Lizards in Alabama

Alabama is home to 17 species of lizards, 13 of which are indigenous to the state. The remaining four of them – the brown anole, the Indo-Pacific gecko, the Mediterranean house gecko, and the Texas horned lizard – were introduced to the state and have become naturalized over time.

Several of these lizards are at risk of extinction, with the mimic glass lizard possibly becoming locally extinct in the wild. Other lizards threatened to go extinct include the coal skink and the southeastern five-lined skink.