List of reptiles of Cyprus

There are several species of reptiles in Cyprus including venomous and non-venomous snakes, lizards and turtles.

Typhlops vermicularis

Lizards

Family: Agamidae

• Cyprus rock agama, Laudakia cypriaca (Daan, 1967)

Family: Chamaeleontida

• Mediterranean chameleon, Chamaeleo chamaeleon (Linnaeus, 1758)

Family: Gekkonidae

• Kotschy's gecko, Cyrtopodion kotschyi (Steindachner, 1870)
• Mediterranean house gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Family: Lacertidae

• Schreiber's fringe-fingered lizard, Acanthodactylus schreiberi (Boettger, 1878)
• Snake-eyed lizard, Ophisops elegans (Ménétriés, 1832)
• Troodos lizard, Phoenicolacerta troodica (Werner, 1936)

Family: Scincidae

• Budak's snake-eyed skink, Ablepharus budaki (Göçmen, Kumlutas & Tosunoglu, 1996)
• Eyed skink, Chalcides ocellatus (Forsskål, 1775)
• Schneider's skink, Eumeces schneiderii (Daudin, 1802)
• Bridled mabuya, Mabuya vittata (Olivier, 1804)

Snakes

Family: Colubridae

• Large whip snake, Dolichophis jugularis (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Dwarf snake, Eirenis modestus (Martin, 1838)
• Cyprus whip snake, Hierophis cypriensis (Schätti, 1985)
• Coin snake, Hemorrhois nummifer (Reuss, 1834)
• Montpelier snake, Malpolon monspessulanus insignitus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827)
• Cyprus grass snake, Natrix natrix cypriaca (Hecht, 1930)
• Dahl's whip snake, Platyceps najadum dahli (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Cat snake, Telescopus fallax cyprianus (Barbour & Amaral, 1927)

Family: Typhlopidae

• Worm snake, Typhlops vermicularis (Merrem, 1820)

Family: Viperidae

• Cyprian blunt-nosed viper, Macrovipera lebetina lebetina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Turtles

Family: Cheloniidae

• Loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758)

Family: Geoemydidae

• Western Caspian turtle, Mauremys caspica rivulata (Valenciennes, 1833)

See also

• Lists of reptiles by region

References

• Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Inverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Roger, Bour (2011-12-31). "Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-31.
• Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007-10-31). "Checklist of Chelonians of the World" (PDF). Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2). At the request of the CITES Nomenclature Committee and the German Agency for Nature Conservation and funded by the Museum für Tierkunde Dresden and the German Federal Ministry of Environment: 149–368. ISSN 1864-5755. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-01.
• Cox, N. A. & Temple, H. J. (2009). European Red List of Reptiles. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities ISBN 978-92-79-11357-4

External links

• The Reptile Database
• www.lacerta.de