List of reptiles of Western Australia
This is a list of reptiles of Western Australia:
Crocodylia (crocodiles)
- Crocodylus johnstoni (freshwater crocodile)
 - Crocodylus porosus (estuarine crocodile, saltwater crocodile)
 
Testudines (turtles)
- Chelodina colliei[1] (southwestern snake-necked turtle, oblong turtle)
 - Chelodina oblonga[1] (northern snake-necked turtle)
 - Chelodina steindachneri[1] (dinner-plate turtle, flat-shelled turtle)
 - Chelodina burrungandjii[1]
 - Chelodina kuchlingi[1]
 - Chelodina walloyarrina[1]
 - Elseya dentata[1] (northern snapping turtle)
 - Emydura victoriae[1] (red-faced turtle)
 - Pseudemydura umbrina[1] (western swamp turtle)
 
- Caretta caretta[1] (loggerhead sea turtle)
 - Chelonia mydas[1] (green sea turtle)
 - Eretmochelys imbricata[1] (hawksbill sea turtle)
 - Lepidochelys olivacea (olive ridley sea turtle, Pacific ridley sea turtle)
 - Natator depressus[1] (flatback sea turtle)
 
- Dermochelys coriacea (leatherback turtle, leathery turtle, lute turtle)
 
Squamata (lizards)
- Agamidae (dragons)
 
- Amphibolurus norrisi
 - Caimanops amphiboluroides (mulga dragon)
 - Chelosania brunnea (chameleon dragon)
 - Chlamydosaurus kingii (frill-necked lizard, frilled lizard)
 - Cryptagama aurita
 - Ctenophorus caudicinctus (ring-tailed dragon)
 - Ctenophorus clayi
 - Ctenophorus cristatus (crested dragon)
 - Ctenophorus femoralis
 - Ctenophorus fordi (Malle dragon)
 - Ctenophorus isolepis (military dragon)
 - Ctenophorus maculatus (spotted dragon)
 - Ctenophorus mckenziei
 - Ctenophorus nuchalis (central netted dragon)
 - Ctenophorus ornatus (ornate crevice-dragon)
 - Ctenophorus pictus (painted dragon)
 - Ctenophorus reticulatus (western netted dragon)
 - Ctenophorus rufescens
 - Ctenophorus salinarum
 - Ctenophorus scutulatus (lozenge-marked dragon)
 - Ctenophorus yinnietharra (Yinnietharra dragon)
 - Diporiphora albilabris
 - Diporiphora bennettii
 - Diporiphora bilineata (two-lined dragon)
 - Diporiphora convergens
 - Diporiphora lalliae
 - Diporiphora magna
 - Diporiphora pindan
 - Diporiphora reginae
 - Diporiphora superba
 - Diporiphora valens
 - Diporiphora winneckei
 - Lophognathus gilberti (Gilbert's dragon)
 - Lophognathus longirostris (long-nosed water dragon)
 - Lophognathus temporalis (northern water dragon)
 - Moloch horridus (thorny dragon or thorny devil)
 - Pogona microlepidota
 - Pogona minor (bearded dragon)
- P. m. minor (western bearded dragon)
 - P. m. minima (Abrolhos bearded dragon)
 - P. m. mitchelli
 
 - Pogona nullarbor
 - Genus Tympanocryptis
- T. adelaidensis (Queen Adelaide dragon)
 - T. cephalus (blotch-tailed earless dragon)
 - T. intima (gibber earless dragon)
 - T. lineata (lineated earless dragon)
 - T. parviceps (Gnaraloo heath dragon)
 - T. uniformis (even-scaled earless dragon)
 
 
- Gekkonidae (geckoes)
 
