Province Sud, New Caledonia | Rediscovered | Access |
Strophurus michaelseni | (Werner, 1910) | Robust striped gecko | (rediscovered) | Western Australia, Australia | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Diploglossidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Diploglossus montiserrati | Underwood, 1964 | Montserrat galliwasp | - | Montserrat Island | Rediscovered | Access |
Diploglossus scansorius | (McCranie and Wilson, 1996) | Climbing galliwasp | - | Honduras | Relocated | Access |
Family: Eublepharidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Goniurosaurus kuroiwae yunnu | Nakamura et al., 2014 | Kuroiwa’s leopard gecko (species) | Holocene | Yoronjima Island, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan | Extinct | Access |
Family: Gekkonidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Afrogecko ansorgii |
(Boulenger, 1907)
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- | Angola | Rediscovered | Access | |
Calodactylodes aureus | Beddome, 1870 | Indian golden gecko | - | India | Rediscovered | Access |
Cnemaspis flavolineata | Nicholls, 1949 | Fraser's Hill rock gecko, Yellow-striped rock gecko, Titiwangsa rock gecko | - | Peninsular Malaysia | Rediscovered | Access |
Cnemaspis nilagirica | Manamendra-Arachchi, Batuwita & Pethiyagoda, 2007 | - | (rediscovered) | Nilgiri Hills, Western Ghats, India | Rediscovered | Access |
Cnemaspis tropidogaster | (Boulenger, 1885) |
Rough-bellied day gecko
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- | Sri Lanka | Rediscovered | Access |
Cryptactites peringueyi
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(Boulenger, 1910) | Peringuey’s leaf-toad gecko | (rediscovered) | South Africa | Rediscovered | Access |
Cyrtodactylus celatus | Kathriner, Bauer, O'Shea, Sanchez & Kaiser, 2014 | 1924 | West Timor, Indonesia | Missing | Access | |
Dixonius siamensis |
(Boulenger, 1899) | - | (rediscovered) | Dong Phaya Yen mountain range, central Thailand | Rediscovered | Access |
Geckoella jeyporensis | (Beddome, 1877) | Jeypore Indian gecko, Jeypore ground gecko, Patinghe Indian gecko | - | India | Rediscovered | Access |
Gigarcanum delcourti |
(Bauer & Russell, 1986) | Delcourt's (giant) gecko | ? | New Caledonia | Extinct | Access |
Hemidactylus laevis | Boulenger, 1901 | Common leaf-toed gecko | - | Gaan Libah Mountains, Somaliland, Somalia | Rediscovered | Access |
Hemidactylus pieresii | Kelaart, 1853 | Kandyan gecko | - | Kandy, India | Rediscovered | Access |
Lepidodactylus gardineri |
Boulenger, 1897 | Rotuma forest gecko | 1987 | Rotuma Island, Fiji | Missing | Access |
Lepidodactylus listeri | (Boulenger, 1889) | Lister's gecko, Christmas Island chained gecko | - | Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia | Extinct in the wild | Access |
Luperosaurus palawanensis | Brown & Alcala, 1978 | (rediscovered) | Palawan, Philippines | Rediscovered | Access | |
Luperosaurus sorok | Das, Lakim & Kandaung, 2008 | (rediscovered) | Borneo | Rediscovered | Access | |
Lygodactylus inexpectatus | Pasteur, 1965 | Dar Es Salam dwarf gecko, Dar'es Salaam dwarf gecko, Dar-es-Salaam dwarf gecko | 1926 | Dar Es Salam, Tanzania | Missing | Access |
Lygodactylus neglectus |
Ceríaco & Passos, 2023 | - | 1876 | Fernando de Noronha Island, Brazil | Extinct | Access |
Matoatoa spannringi | Nussbaum, Raxworthy & Pronk, 1998 | Phantom gecko, Ghost gecko (generic) | - | Madagascar (southeast) | Rediscovered | Access |
