There are several species of
reptile
Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, squamates (lizards and snakes) and rhynchocephalians ( ...
s in
Cyprus including venomous and non-venomous
snakes,
lizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia alt ...
s and
turtles.
Lizards
Family:
Agamidae
Agamidae is a family (biology), family of over 300 species of iguanian lizards indigenous to Africa, Asia, Australia, and a few in Southern Europe. Many species are commonly called dragons or dragon lizards.
Overview
phylogenetics, Phylogenetic ...
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Cyprus rock agama, ''Laudakia cypriaca'' (Daan, 1967)
Family:
Chamaeleontida
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Mediterranean chameleon, ''Chamaeleo chamaeleon'' (
Linnaeus, 1758)
Family:
Gekkonidae
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Kotschy's gecko
Kotschy's gecko (''Mediodactylus kotschyi'') is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to southeastern Europe and the Middle East. It is named in honour of the Austrian botanist and explorer Karl Georg The ...
, ''Cyrtopodion kotschyi'' (
Steindachner
Franz Steindachner (11 November 1834 in Vienna – 10 December 1919 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He published over 200 papers on fishes and over 50 papers on reptiles and amphibians. Steindachner describ ...
, 1870)
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Mediterranean house gecko, ''Hemidactylus turcicus'' (
Linnaeus, 1758)
Family:
Lacertidae
The Lacertidae are the family (biology), family of the wall lizards, true lizards, or sometimes simply lacertas, which are native to Afro-Eurasia. It is a diverse family with at least 300 species in 39 genera. They represent the dominant group o ...
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Schreiber's fringe-fingered lizard, ''Acanthodactylus schreiberi'' (
Boettger, 1878)
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Snake-eyed lizard, ''Ophisops elegans'' (
Ménétriés, 1832)
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Troodos lizard, ''Phoenicolacerta troodica'' (Werner, 1936)
Family:
Scincidae
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Bridled mabuya
The bridled mabuya or bridled skink (''Heremites vittatus'') is a species of skink found in North Africa and Middle East. They grow up to 22 cm.
The binomial name of this species has seen multiple revisions in the early 2000s. The current b ...
, ''Mabuya vittata'' (
Olivier, 1804)
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Budak's snake-eyed skink
''Ablepharus budaki'', commonly known as Budak's skink and Budak's snake-eyed skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Near East.
Taxonomy
''A. budaki'' is a scincid saurian vertebrate. In 1997, it w ...
, ''Ablepharus budaki'' (
Göçmen,
Kumlutas &
Tosunoglu, 1996)
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Eyed skink, ''Chalcides ocellatus'' (
ForsskĂĄl, 1775)
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Schneider's skink
''Eumeces schneiderii'', commonly known as Schneider's skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Central Asia, Western Asia, and North Africa. There are five recognized subspecies.
Etymology
Both the spec ...
, ''Eumeces schneiderii'' (
Daudin, 1802)
Snakes
Family:
Colubridae
Colubridae (, commonly known as colubrids , from la, coluber, 'snake') is a family of snakes. With 249 genera, it is the largest snake family. The earliest species of the family date back to the Oligocene epoch. Colubrid snakes are found on ever ...
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Cat snake
''Boiga'' is a large genus of rear-fanged, mildly venomous snakes, known commonly as cat-eyed snakes or simply cat snakes, in the family Colubridae. Species of the genus ''Boiga'' are native to southeast Asia, India, and Australia, but due to ...
, ''Telescopus fallax cyprianus'' (
Barbour &
Amaral, 1927)
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Coin snake, ''Hemorrhois nummifer'' (Reuss, 1834)
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Cyprus grass snake, ''Natrix natrix cypriaca'' (Hecht, 1930)
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Cyprus whip snake
The Cyprus whip snake (''Hierophis cypriensis'') is a species of snake in the family Colubridae.
It is endemic to Cyprus.
Its natural habitats are temperate forests, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwa ...
, ''Hierophis cypriensis'' (Schätti, 1985)
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Dahl's whip snake, ''Platyceps najadum dahli'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Dwarf snake, ''Eirenis modestus'' (Martin, 1838)
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Large whip snake, ''Dolichophis jugularis'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Montpelier snake, ''Malpolon monspessulanus insignitus'' (
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827)
Family:
Typhlopidae
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Worm snake, ''Typhlops vermicularis'' (Merrem, 1820)
Family:
Viperidae
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Cyprian blunt-nosed viper, ''Macrovipera lebetina lebetina'' (
Linnaeus, 1758)
Turtles
Family:
Cheloniidae
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Loggerhead sea turtle, ''Caretta caretta'' (
Linnaeus, 1758)
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Green sea turtle
The green sea turtle (''Chelonia mydas''), also known as the green turtle, black (sea) turtle or Pacific green turtle, is a species of large sea turtle of the family Cheloniidae. It is the only species in the genus ''Chelonia''. Its range exten ...
, ''Chelonia mydas'' (
Linnaeus, 1758)
Family:
Geoemydidae
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Western Caspian turtle, ''Mauremys caspica rivulata'' (
Valenciennes, 1833)
See also
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Lists of reptiles by region
References
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*Cox, N. A. & Temple, H. J. (2009)
''European Red List of Reptiles'' Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
External links
Reptile Database''''www.lacerta.de''
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Reptiles
Reptiles, as most commonly defined are the animals in the Class (biology), class Reptilia ( ), a paraphyletic grouping comprising all sauropsid, sauropsids except birds. Living reptiles comprise turtles, crocodilians, Squamata, squamates (lizar ...
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