Addendum to An updated and annotated list of Indian lizards (Reptilia: Sauria) based on a review of distribution records and checklists of Indian reptiles

With reference to my article (Venugopal 2010) in the Journal of Threatened Taxa, I would like to record the following updated information in the published Table 1 which provides the list of Saurid reptilian species with valid distributional records within India (Category A).While 199 lizard species were listed in Table 1, two other species with valid distributional records in India, were inadvertently excluded.This comprised of the Gekkonid Geckoella albofasciatus (Boulenger, 1885) which was originally described by Boulenger (1885) with "South Canara" as the type locality and also reported from areas around Goa (Bauer & Giri 2004).The other species is the Eublepharid, Eublepharis fuscus (Börner, 1981) which was elevated from a subspecies of Eublepharis macularius fuscus to a separate species by Das (1997), with region around Mumbai as type locality.Thus the total number of lizard species with valid distributional records from Indian limits is 201 (including Category B, species reported from regions politically disputed by India and Pakistan).Also, based on the update, the results provided in Table 2, Category A, should read as 72 in Gekkonidae and 3 in Eublepharidae (See the updated Table 2 provided).Other information provided in the rest of the article remains correct to the best of my knowledge.

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