List of reptiles of Western Australia

This is a list of reptiles of Western Australia:

Contents 1 Crocodylia (Crocodiles) 2 Testudines (Turtles) 3 Squamata (Lizards) 4 Serpentes (Snakes) 5 External links 6 Further reading

Crocodylia (Crocodiles)

Crocodylidae

• Crocodylus johnstoni (Freshwater Crocodile)
• Crocodylus porosus (Estuarine Crocodile, Salt-Water Crocodile)

Testudines (Turtles)

Chelidae

• Chelodina kuchlingi
• Chelodina oblonga (Oblong Turtle)
• Chelodina rugosa (Northern Snake-Necked Turtle)
• Chelodina steindachneri (Flat-Shelled Turtle)
• Elseya dentata
• Emydura australis
• Emydura victoriae
• Pseudemydura umbrina (Western Swamp Turtle)

Cheloniidae

• Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Turtle)
• Chelonia mydas (Green Turtle)
• Eretmochelys imbricata (Hawksbill Turtle)
• Eretmochelys imbricata bissa (Hawksbill Turtle - subspecies)
• Lepidochelys olivacea (Pacific Ridley Turtle)
• Natator depressus (Flatback Turtle)

Dermochelyidae

• Dermochelys coriacea (Leathery Turtle, Luth Turtle)

Squamata (Lizards)

Agamidae (Dragons)

• Amphibolurus norrisi
• Caimanops amphiboluroides
• Chelosania brunnea (Chameleon Dragon)
• Chlamydosaurus kingii (Frilled Lizard)
• Cryptagama aurita
• Ctenophorus caudicinctus (Ring-tailed Dragon)
• Ctenophorus clayi
• Ctenophorus cristatus (Crested Dragon)
• Ctenophorus femoralis
• Ctenophorus fordi (Malle Dragon)
• Ctenophorus isolepis (Military Dragon)
• Ctenophorus maculatus (Spotted Dragon)
• Ctenophorus mckenziei
• Ctenophorus nuchalis (Central Netted Dragon)
• Ctenophorus ornatus (Ornate Dragon)
• Ctenophorus pictus (Painted Dragon)
• Ctenophorus reticulatus (Western Netted Dragon)
• Ctenophorus rufescens
• Ctenophorus salinarum
• Ctenophorus scutulatus (Lozenge-Marked Dragon)
• Ctenophorus yinnietharra
• Diporiphora albilabris
• Diporiphora bennettii
• Diporiphora bilineata (Two-Lined Dragon)
• Diporiphora convergens
• Diporiphora lalliae
• Diporiphora magna
• Diporiphora pindan
• Diporiphora reginae
• Diporiphora superba
• Diporiphora valens
• Diporiphora winneckei
• Lophognathus gilberti (Gilbert's Dragon)
• Lophognathus longirostris (Long-nosed Water Dragon)
• Lophognathus temporalis (Northern Water Dragon)
• Moloch horridus (Thorny Devil)
• Pogona microlepidota
• Pogona minor
• Pogona minor minor (Western Bearded Dragon)
• Pogona minor minima (Abrolhos Bearded Dragon)
• Pogona minor mitchelli
• Pogona nullarbor
• Tympanocryptis adelaidensis (Queen Adelaide Dragon)
• Tympanocryptis cephalus (Earless Dragon)
• Tympanocryptis intima (Earless Dragon)
• Tympanocryptis lineata (Earless Dragon)
• Tympanocryptis parviceps (Earless Dragon)
• Tympanocryptis uniformis (Earless Dragon)

Gekkonidae (Geckoes)

