List of reptiles

This is a list of extant reptiles by family, spanning three subclasses.

Subclass Anapsida

Order Testudines - Turtles

• Suborder Cryptodira
  • Family Chelydridae - Common Snapping Turtles and Alligator Snapping Turtle
  • Family Emydidae - Pond Turtles and Box Turtles
  • Family Testudinidae - Tortoises
  • Family Geoemydidae - Asian River Turtles and Allies
  • Family Carettochelyidae - Pignose Turtles
  • Family Trionychidae - Softshell Turtles
  • Family Dermatemydidae - River Turtles
  • Family Kinosternidae - Mud Turtles
  • Family Cheloniidae - Sea Turtles
  • Family Dermochelyidae - Leatherback Turtles
• Suborder Pleurodira
  • Family Chelidae - Austro-American Sideneck Turtles
  • Family Pelomedusidae - Afro-American Sideneck Turtles
  • Family Podocnemididae - Madagascan Big-headed Turtles and American Sideneck River Turtles

Subclass Diapsida

Superorder Lepidosauria

Order Sphenodontia - Tuataras

• • Family Sphenodontidae

Order Squamata - Scaled Reptiles

• • Family Agamidae - Agamas
  • Family Chamaeleonidae - Chameleons
  • Family Iguanidae
    • Subfamily Corytophaninae - Casquehead Lizard
    • Subfamily Crotaphytinae - Collared and Leopard Lizards
    • Subfamily Hoplocercinae - Wood lizards
    • Subfamily Iguaninae - Iguanas
    • Subfamily Leiocephalinae
    • Subfamily Leiosaurinae
    • Subfamily Liolaeminae
    • Subfamily Oplurinae - Madagascar iguanids
    • Subfamily Phrynosomatinae - Horned Lizards
    • Subfamily Polychrotinae - Anoles
    • Subfamily Tropidurinae - Neotropical Ground Lizards
  • Family Gekkonidae - Geckos
  • Family Pygopodidae - Legless lizards
  • Family Dibamidae - Blind Lizards
  • Family Cordylidae - Spinytail Lizards
  • Family Gerrhosauridae - Plated Lizards
  • Family Gymnophthalmidae - Spectacled Lizards
  • Family Teiidae - Whiptails and Tegus
  • Family Lacertidae - Lacertids
  • Family Scincidae - Skinks
  • Family Xantusiidae - Night Lizards
  • Family Anguidae - Glass Lizards
  • Family Anniellidae - American legless lizards
  • Family Xenosauridae - Knob-scaled Lizards
  • Family Helodermatidae - Gila Monsters
  • Family Lanthanotidae - Earless Monitor lizards
  • Family Varanidae - Monitor lizards
• Suborder Amphisbaenia
  • Family Amphisbaenidae - Worm Lizards
  • Family Trogonophidae - Shorthead Worm Lizards
  • Family Bipedidae - Two-legged Worm Lizards

• Suborder Serpentes - Linnaeus, 1758—Snakes**Infraorder Alethinophidia - Nopcsa, 1923
  • • Family Acrochordidae - Bonaparte, 1831—Wart snakes
    • Family Aniliidae - Stejneger, 1907—False coral snakes
    • Family Anomochilidae - Cundall, Wallach & Rossman, 1993—Dwarf pipe snakes
    • Family Atractaspididae - Günther, 1858—African burrowing asps, stiletto snakes
    • Family Boidae - Gray, 1825 — Boas, Anacondas
      • Subfamily Boinae - Gray, 1825
      • Subfamily Erycinae - Bonaparte, 1831 — Old World sand boas
    • Family Bolyeriidae - Hoffstetter, 1946 — Mauritius snakes
    • Family Colubridae - Oppel, 1811—Colubrids, typical snakes
      • Subfamily Xenodermatinae
      • Subfamily Homalopsinae
      • Subfamily Boodontinae
      • Subfamily Pseudoxyrhophiinae
      • Subfamily Colubrinae
      • Subfamily Psammophiinae
      • Subfamily Natricinae
      • Subfamily Pseudoxenodontinae
      • Subfamily Dipsadinae
      • Subfamily Xenodontinae
    • Family Cylindrophiidae - Fitzinger, 1843—Asian pipe snakes
    • Family Elapidae - F. Boie, 1827—Cobras, coral snakes, mambas, sea snakes
    • Family Loxocemidae - Cope, 1861—Mexican pythons
    • Family Pythonidae - Fitzinger, 1826—Pythons
    • Family Tropidophiidae - Brongersma, 1951—Dwarf boas
    • Family Uropeltidae - Müller, 1832—Pipe snakes, shield-tailed snakes
    • Family Viperidae - Oppel, 1811—Vipers, pitvipers
      • Subfamily Azemiopinae - Liem, Marx & Rabb, 1971—Fae's viper
      • Subfamily Causinae - Cope, 1859—Night adders
      • Subfamily Crotalinae - Oppel, 1811—Pitvipers, rattlesnakes
      • Subfamily Viperinae - Oppel, 1811—True vipers
    • Family Xenopeltidae - Bonaparte, 1845—Sunbeam snakes
  • Infraorder Scolecophidia - Cope, 1864—Blind snakes
    • Family Anomalepididae - Taylor, 1939—Primitive blind snakes
    • Family Leptotyphlopidae - Stejneger, 1892—Slender blind snakes, thread snakes
    • Family Typhlopidae - Merrem, 1820—Blind snakes, typical blind snakes

Division Archosauria

Superorder Crocodylomorpha

Order Crocodylia - crocodilians

• Suborder Eusuchia
  • Family Crocodylidae - crocodiles
  • Family Alligatoridae - alligators
  • Family Gavialidae - gavials

See also

• Reptile
• List of California amphibians and reptiles
• List of regional reptiles lists
• List of snakes
• Herping

Cited references

External links

• Reptile Database