California Lizards Photo Index

California Reptiles
& Amphibians

Photo Index of California Lizards

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These are pictures of California's indigenous lizards along with some introduced species.
Click on a name link to go to the main page for more pictures and information about a particular lizard and its habitat.


San Francisco Alligator Lizard Elgaria coerulea coerulea	Sierra Alligator Lizard Elgaria coerulea palmeri	Shasta Alligator Lizard Elgaria coerulea shastensis	Northwestern Alligator Lizard Elgaria coerulea principis

California Alligator Lizard Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata	San Diego Alligator Lizard Elgaria multicarinata webbii	Oregon Alligator Lizard Elgaria multicarinata scincicauda	Panamint Alligator Lizard Elgaria panamintina

California Legless Lizard Anniella pulchra	California Legless Lizard Anniella pulchra (dark phase)	Great Basin Collared Lizard Crotaphytus bicinctores	Baja California Collared Lizard Crotaphytus vestigium
			© Anish Yelekar
Cope's Leopard Lizard Gambelia copei	Blunt-nosed Leopard Lizard Gambelia sila	Long-nosed Leopard Lizard Gambelia wislizenii	Peninsular Banded Gecko Coleonyx switaki

San Diego Banded Gecko Coleonlyx variegatus abbotti	Desert Banded Gecko Coleonyx variegatus variegatus	Peninsular Leaf-toed Gecko Phyllodactylus nocticolus	Mediterranean House Gecko Hemidactylus turcicus
© Patrick Briggs

Moorish Wall Gecko Tarentola mauritanica	Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum	Northern Desert Iguana Dipsosaurus dorsalis dorsalis	Common Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater

Western Zebra-tailed Lizard Callisaurus draconoides rhodostictus	Mearn's Rock Lizard Petrosaurus mearnsi mearnsi	Blainville's (Coast) Horned Lizard Phrynosoma (Anota) blainvillii	Pygmy Short-horned Lizard Phrynosoma (Tapaja) douglasii

Flat-tail Horned Lizard Phrynosoma (Anota) mcallii	Southern Desert Horned Lizard Phrynosoma (Doliosaurus) platyrhinos calidiarum	Northern Desert Horned Lizard Phrynosoma (Doliosaurus) platyrhinos platyrhinos	Western Sagebrush Lizard Sceloporus graciosus gracilis

Northern Sagebrush Lizard Sceloporus graciosus graciosus	Southern Sagebrush Lizard Sceloporus graciosus vandenburgianus	Barred Spiny Lizard Sceloporus magister transversus	Yellow-backed Spiny Lizard Sceloporus magister uniformis
	© Patrick Briggs
Island Fence Lizard Sceloporus occidentalis becki	San Joaquin Fence Lizard Sceloporus occidentalis biseriatus	Coast Range Fence Lizard Sceloporus occidentalis bocourtii	Great Basin Fence Lizard Sceloporus occidentalis longipes

Northwestern Fence Lizard Sceloporus occidentalis occidentalis	Sierra Fence Lizard Sceloporus occidentalis taylori	Granite Spiny Lizard Sceloporus orcutti	Coachella Valley Fringe-toed Lizard Uma inornata

Colorado Desert Fringe-toed Lizard Uma notata	Mojave Fringe-toed Lizard Uma scoparia	Long-tailed Brush Lizard Urosaurus graciosus	Baja California Brush Lizard Urosaurus nigricaudus

Colorado River Tree Lizard Urosaurus ornatus symmetricus	Common Side-blotched Lizard Uta stansburiana	Variegated Skink Eumeces (Plestiodon) gilberti cancellosus	Greater Brown Skink Eumeces (Plestiodon) "gilberti" gilberti

Northern Brown Skink Eumeces (Plestiodon) "gilberti" placerensis	Western Red-tailed Skink Eumeces (Plestiodon) "gilberti" rubricaudatus	Skilton's Skink Eumeces (Plestiodon) skiltonianus skiltonianus	Coronado Skink Eumeces (Plestiodon) skiltonianus interparietalis

Belding's Orange-throated Whiptail Aspidoscelis hyperythra beldingi	Coastal Whiptail Aspidoscelis tigris stejnegeri	California Whiptail Aspidoscelis tigris munda	Great Basin Whiptail Aspidoscelis tigris tigris
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Sandstone Night Lizard Xantusia gracilis	Granite Night Lizard Xantusia henshawi	San Clemente Night Lizard Xantusia riversiana reticulata	San Nicolas Night Lizard Xantusia riversiana riversiana

Sierra Night Lizard Xantusia sierrae	Yucca Night Lizard Xantusia vigilis	Baja California Night Lizard Xantusia wigginsi	Yellow-crested Jackson's Chameleon Chamaeleo jacksonii xantholophus