List of reptiles of Western Australia explained

This is a list of reptiles of Western Australia:

Crocodylia (crocodiles)

Crocodylidae

• Crocodylus johnstoni (freshwater crocodile)
• Crocodylus porosus (estuarine crocodile, saltwater crocodile)

Testudines (turtles)

Chelidae

• Chelodina colliei^[1] (southwestern snake-necked turtle, oblong turtle)
• Chelodina oblonga (northern snake-necked turtle)
• Chelodina steindachneri (dinner-plate turtle, flat-shelled turtle)
• Chelodina burrungandjii
• Chelodina kuchlingi
• Chelodina walloyarrina
• Elseya dentata (northern snapping turtle)
• Emydura victoriae (red-faced turtle)
• Pseudemydura umbrina (western swamp turtle)

Cheloniidae

• Caretta caretta (loggerhead sea turtle)
• Chelonia mydas (green sea turtle)
• Eretmochelys imbricata (hawksbill sea turtle)
• Lepidochelys olivacea (olive ridley sea turtle, Pacific ridley sea turtle)
• Natator depressus (flatback sea turtle)

Dermochelyidae

• Dermochelys coriacea (leatherback turtle, leathery turtle, lute turtle)

Squamata (lizards)

Agamidae (dragons)

• Amphibolurus norrisi
• Caimanops amphiboluroides (mulga dragon)
• Chelosania brunnea (chameleon dragon)
• Chlamydosaurus kingii (frill-necked lizard, frilled lizard)
• Cryptagama aurita
• Ctenophorus caudicinctus (ring-tailed dragon)
• Ctenophorus clayi
• Ctenophorus cristatus (crested dragon)
• Ctenophorus femoralis
• Ctenophorus fordi (Malle dragon)
• Ctenophorus isolepis (military dragon)
• Ctenophorus maculatus (spotted dragon)
• Ctenophorus mckenziei
• Ctenophorus nuchalis (central netted dragon)
• Ctenophorus ornatus (ornate crevice-dragon)
• Ctenophorus pictus (painted dragon)
• Ctenophorus reticulatus (western netted dragon)
• Ctenophorus rufescens
• Ctenophorus salinarum
• Ctenophorus scutulatus (lozenge-marked dragon)
• Ctenophorus yinnietharra (Yinnietharra dragon)
• Diporiphora albilabris
• Diporiphora bennettii
• Diporiphora bilineata (two-lined dragon)
• Diporiphora convergens
• Diporiphora lalliae
• Diporiphora magna
• Diporiphora pindan
• Diporiphora reginae
• Diporiphora superba
• Diporiphora valens
• Diporiphora winneckei
• Lophognathus gilberti (Gilbert's dragon)
• Lophognathus longirostris (long-nosed water dragon)
• Lophognathus temporalis (northern water dragon)
• Moloch horridus (thorny dragon or thorny devil)
• Pogona microlepidota
• Pogona minor (bearded dragon)
  • P. m. minor (western bearded dragon)
  • P. m. minima (Abrolhos bearded dragon)
  • P. m. mitchelli
• Pogona nullarbor
• Genus Tympanocryptis
  • T. adelaidensis (Queen Adelaide dragon)
  • T. cephalus (blotch-tailed earless dragon)
  • T. intima (gibber earless dragon)
  • T. lineata (lineated earless dragon)
  • T. parviceps (Gnaraloo heath dragon)
  • T. uniformis (even-scaled earless dragon)

Gekkonidae (geckoes)

• Amalosia obscura
• Christinus alexanderi (marbled gecko)
• Christinus marmoratus (marbled gecko)
• Crenadactylus ocellatus (clawless gecko)
• Diplodactylus alboguttatus
• Diplodactylus assimilis
• Diplodactylus ciliaris (spiny-tailed gecko)
• Diplodactylus conspicillatus (fat-tailed gecko)
• Diplodactylus elderi (jewelled gecko)
• Diplodactylus fulleri
• Diplodactylus galeatus
• Diplodactylus granariensis
• Diplodactylus intermedius (eastern spiny-tailed gecko)
• Diplodactylus jeanae
• Diplodactylus kenneallyi
• Diplodactylus maini
• Diplodactylus mcmillani
• Diplodactylus michaelseni
• Diplodactylus mitchelli
• Diplodactylus occultus
• Diplodactylus ornatus
• Diplodactylus polyophthalmus
• Diplodactylus pulcher
• Diplodactylus rankini
• Diplodactylus savagei
• Diplodactylus squarrosus
• Diplodactylus stenodactylus (crowned gecko)
• Diplodactylus strophurus
• Diplodactylus taeniatus (white-striped gecko)
• Diplodactylus wellingtonae
• Diplodactylus wilsoni
• Diplodactylus wombeyi
• Gehyra australis (northern dtella, house gecko)
• Gehyra fenestrula (Pilbara spotted gecko)
• Gehyra montium
• Gehyra nana
• Gehyra occidentalis
• Gehyra pilbara (Pilbara dtella)
• Gehyra punctata (spotted gecko)
• Gehyra purpurascens
• Gehyra variegata (tree dtella)
• Gehyra xenopus
• Hemidactylus frenatus (Asian house gecko)