- Amalosia obscura
 - Christinus alexanderi (marbled gecko)
 - Christinus marmoratus (marbled gecko)
 - Crenadactylus ocellatus (clawless gecko)
 - Diplodactylus alboguttatus
 - Diplodactylus assimilis
 - Diplodactylus ciliaris (spiny-tailed gecko)
 - Diplodactylus conspicillatus (fat-tailed gecko)
 - Diplodactylus elderi (jewelled gecko)
 - Diplodactylus fulleri
 - Diplodactylus galeatus
 - Diplodactylus granariensis
 - Diplodactylus intermedius (eastern spiny-tailed gecko)
 - Diplodactylus jeanae
 - Diplodactylus kenneallyi
 - Diplodactylus maini
 - Diplodactylus mcmillani
 - Diplodactylus michaelseni
 - Diplodactylus mitchelli
 - Diplodactylus occultus
 - Diplodactylus ornatus
 - Diplodactylus polyophthalmus
 - Diplodactylus pulcher
 - Diplodactylus rankini
 - Diplodactylus savagei
 - Diplodactylus squarrosus
 - Diplodactylus stenodactylus (crowned gecko)
 - Diplodactylus strophurus
 - Diplodactylus taeniatus (white-striped gecko)
 - Diplodactylus wellingtonae
 - Diplodactylus wilsoni
 - Diplodactylus wombeyi
 - Gehyra australis (northern dtella, house gecko)
 - Gehyra fenestrula (Pilbara spotted gecko)
 - Gehyra montium
 - Gehyra nana
 - Gehyra occidentalis
 - Gehyra pilbara (Pilbara dtella)
 - Gehyra punctata (spotted gecko)
 - Gehyra purpurascens
 - Gehyra variegata (tree dtella)
 - Gehyra xenopus
 - Hemidactylus frenatus (Asian house gecko)
 

- Heteronotia binoei (Bynoe's gecko, prickly gecko)
 - Heteronotia planiceps
 - Heteronotia spelea (desert cave gecko)
 - Lucasium damaeum (beaded gecko)
 - Nephrurus asper (spiny knob-tailed gecko)
 - Nephrurus laevissimus (knob-tailed gecko)
 - Nephrurus levis (knob-tailed gecko)
 - Nephrurus stellatus (southern knob-tailed gecko)
 - Nephrurus vertebralis (knob-tailed gecko)
 - Nephrurus wheeleri (knob-tailed gecko)
 - Oedura filicipoda
 - Oedura gracilis
 - Oedura marmorata (marbled velvet gecko)
 - Oedura reticulata (reticulated velvet gecko)
 - Oedura rhombifer (zigzag gecko)
 - Pseudothecadactylus lindneri (giant cave gecko)
 - Rhynchoedura ornata (western beaked gecko)
 - Strophurus assimilis (Goldfields spiny-tailed gecko)[2]
 - Strophurus spinula (lesser thorn-tailed gecko)[2]
 - Underwoodisaurus milii (thick-tailed gecko)
 
- Pygopodidae (legless lizards)
 
- Aprasia haroldi
 - Aprasia inaurita
 - Aprasia pulchella
 - Aprasia repens
 - Aprasia rostrata
 - Aprasia smithi
 - Aprasia striolata
 - Delma borea
 - Delma concinna
 - Delma elegans
 - Delma fraseri
 - Delma grayii
 - Delma haroldi
 - Delma nasuta
 - Delma pax
 - Delma tincta
 - Lialis burtonis (Burton's legless lizard)
 - Pletholax gracilis
 - Pygopus lepidopodus (common scaly foot)
 - Pygopus nigriceps (black-headed scaly foot)
 - Pygopus steelescotti
 
- Scincidae (skinks)
 
