List of amphibians and reptiles of Puerto Rico

This is a list of the amphibian
Amphibian
Amphibians , are a class of vertebrate animals including animals such as toads, frogs, caecilians, and salamanders. They are characterized as non-amniote ectothermic tetrapods...

s and reptile
Reptile
Reptiles are members of a class of air-breathing, ectothermic vertebrates which are characterized by laying shelled eggs , and having skin covered in scales and/or scutes. They are tetrapods, either having four limbs or being descended from four-limbed ancestors...

s of the archipelago
Archipelago
An archipelago , sometimes called an island group, is a chain or cluster of islands. The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι- – arkhi- and πέλαγος – pélagos through the Italian arcipelago...

of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

. The Puerto Rican archipelago consists of the main island of Puerto Rico, two island municipalities, Vieques

Vieques, Puerto Rico

Vieques , in full Isla de Vieques, is an island–municipality of Puerto Rico in the northeastern Caribbean, part of an island grouping sometimes known as the Spanish Virgin Islands...

and Culebra

Culebra, Puerto Rico

Isla Culebra is an island-municipality of Puerto Rico originally called Isla Pasaje and Isla de San Ildefonso. It is located approximately east of the Puerto Rican mainland, west of St. Thomas and north of Vieques. Culebra is spread over 5 wards and Culebra Pueblo...

, one minor uninhabited island, Mona

Mona, Puerto Rico

Mona is the third largest island of the archipelago of Puerto Rico, after the main island of Puerto Rico and Vieques. It is the largest of three islands located in the Mona Passage, a strait between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, the others being Monito Island and Desecheo Island...

and several smaller islands and cays.

This list only includes animals with verifiable established populations in the archipelago of Puerto Rico. Many species of amphibians and reptiles are introduced, both legally (mainly through the pet industry

Pet store

A pet store or pet shop is a retail business which sells different kinds of animals. Pet stores also sell pet food, supplies, and accessories....

) and illegally, to the archipelago of Puerto Rico every year, with some of these species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

being subsequently released into the wild. However, these few individuals do not constitute a breeding population and hence they lack inclusion in this list.

The following tags help provide additional information regarding the status of each species. Endemic

Endemic (ecology)

Endemism is the ecological state of being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, all species of lemur are endemic to the...

species. Introduced species

Introduced species

An introduced species — or neozoon, alien, exotic, non-indigenous, or non-native species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its indigenous or native distributional range, and has arrived in an ecosystem or plant community by human activity, either deliberate or accidental...

. Extinct

Extinction

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species. Extirpated

Local extinction

Local extinction, also known as extirpation, is the condition of a species which ceases to exist in the chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere...

species

Family Bufonidae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico	Culebra	Vieques	Mona	Other
Bufo marinus	Marine Toad	X	X	X
Bufo lemur	Puerto Rican crested toad	X

Family Hylidae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico
Hyla cinerea	American green tree frog	X
Osteopilus septentrionalis	Cuban Tree Frog	X
Scinax ruber	Red Snouted Treefrog	X

Family Leptodactylidae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico	Culebra	Vieques	Mona	Other
Eleutherodactylus antillensis	Antillean Coquí	X	X	X
Eleutherodactylus brittoni	Grass Coquí	X
Eleutherodactylus cochranae	Whistling Coquí	X
Eleutherodactylus cooki Eleutherodactylus cooki Eleutherodactylus cooki, also known as the Puerto Rican Rock Frog, Puerto Rican Cave Dwelling Frog, Rock Coqui, and Guajon Coqui, and known locally as Coquí Guajón, or guajón for brevity, is a threatened frog species from the coqui genus...	Cook's Robber Frog	X
Eleutherodactylus coqui	Common Coquí	X	X	X
Eleutherodactylus eneidae	Mottled Coquí	X
Eleutherodactylus gryllus	Cricket Coquí	X
Eleutherodactylus hedricki	Tree-hole Coquí	X
Eleutherodactylus jasperi	Golden Coquí	X
Eleutherodactylus juanariveroi	Plains Coquí	X
Eleutherodactylus karlschmidti	Web-footed Coquí	X
Eleutherodactylus locustus	Warty Coquí	X
Eleutherodactylus monensis	Mona Coquí				X
Eleutherodactylus portoricensis	Forest Coquí	X
Eleutherodactylus richmondi	Ground Coquí	X
Eleutherodactylus unicolor	Burrowing Coquí	X
Eleutherodactylus wightmanae	Melodious Coquí	X
Leptodactylus albilabris Leptodactylus albilabris Leptodactylus albilabris is a species of frog in the Leptodactylidae family. Its local name is ranita de labio blanco or sapito de labio blanco ....	Caribbean White-lipped Frog	X	X	X		X

Family Ranidae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico	Culebra	Vieques	Mona	Other
Rana catesbeiana	Bullfrog	X		X
Rana grylio	Pig Frog	X

