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List of reptiles, overview of reptile orders and families. References This page was last edited on 1 April 2024, at 08:55 (UTC). Text is available ...
A white-headed dwarf gecko with shed tail. Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. The study of these traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology.
This is a checklist of American reptiles found in Northern America, based primarily on publications by the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR). [1] [2] [3] It includes all species of Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and the United States including recently introduced species such as chameleons, the Nile monitor, and the Burmese python.
Baja blue rock lizard. Baja California collared lizard. Barbour's map turtle. Brown basilisk. Bezy's night lizard. Big Bend slider. Black swamp snake. Black-knobbed map turtle. Blackneck garter snake.
Genus Batagur - including part of Kachuga. Genus Cuora - Asian box turtle. Genus Cyclemys. Genus Geoclemys - black pond turtle. Genus Geoemyda. Genus Hardella - brahminy river turtle. Genus Heosemys - formerly in Geoemyda. Genus Leucocephalon - Sulawesi forest turtle, formerly in Geoemyda and Heosemys. Genus Malayemys.
List of crocodilians. Crocodilia is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, which includes true crocodiles, the alligators, and caimans; as well as the gharial and false gharial. A member of this order is called a crocodilian, or colloquially a crocodile. The 9 genera and 28 species of Crocodilia are split into 3 subfamilies ...
The Yellow sea snake (Hydrophis spiralis) is the largest of the sea snakes growing up to a length of 3 m (10 ft). Few other elapids can reach or exceed 3 m (10 ft) in length and 9 kg (20 lb) in weight. [65][66] The Eastern diamondback rattlesnake is one of the heaviest venomous snakes in the world.
Mounted skeletons of Tyrannosaurus (left) and Apatosaurus (right) at the AMNH. Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago, although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is the subject of active research.