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Many types of ecological studies require the identification of individuals, which is frequently achieved by marking. The identification of individuals in the field can determine life history parameters of individuals, including the age at maturity, growth rates and longevity, etc. and can estimate the population size, rates of increase and survival, reproductive output, and recruitment levels. Methods for the identification of lizards involve a variety of marking techniques, such as toe clipping, scaled clipping, photographic identification, banding, painting, tagging and radio transmitter tagging. Due to the relatively small body size of lizards in the Republic of Korea, techniques such as toe clipping or painting are generally more appropriate for the identification of lizards than are techniques such as radio transmitter tagging, PIT tagging, and photographic identification.