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: Teiidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Rainbow WhiptailCnemidophorus lemniscatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blanquilla WhiptailCnemidophorus leucopsammus Ugueto & Harvey, 2010 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Curaçao WhiptailCnemidophorus murinus (Laurenti, 1768) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Colee's RacerunnerCnemidophorus pseudolemniscatus Cole & Dessauer, 1993 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| La Tortuga WhiptailCnemidophorus rostralis Ugueto & Harvey, 2010 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blue Rainbow lizardCnemidophorus splendidus Markezich, Cole & Dessauer, 1997 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maria Islands WhiptailCnemidophorus vanzoi (Baskin & Williams, 1966) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Contomastix celata Cabrera, Carreira, Di Pietro & Rivera, 2019 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Contomastix leachei (Peracca, 1897) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Contomastix serrana (Cei & Martori, 1991) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Contomastix vacariensis (Feltrim & de Lema, 2000) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Peru Desert TeguDicrodon guttulatum Duméril & Bibron, 1839 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ecuador Desert TeguDicrodon heterolepis (Tschudi, 1845) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Holmberg's Desert TeguDicrodon holmbergi Schmidt, 1957 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Guyana Caiman LizardDracaena guianensis Daudin, 1801 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paraguay Caiman LizardDracaena paraguayensis Amaral, 1950 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bahian Sand Dune LizardGlaucomastix abaetensis (Reis Dias, Rocha & Vrcibradic, 2002) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Glaucomastix cyanura (Arias, DE Carvalho, Rodrigues & Zaher, 2011) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Glaucomastix littoralis (Rocha, Bamberg Araújo, Vrcibradic & Mamede DA Costa, 2000) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echternacht's AmeivaHolcosus anomalus (Echternacht, 1977) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bridges'AmeivaHolcosus bridgesii Cope, 1869 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Edward’s Middle American Ameiva [edwardsii]Holcosus festivus (Lichtenstein & Martens, 1856) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Delicate AmeivaHolcosus leptophrys (Cope, 1893) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Holcosus niceforoi (Dunn, 1943) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Peters' AmeivaHolcosus orcesi (Peters, 1964) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Four-lined AmeivaHolcosus quadrilineatus (Hallowell, 1861) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Seven-lined AmeivaHolcosus septemlineatus (Duméril, 1851) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rainbow AmeivaHolcosus sinister (Smith & Laufe, 1946) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cocha WhiptailKentropyx altamazonica (Cope, 1875) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Guyana KentropyxKentropyx borckiana (Peters, 1869) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Striped forest whiptailKentropyx calcarata Spix, 1825 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kentropyx lagartija Gallardo, 1962 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Boettger's KentropyxKentropyx paulensis (Boettger, 1893) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Forest WhiptailKentropyx pelviceps (Cope, 1868) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Striped WhiptailKentropyx striata (Daudin, 1802) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gallagher's KentropyxKentropyx vanzoi Gallagher & Dixon, 1980 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Green KentropyxKentropyx viridistriga (Boulenger, 1894) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bocourt's AmeivaMedopheos edracanthus (Bocourt, 1874) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mona AmeivaPholidoscelis alboguttatus (Boulenger, 1896) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Common AmeivaPholidoscelis chrysolaemus (Cope, 1868) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Guadeloupe AmeivaPholidoscelis cineraceus (Barbour & Noble, 1915) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Red-faced GroundlizardPholidoscelis erythrocephalus (Shaw, 1802) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Antigua Bank GroundlizardPholidoscelis griswoldi (Barbour, 1916) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dwarf TeiidPholidoscelis lineolatus (Duméril & Bibron, 1839) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Haitian AmeivaPholidoscelis taeniurus (Cope, 1862) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Puerto Rican Blue-tailed GroundlizardPholidoscelis wetmorei (Stejneger, 1913) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Salvator duseni (Lönnberg, 1910) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Red TeguSalvator rufescens (Günther, 1871) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Teius oculatus (d'Orbigny & Bibron, 1837) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Teius suquiensis Avila & Martori, 1991 | TeiidaeChordata | 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.