List of reptiles of China
China has around 403 different species of reptiles that can be found in many environments including deserts, grasslands, rivers, and forests.[1] It is the country with the seventh largest amount of different reptile species.[2]
Turtles and tortoises[]
Geoemydid turtles[]
Box turtles[]
- Amboina box turtle (Cuora amboinensis)
- Yellow-headed box turtle (Cuora aurocapitata)
- Vietnamese three-striped box turtle (Cuora cyclornata)
- Chinese box turtle (Cuora flavomarginata)
- Indochinese box turtle (Cuora galbinifrons)
- McCord's box turtle (Cuora mccordi)
- Keeled box turtle (Cuora mouhotii)
- Pan's box turtle (Cuora pani)
- Golden coin turtle (Cuora trifasciata)
- Yunnan box turtle (Cuora yunnanensis)
- Zhou's box turtle (Cuora zhoui)
Eyed turtles[]
- Burmese eyed turtle (Morenia ocellata)
- Beale's eyed turtle (Sacalia bealei)
- Four-eyed turtle (Sacalia quadriocellata)
Leaf turtles[]
- Asian leaf turtle (Cyclemys dentata)
- Black-breasted leaf turtle (Geoemyda spengleri)
Pond turtles[]
- Chinese broad-headed pond turtle (Chinemys megalocephala)
- Yellow pond turtle (Mauremus mutica)
- Red-necked pond turtle (Mauremys nigricans)
- Chinese pond turtle (Mauremys reevesii)
- Chinese stripe-necked turtle (Mauremys sinensis)
Roofed turtles[]
- Burmese roofed turtle (Batagur trivittata)
Miscellaneous and monotypic[]
- Big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum)
Sea turtles[]
- Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)
- Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)
- Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
- Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
- Olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)
Softshell turtles[]
- Wattle-necked softshell turtle (Palea steindachneri)
- Cantor's giant softshell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii)
- Hunan softshell turtle (Pelodiscus axenaria)
- Amur softshell turtle (Pelodiscus maackii)
- Lesser Chinese softshell turtle (Pelodiscus parviformis)
- Chinese softshell turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis)
- Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei)
Tortoises[]
- Russian tortoise (Agrionemys horsfieldii)
- Elongated tortoise (Indotestudo elongata)
- Impressed tortoise (Manouria impressa)
A Russian tortoise, a common choice as a house pet.
Snakes[]
Blindsnakes[]
- Diard's blindsnake (Argyrophis diardii)
- White-headed blindsnake (Indotyphlops albiceps)
- Brahminy blind snake (Indotyphlops braminus)
- Indotyphlops lazelli
- Striped blindsnake (Ramphotyphlops lineatus)
Boas[]
- Dwarf sand boa (Eryx miliaris)
- Tartar sand boa (Eryx tataricus)
Cat snakes[]
- Square-headed cat snake (Boiga kraepelini)
Cobras[]
- Chinese cobra (Naja atra)
- Monocled cobra (Naja kaouthia)
Coral snakes[]
- Speckled coral snake (Calliophis maculiceps)
- Kellogg's coral snake (Sinomicrurus kelloggi)
- Sinomicrurus hatori
- MacClelland's coral snake (Sinomicrurus macclellandi)
- Taiwanese coral snake (Sinomicrurus sauteri)
Green snakes[]
- Greater green snake (Cyclophiops major)
Kraits[]
- Northeastern hill krait (Bungarus bungaroides)
- Banded krait (Bungarus fasciatus)
- Many-banded krait (Bungarus multicinctus)
Lamprophiid snakes[]
- Common mock viper (Psammodynastes pulverulentus)
- Psammophis indochinensis
- Steppe ribbon racer (Psammophis lineolatus)
Miscellaneous and monotypic[]
- Blyth's reticulated snake (Blythia reticulata)
- Collared reed snake (Calamaria pavimentata)
- (Fimbrios klossi)
- Gonyosoma frenatum
- King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)
- Bailey's snake (Thermophis baileyi)
Natricine snakes[]
- Buff striped keelback (Amphiesma stolatum)
- Grass snake (Natrix natrix)
- Dice snake (Natrix tessellata)
- Maki's keelback (Hebius miyajimae)
- Sauter's keelback (Hebius sauteri)
Odd-scaled snakes[]
- Bourret's odd-scaled snake (Achalinus ater)
- Formosan odd-scaled snake (Achalinus formosanus)
- Hainan odd-scaled snake (Achalinus hainanus)
- Zong's odd-scaled snake (Achalinus jinggangensis)
- Sichuan odd-scaled snake (Achalinus meiguensis)
- Black odd-scaled snake (Achalinus niger)
- (Achalinus rufescens)
- Peters's odd-scaled snake (Achalinus spinalis)
Pipe snakes[]
- Red-tailed pipe snake (Cylindrophis ruffus)
Pitvipers[]
- Sharp-nosed pit viper (Deinagkistrodon acutus)
- Mamushi (Gloydius blomhoffii)
- (Ovophis makazayazaya)
- Mountain pitviper (Ovophis monticola)
- Jerdon's pit viper (Protobothrops jerdonii)
- Brown-spotted pitviper (Protobothrops mucrosquamatus)
- Taiwan pit viper (Trimeresurus gracilis)
- Bamboo pit viper (Trimeresurus gramineus)
- Mangshan pitviper (Trimeresurus mangshanensis)
- Motuo bamboo pitviper (Trimeresurus medoensis)
- Stejneger's pit viper (Trimeresurus stejnegeri)
A bamboo pit viper (Trimeresurus gramineus) perched on a branch in a Cuiheng zoo.
