A ten month survey was undertaken to document the diversity and abundance of lizards at the Adam’s peak in Sri Lanka. We use 700 bp of mitochondrial (cytb) and nuclear (RAG1 and Phosducine) DNA sequence data to recover phylogenetic relationships and our well resolved tree, to elucidate a biographic pattern and close relationship among lizards. Our data demonstrate the phylogenetic utility of Phosducine, a noval marker in squmate phylogenetics at the intrageneric level.