• Christinus alexanderi (Marbled Gecko)
• Christinus marmoratus (Marbled Gecko)
• Crenadactylus ocellatus (Clawless Gecko)
• Diplodactylus alboguttatus
• Diplodactylus assimilis
• Diplodactylus ciliaris (Spiny-tailed Gecko)
• Diplodactylus conspicill (Fat-tailed Gecko)
• Diplodactylus elderi (Jewelled Gecko)
• Diplodactylus fulleri
• Diplodactylus galeatus
• Diplodactylus granariens
• Diplodactylus intermediu (Eastern Spiny-Tailed Gecko)
• Diplodactylus jeanae
• Diplodactylus kenneallyi
• Diplodactylus maini
• Diplodactylus mcmillani
• Diplodactylus michaelsen
• Diplodactylus mitchelli
• Diplodactylus occultus
• Diplodactylus ornatus
• Diplodactylus polyophtha
• Diplodactylus pulcher
• Diplodactylus rankini
• Diplodactylus savagei
• Diplodactylus squarrosus
• Diplodactylus stenodacty (Crowned Gecko)
• Diplodactylus strophurus
• Diplodactylus taeniatus (White-striped Gecko)
• Diplodactylus wellington
• Diplodactylus wilsoni
• Diplodactylus wombeyi
• Gehyra australis (Northern Dtella, House Gecko)
• Gehyra fenestra (Pilbara Spotted Gecko)
• Gehyra montium
• Gehyra nana
• Gehyra occidentalis
• Gehyra pilbara (Pilbara Dtella)
• Gehyra punctata (Spotted Gecko)
• Gehyra purpurascens
• Gehyra variegata (Tree Dtella)
• Gehyra xenopus
• Hemidactylus frenatus (Asian House Gecko)
• Heteronotia binoei (Bynoe's Gecko, Prickly Gecko)
• Heteronotia planiceps
• Heteronotia spelea (Desert Cave Gecko)
• Lucasium damaeum (Beaded Gecko)
• Nephrurus asper (Spiny Knob-tailed Gecko)
• Nephrurus laevissimus (Knob-Tailed Gecko)
• Nephrurus levis (Knob-Tailed Gecko)
• Nephrurus stellatus (Southern Knob-tailed Gecko)
• Nephrurus vertebralis (Knob-Tailed Gecko)
• Nephrurus wheeleri (Knob-Tailed Gecko)
• Oedura filicipoda
• Oedura gracilis
• Oedura marmorata (Marbled Velvet Gecko)
• Oedura obscura
• Oedura reticulata (Reticulated Velvet Gecko)
• Oedura rhombifer (Zig-zag Gecko)
• Pseudothecadactylus lindneri (Giant Cave Gecko)
• Rhynchoedura ornata (Beaked Gecko)
• Underwoodisaurus milii (Thick-tailed Gecko)

Pygopodidae (Legless Lizards)

• Aclys concinna
• Aprasia haroldi
• Aprasia inaurita
• Aprasia pulchella
• Aprasia repens
• Aprasia rostrata
• Aprasia smithi
• Aprasia striolata
• Delma borea
• Delma elegans
• Delma fraseri
• Delma grayii
• Delma haroldi
• Delma nasuta
• Delma pax
• Delma tinct
• Lialis burtonis (Burton's Legless Lizard)
• Pletholax gracilis
• Pygopus lepidopodus (Common Scaly Foot)
• Pygopus nigriceps (Black-headed Scaly Foot)
• Pygopus steelscotti

Scincidae (Skinks)

• Bassiana trilineata
• Carlia amax
• Carlia gracilis
• Carlia johnstonei
• Carlia munda
• Carlia rufilatus
• Carlia triacantha
• Cryptoblepharus carnabyi
• Cryptoblepharus megastic
• Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus
• Cryptoblepharus virgatus
• Ctenotus alacer
• Ctenotus alleni
• Ctenotus angusticeps
• Ctenotus ariadnae
• Ctenotus atlas
• Ctenotus australis
• Ctenotus brooksi
• Ctenotus calurus
• Ctenotus catenifer
• Ctenotus colletti
• Ctenotus decaneurus
• Ctenotus delli
• Ctenotus dux
• Ctenotus ehmanni
• Ctenotus fallens
• Ctenotus gemmula
• Ctenotus grandis
• Ctenotus greeri
• Ctenotus hanloni
• Ctenotus helenae
• Ctenotus impar
• Ctenotus inornatus
• Ctenotus labillardieri
• Ctenotus lancelini
• Ctenotus leae
• Ctenotus leonhardii
• Ctenotus mastigura
• Ctenotus militaris
• Ctenotus mimetes
• Ctenotus nasutus
• Ctenotus nigrilineatus
• Ctenotus pantherinus
• Ctenotus piankai
• Ctenotus quattuordecimli
• Ctenotus robustus
• Ctenotus rubicundus
• Ctenotus rufescens
• Ctenotus rutilans
• Ctenotus saxatilis
• Ctenotus schomburgkii
• Ctenotus serventyi
• Ctenotus severus
• Ctenotus tanamiensis
• Ctenotus tantillus
• Ctenotus uber
• Ctenotus xenopleura
• Ctenotus youngsoni
• Ctenotus zastictus
• Cyclodomorphus branchial
• Cyclodomorphus maxima
• Egernia carinata
• Egernia adepressa
• Egernia douglasi
• Egernia formosa
• Egernia inornata
• Egernia kingii
• Egernia kintorei
• Egernia luctuosa
• Egernia multiscutata
• Egernia napoleonis
• Egernia pilbarensis
• Egernia pulchra
• Egernia stokesii
• Egernia striata
• Eremiascincus richardson (Broad-Banded Sand Swimmer)
• Glaphyromorphus brongers
• Glaphyromorphus darwinie
• Glaphyromorphus gracilip
• Glaphyromorphus isolepis
• Hemiergis initialis
• Hemiergis millewae
• Hemiergis peronii
• Hemiergis quadrilineatum
• Lerista allochira
• Lerista apoda
• Lerista arenicola
• Lerista axillaris
• Lerista bipes
• Lerista borealis
• Lerista bunglebungle
• Lerista chalybura
• Lerista christinae
• Lerista concolor
• Lerista connivens
• Lerista distinguenda
• Lerista dorsalis
• Lerista elegans
• Lerista flammicauda
• Lerista frosti
• Lerista gascoynensis
• Lerista gerrardii
• Lerista greeri
• Lerista griffini
• Lerista haroldi
• Lerista humphriesi
• Lerista ips
• Lerista kalumburu
• Lerista kendricki
• Lerista kennedyensis
• Lerista labialis
• Lerista lineata
• Lerista lineopunctulata
• Lerista macropisthopus
• Lerista maculosa
• Lerista microtis
• Lerista muelleri
• Lerista neander
• Lerista nichollsi
• Lerista onsloviana
• Lerista petersoni
• Lerista picturata
• Lerista planiventralis
• Lerista praefrontalis
• Lerista praepedita
• Lerista puncticauda
• Lerista quadrilineata
• Lerista robusta
• Lerista separanda
• Lerista simillima
• Lerista stictopleura
• Lerista taeniata
• Lerista talpina
• Lerista terdigitata
• Lerista tridactyla
• Lerista uniduo
• Lerista varia
• Lerista vermicularis
• Lerista viduata
• Lerista walkeri
• Lerista xanthura
• Lerista yuna
• Menetia amaura
• Menetia greyii
• Menetia maini
• Menetia surda
• Morethia adelaidensis
• Morethia boulengeri
• Morethia butleri
• Morethia lineoocellata
• Morethia obscura
• Morethia ruficauda
• Morethia storri
• Notoscincus butleri
• Notoscincus ornatus
• Proablepharus reginae
• Proablepharus tenuis
• Pseudemoia baudini
• Tiliqua multifasciata (Centralian Blue-Tongued Lizard)
• Tiliqua occipitalis (Western Blue-Tongued Lizard)
• Tiliqua scincoides (Eastern Blue-Tongued Lizard)
• Trachydosaurus rugosus (Shingle-Back)