- Bassiana trilineata
 - Carlia amax
 - Carlia gracilis
 - Carlia johnstonei
 - Carlia munda
 - Carlia rufilatus
 - Carlia triacantha
 - Cryptoblepharus carnabyi
 - Cryptoblepharus megastic
 - Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus
 - Cryptoblepharus virgatus
 - Ctenotus alacer
 - Ctenotus alleni
 - Ctenotus angusticeps
 - Ctenotus ariadnae
 - Ctenotus atlas
 - Ctenotus australis
 - Ctenotus brooksi
 - Ctenotus calurus
 - Ctenotus catenifer
 - Ctenotus colletti
 - Ctenotus decaneurus
 - Ctenotus delli
 - Ctenotus dux
 - Ctenotus ehmanni
 - Ctenotus fallens
 - Ctenotus gemmula
 - Ctenotus grandis
 - Ctenotus greeri
 - Ctenotus hanloni
 - Ctenotus helenae
 - Ctenotus impar
 - Ctenotus inornatus
 - Ctenotus labillardieri
 - Ctenotus lancelini
 - Ctenotus leae
 - Ctenotus leonhardii
 - Ctenotus mastigura
 - Ctenotus militaris
 - Ctenotus mimetes
 - Ctenotus nasutus
 - Ctenotus ora
 - Ctenotus nigrilineatus
 - Ctenotus pantherinus
 - Ctenotus piankai
 - Ctenotus quattuordecimli
 - Ctenotus robustus
 - Ctenotus rubicundus
 - Ctenotus rufescens
 - Ctenotus rutilans
 - Ctenotus saxatilis
 - Ctenotus schomburgkii
 - Ctenotus serventyi
 - Ctenotus severus
 - Ctenotus tanamiensis
 - Ctenotus tantillus
 - Ctenotus uber
 - Ctenotus xenopleura
 - Ctenotus youngsoni
 - Ctenotus zastictus
 - Cyclodomorphus branchial
 - Cyclodomorphus maxima
 - Egernia carinata
 - Egernia adepressa
 - Egernia douglasi
 - Egernia formosa
 - Egernia inornata
 - Egernia kingii
 - Egernia kintorei
 - Egernia luctuosa
 - Egernia multiscutata
 - Egernia napoleonis
 - Egernia pilbarensis
 - Egernia pulchra
 - Egernia stokesii
 - Egernia striata
 - Eremiascincus richardson (broad-banded sand swimmer)
 - Glaphyromorphus brongers
 - Glaphyromorphus darwinie
 - Glaphyromorphus gracilip
 - Glaphyromorphus isolepis
 - Hemiergis initialis
 - Hemiergis millewae
 - Hemiergis peronii
 - Hemiergis quadrilineatum
 - Lerista allochira
 - Lerista apoda
 - Lerista arenicola
 - Lerista axillaris
 - Lerista bipes
 - Lerista borealis
 - Lerista bunglebungle
 - Lerista chalybura
 - Lerista christinae
 - Lerista concolor
 - Lerista connivens
 - Lerista distinguenda
 - Lerista dorsalis
 - Lerista elegans
 - Lerista flammicauda
 - Lerista frosti
 - Lerista gascoynensis
 - Lerista gerrardii
 - Lerista greeri
 - Lerista griffini
 - Lerista haroldi
 - Lerista humphriesi
 - Lerista ips
 - Lerista kalumburu
 - Lerista kendricki
 - Lerista kennedyensis
 - Lerista labialis
 - Lerista lineata
 - Lerista lineopunctulata
 - Lerista macropisthopus
 - Lerista maculosa
 - Lerista microtis
 - Lerista muelleri
 - Lerista neander
 - Lerista nichollsi
 - Lerista onsloviana
 - Lerista petersoni
 - Lerista picturata
 - Lerista planiventralis
 - Lerista praefrontalis
 - Lerista praepedita
 - Lerista puncticauda
 - Lerista quadrilineata
 - Lerista robusta
 - Lerista separanda
 - Lerista simillima
 - Lerista stictopleura
 - Lerista taeniata
 - Lerista talpina
 - Lerista terdigitata
 - Lerista tridactyla
 - Lerista uniduo
 - Lerista varia
 - Lerista vermicularis
 - Lerista viduata
 - Lerista walkeri
 - Lerista xanthura
 - Lerista yuna
 - Menetia amaura
 - Menetia greyii
 - Menetia maini
 - Menetia surda
 - Morethia adelaidensis
 - Morethia boulengeri
 - Morethia butleri
 - Morethia lineoocellata
 - Morethia obscura
 - Morethia ruficauda
 - Morethia storri
 - Notoscincus butleri
 - Notoscincus ornatus
 - Proablepharus reginae
 - Proablepharus tenuis
 - Pseudemoia baudini
 - Tiliqua multifasciata (Centralian blue-tongued lizard)
 - Tiliqua occipitalis (western blue-tongued lizard)
 - Tiliqua scincoides (eastern blue-tongued lizard)
 - Trachydosaurus rugosus (shingle-back)
 