• Heteronotia binoei (Bynoe's gecko, prickly gecko)
• Heteronotia planiceps
• Heteronotia spelea (desert cave gecko)
• Lucasium damaeum (beaded gecko)
• Nephrurus asper (spiny knob-tailed gecko)
• Nephrurus laevissimus (knob-tailed gecko)
• Nephrurus levis (knob-tailed gecko)
• Nephrurus stellatus (southern knob-tailed gecko)
• Nephrurus vertebralis (knob-tailed gecko)
• Nephrurus wheeleri (knob-tailed gecko)
• Oedura filicipoda
• Oedura gracilis
• Oedura marmorata (marbled velvet gecko)
• Oedura reticulata (reticulated velvet gecko)
• Oedura rhombifer (zigzag gecko)
• Pseudothecadactylus lindneri (giant cave gecko)
• Rhynchoedura ornata (western beaked gecko)
• Strophurus assimilis (Goldfields spiny-tailed gecko)^[2]
• Strophurus spinula (lesser thorn-tailed gecko)
• Underwoodisaurus milii (thick-tailed gecko)

Pygopodidae (legless lizards)

• Aprasia haroldi
• Aprasia inaurita
• Aprasia pulchella
• Aprasia repens
• Aprasia rostrata
• Aprasia smithi
• Aprasia striolata
• Delma borea
• Delma concinna
• Delma elegans
• Delma fraseri
• Delma grayii
• Delma haroldi
• Delma nasuta
• Delma pax
• Delma tincta
• Lialis burtonis (Burton's legless lizard)
• Pletholax gracilis
• Pygopus lepidopodus (common scaly foot)
• Pygopus nigriceps (black-headed scaly foot)
• Pygopus steelescotti

Scincidae (skinks)

• Bassiana trilineata
• Carlia amax
• Carlia gracilis
• Carlia johnstonei
• Carlia munda
• Carlia rufilatus
• Carlia triacantha
• Cryptoblepharus carnabyi
• Cryptoblepharus megastic
• Cryptoblepharus plagiocephalus
• Cryptoblepharus virgatus
• Ctenotus alacer
• Ctenotus alleni
• Ctenotus angusticeps
• Ctenotus ariadnae
• Ctenotus atlas
• Ctenotus australis
• Ctenotus brooksi
• Ctenotus calurus
• Ctenotus catenifer
• Ctenotus colletti
• Ctenotus decaneurus
• Ctenotus delli
• Ctenotus dux
• Ctenotus ehmanni
• Ctenotus fallens
• Ctenotus gemmula
• Ctenotus grandis
• Ctenotus greeri
• Ctenotus hanloni
• Ctenotus helenae
• Ctenotus impar
• Ctenotus inornatus
• Ctenotus labillardieri
• Ctenotus lancelini
• Ctenotus leae
• Ctenotus leonhardii
• Ctenotus mastigura
• Ctenotus militaris
• Ctenotus mimetes
• Ctenotus nasutus
• Ctenotus ora
• Ctenotus nigrilineatus
• Ctenotus pantherinus
• Ctenotus piankai
• Ctenotus quattuordecimli
• Ctenotus robustus
• Ctenotus rubicundus
• Ctenotus rufescens
• Ctenotus rutilans
• Ctenotus saxatilis
• Ctenotus schomburgkii
• Ctenotus serventyi
• Ctenotus severus
• Ctenotus tanamiensis
• Ctenotus tantillus
• Ctenotus uber
• Ctenotus xenopleura
• Ctenotus youngsoni
• Ctenotus zastictus
• Cyclodomorphus branchial
• Cyclodomorphus maxima
• Egernia carinata
• Egernia adepressa
• Egernia douglasi
• Egernia formosa
• Egernia inornata
• Egernia kingii
• Egernia kintorei
• Egernia luctuosa
• Egernia multiscutata
• Egernia napoleonis
• Egernia pilbarensis
• Egernia pulchra
• Egernia stokesii
• Egernia striata
• Eremiascincus richardson (broad-banded sand swimmer)
• Glaphyromorphus brongers
• Glaphyromorphus darwinie
• Glaphyromorphus gracilip
• Glaphyromorphus isolepis
• Hemiergis initialis
• Hemiergis millewae
• Hemiergis peronii
• Hemiergis quadrilineatum
• Lerista allochira
• Lerista apoda
• Lerista arenicola
• Lerista axillaris
• Lerista bipes
• Lerista borealis
• Lerista bunglebungle
• Lerista chalybura
• Lerista christinae
• Lerista concolor
• Lerista connivens
• Lerista distinguenda
• Lerista dorsalis
• Lerista elegans
• Lerista flammicauda
• Lerista frosti
• Lerista gascoynensis
• Lerista gerrardii
• Lerista greeri
• Lerista griffini
• Lerista haroldi
• Lerista humphriesi
• Lerista ips
• Lerista kalumburu
• Lerista kendricki
• Lerista kennedyensis
• Lerista labialis
• Lerista lineata
• Lerista lineopunctulata
• Lerista macropisthopus
• Lerista maculosa
• Lerista microtis
• Lerista muelleri
• Lerista neander
• Lerista nichollsi
• Lerista onsloviana
• Lerista petersoni
• Lerista picturata
• Lerista planiventralis
• Lerista praefrontalis
• Lerista praepedita
• Lerista puncticauda
• Lerista quadrilineata
• Lerista robusta
• Lerista separanda
• Lerista simillima
• Lerista stictopleura
• Lerista taeniata
• Lerista talpina
• Lerista terdigitata
• Lerista tridactyla
• Lerista uniduo
• Lerista varia
• Lerista vermicularis
• Lerista viduata
• Lerista walkeri
• Lerista xanthura
• Lerista yuna
• Menetia amaura
• Menetia greyii
• Menetia maini
• Menetia surda
• Morethia adelaidensis
• Morethia boulengeri
• Morethia butleri
• Morethia lineoocellata
• Morethia obscura
• Morethia ruficauda
• Morethia storri
• Notoscincus butleri
• Notoscincus ornatus
• Proablepharus reginae
• Proablepharus tenuis
• Pseudemoia baudini
• Tiliqua multifasciata (Centralian blue-tongued lizard)
• Tiliqua occipitalis (western blue-tongued lizard)
• Tiliqua scincoides (eastern blue-tongued lizard)
• Trachydosaurus rugosus (shingle-back)

