# 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)