Taxonomical update: April 2026
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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.



Worm Lizards (Amphisbaenia)

Family Amphisbaenidae
Amphisbaena eleutheria

Lizards (Sauria)

Family Agamidae
Coryphophylax krishnani
Ptyctolaemus kachinensis

Family Dibamidae
Dibamus irregularis

Family Gekkonidae
Cyrtodactylus teraiensis
Gekko asahi
Hemiphyllodactylus dayaoensis
Hemiphyllodactylus jingdongensis
Hemiphyllodactylus maguanensis
Hemiphyllodactylus shuangbaiensis
Hemiphyllodactylus xingyiensis
Hemiphyllodactylus yuanyangensis
Luperosaurus alvarezi

Family Lacertidae
Takydromus ultapaniensis

Family Scincidae
Madascincus irery
Madascincus minotaurus
Scincella jinchuanensis
Scincella maerkangensis
Scincella ngati
Scincella vuquangensis
Sphenomorphus lingnanensis
Zig (new genus)
Zig zag

Snakes (Serpentes)

Family Colubridae
Chironius laurenti (revalidated and redefined status)
Chironius xaraes
Hydrablabes typicus (new generic assignment)
Oligodon violaceus (new status)
Opisthotropis hanseli

Family Elapidae_1
Sinomicrurus wongii

Family Xenodermidae
Achalinus mirabilis