Varanidae (Goannas or Monitors)

• Varanus acanthurus (Ridge-Tailed Monitor)
• Varanus brevicauda (Short-Tailed Pygmy Monitor)
• Varanus caudolineatus (Line-Tailed Pygmy Monitor)
• Varanus eremius (Rusty Desert Monitor)
• Varanus giganteus (Perentie)
• Varanus gilleni (Pygmy Mulga Monitor)
• Varanus glauerti (Glauert's Monitor)
• Varanus glebopalma (Long-Tailed Rock Monitor)
• Varanus gouldii (Gould's Goanna, Sand Monitor)
• Varanus gouldii flavirufus (Centralian Sand Goanna)
• Varanus kingorum (Pygmy Rock Monitor)
• Varanus mertensi (Mertens' Water Monitor)
• Varanus mitchelli (Mitchell's Water Monitor)
• Varanus panoptes (Yellow Spotted Monitor)
• Varanus pilbarensis (Pilbara Rock Monitor)
• Varanus rosenbergi (Rosenberg's Heath Monitor)
• Varanus storri (Storr's Monitor)
• Varanus timorensis (Spotted Tree Monitor)
• Varanus tristis (Black-headed Monitor, Freckled Monitor)

Serpentes (Snakes)

Acrochordidae (File Snakes)

• Acrochordus granulatus (Little File Snake)

Pythonidae (Pythons)

• Antaresia childreni (Children's Python)
• Antaresia maculosa (Spotted Python)
• Antaresia perthensis (Pygmy Python)
• Antaresia stimsoni (Large-blotched Python)
• Aspidites melanocephalus (Black-headed Python)
• Aspidites ramsayi (Woma Python)
• Liasis fuscus (Water Python)
• Liasis olivaceus (Olive Python)
• Liasis olivaceus barroni (Western Olive Python)
• Morelia carinata (Rough-scaled Python)
• Morelia spilota imbricata (Southwestern Carpet Python)
• Morelia spilota variegata (Northwestern Carpet Python)

Colubridae (Colubrids)

• Boiga irregularis (Brown Tree Snake)
• Cerberus rhynchops (Bockadam)
• Dendrelaphis punctulata (Common Tree Snake)
• Fordonia leucobalia (White-Bellied Mangrove Snake)
• Myron richardsonii (Richardson's Mangrove Snake)
• Tropidonophis mairii (Keelback or Freshwater Snake)

Elapidae (Elapids)