Microgecko helenae | Nikolsky, 1907 | Banded Dwarf Gecko, Helen's Banded Dwarf Gecko, Khuzistan dwarf gecko | - | Iran | Rediscovered | Access |
Nactus soniae | Arnold & Bour, 2008 | ? | Réunion, Mascarene Islands | Extinct | Access | |
Nactus sp. nov. #1 | - | ? | Rodrigues, Mascarene Islands | Extinct | Access | |
Nactus sp. nov. #2 | - | ? | Rodrigues, Mascarene Islands | Extinct | Access | |
Perochirus guentheri | Boulenger, 1885 | Vanuatu saw-tailed gecko, Gunther's tropical gecko | 1971 | Vanuatu | Missing | Access |
Phelsuma edwardnewtoni | Vinson & Vinson, 1969 | Rodrigues day gecko, Rodrigues blue-dotted day gecko, Newton's day gecko | 1917 or later? c.1920? | Rodrigues, Mascarene Islands | Extinct | Access |
Phelsuma gigas | Liénard, 1842 | Rodrigues giant day gecko, Rodriguez night gecko | 1842 or before | Frégate Island, Mascarene Islands | Extinct | Access |
Phelsuma masohoala | Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 1994 | - | Madagascar | Rediscovered | Access | |
Ptychozoon intermedium | Taylor, 1915 | Philippine flying gecko, Philippine parachute gecko | - | Mindanao, Philippines | Rediscovered | Access |
Tenuidactylus montiumsalsorum | (Annandale, 1913) | Highland ground gecko | - | Punjab (northern), Pakistan | Rediscovered | Access |
GEKKONIDAE gen. et. sp. indet. #1 | - | ? | Rodrigues, Mascarene Islands | Extinct | Access | |
GEKKONIDAE gen. et. sp. indet. #2 | - | ? | Rodrigues, Mascarene Islands | Extinct | Access | |
GEKKONIDAE gen. et. sp. indet. #3 | - | ? | Guam, Mariana Islands | Extinct | Access |
Family: Gerrhosauridae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Tetradactylus eastwoodae | Methuen & Hewitt, 1913 | Eastwood's long-tailed seps, Eastwood's longtailed seps, Eastwood's whip lizard | December 1928 | Limpopo Province, Transvaal (northern), South Africa | Extinct | Access |
Family: Gymnophthalmidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Anadia bumanguesa | Rueda-Almonacid & Caicedo, 2004 | (rediscovered) | Colombia | Rediscovered | Access | |
Anotosaura collaris | Amaral, 1933 | (rediscovered) | Bahia state, Brazil | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Heliodartidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Heloderma horridum charlesbogerti | Campbell & Vannini, 1988 | Guatemalan beaded lizard | - | Motagua Valley, Guatemala | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Iguanidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Brachylophus gibbonsi | Pregill & Steadman, 2004 | Tongan (giant) iguana | c.700-800 BC | Kingdom of Tonga | Extinct | Access |
Ctenosaura bakeri | Stejneger, 1901 | Utila iguana, Utila Spiny-tailed Iguana, Baker's Spinytail Iguana, Swamper | - | Utila, Honduras | Rediscovered | Access |
Cyclura collei | Gray, 1845 | Jamaican iguana, Jamaican ground iguana, Jamaican rock iguana | - | Jamaica | Rediscovered | Access |
Cyclura onchiopsis | Cope, 1885 | Navassa Island iguana, Navassa rhinoceros iguana | mid-1800's | Navassa Island, Puerto Rico | Extinct | Access |
Cyclura portoricensis | Barbour, 1919 | - | ? | Puerto Rico (=Porto Rico) | Extinct if valid | Access |
Cyclura sp. nov. 'New Providence Island' | - | New Providence Island iguana | ? | New Providence Island, the Bahamas | Extinct if valid | Access |
Lapitiguana impensa | Pregill & Worthy, 2003 | Lapita Iguana, Fiji(an) giant iguana | Holocene? | Fiji | Extinct | Access |
Family: Lacertidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Acanthodactylus spinicauda | (Doumergue, 1901) | Doumergue's fringe-fingered lizard | - | Arba Tahtani and El Abiod-Sidi-Cheikh oases, (north?) western Algeria | Rediscovered | Access |
