Animals - Reptiles

125 Species

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Subject Name Scientific Name
javan filesnake Acrochordus javanicus Hornstedt, 1787
African redhead agama Agama agama africana (Hallowell 1844)
South American ground lizard Ameiva ameiva (Linnaeus, 1758)
giant ameiva Ameiva praesignis (Baird & Girard, 1852)
jeremie anole Anolis coelestinus COPE 1862
Puerto Rican Crested Anole Anolis cristatellus cristatellus Duméril and Bibron, 1837
Largehead anole Anolis cybotes Cope, 1862
Knight anole Anolis equestris equestris Merrem, 1820
brown anole Anolis sagrei (Cocteau in Duméril and Bibron, 1837)
trinidad anole Anolis trinitatis REINHARDT & LÜTKEN 1862
spotted python Antaresia maculosa (Peters, 1873)
spiny softshell turtle Apalone spinifera (Lesueur, 1827)
giant whiptail Aspidoscelis motaguae (Sakett, 1941)
brown basilisk Basiliscus vittatus Wiegmann, 1828
common boa Boa constrictor Linnaeus, 1758
Argentine boa Boa constrictor occidentalis Philippi, 1873
Dumeril's boa Boa dumerili (Jan in Jan and Sordelli, 1860)
common caiman Caiman crocodilus (Linnaeus, 1758)
ocellated skink Chalcides ocellatus FORSKAL
veiled chameleon Chamaeleo calyptratus Duméril and Bibron, 1851
graceful chameleon Chamaeleo gracilis Hallowell, 1842
senegal chameleon Chamaeleo senegalensis Daudin, 1802
turner's thick-toed gecko Chondrodactylus turneri (Gray, 1864)
southern painted turtle Chrysemys dorsalis Agassiz, 1857
western painted turtle Chrysemys picta bellii (Gray, 1831)
Eastern Painted Turtle Chrysemys picta picta (Schneider, 1783)
rainbow Whiptail Cnemidophorus lemniscatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Amazon tree boa Corallus hortulanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
gorongosa girdled lizard Cordylus mossambicus (FitzSimons, 1958)
Nile crocodile Crocodylus niloticus (Laurenti)
Mexican Spiny-tailed Iguana Ctenosaura pectinata Wiegmann, 1834
black spiny-tailed iguana Ctenosaura similis (Gray, 1831)
Rhinoceros Iguana Cyclura cornuta (Bonnaterre, 1789)
Cuban Rock Iguana Cyclura nubila nubila (Gray, 1831)
northern caiman lizard Dracaena guianensis Daudin, 1802
cunningham's skink Egernia cunninghami Gray 1832
Colombian Rainbow Boa Epicrates cenchria maurus Gray, 1849
tentacle snake Erpeton tentaculatum LACÉPÈDE 1800
green anaconda Eunectes murinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
yellow anaconda Eunectes notaeus Cope, 1862
Oustalet’s chameleon Furcifer oustaleti (Mocquard, 1894)
panther chameleon Furcifer pardalis (Cuvier, 1829)
golden gecko Gekko badenii Szczerbak and Nekrasova, 1994
Tokay Gekko Gekko gecko (Linnaeus, 1758)
marbled gecko Gekko grossmanni Günther, 1994
lined gecko Gekko vittatus Houttuyn, 1782
Red-footed tortoise Geochelone carbonaria (Spix, 1824)
Leopard Tortoise Geochelone pardalis (Bell, 1828)
African Spurred Tortoise Geochelone sulcata (Miller, 1779)
wood turtle Glyptemys insulpta (LeConte, 1830)
yellow-headed gecko Gonatodes albogularis (Duméril and Bibron, 1836)
Kenyan sand boa Gongylophis colubrinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
west african sand boa Gongylophis muelleri Boulenger, 1892
False Map Turtle Graptemys pseudogeographica (Gray, 1831)
common house gecko Hemidactylus frenatus Duméril and Bibron, 1836
Indo-Pacific Gecko Hemidactylus garnotii Duméril and Bibron, 1836
Tropical House Gecko Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818)
Mediterranean gecko Hemidactylus turcicus (Linnaeus, 1758)
green iguana Iguana iguana (Linnaeus, 1758)
gray-banded kingsnake Lampropeltis alterna (Brown, 1901)
California kingsnake Lampropeltis getula californiae Blainville, 1835
honduran milksnake Lampropeltis triangulum hondurensis (Williams, 1978)
sinaloan milksnake Lampropeltis triangulum sinaloae Williams, 1978
