List of reptiles of South Asia

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The following is a list of reptiles of South Asia, primarily covering the region covered by mainland India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, parts of Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Island chains.

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[edit] Order Crocodilia

[edit] Family Crocodilidae

[edit] Family Gavialiidae

  • Gharial Gavialis gangeticus Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh

[edit] Order Testudines

[edit] Family Dermochelyidae

[edit] Family Chelonidae

[edit] Family Testudinidae

[edit] Family Bataguridae

[edit] Family Trionychidae

[edit] Order Squamata - suborder Lacertila

[edit] Family Eublepharidae

[edit] Family Gekkonidae

[edit] Family Agamidae

[edit] Family Chamaeleonidae

[edit] Family Dibamidae

[edit] Family Anguidae

  • Armoured glass snake Ophiosaurus apodus Eurasia, Afghanistan, Pakistan
  • Eastern glass snake Ophiosaurus gracilis India (Himalayas, Northeast), Myanmar

[edit] Family Scincidae

[edit] Family Lacertidae

[edit] Family Varanidae

[edit] Order Squamata - suborder Serpentes

[edit] Family Typhlopidae

[edit] Family Cylindrophiidae

  • Sri Lankan pipe snake Cylindrophis maculata Sri Lanka

[edit] Family Uropeltidae

[edit] Family Acrochordidae

[edit] Family Boidae

  • Common sand boa Gongylophis conicus Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
  • Red sand boa Eryx johnii India, Pakistan
  • Whitaker's sand boa Eryx whitakeri Southwest India
  • Indian rock python Python molurus Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Java
  • Reticulated python Python reticulatus India (Arunachal Pradesh, Nicobars), Myanmar, China, Indo-China, Malay region

[edit] Family Xenopeltidae

  • Sunbeam snake Xenopeltis unicolor India (Nicobars), Myanmar, Thailand, China, Indo-China, Malay region

[edit] Family Colubridae

This section is broken into sub-sections which are not taxonomic categories.

[edit] Tree snakes, whipsnakes

[edit] Keelbacks, grass snakes

[edit] Racers and ratsnakes

[edit] Water snakes

[edit] Rough sided snakes

  • Boie's rough-sided snake Aspidura brachyorrhos Sri Lanka
  • Cope's rough-sided snake Aspidura copei Sri Lanka
  • Deraniyagala's rough-sided snake Aspidura deraniyagalae Sri Lanka
  • Drummond-Hay's rough-sided snake Aspidura drummondhayi Sri Lanka
  • Gunther's rough-sided snake Aspidura guentheri Sri Lanka
  • Common rough-sided snake Aspidura trachyprocta Sri Lanka
  • Olive keelback water snake Atretium schistosum India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lanka blossom krait Balanophis ceylonensis Sri Lanka
  • Iridescent snake Blythia reticulata Northeast India, China, Myanmar

[edit] Cat snakes

[edit] Others

[edit] Family Elapidae

  • Monocled cobra Naja kaouthia Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Indo-China, China
  • Spectacled cobra Naja naja Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
  • Black cobra Naja oxiana Central Asia, Pakistan, India
  • Andaman cobra Naja sagittifera India (Andamans)
  • King cobra Ophiophagus hannah India, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, China, Indo-China, Malay region, Philippines

[edit] Family Hydrophiidae

[edit] Family Viperidae

[edit] References

  • Romulus Whitaker & Ashok Captain, (2004) Snakes of India: The Field Guide. Draco Books, Chennai.
  • Daniel, J.C.(2002) The Book of Indian Reptiles and Amphibians. Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-566099-4

[edit] External links

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