Field Guide/Reptiles/Australia
Australia has a large diversity of reptiles, with over 860 species. Australia has a large diversity of reptiles which can be dangerous to humans. The world's largest reptile, the Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), is native to Australia.
Reptiles
Common Name - Scientific Name
- Amythystine Python (Morelia amethistina)
- Arafura File Snake (Acrochordus arafurae)
- Asian House Gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus)
- Banded Sea Snake (Laticauda colubrina)
- Barking Gecko (Underwoodisaurus milii)
- Bearded Dragon (Pogona barbata)
- Black Tiger Snake (Notechis ater)
- Black-headed Monitor (Varanus tristis)
- Black-headed Python (Aspidites melanocephalus)
- Black-headed sea snake (Hydrophis melanocephalus)
- Blind Snake (Ramphotyphlops braminus)
- Blotched Blue-tongue Lizard (Tiliqua nigrolutea)
- Blue Mountain Water Skink (Eulamprus leuraensis)
- Blue-lipped Sea Krait (Laticauda laticaudata)
- Blue-tailed Skink (Cryptoblepharus egeriae)
- Bockadam (Cerberus rhynchops)
- Boulenger's Skink (Morethia boulengeri)
- Boyd's Forest Dragon (Hypsilurus boydii)
- Brisbane Short-necked Turtle (Emydura signata)
- Broad-Banded Sand Swimmer (Eremiascincus richardsonii)
- Broad-headed Snake (Hoplocephalus bungaroides)
- Broad-tailed Gecko (Phyllurus platurus)
- Brown Tree Snake (Boiga irregularis)
- Burton's Legless Lizard (Lialis burtonis)
- Carpet Python (Morelia spilota)
- Central Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps)
- Central Netted Dragon (Ctenophorus nuchalis)
- Centralian Blue-tongue Lizard (Tiliqua multifasciata)
- Centralian Carpet Python (Morelia bredli)
- Chappell Island Tiger Snake (Notechis ater serventyi)
- Children's python (Antaresia childreni)
- Clawless Gecko (Crenadactylus ocellatus)
- Coastal Carpet Python (Morelia spilota mcdowelli)
- Coastal Taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus)
- Collett's Snake (Pseudechis colletti)
- Common Blue Tongue (Tiliqua scincoides)
- Common Scaly Foot (Pygopus lepidopodus)
- Cunningham's Skink (Egernia cunninghami)
- D'alberti's Python (Leiopython albertisii)
- Desert Death Adder (Acanthophis pyrrhus)
- Diamond Python (Morelia spilota spilota)
- Dugite (Pseudonaja affinis)
- Dwarf Bearded Dragon (Pogona minor minima)
- Earless Dragon (Tympanocryptis tetraporophora)
- Eastern Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis)
- Eastern Dtella (Gehyra dubia)
- Eastern Small-eyed Snake (Rhinoplocephalus nigrescens)
- Eastern Snake-necked Turtle (Chelodina longicollis)
- Eastern Three-lined Skink (Bassiana duperreyi)
- Eastern Tiger Snake (Notechis scutatus)
- Eastern Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueurii lesueurii)
- Eastern Water Skink (Eulamprus quoyii)
- Emerald Tree Monitor (Varanus prasinus)
- Fierce Snake (Oxyuranus microlepidotus)
- Flatback Turtle (Natator depressus)
- Freshwater Crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni)
- Frilled Lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii)
- Garden Skink (Lampropholis delicata)
- Giant Cave Gecko (Pseudothecadactylus lindneri)
- Gilbert's Dragon (Lophognathus gilberti)
- Gippsland Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueurii howittii)
- Golden-crowned snake (Cacophis squamulosus)
- Golden-tailed Gecko (Diplodactylus taenicauda)
- Gould's Monitor (Varanus gouldii)
- Green Python (Morelia viridis)
- Green Tree Snake (Dendrelaphis punctulata)
- Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas)
- Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
- Heath Monitor (Varanus rosenbergii)
- Hosmer's Skink (Egernia hosmeri)
- Inland Carpet Python (Morelia spilota metcalfei)
- Jacky Lizard (Amphibolurus muricatus)
- Jungle Carpet python (Morelia spilota cheynei)
- Keelback Snake (Tropidonophis mairii)
- Kimberley Rock Monitor (Varanus glauerti)
- King Island Tiger Snake (Notechis ater humphreysi)
- King's Skink (Egernia kingii)
- Krefft's River Turtle (Emydura krefftii)
- Lace Monitor / Goanna (Varanus varius)
- Land Mullet (Egernia major)
- Lawson's dragon (Pogona henrylawsoni)
- Leathery Sea Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
- Little File Snake (Acrochordus granulatus)
- Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta)
- Lowland Copperhead (Austrelaps superbus)
- Mangrove Monitor (Varanus indicus)
- Mertens' Water Monitor (Varanus mertensi)
