THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Lacertidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Reticulate Sand LizardMeroles reticulatus (Bocage, 1867) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Common Rough-scaled (Sand) LizardMeroles squamulosus (Peters, 1854) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Spotted Desrt LizardMeroles suborbitalis (Peters, 1869) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hadramaut Sand LizardMesalina adramitana (Boulenger, 1917) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Adrar Desert LizardMesalina adrarensis Pizzigalli, Crochet, Geniez, Martínez-Freiria, Velo-Antón & Brito, 2021 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ardestan Desert LizardMesalina ardestanica Boroumand, Bafti, Saberi-Pirooz, Böhme & Ahmadzadeh, 2024 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arnold’s Desert LizardMesalina arnoldi Sindaco, Simó-Riudalbas, Sacchi & Carranza, 2018 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Southern-Arabian Desert LizardMesalina austroarabica Sindaco, Simó-Riudalbas, Sacchi & Carranza, 2018 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arnold's Sand LizardMesalina ayunensis Arnold, 1980 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| El Din’s Desert LizardMesalina bahaeldini Segoli, Cohen & Werner, 2002 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balfour’s Desert LizardMesalina balfouri (Blanford, 1881) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bernoulli’s Short-Nosed Desert LizardMesalina bernoullii (Schenkel, 1901) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blanford's Short-Nosed Desert LizardMesalina brevirostris Blanford, 1874 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cryptic Desert LizardMesalina cryptica Šmíd, Velenská, Pola, Tamar, Busais, Shobrak, Almutairi, Salim, Alsubaie, Algethami, Algethami, Alanazi, Alshammari, Egan, Ramalho, Olson, Smithson, Chirio, Burger, Huyssteen, Petford & Carranza, 2025 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Esfarayen Desert LizardMesalina esfarayensis Boroumand, Bafti, Saberi-Pirooz, Böhme & Ahmadzadeh, 2024 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desert LacertaMesalina guttulata (Lichtenstein, 1823) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Khuzestan Desert LizardMesalina khuzestanensis Boroumand, Bafti, Saberi-Pirooz, Böhme & Ahmadzadeh, 2024 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Abd al-Kuri Desert LizardMesalina kuri Joger & Mayer, 2002 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Martin’s Desert RacerMesalina martini (Boulenger, 1897) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Small-scaled Desert LizardMesalina microlepis (Angel, 1936) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Olivier's Sand LizardMesalina olivieri (Audouin, 1829) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pasteur's LizardMesalina pasteuri (Bons, 1960) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Red-spotted LizardMesalina rubropunctata (Lichtenstein, 1823) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arabian short-nosed desert lizardMesalina saudiarabica Moravec, Smid, Schmitz, Shobrak & Wilms, 2017 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Simon’s Desert LizardMesalina simoni (Boettger, 1881) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Persian Long-Tailed Desert LizardMesalina watsonana (Stoliczka, 1872) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lambert’s Bay Sandveld LizardNucras aurantiaca Bauer, Childers, Broeckhoven & Mouton, 2019 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Boulenger’s scrub lizardNucras boulengeri Neumann, 1900 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Angolan Sandveld LizardNucras broadleyi Branch, Conradie, Vaz-Pinto & Tolley, 2019 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bluetail Scrub LizardNucras caesicaudata Broadley, 1972 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Holub’s Sandveld LizardNucras holubi (Steindachner, 1882) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Spotted Sandveld LizardNucras intertexta (Smith, 1838) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Delalande's Sandveld LizardNucras lalandii (Milne-Edwards, 1829) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Karoo Sandveld LizardNucras livida (Smith, 1838) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nucras margaritae Bauer, Childers & Burger, 2025 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ornate Sandveld LizardNucras ornata (Gray, 1864) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scaled Sandveld LizardNucras scalaris Laurent, 1964 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Albany Sandveld LizardNucras taeniolata (Smith, 1838) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Striped Sandveld LizardNucras tessellata (Smith, 1838) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blue-tailed Oman LizardOmanosaura cyanura (Arnold, 1972) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Beddome’ s lacertaOphisops beddomei (Jerdon, 1870) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Snake-eyed LizardOphisops elegans Ménétries, 1832 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Jerdon’s Snake eyeOphisops jerdonii Blyth, 1853 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kutch small-scaled snake-eyeOphisops kutchensis Agarwal, Khandekar, Ramakrishnan, Vyas & Giri, 2018 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Small-scaled lacertaOphisops microlepis Blanford, 1870 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ophisops venustus Patel, Vyas, Thackeray, Pal & Mirza, 2024 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fraas' LizardParvilacerta fraasii (Lehrs, 1910) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pedioplanis branchi Childers, Kirchhof & Bauer, 2021 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kaokoland Sand LizardPedioplanis gaerdesi (Mertens, 1954) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pedioplanis haackei Conradie, Measey, Branch & Tolley, 2012 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.