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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. 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, Cedeño-Vázquez & Pozo 2003 Cedeño-Vázquez, Calderón & Pozo 2003 González-Sánchez, Johnson, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Köhler 1995 Köhler 2002 Liner 2007 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   Cachryx defensor Northern Yucatan Spiny-tailed Iguana Calderon, Cedeño-Vázquez & Pozo 2003 Calderón-Mandujano & Mora-Tembre 2004 Duellman 1965b Dundee, White & Rico-Gray 1986 Etheridge in Burghardt & Rand 1982 Flores-Villela 1993 González-Sánchez, Johnson, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Köhler 2000 Köhler 2002 Lee 1996 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 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 Márquez & Gutiérrez Mayén 2006 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Ceron de la Luz, Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Etheridge in Burghardt & Rand 1982 Flores-Villela 1993 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Köhler 2000 Köhler 2002 Lazcano, Farr, Lavín-Murcio, Contreras-Lozano, Kardon, Narváez-Torres & Cháves-Cisneros 2009 Lemos-Espinal & Dixon 2013 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2015 Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Martin 1958 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Mendoza-Quijano, Mejenes-Lopez, Hernandez-Aquino & Köhler 2002 Percino-Daniel, Cruz-Ocaña, Pozo-Ventura & Velázquez-Velázquez 2013 Ramírez-Bautista, Hernández-Salinas, Mendoza-Quijano, Cruz-Elizalde, Stephenson, Vite-Silva & Leyte-Manrique 2010 Smith & Taylor 1950 Taylor 1949a Taylor 1952 Terán-Juárez, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017   * Ctenosaura clarki Balsas Armed Iguana Ahumada-Carillo, Pérez Rivera, Reyes-Velasco, Grünwald & Jones 2014 Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Duellman 1965a Etheridge in Burghardt & Rand 1982 Flores-Villela 1993 Gicca 1982 Köhler 2002 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 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 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Köhler 2002 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 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Köhler 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 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Köhler 2002 Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2007a Lemos-Espinal, Smith & Chiszar 2006 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Woolrich-Piña & 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 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Köhler 2002 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 Castañeda-Hernández, Canseco-Márquez & Vargas-Orrego 2015 Hasbún & Köhler 2009 Köhler & Hasbun 2001 Köhler 2002 Liner 2007 Martín-Regalado, Gómez-Ugalde & Cisneros-Palacios 2011 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Peterson, Canseco-Márquez, Contreras-Jiménez, Escalona-Segura, Flores-Villela, García-López, Hernandez-Baños, Jiménez-Ruiz, León-Paniagua, Amaro, Navarro-Sigüenza, Sánchez-Cordero & Willard 2004 Rioja-Paradela, Carrillo-Reyes, Castañeda & López 2013 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Ctenosaura pectinata West Mexican Spiny-tailed Iguana Ahumada-Carillo, Vázquez-Huizar, Vázquez-Diaz & García-Vázquez 2011 Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Alvarez del Toro 1982 Andrade-Soto, Pérez-Pérez, López-Moreno, Suárez-Varón, Suárez-Rodriguez, Gribbins & Hernández-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 Castro-Franco & Bustos-Zagal 1994 Castro-Franco & Bustos-Zagal 2003 Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 Chrapliwy & Fugler 1955 Crossin, Soule, Webb & Baker 1973 Cruz-Sáenz, Guerrero, Lazcano & Téllez-López 2009 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Davis & Dixon 1961 Davis & Smith 1953a Duellman 1958b Duellman 1958c Duellman 1965a Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Etheridge in Burghardt & Rand 1982 Flores-Villela 1993 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 Hardy & McDiarmid 1969 Holman 1964 Johnson 1990 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Köhler 2000 Köhler 2002 Lemos-Espinal, Smith, Gadsden-Esparza, Valdez-Lares & Woolrich-Piña 2018 Lewis & Johnson 1955 Lewis & Johnson 1956 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Martín-Regalado, Gómez-Ugalde & Cisneros-Palacios 2011 