List of reptiles of China
China has around 403 different species of reptiles that can be found in many environments including deserts, grasslands, rivers, and forests.[1] It is the country with the seventh largest amount of different reptile species.[2]
Turtles and tortoises
Softshell turtles
- Cantor's giant softshell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii)
- Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei)
Box turtles
- Chinese box turtle (Cuora flavomarginata)
- Indochinese box turtle (Cuora galbinifrons)
- Keeled box turtle (Cuora mouhotii)
- Pan's box turtle (Cuora pani)
- Golden coin turtle (Cuora trifasciata)
- Yunnan box turtle (Cuora yunnanensis)
- Zhou's box turtle (Cuora zhoui)
Sea turtles
- Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
- Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)
- Olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)
- Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
Tortoises
- Elongated tortoise (Indotestudo elongata)
- Impressed tortoise (Manouria impressa)
- Russian tortoise (Agrionemys horsfieldii)
A Russian tortoise, a common choice as a house pet.
Snakes
- Dice snake (Natrix tessellata)
- Grass snake (Natrix natrix)
- Chinese cornsnake (Elaphe bimaculata)
Pitvipers
- Sharp-nosed pit viper (Deinagkistrodon acutus)
- Mamushi (Gloydius blomhoffii)
- Mountain pitviper (Ovophis monticola)
- Jerdon's pit viper (Protobothrops jerdonii)
- Bamboo pit viper (Trimeresurus gramineus)
- Mangshan pitviper (Trimeresurus mangshanensis)
- Motuo bamboo pitviper (Trimeresurus medoensis)
- Stejneger's pit viper (Trimeresurus stejnegeri)
A bamboo pit viper (Trimeresurus gramineus) perched on a branch in a Cuiheng zoo.
Crocodilians
- Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)
A pair of Chinese alligators in the Shanghai Zoo.
Lizards
- Chinese crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus)
- Asian grass lizard (Takydromus sexlineatus)
Skinks
- Longtail mabuya (Eutropis longicaudata)
- East Indian brown mabuya (Eutropis multifasciata)
- Christmas Island grass-skink (Lygosoma bowringii)
- Short-limbed supple skink (Lygosoma quadrupes)
- Ladakh ground skink (Scincella ladacensis)
- Reeves' smooth skink (Scincella reevesii)
- Sikkim ground skink (Scincella sikimmensis)
- Sphenomorphus courcyanum
- Indian forest skink (Sphenomorphus indicus)
- Spotted forest skink (Sphenomorphus maculatus)
- Berdmore's water skink (Tropidophorus berdmorei)
Agamas
- Chinese water dragon (Physignathus cocincinus)
- Green fan-throated lizard (Ptyctolaemus gularis)
- Small forest lizard (Oriocalotes paulus)
- Reeves' butterfly lizard (Leiolepis reevesii)
- Theobald's toad-headed agama (Phrynocephalus theobaldi)
- Variegated toadhead agama (Phrynocephalus versicolor)
- Kashmir rock agama (Laudakia tuberculata)
- Badakhshana rock agama (Laudakia badakhshana)
- Himalayan agama (Laudakia himalayana)
- Armored pricklenape (Acanthosaura armata)
- Brown pricklenape (Acanthosaura lepidogaster)
- Emma Gray's forest lizard (Calotes emma)
- Indo-Chinese forest lizard (Calotes jerdoni)
- Indo-Chinese forest lizard (Calotes mystaceus)
- Oriental garden lizard (Calotes versicolor)
- Kakhyen Hills spiny lizard (Pseudocalotes kakhienensis)
- Burmese false bloodsucker (Pseudocalotes microlepis)
- Japalura andersoniana
- Kumaon mountain lizard (Japalura kumaonensis)
- Japalura tree dragon (Japalura splendida)
- Three-keeled mountain lizard (Japalura tricarinata)
A male Japalura tree dragon.
Geckos
- Yangihissar gecko (Cyrtopodion elongatum)
- Gekko wenxianensis
- Indopacific tree gecko (Hemiphyllodactylus typus)
- Mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris)
Gliding lizards
- Blanford's flying lizard (Draco blanfordii)
- Spotted flying dragon (Draco maculatus)
References
- ↑ "Number of vertebrate species in China in 2012, by type" Accessed 2014-06-24
- ↑ Countries with the most reptile species. Mongabay.com. 2004 data. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
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