Darevskia steineri | Eiselt, 1995 | Steiner's lacerta | - | Golestan Province, northeastern Iran | Rediscovered | Access |
Gallotia auaritae
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Mateo, García Márquez, López Jurado & Barahona, 2001 | La Palma giant lizard | - | La Palma, Canary Islands, off North Africa | Extinct or rediscovered | Access |
Gallotia bravoana | Hutterer, 1985 | La Gomera giant lizard | - | La Gomera, Canary Islands | Rediscovered | Access |
Gallotia goliath | (Mertens, 1942) | Goliath Tenerife lizard, Tenerife giant lizard | ? | Tenerife, Canary Islands, North Africa | Extinct | Access |
Gallotia maxima | Bravo, 1953 | - | Late Pleistocene or Holocene | Canary Islands, North Africa | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Gallotia simonyi simonyi | Steindachner, 1889 | Rogue Chico de Salmor giant lizard | 1930? | El Roque Chico de Salmor islet, Canary Islands | Extinct or rediscovered | Access |
Lacerta siculimelitensis | Bohme & Zammit-Maempel, 1982 | Late Pleistocene | Malta & Sicily | Extinct | Access | |
Lacerta viridis magnifica | Sobolevssky, 1930 | Crimean green lizard | c.1880 | Crimea (southern) | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Latastia ornata |
Monard, 1940 | - | (rediscovered) | Guinea (=Guinea-Conakry) & Guinea-Bissau | Rediscovered | Access |
Nucras scalaris | Laurent, 1964 | - | Angola | Rediscovered | Access | |
Podarcis filfolensis kieselbachi | Fejérváry, 1924 | Selmunett lizard, St Paul's Island wall lizard | 2005 | Selmunett (Island) (=St. Paul's Island), Malta | Extinct | Access |
Podarcis lilfordi rodriquezi | (Müller, 1927) | Ratas Island lizard | 1934-1936 | Ratas Island, Spain | Extinct | Access |
Podarcis siculus sanctistephani | Mertens, 1926 | Santo Stefano lizard | 1965 | Santo Stefano Island, Italy | Extinct | Access |
Takydromus sikkimensis | (Günther, 1888) | Sikkim grass lizard | - | Sikkim, India | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Leiocephalidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Leiocephalus anonymous | Pregill, 1984 | Late Pleistocene or Holocene | Haiti, Hispaniola | Extinct | Access | |
Leiocephalus apertosulcus | Etheridge, 1965 | Late Pleistocene or Holocene | Dominican Republic, Hispaniola | Extinct | Access | |
Leiocephalus cuneus | Etheridge, 1964 | c.1500 BC | Antigua & Barbuda | Extinct | Access | |
Leiocephalus endomychus | (Schwartz, 1967) | Hinche curly-tailed lizard, Central Haitian curlytail | 1976 | Antigua & Barbuda | Missing | Access |
Leiocephalus eremitus | Cope, 1868 | Navassa curly-tailed lizard | pre-1868 or 1900 | Navassa Island, Hispaniola | Extinct | Access |
Leiocephalus etheridgei | Pregill, 1981 | Late Pleistocene | Puerto Rico | Extinct | Access | |
Leiocephalus herminieri | Duméril & Bibron, 1837 | Martinique curly-tailed lizard, Martinique lizard | 1830's | Martinique, Martinique Bank, Lesser Antilles | Extinct | Access |
Leiocephalus jamaicensis | Etheridge, 1966 | Late Pleistocene or Holocene | Jamaica | Extinct | Access | |
Leiocephalus lunatus lunatus | Cochran, 1934 | Hispaniolan maskless curly-tailed lizard, Santo Domingo curlytail lizard | - | Hispaniola | Rediscovered | Access |
Leiocephalus onaneyi | Garrido, 1973 | Guantánamo striped curly-tailed lizard | - | Guantánamo Province, Cuba | Rediscovered | Access |
Leiocephalus partitus | Pregill, 1981 | Late Pleistocene or Holocene | Puerto Rico | Extinct | Access | |
