List of reptiles of Cyprus explained

There are several species of reptiles in Cyprus including venomous and non-venomous snakes, lizards and turtles.

Lizards

Family: Agamidae

• Cyprus rock agama, Laudakia cypriaca (Daan, 1967)

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, Phoenicolacerta 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 schneiderii (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, Platyceps najadum dahli (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Dwarf snake, Eirenis modestus (Martin, 1838)
• Large whip snake, Dolichophis 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)

See also

• Lists of reptiles by region

References

• Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status . Chelonian Research Monographs . 5 . 2011-12-31 . Rhodin, Anders G.J. . van Dijk, Peter Paul . Inverson, John B. . Shaffer, H. Bradley . Roger, Bour . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120131102839/http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v4_2011.pdf . 2012-01-31 .
• Fritz . Uwe . Havaš . Peter . Checklist of Chelonians of the World . 1864-5755 . At the request of the CITES Nomenclature Committee and the German Agency for Nature Conservation and funded by the Museum für Tierkunde Dresden and the German Federal Ministry of Environment . . 57 . 2 . 149–368 . 2007-10-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110501060224/http://www.cnah.org/pdf_files/851.pdf . 2011-05-01 .
• 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