Family Emydidae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico
Trachemys stejnegeri stejnegeri Central Antillean Slider The Central Antillean slider , is a species of turtle in the Emydidae family.It is found in Puerto Rico, Great Inagua, Dominican Republic and Haiti.- Subspecies :*Trachemys stejnegeri stejnegeri - Puerto Rican slider...	Puerto Rican slider	X
Trachemys scripta elegans	Red-eared slider	X
Trachemys decorata	Hispaniolan slider	X
Chrysemys picta picta Painted Turtle The painted turtle is the most widespread native turtle of North America. It lives in slow-moving fresh waters, from southern Canada to Louisiana and northern Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The turtle is the only species of the genus Chrysemys, which is part of the pond turtle...	Eastern Painted Turtle	X

Family Dermochelyidae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico	Culebra	Vieques	Mona	Other
Dermochelys coriacea coriacea	Leatherback Sea Turtle	X	X

Family Cheloniidae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico	Culebra	Vieques	Mona	Other
Caretta caretta caretta Loggerhead Sea Turtle The loggerhead sea turtle , or loggerhead, is an oceanic turtle distributed throughout the world. It is a marine reptile, belonging to the family Cheloniidae. The average loggerhead measures around long when fully grown, although larger specimens of up to have been discovered...	Loggerhead Sea Turtle	X
Chelonia mydas mydas Green Sea Turtle The Green sea turtle or green turtle is a large sea turtle of the family Cheloniidae. It is the only species in the genus Chelonia. Its range extends throughout tropical and subtropical seas around the world, with two distinct populations in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans...	Green Sea Turtle	X	X	X	X	X
Eretmochelys imbricata imbricata Hawksbill turtle The hawksbill sea turtle is a critically endangered sea turtle belonging to the family Cheloniidae. It is the only extant species in its genus. The species has a worldwide distribution, with Atlantic and Pacific subspecies. E. imbricata imbricata is the Atlantic subspecies, while E...	Atlantic Hawksbill Turtle		X	X	X	X
Lepidochelys olivacea	Olive Ridley	X

Family Testudinidae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico	Culebra	Vieques	Mona	Other
Geochelone monensis					X
Geochelone denticulata	South American Yellow-footed Tortoise	X

Family Alligatoridae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico	Culebra	Vieques	Mona	Other
Caiman crocodilus	Spectacled Caiman	X					-

Family Gekkonidae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico	Culebra	Vieques	Mona	Other
Hemidactylus brooki haitianus		X
Hemidactylus mabouia	Tropical House Gecko	X	X	X	X
Phyllodactylus wirshingi wirshingi		X				X
Sphaerodactylus nicholsi nicholsi	Nichols' Dwarf Gecko	X				X
Sphaerodactylus nicholsi townsendi	Townsend's Dwarf Gecko	X	X	X		X
Sphaerodactylus roosevelti	Roosevelt's Dwarf Gecko	X		X		X
Sphaerodactylus gaigeae	Gaige's Dwarf Gecko	X				X
Sphaerodactylus klauberi	Puerto Rico Upland Gecko Puerto Rico Upland Gecko The Puerto Rico Upland gecko , is a species of gecko endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico. The epithet or specific name, klauberi, is in honor of herpetologist Laurence Monroe Klauber.-Description:...	X
Sphaerodactylus monensis	Mona Dwarf Gecko				X
Sphaerodactylus levinsi	Desecheo Dwarf Gecko					X
Sphaerodactylus macrolepis ateles		X		X
Sphaerodactylus macrolepis grandisquamis	Common Dwarf Gecko	X				X
Sphaerodactylus macrolepis guarionex		X
Sphaerodactylus macrolepis inigoi				X
Sphaerodactylus macrolepis macrolepis			X
Sphaerodactylus macrolepis mimetes		X
Sphaerodactylus macrolepis phoberus		X
Sphaerodactylus macrolepis spanius		X
Sphaerodactylus micropithecus	Monito gecko					X

Family Teiidae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico	Culebra	Vieques	Mona	Other
Ameiva exsul Ameiva exsul Ameiva exsul, the Puerto Rican Ground Lizard or Lucia, is a species of lizard in the whiptail family. It is endemic to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.-References:*...	Greater Puerto Rican Ameiva	X	X	X		X
Ameiva wetmorei	Blue-tailed Ground Lizard	X				X
Ameiva alboguttata	Mona Ameiva				X
Ameiva desechensis	Desecheo Ameiva					X

Family Scincidae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico	Culebra	Vieques	Mona	Other
Mabuya mabouya sloani		X	X	X	X	X

Family Anguinidae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico	Culebra	Vieques	Mona	Other
Dipoglossus pleei	Puerto Rican Galliwasp	X

