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I've read that argentine black and white tegus are very intelligent and can be trained somewhat (come when you call their name, etc.) but I don't have room for one just yet...

So I was wondering, is there a lizard that can be trained/tamed but not get quite as big as monitors and tegus?

I think it depends on what u mean by train..my bearded dragon runs over to me when i put my hand in the tank, that may be considered as 'training'...but im not all that sure that any lizard comes by their names,lizards are smart and all but i believe that they see the owner and they connect their owner to something like eating or going outside.I may be wrong, lizards are smart animals and i wouldn't put it past them to learn their names but i just havent seen the proof, like if they had the owner called the lizards name on a speaker and the lizard came to the speaker, and even then they might just be curious to see what is making that noise.

hope this helps