Leiocephalus pratensis | (Cochran, 1928) | Atalaye curlytail lizard | 1966 | Haiti (northern) & Ile-a-Cabrit, Hispaniola | Missing | Access |
Leiocephalus rhutidira | Schwartz, 1979 | Lapierre curlytail lizard | 1978 | Départment de l'Artibonite, Haiti (northwestern), Hispaniola | Missing | Access |
Leiocephalus roquetus
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Bochaton, Charles & Lenoble, 2021 | La Désirade Island curly-tailed lizard | 1835 | La Désirade Island, Guadeloupe Islands | Extinct | Access |
Family: Liolaemidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Liolaemus cranwelli | (Donoso-Barros, 1973) | Cranwell's tree iguana | 1973 | Nueva Moka, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia | Missing | Access |
Liolaemus duellmani | Cei, 1978 | Duellman's tree iguana | (rediscovered) | Mendoza, Argentina | Rediscovered | Access |
Liolaemus exploratorum | Cei & Williams, 1984 | Pioneer's lizard | 1896 | Santa Cruz Province, Argentina | Missing | Access |
Liolaemus nigromaculatus | Wiegmann, 1834 | Many-spotted tree iguana | - | Chile | Rediscovered | Access |
Liolaemus rabinoi | Cei, 1974 | Rabino's tree iguana | - | Mendoza province, Argentina | Rediscovered | Access |
Phymaturus bibronii | (Guichenot, 1848) | Ovalle chuckwalla | (rediscovered) | Chile | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Mabuyidae1
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Alinea lanceolata | Cope, 1863 | Barbados skink | 1889 | Barbados, Barbados Bank, Lesser Antilles | Missing | Access |
Alinea luciae | Garman, 1887 | St Lucia skink, Saint Lucia skink | 1888-1889 | St Lucia, St Lucia Bank, Lesser Antilles | Missing | Access |
Aspronema cochabambae | (Dunn, 1935) | - | (rediscovered) | Argentina & Bolivia | Rediscovered | Access |
Capitellum mariagalantae | Hedges & Conn, 2012 | Marie-Galante skink | 1830's | Marie-Galante (=Marie Galante), Marie-Galante Bank, Lesser Antilles | Missing | Access |
Capitellum metallicum | (Bocourt, 1879) | Lesser Martinique skink | 1820 or later | Martinique, Martinique Bank, Lesser Antilles | Missing | Access |
Capitellum parvicruzae | Hedges & Conn, 2012 | Lesser St. Crox skink | Before 10 July 1875 | St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands | Missing | Access |
Chioninia coctei | Duméril & Bibron, 1839 | Cape Verde giant skink, Cocteau's skink, Lagarto, Bibron’s skink, Cocteau's lizard | 1912 | Brancho Island and Razo Island, Cape Verde Islands | Extinct | Access |
Copeoglossum redondae | Hedges & Conn, 2012 | Redonda skink | 1863-1873 | Redonda Island, Redonda Bank, Lesser Antilles | Extinct | Access |
Mabuya cochonae
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Hedges & Conn, 2012 | Cochons skink | 30 January-3 February 1963 | Îlet à Cochons, Guadeloupe | Missing | Access |
Mabuya grandisterrae | Hedges & Conn, 2012 | Grand-Terre skink | Before 20 January 1920 | Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe Bank, Lesser Antilles | Missing | Access |
Mabuya guadeloupae | Hedges & Conn, 2012 | Guadeloupe skink | 1892 | "Guadeloupe" (Basse-Terre?) | Missing | Access |
Mabuya hispaniolae | Hedges & Conn, 2012 | Hispaniola two-lined skink | 7 May 1937 | Dominican Republic, Hispaniola | Missing | Access |
Mabuya mabouya | Bonnaterre 1789 | Greater Martinique skink | 1889 | Martinique, Martinique Bank, Lesser Antilles | Missing | Access |
Mabuya montserratae | Hedges & Conn, 2012 | Montserrat skink | 1984 | Montserrat, Montserrat Bank, Lesser Antilles | Missing | Access |
