List of reptiles of Cyprus
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There are several species of reptiles in Cyprus including venomous and non-venomous snakes, lizards and turtles.
Lizards
Family: Agamidae
- Sling-tailed Agama-Stellagama stellio cypriaca, (Linnaeus, 1758)
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-Lacerta 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 schneideri, (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-Coluber najadum dahli, (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Dwarf snake-Eirenis modestus, (Martin, 1838)
- Large whipsnake-Coluber 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)
References
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- Cox, N.A. and Temple, H.J. 2009. European Red List of Reptiles. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities ISBN 978-92-79-11357-4
