List of reptiles of Nepal
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This List of reptiles of Nepal presents reptile species recorded in Nepal.
Order: Crocodilia[]
- Family - Crocodilidae
- Mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris)
- Family: Gavialiidae
- Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus)
Order: Testudines[]
- Family: Testudinidae
- Elongated tortoise (Indotestudo elongata)
- Family: Geoemydidae
- Red-crowned roofed turtle (Batagur kachuga)
- Three-striped roofed turtle (Batagur dhongoka)
- Black pond turtle (Geoclemys hamiltonii)
- Brown roofed turtle (Pangshura smithii)
- Tricarinate hill turtle (Melanochelys tricarinata)
- Indian black turtle (Melanochelys trijuga)
- Indian roofed turtle (Pangshura tecta)
- Indian tent turtle (Pangshura tentoria)
- Brahminy river turtle (Hardella thurjii)
- Assam leaf turtle (Cyclemys gemeli)
- Indian eyed turtle (Morenia petersi)
- Family: Trionychidae
- Indian softshell turtle (Nilssonia gangetica)
- Indian peacock softshell turtle (Nilssonia hurum)
- Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle (Chitra indica)
- Indian flapshell turtle (Lissemys punctata)
Order: Squamata[]
Suborder: Lacertilia[]
- Family: Gekkonidae
- Baluch rock gecko (Bunopus tuberculatus)
- Flat-tailed house gecko (Hemidactylus platyurus)
- Indo-Pacific gecko (Hemidactylus garnotii)
- Brook's house gecko (Hemidactylus brookii)
- Northern house gecko (Hemidactylus flaviviridis)
- Tokay gecko (Gekko gekko)
- Spotted house gecko (Gekko monarchus)
- Nepalese rock gecko (Cyrtodactylus nepalensis)
- Himalayan bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus himalayanus)
- Family: Eublepharidae
- Common leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius)
- Family: Agamidae
- Oriental garden lizard (Calotes versicolor)
- Kashmir rock agama (Laudakia tuberculata)
- Variegated mountain lizard (Japalura variegata)
- Dark sitana (Sitana fusca)
- Siwalik sitana ( Sitana sivalensis)
- Family: Scincidae
- Bronze grass skink (Eutropis macularia)
- Many-keeled grass skink (Eutropis carinata)
- Striped grass mabuya (Eutropis dissimilis)
- Ladakh supple skink (Asymblepharus ladacensis)
- Sikkim ground skink (Asymblepharus sikimmensis)
- Reeve's smooth skink (Scincella reevesii)
- Large ground skink (Scincella capitenea)
- Indian forest skink (Sphenomorphus indicus)
- Spotted forest skink (Sphenomorphus maculatus)
- White-spotted supple skink (Lygosoma albopunctatum)
- Common snake skink (Lygosoma punctara)
- Family: Varanidae
Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis)
- Bengal monitor (Varanus bengalensis)
- Yellow monitor (Varanus flavescens)
Suborder: Serpentes[]
- Family:Boidae
- Russell's boa (Gongylophis conicus)
- Family: Pythonidae
- Indian rock python (Python molurus)
- Burmese python (Python bivittatus)
- Family: Elapidae
- Common krait (Bungarus caeruleus)
- Banded krait (Bungarus fasciatus)
- Northeastern hill krait (Bungarus bungaroides)
- Lesser black krait (Bunagrus lividus)
- Greater black krait (Bungarus niger)
- Sind krait (Bungarus sindanus)
- MacClelland's coral snake (Sinomicrurus macclellandi)
- Spectacled cobra (Naja naja)
- Monocled cobra (Naja kaouthia)
- King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)
- Family: Typhlopidae
- Brahminy blind snake (Indotyphlops braminus)
- Family: Gerrhopilidae
- Wall's worm snake (Gerrhopilus oligolepis)
- Family: Viperidae
Trimeresurus albolabris, White-lipped pit viper (female)
- Himalayan pit viper (Gloydius himalayanus)
- Saw-scaled viper (Echis carinatus)
- White-lipped pit viper (Trimeresurus albolabris)
- Common green pit viper (Trimeresurus gramineus)
- Tibetan bamboo pit viper (Trimeresurus tibetanus)
- Chinese pit viper (Trimeresurus stejnegeri)
- Large-eyed pitviper (Trimeresurus macrops)
- Russell's viper (Daboia russelii)
- Mountain pitviper (Ovophis monticola)
- Oriental pit viper (Protobothrops jerdonii)
- Strauch's pitviper (Gloydius strauchi)
- Family: Colubridae
- Checkered keelback (Fowlea piscator)
- St. John's keelback (Fowlea sanctijohannis)
- Indian egg-eating snake (Elachistodon westermanni)
- Red-necked keelback (Rhabdophis subminiatus)
- Oriental ratsnake (Ptyas mucosa)
- Green rat snake (Ptyas nigromarginata)
- Radiated ratsnake (Coelognathus radiatus)
- Trinket snake (Coelognathus helena)
- Oriental wolf snake (Lycodon capucinus)
- Indian wolf snake (Lycodon aulicus)
- Northern wolf snake (Lycodon striatus)
- Banded kukri snake (Oligodon arnensis)
- Cantor's kukri snake (Oligodon cyclurus)
- Banded racer (Argyrogena fasciolata)
- Beauty rat snake (Elaphe taeniura)
- Eastern trinket snake (Elaphe cantoris)
- Hodgson's rat snake (Elaphe hodgsoni)
- Forsten's cat snake (Boiga forsteni)
- Green cat snake (Boiga cyanea)
- Common cat snake (Boiga trigonata)
- Tawny cat snake (Boiga ochracea)
- Buff striped keelback (Amphiesma stolatum)
- Painted keelback (Xenochrophis cerasogaster)
- Orange-collared keelback (Rhabdophis himalayanus)
- Cantor's black-headed snake (Sibynophis sagittarius)
- Sikkim keelback (Herpetoreas sieboldii)
- Himalayan keelback (Herpetoreas platyceps)
- Blackbelly worm-eating snake (Trachischium fuscum)
- Rosebelly worm-eating snake (Trachischium guentheri)
- Mountain worm-eating snake (Trachischium monticola)
- Olive oriental worm-eating snake (Trachischium laeve)
- Yellowbelly worm-eating snake (Trachischium tenuiceps)
References[]
- "नेपालमा पाइन�� सङ्कटापन्न वन्यजन्तु तथा वनस्पतिहरू" (PDF). dnpwc.gov.np. Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
External links[]
Categories:
- Lists of biota of Nepal
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