Mabuya pergravis | (Barbour, 1921) | Providencia skink | - | Isla de Providencia & Isla Santa Catalina, Colombia | Rediscovered | Access |
Marisora berengerae | Miralles, 2006 | - | San Andres Island, the Caribbean | Rediscovered | Access | |
Spondylurus anegadae | Hedges & Conn, 2012 | Anegada skink | 1966 | British Virgin Islands | Missing | Access |
Spondylurus haitiae | Hedges & Conn, 2012 | Hispaniola four-lined skink | 1857-1858 | Hispaniola | Missing | Access |
Spondylurus lineolatus | (Noble & Hassler, 1933) | Hispaniola ten-lined skink | 1985 | Hispaniola | Missing | Access |
Spondylurus magnacruzae | Hedges & Conn, 2012 | Greater S(ain)t Croix skink | ? | S(ain)t Croix and its satellite Green Cay, U.S. Virgin Islands | Missing | Access |
Spondylurus martinae | Hedges & Conn, 2012 | St Martin skink | c.1965 | Saint-Martin (French Side) and Île Tintamarre, Anguilla Bank, Lesser Antilles | Rediscovered? | Access |
Spondylurus monitae | Hedges & Conn, 2012 | Monito (islet) skink | 1993 | Monito islet, Puerto Rico | Missing | Access |
Spondylurus spilonotus | Wiegmann, 1837 | Greater Virgin Islands skink | 1877 | St. John & St. Thomas, Puerto Rico | Missing | Access |
1 May be subsumable under Scincidae.
Family: Phrynosomatidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Phrynosoma josecitensis | Brattstorm, 1955 | Holocene? | Nuevo León, Mexico | Extinct if valid | Access | |
Sceloporus exsul | Dixon, Ketchersid & Lieb, 1972 | ? | Mexico | Missing | Access | |
Sceloporus goldmani | Smith, 1937 | Goldman's bunchgrass lizard | - | Aguascalientes, Jalisco and Zacatecas, México | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Phyllodactylidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Phyllodactylus sp. nov. 'Rabida Island' | - | Rabida leaf-toed gecko | - | Rabida Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador | Rediscovered | Access |
Tarentola albertschwartzi | Sparckland & Swinney 1998 | Jamaican giant gecko, Cooper's giant gecko | pre-1885 | Jamaica | Missing | Access |
Family: Pygopodidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Aprasia rostrata | Parker, 1956 | Exmouth worm-lizard, Ningaloo worm lizard, Monte Bello worm-lizard, Atomic worm-lizard, Hermite Island worm-lizard | - | Montebello Islands (Hermite Island and Trimouille Island), Barrow Island, and the mainland, all Western Australia, Australia | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Scincidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Austroablepharus barrylyoni |
(Couper, Limpus, McDonald & Amey, 2010) | Lyons grassland striped skink, Lyon's soil-crevice skink, Lyon's snake-eyed skink | (rediscovered) | Mt Surprise area, Queensland, Australia | Rediscovered | Access |
Barkudia insularis | Annandale, 1917 | Legless skink, Madras spotted skink | - | Orissa, India | Rediscovered | Access |
Brachymeles elerae | Taylor, 1917 | Slender rour-fingered burrowing skink | - | Luzon, Philippines | Rediscovered | Access |
Cryptoblepharus egeriae | (Boulenger, 1889) | Blue-tailed skink, Christmas Island forest skink | >2010? | Christmas Island, Indian Ocean Australia | Extinct in the wild | Access |
Ctenotus serotinus |
Czechura, 1986 | Gravel Downs ctenotus | 1980's | Diamantina Lakes area, southern Queensland, Australia | Missing | Access |
Emoia nativitatis | (Boulenger, 1887) | Christmas Island forest skink, Christmas Island whiptail-skink, Forest skink | 31 May 2014 | Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia | Extinct | Access |
?Emoia sp. nov. | - | ? | Kingdom of Tonga | Extinct | Access | |