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 McCoy & Horn 1962 McDiarmid, Copp & Breedlove 1976 Medina-Aguilar, Alvarado-Díaz & Suazo-Ortuño 2011 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 Quintero-Díaz, Reyes-Ardit, García-Balderas, Valdéz-Jiménez, Cháves-Floriano, Muñíz-Salas & Sosa-Vargas 2013 Rioja-Paradela, Carrillo-Reyes, Castañeda & López 2013 Smith & Taylor 1950 Smith & Van Gelder 1955 Valdez-Lares, Muñiz-Martínez, Gadsden, Aguirre-León, Castañeda-Gaytán & González-Trápaga 2013 Webb & Baker 1962 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017 Woolrich-Piña, Ponce-Campos, Loc-Barragán, Ramírez-Silva, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2016 Zweifel 1959a Zweifel 1960   Ctenosaura similis Central American Black Iguana Alvarez del Toro 1982 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Duellman 1965b Dundee, White & Rico-Gray 1986 Etheridge in Burghardt & Rand 1982 Flores-Villela 1993 González-Sánchez, Johnson, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Hernández-Ordóñez, Arroyo-Rodríguez, González-Hernández, Russildi, Luna-Reyes, Martínez-Ramos & Reynoso 2015 Johnson 1990 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Köhler 2000 Köhler 2002 Lee 1996 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 López-González & González-Romero 1997 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Perez-Higareda 1978b Rioja-Paradela, Carrillo-Reyes, Castañeda & López 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 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 Hulse 1992 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Langebartel & Smith 1954 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 iguana Common Green Iguana Alvarado-Díaz, Suazo-Ortuño, Wilson & Medina-Aguilar 2013 Alvarez del Toro 1982 Auth, Smith, Brown & Lintz 2000 Casas-Andreu, Mendez-de la Cruz & Aguilar-Miguel 2004 Cedeño-Vázquez, Calderón & Pozo 2003 Ceron de la Luz, Lemos-Espinal & Smith 2016 Chávez-Avila, Casas-Andreu, García-Aguayo, Cifuentes-Lemus & Cupul-Magaña 2015 Cruz-Sáenz, Guerrero, Lazcano & Téllez-López 2009 Cruz-Sáenz, Muñoz-Nolasco, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2017 Duellman 1958b Duellman 1965a Duellman 1965b Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Etheridge in Burghardt & Rand 1982 Farr, Lavín Murcio & Lazcano 2007 Flores-Villela 1993 García-Vázquez, Canseco-Márquez, Gutiérrez-Mayén & Trujano-Ortega 2009 González-Sánchez, Johnson, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, DeSantis & Wilson 2017 Hardy & McDiarmid 1969 Hernández-Ordóñez, Arroyo-Rodríguez, González-Hernández, Russildi, Luna-Reyes, Martínez-Ramos & Reynoso 2015 Johnson 1990 Johnson, Mata-Silva, García-Padilla & Wilson 2015 Köhler 2000 Lee 1996 Lewis & Johnson 1955 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 López-González & González-Romero 1997 Martín-Regalado, Gómez-Ugalde & Cisneros-Palacios 2011 Mata-Silva, Johnson, Wilson & García-Padilla 2015 Palacios-Aguilar & Flores-Villela 2018 Percino-Daniel, Cruz-Ocaña, Pozo-Ventura & Velázquez-Velázquez 2013 Perez-Higareda 1978b Pérez-Ramos, Riva & Uribe-Peña 2000 Peters & Donoso-Barros 1970 Rioja-Paradela, Carrillo-Reyes, Castañeda & López 2013 Smith & Taylor 1950 Smith & Van Gelder 1955 Terán-Juárez, García-Padilla, Mata-Silva, Johnson & Wilson 2016 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013 Woolrich-Piña, García-Padilla, DeSantis, Johnson, Mata-Silva & Wilson 2017 Woolrich-Piña, Ponce-Campos, Loc-Barragán, Ramírez-Silva, Mata-Silva, Johnson, García-Padilla & Wilson 2016 Genus Sauromalus (North American Chuckwallas)   Sauromalus ater Common Chuckwalla Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Grismer 2002 Hollingsworth 1998 Hollingsworth, Grismer, Wong & Cryder 1997 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 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 Enderson, Quijada-Mascarenas, Turner, Rosen & Bezy 2009 Grismer 1999 Grismer 2002 Hollingsworth 1998 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Reynoso, Monteverde, Martínez-González, Zarza & Cerdá-Ardura 2017 Smith & Taylor 1950 Velarde, Hollingsworth & Rebman 2008 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013   * Sauromalus klauberi Spotted Chuckwalla Grismer 1999 Grismer 2002 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 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 Grismer 2002 Hollingsworth 1998 Jones & Lovich (eds.) 2009 Liner 1994 Liner 2007 Smith & Taylor 1950 Wilson & Johnson 2010 Wilson, Mata-Silva & Johnson 2013