Varanidae (goannas or monitors)

• Varanus acanthurus (ridge-tailed monitor)
• Varanus brevicauda (short-tailed pygmy monitor)
• Varanus caudolineatus (line-tailed pygmy monitor)
• Varanus eremius (rusty desert monitor)
• Varanus giganteus (perentie)
• Varanus gilleni (pygmy mulga monitor)
• Varanus glauerti (Glauert's monitor)
• Varanus glebopalma (long-tailed rock monitor)
• Varanus gouldii (Gould's goanna, sand monitor)
• Varanus gouldii flavirufus (Centralian sand goanna)
• Varanus kingorum (pygmy rock monitor)
• Varanus mertensi (Mertens' water monitor)
• Varanus mitchelli (Mitchell's water monitor)
• Varanus panoptes (yellow-spotted monitor)
• Varanus pilbarensis (Pilbara rock monitor)
• Varanus rosenbergi (Rosenberg's heath monitor)
• Varanus storri (Storr's monitor)
• Varanus timorensis (Timor monitor, spotted tree monitor)
• Varanus tristis (black-headed monitor, freckled monitor)

Serpentes (snakes)

Acrochordidae (file snakes)

• Acrochordus granulatus (little file snake)

Pythonidae (pythons)

• Antaresia childreni (Children's python)
• Antaresia maculosa (spotted python)
• Antaresia perthensis (pygmy python)
• Antaresia stimsoni (large-blotched python)
• Aspidites melanocephalus (black-headed python)
• Aspidites ramsayi (woma python)
• Liasis fuscus (water python)
• Liasis olivaceus (olive python)
  • L. o. barroni (western olive python)
• Morelia carinata (rough-scaled python)
• Morelia spilota (carpet python)
• M. s. imbricata (southwestern carpet python)
• M. s. variegata (northwestern carpet python)

Colubridae (Colubrids)

• Boiga irregularis (brown tree snake)
• Cerberus rhynchops (bockadam)
• Dendrelaphis punctulata (common tree snake)
• Fordonia leucobalia (white-bellied mangrove snake)
• Myron richardsonii (Richardson's mangrove snake)
• Tropidonophis mairii (keelback or freshwater snake)

Elapidae (Elapids)

