List of reptiles

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 Lepidosauria=

Order Rhynchocephalia - Tuataras

*Suborder Sphenodontida
**Family Sphenodontidae
**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 - Geckoes
**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 snakes"

*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
****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

=Subclass Archosauria=

Order Crocodylia - crocodilians

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

ee also

*Reptile
*List of regional reptiles lists
*List of snakes
* Herping

Cited references

External links

* [http://www.reptile-database.org Reptile Database]


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