Virginia Lizards
The following list of wildlife that is native to Virginia is provided by Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
List of Native and Naturalized Fauna of Virginia August, 2000.
When finding differant creatures in the wild or around the home it is easier to identify the found creature if you can narrow the search.
This list is for Virginia and most any creature found in Virginia will be listed here.
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Class Reptilia
Order Squamata (amphisbaenians, lizards, and snakes)
Suborder Sauria (lizards)
Infraorder Diploglossa (American legless lizards, glass lizards, knob-scaled lizards, and relatives)
Family Anguidae (alligator lizards, glass lizards, and lateral fold lizards)
Family Anniellidae (American legless lizards)
Family Xenosauridae (knob-scaled lizards)
Infraorder Gekkota (blind lizards, geckos, and legless lizards)
Family Dibamidae (blind lizards)
Family Gekkonidae (geckos)
Family Pygopodidae (legless lizards)
Infraorder Iguania (anoles, chameleons, iguanas, and relatives)
Family Agamidae (agamas)
Family Chamaeleonidae (chameleons)
Family Corytophanidae (casquehead lizards)
Family Crotaphytidae (collared lizards and leopard lizards)
Family Hoplocercidae (clubtails and wood lizards)
Family Iguanidae (iguanas)
Family Opluridae (Madagascar iguanas)
Family Phrynosomatidae (North American spiny lizards and relatives)
Family Polychrotidae (anoles)
Family Tropiduridae (neotropical ground lizards)
Infraorder Platynota (earless monitor lizards, gila monsters, and monitor lizards)
Family Helodermatidae (gila monsters)
Family Lanthanotidae (earless monitor lizards)
Family Varanidae (monitor lizards)
Infraorder Scincomorpha (night lizards, skinks, whiptails, and relatives)
Family Cordylidae (spinytail lizards)
Family Gerrhosauridae (plated lizards)
Family Gymnophthalmidae (spectacled lizards)
Family Lacertidae (wall lizards)
Family Scincidae (skinks)
Family Teiidae (tegus and whiptails)
Family Xantusiidae (night lizards)
About 4796 species of lizards are currently known.
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Lizards
Broad-headed skink Eumeces laticeps
Eastern glass-lizard Ophisaurus ventralis
Eastern slender glass-lizard Ophisaurus attenuatus longicaudus
Five-lined skink Eumeces fasciatus
Little brown skink Scincella lateralis
Northern coal skink Eumeces anthracinus anthracinus
Northern fence-lizard Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus
Eastern six-lined racerunner Cnemidophorous sexlineatus sexlineatus
Southeastern five-lined skink Eumeces inexpectatus