Flexiseps valhallae | (Boulenger, 1909) | Valhalla skink | 1906 |
Iles Glorieuses (Golorios island)
|
Missing | Access |
Gonglyomorphus bojerii borbonica
|
Vinson, 1970 | Réunion skink, Réunion slit-eared skink | 1839 | Réunion, Mascarene Islands | Extinct | Access |
Leiolopisma ceciliae | Arnold & Bour, 2008 | ? | Réunion, Mascarene Islands | Extinct | Access | |
Leiolopisma mauritiana | Günther, 1877 | Mauritius giant skink, Mauritian giant skink | c.1600 | Mauritius | Extinct | Access |
Lerista allanae | Longman, 1937 | Allan's lerista, Retro slider, Greater robust fine-lined slider, Allan’s skink | - | Queensland (central), Australia | Rediscovered | Access |
Liopholis slateri slateri | (Storr, 1968) | - | Northern Territory, Australia | Rediscovered | Access | |
Liopholis slateri virgata | (Storr, 1968) | Black-striped floodplains skink, Slater’s skink (species) | June or July 1914 | South Australia, Australia | Extinct | Access |
Lipinia macrotympanum
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(Stoliczka, 1873) | - | Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India | Rediscovered | Access | |
Lygosoma haroldyoungi | Taylor, 1962 | Young's laubskink, Harold's writhing skink, Banded supple skink | - | Laos & Thailand | Rediscovered | Access |
Lygosoma vosmaerii | Gray, 1839 | Vosm(a)er's writhing skink | - | Andhra Pradesh, India | Rediscovered | Access |
Oligosoma gracilicorpus | Hardy, 1977 | Narrow-bodied skink | pre-1956 | Hokianga district, North Island, New Zealand | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Oligosoma infrapunctatum | (Boulenger, 1887) | Speckled skink | pre-1888 | New Zealand | Missing | Access |
Oligosoma northlandi | Worthy, 1991 | Northland skink | ? | Northland region, North Island, New Zealand | Extinct | Access |
Oligosoma sp. nov. 'Cobble skink' | - | Cobble Skink | 2016 | Granity, South Island (west coast), New Zealand | Extinct in the wild | Access |
Parvoscincus beyeri | (Taylor, 1922) | (rediscovered) | Philippines | Rediscovered | Access | |
Phoboscincus bocourti | (Brocchi, 1876) | Terror skink, Bocourt's giant skink, Bocourt's terrific skink, Bocourt's eyelid skink | - | Île des Pins (=Isle of Pines), New Caledonia | Rediscovered | Access |
Proscelotes aenea |
(Barbour & Loveridge 1928) | - | (rediscovered) | Lumbo, Northern Mozambique | Rediscovered | Access |
Ristella rurkii | Gray, 1839 | Rurk’s cat skink | - | Western Ghats, India | Rediscovered | Access |
Scelotes guentheri | Boulenger, 1887 | Günther's dwarf burrowing skink, Günther's burrowing skink, Günther's dwarf burrowing skink | pre-1888 | KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | Extinct | Access |
Sepsophis punctatus | Beddome, 1870 | - | Eastern Ghats, India | Rediscovered | Access | |
Sphenomorphus lineopunctulatus | Taylor, 1962 | - | Cambodia, Laos & Thailand | Rediscovered | Access | |
Tachygyia microlepis | Duméril & Bibron, 1839 | Tongan ground skink | 1827? | Tonga and Friendly Islands; Tongatabu/Tongatapu | Extinct | Access |
Tiliqua adelaidensis | (Peters, 1863) | Pygmy bluetongue, Adelaide pigmy blue-tongue lizard, Adelaide pigmy blue-tongue skink | - | South Australia, Australia | Rediscovered | Access |
Tiliqua frangens |
(Hutchinson & Scanlon, 2009) | Frangens | Late Pleistocene | New South Wales, Australia | Extinct | Access |
Trachylepis betsileana | Mocquard, 1906 | pre-1907 | Madagasacar? | Missing | Access | |
Trachylepis keroanensis | (Chabanaud, 1921) | Guinean skink | - | Guinea | Rediscovered | Access |