Pythons[]
- Burmese python (Python bivittatus)
Ratsnakes[]
- Korean ratsnake (Elaphe anomala)
- Twin-spotted ratsnake (Elaphe bimaculata)
- King ratsnake (Elaphe carinata)
- David's ratsnake (Elaphe davidi)
- Amur rat snake (Elaphe schrenckii)
- Beauty rat snake (Elaphe taeniura)
- Elaphe zoigeensis
- Mandarin ratsnake (Euprepiophis mandarinus)
Sea kraits[]
- Banded sea krait (Laticauda colubrina)
- Blue-lipped sea krait (Laticauda laticaudata)
- Black-banded sea krait (Laticauda semifasciata)
Sea snakes[]
- Beaded sea snake (Aipysurus eydouxii)
- Golden sea snake (Aipysurus laevis)
- Stokes' seasnake (Astrotia stokesii)
- Turtlehead sea snake (Emydocephalus ijimae)
- Dwarf sea snake (Hydrophis caerulescens)
- Shaw's sea snake (Hydrophis curtus)
- Annulated sea snake (Hydrophis cyanocinctus)
- Striped sea snake (Hydrophis fasciatus)
- Graceful small-headed sea snake (Hydrophis gracilis)
- Spine-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis hardwickii)
- Plain sea snake (Hydrophis inornatus)
- Jerdon's sea snake (Hydrophis jerdonii)
- Slender-necked sea snake (Hydrophis melanocephalus)
- Ornate reef sea snake (Hydrophis ornatus)
- Hydrophis parviceps
- Spiny-headed seasnake (Hydrophis peronii)
- Yellow-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus)
- Yellow sea snake (Hydrophis spiralis)
- Stokes's sea snake (Hydrophis stokesii)
- West coast black-headed sea snake (Hydrophis torquatus)
- Viperine sea snake (Hydrophis viperinus)
- Jerdon's sea snake (Kerilia jerdonii)
- Shaw's sea snake (Lapemis curtus)
- Anomalous sea snake (Hydrophis anomalus)
Slug snakes[]
- (Pareas atayal)
- (Pareas boulengeri)
- Keeled slug-eating snake (Pareas carinatus)
- (Pareas chinensis)
- Formosan slug snake (Pareas formosensis)
- Hampton's slug snake (Pareas hamptoni)
- (Pareas komaii)
- Spotted slug snake (Pareas margaritophorus)
- Common slug snake (Pareas monticola)
- (Pareas nigriceps)
- (Pareas stanleyi)
Sunbeam snakes[]
This closeup clearly shows the characteristic iridescent highly polished scales of Xenopeltis unicolor.
Vipers[]
- Fea's viper (Azemiops feae)
- White-headed Fea viper (Azemiops kharini)
- Russell's viper (Daboia russelii)
- Eastern Russell's viper (Daboia siamensis)
- Common European viper (Vipera berus)
- Meadow viper (Vipera ursinii)
Wart snakes[]
- Little wart snake (Acrochordus granulatus)
Water snakes[]
- Rainbow water snake (Enhydris enhydris)
- Rice paddy snake (Hypsiscopus plumbea)
- (Myrrophis bennettii)
- Chinese water snake (Myrrophis chinensis)
- Bocourt's water snake (Subsessor bocourti)
Worm-eating snakes[]
- Mountain worm-eating snake (Trachischium monticola)
- Yellowbelly worm-eating snake (Trachischium tenuiceps)
Crocodilians[]
Alligators[]
- Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)
Crocodiles[]
- † Saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus)[note 1]
Lizards[]
Agamid lizards (flying)[]
- Blanford's flying lizard (Draco blanfordii)
- Spotted flying dragon (Draco maculatus)
Agamid lizards (non-flying)[]
A blue-crested lizard (Calotes mystaceus).