roughtail rock agama Laudakia stellio (Linneaus, 1758)
Northern Curly-tailed Lizard Leiocephalus carinatus armouri Gray, 1827
Haitian Curlytail Lizard Leiocephalus personatus scalaris Cochran, 1932
Red-sided Curly-tailed Lizard Leiocephalus schreibersii schreibersii (Gravenhorst, 1837)
Butterfly lizard Leiolepis belliana belliana Smith 1935
parker's python Leiopython fredparkeri Schleip, 2008
mourning gecko Lepidodactylus lugubris (Duméril and Bibron, 1836)
turquoise dwarf gecko Lygodactylus williamsi Loveridge, 1952
african slender-snouted crocodile Mecistops cataphractus CUVIER 1825
carpet python Morelia spilota (Lacépède, 1804)
cuvier's dwarf caiman Paleosuchus palpebrosus (Cuvier, 1807)
schneider's smooth-fronted caiman Paleosuchus trigonatus (Schneider, 1801)
black rat snake Pantherophis obsoletus (Say, 1823)
dull day gecko Phelsuma dubia (Boettger, 1881)
broad-tailed day gecko Phelsuma laticauda BOETTGER 1880
Giant day gecko Phelsuma madagascariensis grandis Gray 1870
standing's day gecko Phelsuma standingi Methuen and Hewitt, 1913
Texas horned lizard Phrynosoma cornutum (Harlan, 1825)
Chinese water dragon Physignathus cocincinus CUVIER 1829
Louisiana pinesnake Pituophis ruthveni Stull, 1929
twisted-neck turtle Platemys platycephala (Schneider, 1792)
bearded dragon Pogona vitticeps (Ahl, 1926)
smooth-backed gliding gecko Ptychozoon lionotum Annandale, 1905
Blood python Python curtus Schlegel, 1872
Burmese python Python molurus ssp. bivittatus Kuhl, 1820
ball python Python regius (Shaw, 1802)
Reticulated Python Python reticulatus (Schneider, 1801)
northern African python Python sebae (Gmelin, 1788)
pythons Python spp. Daudin, 1803
brahminy blind snake Ramphotyphlops braminus (Daudin, 1803)
painted wood turtle Rhinoclemmys pulcherrima (Gray, 1856)
spot-legged turtle Rhinoclemmys punctularia (Daudin, 1802)
Ocellated Gecko Sphaerodactylus argus argus Gosse, 1850
Ashy gecko Sphaerodactylus elegans elegans Macleay 1834
chiapas giant musk turtle Staurotypus salvinii Gray 1864
Razor-backed Musk Turtle Sternotherus carinatus (Gray, 1856)
ocellated grass lizard Takydromus tachydromoides ocellatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1829)
White-spotted Wall Gecko Tarentola annularis (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827)
Moorish Wall Gecko Tarentola mauritanica (Linnaeus, 1758)
central asian tortoise Testudo horsfieldii Gray, 1844
common bluetongue lizard Tiliqua scincoides White 1790
columbian slider Trachemys callirostris Gray, 1855
red-eared slider Trachemys scritpa elegans (Wied-Neuwied, 1839)
fire-side skink Trachylepis perrotetii (Duméril and Bibron, 1839)
five-lined mabuya Trachylepis quinquetaeniata (Lichtenstein, 1823)
meller's chameleon Trioceros melleri NECAS 1999
peter's lava lizard Tropidurus hispidus SPIX 1825
black and white tegu Tupinambis merianae Linnaeus, 1758
red tegu Tupinambis rufescens (Guenther 1871)
Unidentified Tegu Tupinambis spp. Daudin, 1803
Gold tegu Tupinambis teguixin (Linnaeus, 1758)
mophead iguana Uranoscodon superciliosus Linnaeus 1758
southern Saharan spiny-tailed lizard Uromastyx dispar maliensis Joger and Lambert, 1996
black-throated monitor Varanus albigularis ionidesi Laurent, 1964
black-throated monitor Varanus albigularis microstictus Boettger 1893
bluetail monitor Varanus doreanus (Meyer, 1874)
Savannah monitor Varanus exanthematicus (Bosc, 1792)
Peach-throated Monitor Varanus jobiensis Ahl, 1932
Nile monitor Varanus niloticus (Linnaeus in Hasselquist, 1762)
crocodile monitor Varanus salvadorii (Peters and Doria, 1878)
common water monitor Varanus salvator (Laurenti, 1768)
unidentified monitor Varanus spp. Merrem, 1820





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