• Acanthophis antarcticus (common death adder)
• Acanthophis praelongus (northern death adder)
• Acanthophis pyrrhus (desert death adder)
• Demansia atra (black whip snake)
• Demansia olivacea (marble-headed whip snake)
• Demansia papuensis (Papaun whip snake)
• Demansia psammophis (yellow-faced whip snake)
• Demansia simplex (whip snake)
• Drysdalia coronata (crowned snake)
• Drysdalia mastersii (Masters' snake)
• Echiopsis atriceps
• Echiopsis curta (bardick)
• Elapognathus minor (little brown snake)
• Furina ornata (orange-naped snake)
• Notechis scutatus (eastern tiger snake, mainland tiger snake)
• Oxyuranus scutellatus (coastal taipan)
• Oxyuranus temporalis (Central Ranges taipan)
• Pseudechis australis (king brown, mulga snake)
• Pseudechis butleri (Butler's snake)
• Pseudonaja affinis (dugite)
• Pseudonaja inframacula (peninsula brown snake)
• Pseudonaja ingrami (Ingram's brown snake)
• Pseudonaja modesta (ringed brown snake)
• Pseudonaja nuchalis (western brown snake, gwarder)
• Pseudonaja textilis (common brown snake, eastern brown snake)
• Rhinoplocephalus bicolor (Muller's snake)
• Rhinoplocephalus pallidiceps (northern small-eyed snake)
• Simoselaps anomalus (northern desert banded snake)
• Simoselaps approximans
• Simoselaps bertholdi (desert banded snake)
• Simoselaps bimaculatus (western black-naped snake)
• Simoselaps calonotus (western black-striped snake)
• Simoselaps fasciolatus (narrow-banded burrowing snake)
• Simoselaps littoralis (coastal burrowing snake)
• Simoselaps minimus
• Simoselaps semifasciatus (half-girdled snake)
• Suta fasciata (Rosen's snake)
• Suta gouldii (black-headed snake)
• Suta monachus (hooded snake)
• Suta nigriceps
• Suta ordensis (Ord curl snake)
• Suta punctata (little spotted snake)
• Suta spectabilis
• Suta suta (myall snake, curl snake)
• Vermicella annulata (bandy-bandy)
• Vermicella multifasciata (northern bandy-bandy)

Hydrophiidae (sea snakes)

• Acalyptophis peronii
• Aipysurus apraefrontalis
• Aipysurus duboisii (Dubois's sea snake)
• Aipysurus eydouxii (spine-tailed sea snake)
• Aipysurus foliosquama
• Aipysurus fuscus
• Aipysurus laevis (olive sea snake)
• Aipysurus tenuis
• Astrotia stokesii
• Disteira kingii
• Disteira major
• Disteira stokesii
• Emydocephalus annulatus
• Ephalophis greyi
• Hydrelaps darwiniensis
• Hydrophis atriceps
• Hydrophis coggeri
• Hydrophis czeblukovi
• Hydrophis elegans
• Hydrophis geometricus
• Hydrophis inornatus
• Hydrophis mcdowelli
• Hydrophis melanocephalus
• Hydrophis melanosoma
• Hydrophis ornatus
• Lapemis hardwickii
• Parahydrophis mertoni
• Pelamis platurus (yellow-bellied sea snake)

Typhlopidae (blind snakes)

• Ramphotyphlops australis
• Ramphotyphlops bitubercu
• Ramphotyphlops diversus
• Ramphotyphlops endoterus
• Ramphotyphlops grypus
• Ramphotyphlops guentheri
• Ramphotyphlops hamatus
• Ramphotyphlops howi
• Ramphotyphlops kimberley
• Ramphotyphlops leptosoma
• Ramphotyphlops ligatus
• Ramphotyphlops margareta
• Ramphotyphlops micromma
• Ramphotyphlops pinguis
• Ramphotyphlops troglodyt
• Ramphotyphlops unguirost
• Ramphotyphlops waitii
• Ramphotyphlops yampiensi

Further reading

• Aplin, K. P. . Smith, L. A. . amp. 2001 . Checklist of the frogs and reptiles of Western Australia . Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement . 63 . 51–74.
• Book: Browne-Cooper, Robert. Brian Bush . Brad Maryan . David Robinson . Reptiles and Frogs in the Bush: Southwestern Australia. 2007. University of Western Australia Press. 978-1-920694-74-6 .
• 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 . 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 . dead.

External links

• WA list at kingsnake.com
• WA Museum listing

Notes and References

1. [Turtle Taxonomy Working Group]
2. Sadlier . Ross A. . Beatson . Cecilie A. . Brennan . Ian . Bauer . Aaron M. . 2023 . A new species of spiny-tailed gecko (Squamata: Diplodactylidae: Strophurus) from the mulga woodlands of inland Western Australia . Records of the Western Australian Museum . en . 38 . 1 . 11 . 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.38.2023.011-026 . 0312-3162. free .