Family Iguanidae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico	Culebra	Vieques	Mona	Other
Anolis cuvieri	Puerto Rican Giant Anole	X		X
Anolis roosevelti	Culebra Island Giant Anole		X
Anolis occultus	Puerto Rican Twig Anole	X
Anolis evermanni	Emerald Anole	X
Anolis stratulus	Barred Anole	X	X	X		X
Anolis gundlachi	Yellow-Chinned Anole	X
Anolis cristatellus cristatellus	Puerto Rican Crested Anole	X	X	X		X
Anolis cristatellus wileyae	Eastern Puerto Rican Crested Anole		X	X		X
Anolis desechensis	Desecheo Anole					X
Anolis cooki	Cook's Anole	X				X
Anolis monensis	Mona Anole				X	X
Anolis pulchellus	Common Grass Anole	X	X	X		X
Anolis krugi	Upland Grass Anole	X
Anolis poncensis	Dryland Grass Anole	X
Cyclura pinguis Cyclura pinguis The Stout Iguana or Anegada Ground Iguana is a critically endangered species of lizard of the genus Cyclura belonging to the Iguanidae family. The species can be found exclusively in the island of Anegada...	Anegada Ground Iguana	X
Cyclura portoricensis	Puerto Rican Iguana	X
Cyclura nubila nubila	Cuban Ground Iguana	X
Cyclura cornuta stejnegeri	Mona Ground Iguana				X
Iguana iguana	Green Iguana	X	X			X
Iguana delicatissima	Lesser Antillean Iguana	X

Family Amphisbaenidae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico	Other
Amphisbaena bakeri Amphisbaena bakeri Amphisbaena bakeri, known commonly as the Baker's Worm Lizard , is a worm lizard species in the genus Amphisbaena. It is Endemic to the Archipelago of Puerto Rico. -See also:*List of amphibians and reptiles of Puerto Rico...	Baker's Worm Lizard	X
Amphisbaena caeca	Puerto Rican Worm Lizard	X
Amphisbaena schmiditi Amphisbaena schmiditi Amphisbaena schmiditi, known commonly as the Schmidt's worm lizard is a worm lizard species in the genus Amphisbaena.-See also:Fauna of Puerto RicoList of endemic fauna of Puerto Rico...	Schmidt's Worm Lizard	X
Amphisbaena xera Amphisbaena xera Amphisbaena xera, known commonly as the Puerto Rican dryland worm lizard or the North American worm lizard is a worm lizard species in the genus Amphisbaena.-See also:Fauna of Puerto RicoList of endemic fauna of Puerto Rico...	Puerto Rican Dryland Worm Lizard	X	X

Family Typhlopidae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico	Culebra	Vieques	Mona
Typhlops platycephalus Typhlops platycephalus Typhlops platycephalus, or the Flat-headed blindsnake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Flat-headed Blindsnake	X		X
Typhlops richardi	Richard's Blind Snake	X	X
Typhlops rostellatus Typhlops rostellatus Typhlops rostellatus, known commonly as the Puerto Rican wetland blind snake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.-See also:List of amphibians and reptiles of Puerto RicoFauna of Puerto Rico*List of endemic fauna of Puerto Rico...	Puerto Rican Wetland Blind Snake	X
Typholps granti	Grant's Blind Snake	X
Typhlops monensis Typhlops monensis Typhlops monensis is a harmless blind snake species is endemic to Mona Island in the West Indies. No subspecies are currently recognized.-Geographic range:Known only from the type locality, which is given as "Mona Island, West Indies."...	Mona Blind Snake				X
Typhlops hypomethes Typhlops hypomethes Typhlops hypomethes, known commonly as the Coastal blindsnake, is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family....	Coastal Blindsnake	X

Family Boidae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico	Mona	Other
Epicrates inornatus	Puerto Rican Boa	X
Epicrates monensis monensis	Mona Boa		X
Epicrates monensis granti	Virgin Island Tree Boa			X

Family Colubridae

Species	Common name	Puerto Rico	Culebra	Vieques	Mona	Other
Alsophis portoricensis	Puerto Rican Racer	X	X	X	X	X
Arrhyton exiguum	Puerto Rican Garden Snake	X	X			X

Footnotes

This species is endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico.
This species is extinct.
This species no longer occurs in the archipelago Puerto Rico but other populations exist elsewhere.
This species was introduced to the archipelago of Puerto Rico.
This species occurs in Caja de Muertos Island
Caja de Muertos, Puerto Rico
Caja de Muertos is an uninhabited island off the southern coast of Puerto Rico, in the municipality of Ponce. The island is protected by the Reserva Natural Caja de Muertos natural reserve, because of its native turtle traffic...

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This species occurs in Cayo Batata.
This species occurs in Cayo Santiago.
This species occurs in the island of Desecheo
Desecheo Island
Desecheo is a small uninhabited island of the archipelago of Puerto Rico located in the northeast of the Mona Passage; 21 km from the west coast of the main island of Puerto Rico and 50 km northeast of Mona Island. It has a land area of 1.5 km² . Politically, the island is...

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This species occurs in Magueyes island.
This species occurs in the island of Monito
Monito Island
Monito Island is an uninhabited island about 5 kilometers northwest of much larger Mona Island. Monito is the masculine diminutive form of Mona in Spanish. It is one of three islands in the Mona Passage, and part of the Isla de Mona e Islote Monito barrio, a subdivision of the municipality of...

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This species occurs in the island of Culebrita
Culebrita
Isla Culebrita is a small island off the eastern coast of Culebra, Puerto Rico and is part of the Puerto Rico Archipielago. Together with Cayo Botella off the northwestern point, it belongs to the barrio Frailes of Culebra. It is a nature reserve and home of one of the oldest lighthouse in the...

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