List of reptiles of Tasmania
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SquamataSquamataSquamata, or the scaled reptiles, is the largest recent order of reptiles, including lizards and snakes. Members of the order are distinguished by their skins, which bear horny scales or shields. They also possess movable quadrate bones, making it possible to move the upper jaw relative to the...
(Lizards)
AgamidaeAgamidae
Agamids, lizards of the family Agamidae, include more than 300 species in Africa, Asia, Australia, and a few in Southern Europe. Many species are commonly called dragons or dragon lizards. Phylogenetically they may be sister to the Iguanidae, and have a similar appearance. Agamids usually have...
(Dragons)
- Rankinia diemensis (Mountain Dragon)
Scincidae (Skinks)
- Acritoscincus duperreyi (Three-lined Skink)
- Cyclodomorphus casuarinae (She-oak Skink) (endemic)
- Egernia whitii (White's Skink)
- Lampropholis delicata (Delicate Skink)
- Lerista bougainvillii (Bougainville's Skink)
- Niveoscincus orocryptum (Mountain Skink) (endemic)
- Niveoscincus greeni (Northern Snow Skink) (endemic)
- Niveoscincus microlepidotus (Southern Snow Skink) (endemic)
- Niveoscincus ocellatus (Spotted Skink) (endemic)
- Niveoscincus palfreymani (Pedra Branca Skink) (endemic)
- Niveoscincus pretiosus (Tasmanian Tree Skink) (endemic)
- Niveoscincus metallicus (Metallic Skink)
- Pseudemoia entrecasteauxii (Southern Grass Skink )
- Pseudemoia pagenstecheri (Tussock Skink)
- Pseudemoia rawlinsoni (Glossy Grass Skink)
- Tiliqua nigrolutea (Blotched Blue-tongued Lizard)
- Eulamprus tympanum (Southern Water Skink)
Serpentes (Snakes)
ElapidaeElapidae
Elapidae is a family of venomous snakes found in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, terrestrially in Asia, Australia, Africa, North America and South America and aquatically in the Pacific and Indian Oceans...
(Elapids)
- Austrelaps superbus (Lowland Copperhead)
- Drysdalia coronoides (White-lipped Snake)
- Notechis scutatus (Tasmanian Tiger Snake)