List of reptiles of South Asia

The following is a list of reptiles in and around the Indian subcontinent, primarily covering the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, parts of Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Island chains.

Order Crocodilia

Family Crocodilidae

Family Gavialiidae
  • Gharial Gavialis gangeticus India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh
  • False gharial Tomistoma schlegelii Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java

Order Testudines

Family Dermochelyidae

Family Cheloniidae

Family Testudinidae

Family Geoemydidae

Family Trionychidae

Order Squamata

Family Eublepharidae

Family Gekkonidae

Family Agamidae

Family Chamaeleonidae

Family Dibamidae

Family Anguidae

Family Scincidae
Note: Some authors move the Asian skinks of the genus Mabuya to Eutropis.[3]

Family Lacertidae

Family Varanidae

Family Gymnothalmidae
  • Vanzosaura rubricauda (Boulenger, 1902)

Suborder Serpentes

See List of snakes of South Asia

See also

Notes
  1. Giri VB, Bauer AM & KS Gaikwad (2009) A new ground-dwelling species of Cnemaspis Strauch (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 2164: 49–60 PDF
  2. Deepak, V.; Khandekar, Akshay; Varma, Sandeep; Chaitanya, R. (2016). "Description of a new species of Sitana Cuvier, 1829 from southern India". Zootaxa. 4139 (2): 167. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4139.2.2.
  3. Das, Indraneil, A De Silva & C C Austin (2008) A new species of Eutropis (Squamata: Scincidae) from Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 1700: 35-52 PDF

References
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