Kansas Herpetofaunal Atlas
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LACERTILIA — Lizards
ANGUIDAE —
Anguid Lizards
Slender Glass Lizard
Ophisaurus attenuatus
Cope 1880
CROTAPHYTIDAE —
Collared and Leopard Lizards
Eastern Collared Lizard
Crotaphytus collaris
(Say 1823)
GEKKONIDAE —
Geckos
Mediterranean House Gecko
Hemidactylus turcicus
(Linnaeus 1758)
— Introduced
LACERTIDAE —
Lacertas and Wall Lizards
Western Green Lacerta
Lacerta bilineata
Daudin 1802
— Introduced
Italian Wall Lizard
Podarcis siculus
(Rafinesque-Schmaltz 1810)
— Introduced
PHRYNOSOMATIDAE —
Sand and Spiny Lizards
Common Lesser Earless Lizard
Holbrookia maculata
Girard 1851
Texas Horned Lizard
Phrynosoma cornutum
(Harlan 1825)
Prairie Lizard
Sceloporus consobrinus
Baird & Girard 1853
SCINCIDAE —
Skinks
Coal Skink
Plestiodon anthracinus
(Baird 1849)
Common Five-lined Skink
Plestiodon fasciatus
(Linnaeus 1758)
Broad-headed Skink
Plestiodon laticeps
(Schneider, 1801)
— Threatened
Great Plains Skink
Plestiodon obsoletus
(Baird & Girard 1852)
Prairie Skink
Plestiodon septentrionalis
(Baird 1858)
Little Brown Skink
Scincella lateralis
(Say 1823)
TEIIDAE —
Racerunners and Whiptails
Six-lined Racerunner
Aspidoscelis sexlineatus
(Linnaeus 1766)
NOT YET ESTABLISHED SPECIES OF INTEREST
ANGUIDAE —
Anguid Lizards
Eastern Glass Lizard
Ophisaurus ventralis
(Linnaeus 1766)
— Accidental
GEKKONIDAE —
Geckos
Dwarf Gecko
Sphaerodactylus lineolatus
Lichtenstein & Von Martens 1856
— Accidental
HELODERMATIDAE —
Gila Monsters
Gila Monster
Heloderma suspectum
Cope 1869
— Accidental
PHRYNOSOMATIDAE —
Sand and Spiny Lizards
Northwestern Short-horned Lizard
Phrynosoma hernandesi
(Bell 1828)
— Questionable
Eastern Side-blotched Lizard
Uta stansburiana
Schmidt 1921
— Accidental
POLYCHROTIDAE —
Anoles
Green Anole
Anolis carolinensis
(Voigt 1832)
— Accidental
Brown Anole
Anolis sagrei
Dumeril and Bibron, 1837
— Accidental
SCINCIDAE —
Skinks
Many-lined Skink
Plestiodon multivirgatus
(Hallowell 1857)
— Possible