Tropidophorus micropus | van Lidth de Jeude, 1905 | - | Sarawak, Malaysia | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Sphaerodactylidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Aristelliger titan | Hecht, 1951 | - | ? | Jamaica | Invalid (synonym) | Access |
Lepidoblepharis miyatai | Lamar, 1985 | Magdalena scaly-eyed gecko | (rediscovered) | Ancón Guairaca (= Bahia Gairaca= Ensenada de Gayraca), Departamento de Magdalena, Colombia | Missing | Access |
Sphaerodactylus elasmorhynchus | Thomas, 1966 | Marche Leon least gecko | 1966 | Haiti, Hispaniola | Missing | Access |
Sphaerodactylus gilvitorques | Cope, 1862 | Jamaican collared sphaero, Jamaica least gecko | pre-1863 | Jamaica? | Missing | Access |
Sphaerodactylus lazelli | Shreve, 1968 | Cap-Haitien least gecko | 1960 | Haiti, Hispaniola | Missing | Access |
Sphaerodactylus williamsi | Thomas & Schwartz, 1983 | Haitian striped sphaero, Williams' least gecko | 14 July 1978 | Département de l'Artibonite, Haiti, Hispaniola | Missing | Access |
Family: Teiidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Cnemidophorus inornatus arizonae | Van Denburgh, 1896 | - | Arizona, USA | Rediscovered | Access | |
Contomastix charrua | (Cabrera & Carreira, 2009) | c.1980 | Uruguay | Missing | Access | |
Contomastix vittata | (Boulenger, 1902) | - | Cochabamba, Bolivia | Rediscovered | Access | |
Dracaena guianensis | Daudin, 1801 | - | French Guiana | Rediscovered | Access | |
Holcosus orcesi | (Peters, 1964) | Peters' ameiva | - | Provincia Azuay, Ecuador | Rediscovered | Access |
Pholidoscelis cineracea | Barbour & Noble, 1915 | Guadeloupe ameiva | Early 1900's (1914?) | Grand Îlet off the coast of Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles (historically); Guadeloupe, La Désirade, Marie-Galante and Les Saintes, all Lesser Antilles (prehistorically) | Extinct | Access |
Pholidoscelis major | (Duméril & Bibron, 1839) | Martinique giant ameiva, Martinique ameiva | pre-1825 | Martinique (Îles de la Petite Terre, near Guadeloupe?) | Extinct | Access |
Pholidoscelis turukaeraensis | Bochaton et al., 2017 | Holocene? | Marie-Galante Island, Guadeloupe Islands, French West-Indies (=French Antilles) | Extinct | Access | |
Tupinambis uruguaianensis | Hsiou, 2007 | Late Pleistocene | Brazil | Extinct | Access |
Family: Tropiduridae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Microlophus heterolepis |
(Wiegmann, 1834) | - | pre-1835 | Peru | Missing | Access |
Stenocercus haenschi | (Werner, 1901) | Haensch's whorltail iguana | - | Balzapamba, Provincia Bolivar, Ecuador | Rediscovered | Access |
Family: Varanidae
Scientific Name | Author/s | Common Name | Last Record | Distribution | Status | Taxon Profile |
Varanus douarrha | (Lesson, 1830) | New Ireland monitor | - | New Ireland, Papua New Guinea | Rediscovered | Access |
Varanus hooijeri | Brongersma, 1958 | Flores, Indonesia | Extinct | Access | ||
Varanus cf. indicus | - | c.1970 | New Caledonia | Extinct | Access | |
Varanus primordius | Mertens, 1942 | Northern blunt(-)spined monitor | - | Australia | Rediscovered | Access |
Varanus priscus | Owen, 1859 | Megalania, Giant goanna, Giant ripper | Late Pleistocene | Australia | Extinct | Access |
Varanus zugorum | Böhme & Ziegler, 2005 | 1980 | Halmahera, Maluku Islands, Indonesia | Missing | Access | |
Varanus sp. nov. 'Central Australia' | - | Late Pleistocene | central Australia | Extinct if valid | Access | |
Varanus sp. nov. 'Wallacean islands' | - | Late Pleistocene | Wallacean Islands | Extinct | Access |