List of reptiles
A White-headed dwarf gecko with shed tail
List of reptiles lists the vertebrate class of 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
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
Main article: List of snake genera
- 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
- Family Bolyeriidae - Hoffstetter, 1946 — Mauritius snakes
- Family Colubridae - Oppel, 1811—Colubrids, typical snakes
- Subyfamily Xenodermatinae
- Subyfamily Homalopsinae
- Subyfamily Boodontinae
- Subyfamily Pseudoxyrhophiinae
- Subyfamily Colubrinae
- Subyfamily Psammophiinae
- Subyfamily Natricinae
- Subyfamily Pseudoxenodontinae
- Subyfamily Dipsadinae
- Subyfamily 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
- Subyfamily Azemiopinae - Liem, Marx & Rabb, 1971—Fae's viper
- Subyfamily Causinae - Cope, 1859—Night adders
- Subyfamily Crotalinae - Oppel, 1811—Pitvipers, rattlesnakes
- Subyfamily 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
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