- Varanidae (goannas or monitors)
 
- Varanus acanthurus (ridge-tailed monitor)
 - Varanus brevicauda (short-tailed pygmy monitor)
 - Varanus caudolineatus (line-tailed pygmy monitor)
 - Varanus eremius (rusty desert monitor)
 - Varanus giganteus (perentie)
 - Varanus gilleni (pygmy mulga monitor)
 - Varanus glauerti (Glauert's monitor)
 - Varanus glebopalma (long-tailed rock monitor)
 - Varanus gouldii (Gould's goanna, sand monitor)
 - Varanus gouldii flavirufus (Centralian sand goanna)
 - Varanus kingorum (pygmy rock monitor)
 - Varanus mertensi (Mertens' water monitor)
 - Varanus mitchelli (Mitchell's water monitor)
 - Varanus panoptes (yellow-spotted monitor)
 - Varanus pilbarensis (Pilbara rock monitor)
 - Varanus rosenbergi (Rosenberg's heath monitor)
 - Varanus storri (Storr's monitor)
 - Varanus timorensis (Timor monitor, spotted tree monitor)
 - Varanus tristis (black-headed monitor, freckled monitor)
 
Serpentes (snakes)
- Acrochordidae (file snakes)
 
- Acrochordus granulatus (little file snake)
 
- Pythonidae (pythons)
 
- Antaresia childreni (Children's python)
 - Antaresia maculosa (spotted python)
 - Antaresia perthensis (pygmy python)
 - Antaresia stimsoni (large-blotched python)
 - Aspidites melanocephalus (black-headed python)
 - Aspidites ramsayi (woma python)
 - Liasis fuscus (water python)
 - Liasis olivaceus (olive python)
- L. o. barroni (western olive python)
 
 - Morelia carinata (rough-scaled python)
 - Morelia spilota (carpet python)
 - M. s. imbricata (southwestern carpet python)
 - M. s. variegata (northwestern carpet python)
 
- Colubridae (Colubrids)
 
- Boiga irregularis (brown tree snake)
 - Cerberus rhynchops (bockadam)
 - Dendrelaphis punctulata (common tree snake)
 - Fordonia leucobalia (white-bellied mangrove snake)
 - Myron richardsonii (Richardson's mangrove snake)
 - Tropidonophis mairii (keelback or freshwater snake)
 
- Elapidae (Elapids)
 
- Acanthophis antarcticus (common death adder)
 - Acanthophis praelongus (northern death adder)
 - Acanthophis pyrrhus (desert death adder)
 - Demansia atra (black whip snake)
 - Demansia olivacea (marble-headed whip snake)
 - Demansia papuensis (Papaun whip snake)
 - Demansia psammophis (yellow-faced whip snake)
 - Demansia simplex (whip snake)
 - Drysdalia coronata (crowned snake)
 - Drysdalia mastersii (Masters' snake)
 - Echiopsis atriceps
 - Echiopsis curta (bardick)
 - Elapognathus minor (little brown snake)
 - Furina ornata (orange-naped snake)
 - Notechis scutatus (eastern tiger snake, mainland tiger snake)
 - Oxyuranus scutellatus (coastal taipan)
 - Oxyuranus temporalis (Central Ranges taipan)
 - Pseudechis australis (king brown, mulga snake)
 - Pseudechis butleri (Butler's snake)
 - Pseudonaja affinis (dugite)
 - Pseudonaja inframacula (peninsula brown snake)
 - Pseudonaja ingrami (Ingram's brown snake)
 - Pseudonaja modesta (ringed brown snake)
 - Pseudonaja nuchalis (western brown snake, gwarder)
 - Pseudonaja textilis (common brown snake, eastern brown snake)
 - Rhinoplocephalus bicolor (Muller's snake)
 - Rhinoplocephalus pallidiceps (northern small-eyed snake)
 - Simoselaps anomalus (northern desert banded snake)
 - Simoselaps approximans
 - Simoselaps bertholdi (desert banded snake)
 - Simoselaps bimaculatus (western black-naped snake)
 - Simoselaps calonotus (western black-striped snake)
 - Simoselaps fasciolatus (narrow-banded burrowing snake)
 - Simoselaps littoralis (coastal burrowing snake)
 - Simoselaps minimus
 - Simoselaps semifasciatus (half-girdled snake)
 - Suta fasciata (Rosen's snake)
 - Suta gouldii (black-headed snake)
 - Suta monachus (hooded snake)
 - Suta nigriceps
 - Suta ordensis (Ord curl snake)
 - Suta punctata (little spotted snake)
 - Suta spectabilis
 - Suta suta (myall snake, curl snake)
 - Vermicella annulata (bandy-bandy)
 - Vermicella multifasciata (northern bandy-bandy)
 
