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Reptile Life List
This is my list of reptiles I have identified while traveling for Notes from the Road.
Updated July 24, 2023
Reptiles are a great introduction to identications of wild organisms, because in most cases, there are a finite number of possibilities, and help with identifications is very easy. Lizards, turtles and snakes bring color and mystery to the places you visit. And, often surprising, they bring vivid color and fascinating behavior. I was first caught with the bug to learn more about reptiles after I saw the vivid colors of mating lizards in Death Valley.
Alligator Snapping TurtleMacrochelys temminckii
Amazon Forest DragonEnyalioides laticeps
Amazon River TurtleDermatemys mawii
American AlligatorAlligator mississippiensis
American Saltwater CrocodileCrocodylus acutus
Aquatic Coral SnakeMicrurus surinamensis
Aquatic GarterThamnophis atratus
Azure-tailed SkinkEmoia impar
Banded Cat-eyed SnakeLeptodeira annulata
Blunt-headed Tree SnakeImantodes cencho
Brown AnoleAnolis sagrei
Brown BasiliskBasiliscus vittatus
Plumed BasiliskBasiliscus plumifrons
Cape Spiny-tailed IguanaCtenosaura hemilopha
Central American Whiptail LizardHolcosus festivus

Chonta SnakeChironius grandisquamus
Common ChuckwallaSauromalus ater
Common BasiliskBasiliscus basiliscus

Common MussuranaClelia clelia
Common Side-Blotched LizardUta stansburiana
Common Snapping TurtleChelydra serpentina
Common Wall LizardPodarcis muralis
Ctenosaur (Black Iguana)Ctenosaura similis
Cuban Twig AnoleAnolis angusticeps
Auber's Ameiva (Cuban Ameiva)Pholidoscelis auberi
Curly-tail LizardLeiocephalus carinatus
Desert IguanaDipsosaurus dorsalis

Desert Spiny LizardSceloporus magister
Eastern Fence LizardSceloporus undulatus
Five-lined SkinkPlestiodon fasciatus
Striped Forest WhiptailKentropyx calcarata
Golfo Dulce AnoleAnolis polylepis

Granite Spiny LizardSceloporus orcutti
Great Basin Collared LizardCrotaphytus bicinctores

Cape Spiny-tailed IguanaCtenosaura hemilopha
Green AnoleAnolis carolinensis
Green IguanaIguana iguana
European Green LizardLacerta viridis
Green Sea TurtleChelonia Mydas
Black Halloween Snake (Cope's False Coral Snake) Pliocercus euryzonus
Hispaniolan AnoleAnolis chlorocyanus
Iberian Wall LizardPodarcis hispanicus
Kotschy's GeckoMediodactylus kotschyi

Loggerhead Sea TurtleCaretta caretta
Long-nosed Leopard LizardGambelia wislizenii
Moorish GeckoTarentola mauritanica

Mottled Snake-eyed SkinkCryptoblepharus poecilopleurus
Mud SnakeFarancia abacura

Northern Caiman LizardDracaena guianensis

Northwestern GarterThamnophis ordinoides
Gopher SnakePituophis catenifer
Olive Forest RacerDendrophidion dendrophis
Painted TurtleChrysemys picta
Eastern RacerColuber constrictor
Pond SliderTrachemys scripta
Roughtail Rock AgamaLaudakia stellio

Rubber BoaCharina bottae
Sagebrush LizardSceloporus graciosus
Sicilian Wall LizardPodarcis waglerianus

Sidewinder RattlesnakeCrotalus cerastes
Smooth Softshell TurtleApalone mutica
Desert Horned LizardPhrynosoma platyrhinos
Speckled KingsnakeLampropeltis holbrooki
Speckled RattlesnakeCrotalus mitchellii
Spectacled CaimanCaiman crocodilus
Striped Basilisk (Brown Basilisk)Basiliscus vittatus
Tropical House GeckoHemidactylus mabouia
Yarrow's Spiny LizardSceloporus jarrovii

Western Fence LizardSceloporus occidentalis
Western Diamondback RattlesnakeCrotalus atrox
Western Terrestrial GarterThamnophis elegans
Yellow-headed Sideneck TurtlePodocnemis unifilis
Yellow-spotted River Turtle Podocnemis unifilis
Zebra-tailed LizardCallisaurus draconoides
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