Alopoglossus

Alopoglossus is a genus of lizards in the monogeneric family Alopoglossidae. The genus is distributed from Costa Rica in Central America to northern South America.

Species
The genus Alopoglossus contains the following 32 valid species:
 * Alopoglossus amazonius Ruthven, 1924 – Amazonanian teiid
 * Alopoglossus andeanus (Ruibal, 1952)
 * Alopoglossus angulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) – northern teiid
 * Alopoglossus atriventris Duellman, 1973 – keel-bellied shade lizard
 * Alopoglossus avilapiresae Ribeiro-Junior, Choueri, Lobos, Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, & Werneck, 2020
 * Alopoglossus bicolor (F. Werner, 1916) – Werner's largescale lizard
 * Alopoglossus bilineatus Boulenger, 1890
 * Alopoglossus brevifrontalis Boulenger, 1912 – Boulenger's largescale lizard
 * Alopoglossus buckleyi (O’Shaughnessy, 1881) – Buckley's teiid
 * Alopoglossus carinicaudatus (Cope, 1876) – northern teiid
 * Alopoglossus collii Ribeiro-Junior, Choueri, Lobos, Venegas, Torres-Carvajal, & Werneck, 2020
 * Alopoglossus copii Boulenger, 1885 – drab shade lizard
 * Alopoglossus danieli Harris, 1994 – Daniel's largescale lizard
 * Alopoglossus embera Peloso & Morales, 2017
 * Alopoglossus eurylepis Harris & Rueda, 1985 – largescale lizard
 * Alopoglossus festae (Peracca, 1896)
 * Alopoglossus gansorum Ribeiro‐Júnior, Sánchez‐Martínez, Moraes, Oliveira, Carvalho, Choueri, Werneck, & Meiri, 2021
 * Alopoglossus gorgonae Harris, 1994
 * Alopoglossus grandisquamatus Rueda, 1985 – common largescale lizard
 * Alopoglossus harrisi Hernández-Morales, Sturaro, Sales-Nunes, Lotzkat, & Peloso, 2020
 * Alopoglossus indigenorum Ribeiro‐Júnior, Sánchez‐Martínez, Moraes, Oliveira, Carvalho, Choueri, Werneck, & Meiri, 2021
 * Alopoglossus kugleri Roux, 1927 – Kugler's largescale lizard
 * Alopoglossus lehmanni Ayala & Harris, 1984
 * Alopoglossus meloi Ribeiro-Júnior, 2018
 * Alopoglossus myersi Harris, 1994
 * Alopoglossus plicatus (Taylor, 1949) – Taylor's largescale lizard
 * Alopoglossus romaleos Harris, 1994
 * Alopoglossus stenolepis (Boulenger, 1908)
 * Alopoglossus tapajosensis Ribeiro‐Júnior, Sánchez‐Martínez, Moraes, Oliveira, Carvalho, Choueri, Werneck, & Meiri, 2021
 * Alopoglossus theodorusi Ribeiro-Júnior, Meiri, & Fouquet, 2020
 * Alopoglossus vallensis Harris, 1994
 * Alopoglossus viridiceps Torres-Carvajal & Lobos, 2014 – green-headed shade lizard

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Alopoglossus.