- Armored pricklenape (Acanthosaura armata)
- Brown pricklenape (Acanthosaura lepidogaster)
- Emma Gray's forest lizard (Calotes emma)
- Indo-Chinese forest lizard (Calotes jerdoni)
- Medog bloodsucker (Calotes medogensis)
- Blue-crested lizard (Calotes mystaceus)
- Oriental garden lizard (Calotes versicolor)
- Japalura andersoniana
- Three-keeled mountain lizard (Japalura tricarinata)
- Diploderma brevicauda
- Short-legged japalure (Diploderma brevipes)
- Banded japalure (Diploderma fasciata)
- Dymond's japalure (Diploderma dymondi)
- Sichuan japalure (Diploderma flaviceps)
- Graham's japalure (Diploderma grahami)
- Emerald mountain dragon (Diploderma iadinum)
- Smooth-venter mountain dragon (Diploderma laeviventre)
- Diploderma luei
- Ota's japalure (Diploderma makii)
- Ryukyu japalure (Diploderma polygonatum)
- Diploderma slowinskii
- Japalura tree dragon (Diploderma splendidum)
- Taiwan japalure (Diploderma swinhonis))
- Chinese japalure (Diploderma varcoae)
- Sail mountain lizard (Diploderma vela)
- Diploderma yulongense
- Yunnan japalure (Diploderma yunnanense)
- Diploderma zhaoermii
- Badakhshana rock agama (Laudakia badakhshana)
- Himalayan agama (Laudakia himalayana)
- Papenfuss' rock agama (Laudakia papenfussi)
- Anan's rock agama (Laudakia sacra)
- (Laudakia stoliczkana)
- Kashmir rock agama (Laudakia tuberculata)
- Wu's rock agama (Laudakia wui)
- Reeves' butterfly lizard (Leiolepis reevesii)
- Small forest lizard (Oriocalotes paulus)
- Yarkand toad-headed agama (Phrynocephalus axillaris)
- Phrynocephalus erythrurus
- Forsyth's toadhead agama (Phrynocephalus forsythii)
- Shanxi toadhead agama (Phrynocephalus frontalis)
- Spotted toadhead agama (Phrynocephalus guttatus)
- Sunwatcher toadhead agama (Phrynocephalus helioscopus)
- Secret toadhead agama (Phrynocephalus mystaceus)
- Przewalski's toadhead agama (Phrynocephalus przewalskii)
- Phrynocephalus putjatai
- Roborowski's toadhead agama (Phrynocephalus roborowskii)
- Theobald's toad-headed agama (Phrynocephalus theobaldi)
- Variegated toadhead agama (Phrynocephalus versicolor)
- Qinghai toadhead agama (Phrynocephalus vlangalii)
- Chinese water dragon (Physignathus cocincinus)
- Vietnam false bloodsucker (Pseudocalotes brevipes)
- Kakhyen Hills spiny lizard (Pseudocalotes kakhienensis)
- Kingdonward's bloodsucker (Pseudocalotes kingdonwardi)
- Burmese false bloodsucker (Pseudocalotes microlepis)
- Green fan-throated lizard (Ptyctolaemus gularis)
- Brilliant ground agama (Trapelus agilis)
- Steppe agama (Trapelus sanguinolentus)
A male Japalura tree dragon.