- Hydrophiidae (sea snakes)
 
- Acalyptophis peronii
 - Aipysurus apraefrontalis
 - Aipysurus duboisii (Dubois's sea snake)
 - Aipysurus eydouxii (spine-tailed sea snake)
 - Aipysurus foliosquama
 - Aipysurus fuscus
 - Aipysurus laevis (olive sea snake)
 - Aipysurus tenuis
 - Astrotia stokesii
 - Disteira kingii
 - Disteira major
 - Disteira stokesii
 - Emydocephalus annulatus
 - Ephalophis greyi
 - Hydrelaps darwiniensis
 - Hydrophis atriceps
 - Hydrophis coggeri
 - Hydrophis czeblukovi
 - Hydrophis elegans
 - Hydrophis geometricus
 - Hydrophis inornatus
 - Hydrophis mcdowelli
 - Hydrophis melanocephalus
 - Hydrophis melanosoma
 - Hydrophis ornatus
 - Lapemis hardwickii
 - Parahydrophis mertoni
 - Pelamis platurus (yellow-bellied sea snake)
 
- Typhlopidae (blind snakes)
 
- Ramphotyphlops australis
 - Ramphotyphlops bitubercu
 - Ramphotyphlops diversus
 - Ramphotyphlops endoterus
 - Ramphotyphlops grypus
 - Ramphotyphlops guentheri
 - Ramphotyphlops hamatus
 - Ramphotyphlops howi
 - Ramphotyphlops kimberley
 - Ramphotyphlops leptosoma
 - Ramphotyphlops ligatus
 - Ramphotyphlops margareta
 - Ramphotyphlops micromma
 - Ramphotyphlops pinguis
 - Ramphotyphlops troglodyt
 - Ramphotyphlops unguirost
 - Ramphotyphlops waitii
 - Ramphotyphlops yampiensi
 
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk PP, Iverson JB, Rhodin AGJ, Shaffer HB, Bour R]. 2014. Turtles of the World, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status. In: Rhodin AGJ, Pritchard PCH, van Dijk PP, Saumure RA, Buhlmann KA, Iverson JB, Mittermeier RA (Editors). Conservation Biology of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises: A Compilation Project of the IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group. Chelonian Research Monographs 5 (7): 000.329–479, doi:10.3854/ crm.5.000.checklist.v7.2014.
 - ^ a b Sadlier, Ross A.; Beatson, Cecilie A.; Brennan, Ian; Bauer, Aaron M. (2023). "A new species of spiny-tailed gecko (Squamata: Diplodactylidae: Strophurus) from the mulga woodlands of inland Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum. 38 (1): 11. doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.38.2023.011-026. ISSN 0312-3162.
 
Further reading
- Aplin, K. P. & Smith, L. A. (2001). "Checklist of the frogs and reptiles of Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement. 63: 51–74.
 - Browne-Cooper, Robert; Brian Bush; Brad Maryan; David Robinson (2007). Reptiles and Frogs in the Bush: Southwestern Australia. University of Western Australia Press. ISBN 978-1-920694-74-6.
 - Rhodin, Anders G.J.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Inverson, John B.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Roger, Bour (31 December 2011). "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 31 January 2012.