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)