Hiện hành, chi thằn lằn này gồm các loài sau đây:

• Cordylus angolensis (Bocage, 1895)
• Cordylus aridus Mouton & van Wyk, 1994
• Cordylus beraduccii Broadley & Branch, 2002
• Cordylus cloetei Mouton & van Wyk, 1994
• Cordylus cordylus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Cordylus imkeae Mouton & van Wyk, 1994
• Cordylus jonesii (Boulenger, 1891)
• Cordylus machadoi Laurent, 1964
• Cordylus macropholis (Boulenger, 1910)
• Cordylus marunguensis Greenbaum et al., 2012
• Cordylus mclachlani Mouton, 1986
• Cordylus meculae Branch, Rödel & Marais, 2005
• Cordylus minor V. FitzSimons, 1943
• Cordylus namakuiyus Stanley, Ceriaco, Bandeira, Valerio, Bates, & Branch, 2016
• Cordylus niger Cuvier, 1829
• Cordylus nyikae Broadley & Mouton, 2000
• Cordylus oelofseni Mouton & van Wyk, 1990
• Cordylus rhodesianus (Hewitt, 1933)
• Cordylus rivae (Boulenger, 1896)
• Cordylus tropidosternum (Cope, 1869)
• Cordylus ukingensis (Loveridge, 1932)
• Cordylus vittifer (Reichenow, 1887)