• Source: List of reptiles of Cyprus

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




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

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




Snakes


Family: Colubridae

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

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• List of reptiles of Cyprus
• List of reptiles of Europe
• Wildlife of Cyprus
• List of endangered reptiles
• Lists of reptiles by region
• Schreiber's fringe-fingered lizard
• Platyceps najadum
• Hemorrhois nummifer
• Cyprus green toad
• Dolichophis jugularis