• Acanthophis antarcticus (Common Death Adder)
• Acanthophis praelongus (Northern Death Adder)
• Acanthophis pyrrhus (Desert Death Adder)
• Demansia atra (Black Whip Snake)
• Demansia olivacea (Marble-headed Whip Snake)
• Demansia papuensis (Papaun Whip Snake)
• Demansia psammophis (Yellow-Faced Whip Snake)
• Demansia simplex (Whip Snake)
• Drysdalia coronata (Crowned Snake)
• Drysdalia mastersii (Masters' Snake)
• Echiopsis atriceps
• Echiopsis curta (Bardick)
• Elapognathus minor (Little Brown Snake)
• Furina ornata (Orange-naped Snake)
• Notechis scutatus (Eastern Tiger Snake, Mainland Tiger Snake)
• Oxyuranus scutellatus (Coastal Taipan)
• Oxyuranus temporalis (Central Ranges Taipan)
• Pseudechis australis (King Brown, Mulga Snake)
• Pseudechis butleri (Butler's Snake)
• Pseudonaja affinis (Dugite)
• Pseudonaja inframacula (Peninsula Brown Snake)
• Pseudonaja ingrami (Ingram's Brown Snake)
• Pseudonaja modesta (Ringed Brown Snake)
• Pseudonaja nuchalis (Western Brown Snake, Gwarder)
• Pseudonaja textilis (Common Brown Snake, Eastern Brown Snake)
• Rhinoplocephalus bicolor (Muller's Snake)
• Rhinoplocephalus pallidi (Northern Small-eyed Snake)
• Simoselaps anomalus (Northern Desert Banded Snake)
• Simoselaps approximans
• Simoselaps bertholdi (Desert Banded Snake)
• Simoselaps bimaculatus (Weatern Black-naped Snake)
• Simoselaps calonotus (Western Black-striped Snake)
• Simoselaps fasciolatus (Narrow-banded Burrowing Snake)
• Simoselaps littoralis (Coastal Burrowing Snake)
• Simoselaps minimus
• Simoselaps semifasciatus (Half-girdled Snake)
• Suta fasciata (Rosen's Snake)
• Suta gouldii (Black-headed Snake)
• Suta monachus (Hooded Snake)
• Suta nigriceps
• Suta ordensis (Ord Curl Snake)
• Suta punctata (Little Spotted Snake)
• Suta spectabilis
• Suta suta (Myall Snake, Curl Snake)
• Vermicella annulata (Bandy Bandy)
• Vermicella multifasciata (Northern Bandy Bandy)

Hydrophiidae (Sea Snakes)

• Acalyptophis peronii
• Aipysurus apraefrontalis
• Aipysurus duboisii (Dubois's Sea Snake)
• Aipysurus eydouxii (Spine-tailed Sea Snake)
• Aipysurus foliosquama
• Aipysurus fuscus
• Aipysurus laevis (Olive Sea Snake)
• Aipysurus tenuis
• Astrotia stokesii
• Disteira kingii
• Disteira major
• Disteira stokesii
• Emydocephalus annulatus
• Ephalophis greyi
• Hydrelaps darwiniensis
• Hydrophis atriceps
• Hydrophis coggeri
• Hydrophis czeblukovi
• Hydrophis elegans
• Hydrophis geometricus
• Hydrophis inornatus
• Hydrophis mcdowelli
• Hydrophis melanocephalus
• Hydrophis melanosoma
• Hydrophis ornatus
• Lapemis hardwickii
• Parahydrophis mertoni
• Pelamis platurus (Yellow-bellied Sea Snake)

Typhlopidae (Blind Snakes)

• Ramphotyphlops australis
• Ramphotyphlops bitubercu
• Ramphotyphlops diversus
• Ramphotyphlops endoterus
• Ramphotyphlops grypus
• Ramphotyphlops guentheri
• Ramphotyphlops hamatus
• Ramphotyphlops howi
• Ramphotyphlops kimberley
• Ramphotyphlops leptosoma
• Ramphotyphlops ligatus
• Ramphotyphlops margareta
• Ramphotyphlops micromma
• Ramphotyphlops pinguis
• Ramphotyphlops troglodyt
• Ramphotyphlops unguirost
• Ramphotyphlops waitii
• Ramphotyphlops yampiensi

External links

• WA list at kingsnake.com
• WA Museum listing

Further reading

• Aplin, K. P. and Smith, L. A. (2001). "Checklist of the frogs and reptiles of Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 63: 51–74. 
• Browne-Cooper, Robert; Brian Bush, Brad Maryan, David Robinson (2007). Reptiles and Frogs in the Bush: Southwestern Australia. University of Western Australia Press. ISBN 9778 1 920694 74 6.