INTRODUCTION 
All herpetologists undertaking taxonomic work should utilize 
the recent summary (Melville and Smith, 1987) of all names and 
works placed through 1985 on the Official Lists and Indices of 
the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 
(available, together with a mimeographed supplement covering 1986- 
1988, from the International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, 
c/o British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London SW7 
5BD, England (£60 or $110), or from the American Association for 
Zoological Nomenclature, c/o NHB Stop 163, National Museum of 
Natural History, Washington, DC ZOHO We Saris (Sido wie —Saloyoy Ee 
members of A.A.Z.N.)). 
Although a mandatory reference for much taxonomic work, 
Melville wand Smith's) scompalatvon contains) noyindiication for the 
major group of animals to which individual rejected names belong, 
and no index to these for any such group. Conserved names are 
allocated to animal group, and are listed in an index for each 
group, but rejected names are not so treated. Our goal here is 
thus to provide a list of all rejected names of amphibians and 
reptiles, inasmuch as those names, as well as available ones, need 
to be dealt with in synoptic taxonomic works. 
Our list has been drawn exclusively from Melville and Smith 
(1987), except for names appearing in more recent Opinions, 
through no. 1517, 1988. Opinion numbers follow only those entries 
published after 1985. Although assuredly the survey is complete 
for Opinions 1369 et seq., since we have examined all of them, no 
attempt has been made to examine all of the first 1368 Opinions, 
since they are covered in Melville and Smith's work. However, our 
recognition of suppressed herpetological names depended upon 
familiarity with them or the cited works, since the major group to 
which any rejected name pertains was never given (and was not in 
earlier Indexes). Hence some names may inadvertently have been 
missed. 
A total of 12 family-group names, 87 genus-group names and 
101 species-group names is included in the following survey, 
alphabetically arranged in each group. Appended cross-indexes 
arrange all 200 names in accordance with the nine orders of 
amphibians and reptiles to which they belong. 
Acknowledgments. We are much indebted to Drs. Kraig Adler 
and Jeremy D.D. Smith, who kindly reviewed the ms and offered 
numerous suggestions for its improvement. 
FAMILY-GROUP NAMES 
AGAMOIDEA FiLeZunge%rr sO26 .—Neue. Classi. » Rept. : Wil, 7 (eva 
incorrect original spelling for Agamidae Fitzinger, 1826, as 