Geckos[]
- Kaspischer even-fingered gecko (Alsophylax pipiens)
- Xinjiang even-fingered gecko (Alsophylax przewalskii)
- Frontier bow-fingered gecko (Altiphylax stoliczkai)
- Cayu bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus cayuensis)
- Cyrtodactylus tibetanus
- Cyrtodactylus wayakonei
- Cyrtodactylus zhaoermii
- Cyrtopodion medogense
- Common four-clawed gecko (Gehyra mutilata)
- Adler's gecko (Gekko adleri)
- Shanxi gecko (Gekko auriverrucosus)
- Gray's Chinese gecko (Gekko chinensis)
- Tokay gecko (Gekko gecko)
- Gekko guishanicus
- Hokou gecko (Gekko hokouensis)
- Schlegel's Japanese gecko (Gekko japonicus)
- Botel gecko (Gekko kikuchii)
- Kwangsi gecko (Gekko kwangsiensis)
- Libo's gecko (Gekko liboensis)
- Mell's gecko (Gekko melli)
- Reeves's Tokay gecko (Gekko reevesii)
- Yunnan gecko (Gekko scabridus)
- Gekko similignum
- Gekko subpalmatus
- Peking gecko (Gekko swinhonis)
- Mingtao's gecko (Gekko taibaiensis)
- Gekko wenxianensis
- Vietnamese leopard gecko (Goniurosaurus araneus)
- Goniurosaurus bawanglingensis
- Goniurosaurus hainanensis
- (Goniurosaurus kadoorieorum)
- Guangxi cave gecko (Goniurosaurus kwangsiensis)
- Goniurosaurus liboensis
- Lichtenfelder's gecko (Goniurosaurus lichtenfelderi)
- Goniurosaurus luii
- Yingde leopard gecko (Goniurosaurus yingdeensis)
- Zhe-long's leopard gecko (Goniurosaurus zhelongi)
- Zhou's leopard gecko (Goniurosaurus zhoui)
- Hemidactylus aquilonius
- Oriental leaf-tailed gecko (Hemidactylus bowringii)
- Common house gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus)
- Indo-Pacific gecko (Hemidactylus garnotii)
- Flat-tailed house gecko (Hemidactylus platyurus)
- Stejneger's leaf-toed gecko (Hemidactylus stejnegeri)
- Changning slender gecko (Hemiphyllodactylus changningensis)
- Dushan slender gecko (Hemiphyllodactylus dushanensis)
- Hong Kong slender gecko (Hemiphyllodactylus hongkongensis)
- Hemiphyllodactylus huishuiensis
- Jinping slender gecko (Hemiphyllodactylus jinpingensis)
- Longling slender gecko (Hemiphyllodactylus longlingensis)
- Indopacific tree gecko (Hemiphyllodactylus typus)
- Asian slender gecko (Hemiphyllodactylus yunnanensis)
- Zug's slender gecko (Hemiphyllodactylus zugi)
- Mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris)
- Transcaspian bent-toed gecko (Mediodactylus russowii)
- Tenuidactylus dadunensis
- Yangihissar gecko (Tenuidactylus elongatus)
- Przewalski's wonder gecko (Teratoscincus przewalskii)
- Teratoscincus roborowskii
- (Teratoscincus scincus)
A Tokay gecko, one of the most well-known species of geckos.
Glass lizards[]
- Burmese glass lizard (Dopasia gracilis)
- (Dopasia hainanensis)
- (Dopasia harti)
- (Dopasia ludovici)
Miscellaneous and monotypic[]
- Chinese crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus)
- Asian grass lizard (Takydromus sexlineatus)
- Viviparous lizard (Zootoca vivipara)
Skinks[]
- Asymblepharus alaicus
- Ladak ground skink (Asymblepharus ladacensis)
- Sikkim ground skink (Asymblepharus sikimmensis)
- Chinese short-limbed skink (Ateuchosaurus chinensis)
- Longtail mabuya (Eutropis longicaudata)
- East Indian brown mabuya (Eutropis multifasciata)
- Short-limbed supple skink (Lygosoma quadrupes)
- Gail's eyelid skink (Plestiodon capito)
- (Plestiodon chinensis)
- Shanghai skink (Plestiodon elegans)
- Ladakh ground skink (Scincella ladacensis)
- Plestiodon liui
- Pope's skink (Plestiodon popei)
- Hong Kong skink (Plestiodon quadrilineatus)
- Vietnam skink (Plestiodon tamdaoensis)
- Plestiodon tunganus
- Barbour's ground skink (Scincella barbouri)
- Doria's ground skink (Scincella doriae)
- Scincella huanrenensis
- Modest ground skink (Scincella modesta)
- Scincella monticola
- Scincella potanini
- Scincella przewalskii
- Reeves' smooth skink (Scincella reevesii)
- Scincella schmidti
- Scincella tsinlingensis
- Sphenomorphus courcyanus
- Sphenomorphus incognitus
- Indian forest skink (Sphenomorphus indicus)
- Spotted forest skink (Sphenomorphus maculatus)
- Christmas Island grass-skink (Subdoluseps bowringii)
- Berdmore's water skink (Tropidophorus berdmorei)
- Tropidophorus guangxiensis
- Hainan water skink (Tropidophorus hainanus)
- Chinese water skink (Tropidophorus sinicus)
References[]
- ^ "Number of vertebrate species in China in 2012, by type" Accessed 2014-06-24
- ^ Countries with the most reptile species. Mongabay.com. 2004 data. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
- ^ Likely extirpated
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