- Metallic Skink (Niveoscincus metallicus)
- Mitchell's Dragon (Pogona mitchelli)
- Mourning Gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris)
- Mulga Snake (Pseudechis australis)
- Murray Turtle (Emydura macquarii)
- New Guinea Snake-necked Turtle (Chelodina novaeguineae)
- Nobbi Dragon (Amphibolurus nobbi)
- Northern Blue-tongue (Tiliqua scincoides intermedia)
- Northern Death Adder (Acanthophis praelongus)
- Northern Red-throated Skink (Carlia rubrigularis)
- Northern Tree Snake (Dendrelaphis calligastra)
- Northern Water Dragon (Lophognathus temporalis)
- Northwestern Carpet Python (Morelia spilota variegata)
- Oblong Turtle (Chelodina oblonga)
- Olive Python (Liasis olivaceus)
- Ornamental Snake (Denisonia maculata)
- Pacific Ridley Turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)
- Pale-flecked Garden Sunskink (Lampropholis guichenoti)
- Perentie (Varanus giganteus)
- Pig-nose Turtle (Carettochelys insculpta)
- Pink-tailed Worm Lizard (Aprasia parapulchella)
- Prickly Gecko (Heteronotia binoei)
- Pygmy Copperhead (Austrelaps labialis)
- Pygmy Mulga Monitor (Varanus gilleni)
- Pygmy python (Antaresia perthensis)
- Pygmy Rock Monitor (Varanus kingorum)
- Red-bellied Black Snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus)
- Red-bellied Short-necked Turtle (Emydura subglobosa)
- Red-naped Snake (Furina diadema)
- Ridge-tailed Monitor (Varanus acanthurus)
- Robust striped skink (Ctenotus robustus)
- Robust Velvet Gecko (Oedura robusta)
- Rough-scaled Snake (Tropidechis carinatus)
- Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus)
- Saw-shelled Turtle (Elseya latisternum)
- Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa)
- Skink (Ctenotus pantherinus)
- Southern Angle-headed Dragon (Hypsilurus spinipes)
- Southern Death Adder (Acanthophis antarcticus)
- Southern Leaf-tailed Gecko (Saltuarius swaini)
- Southwestern Carpet Python (Morelia spilota imbricata)
- Spencer's Monitor (Varanus spenceri)
- Spotted Black Snake (Pseudechis guttatus)
- Spotted Python (Antaresia maculosa)
- Spotted Tree Monitor (Varanus timorensis)
- Stimson's Python (Antaresia stimsoni)
- Stoke's Skink (Egernia stokesii)
- Storr's Monitor (Varanus storri)
- Stripe-tailed Monitor (Varanus caudolineatus)
- Striped Skink (Ctenotus taeniolatus)
- Tasmanian Tree Skink (Niveoscincus pretiosus)
- Tawny Dragon (Ctenophorus decresii)
- Thorny Devil (Moloch horridus)
- Tommy Roundhead Dragon (Diporiphora australis)
- Two-toed Earless Skink (Hemiergis quadrilineata)
- Velvet Gecko (Oedura lesueurii)
- Wall Skink (Cryptoblepharus virgatus)
- Weasel Skink (Saproscincus mustelinus)
- Western Bearded Dragon (Pogona minor minor)
- Western Blue-tongue Lizard (Tiliqua occipitalis)
- Western Brown snake (Pseudonaja nuchalis)
- Western Netted Dragon (Ctenophorus reticulatus)
- White's Skink (Egernia whitii)
- White-Lipped Snake (Drysdalia coronoides)
- White-throated snapping turtle (Elseya albagula)
- Woma Python (Aspidites ramsayi)
- Wood Gecko (Diplodactylus vittatus)
- Yellow Spotted Monitor (Varanus panoptes)
- Yellow-Faced Whip Snake (Demansia psammophis)
- Yellowbelly Sea Snake (Pelamis platurus)
Families
Family - Common Names - Example Species
- Cheloniidae - Sea turtles -Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)
- Dermochelyidae - Leatherback Sea Turtle - Leatherback Sea Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
- Chelidae -Austro-American Side-necked Turtles - Common Snakeneck Turtle (Chelodina longicollis)
- Carettochelyidae - Pig-nosed Turtle -Pig-nosed Turtle (Carettochelys insculpta)
- Gekkonidae - Geckos- Thick-tailed Gecko (Underwoodisaurus milii) -
- Pygopodidae - Legless lizards - Burton's Legless-lizard (Lialis burtonis)
- Agamidae - ... - Eastern Bearded Dragon (Pogona barbata)
- Varanidae - Monitors or goannas - Lace Monitor (Varanus varius)
- Scincidae - Skinks - Western Blue-Tongued Skink (Tiliqua occipitalis)
- Typhlopidae - Blind snakes- ...
- Pythonidae - Pythons - Green Tree Python (Morelia viridis)
- Colubridae -Colubrid snakes -Brown Tree Snake (Boiga irregularis)
- Elapidae-... -Common Death Adder (Acanthophis antarcticus)
- Hydrophiidae - Sea snakes -...
- Laticaudidae - Sea kraits-...
- Acrochordidae- File snakes -Arafura File Snake (Acrochordus arafurae)
- Crocodylidae -Crocodiles - Freshwater Crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni)