List of reptiles of Costa Rica
This is a list of reptiles in Costa Rica.
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Lizards
[edit]Family Corytophanidae
[edit]- Genus Basiliscus (brown basilisk, common basilisk, plumed basilisk)[1]
- Genus Corytophanes (helmeted iguana)[1]
- Genus Laemanctus (casquehead iguana)[1]
Family Dactyloidae
[edit]- Genus Anolis (Anolis insignis, Anolis microtus)
Family Gekkonidae
[edit]- Genus Gonatodes (yellow-headed gecko)[2]
- Genus Hemidactylus (common house gecko)[2]
- Genus Lepidoblepharis (Costa Rica scaly-eyed gecko)[2]
- Genus Sphaerodactylus (yellow-tailed dwarf gecko, spotted dwarf gecko)[2]
- Genus Lepidodactylus (mourning gecko)[3]
- Genus Ctenosaura (black spiny-tailed iguana)[4]
- Genus Iguana (green iguana)[4]
Family Phyllodactylidae
[edit]- Genus Thecadactylus (turnip-tailed gecko)
Family Polychrotidae
[edit]- Genus Norops (21 species, including blue-eyed anole, Carpenter's anole,[5] green tree anole, ground anole, lemur anole, lichen anole, many-scaled anole, pug-nosed anole, slender anole, stream anole, water anole)[6][7]
- Genus Polychrus (neotropical chameleon)[6]
Family Xantusiidae
[edit]Snakes
[edit]Family Anomalepididae
[edit]Family Colubridae
[edit]- Amastridium veliferum (rufous-headed snake)
- Chironius exoletus
- Clelia clelia
- Drymobius melanotropis (black forest racer)
- Drymobius margaritiferus (speckled racer)
- Enuliophis sclateri (sock-headed snake)
- Erythrolamprus mimus (mimic false coral snake)
- Imantodes cenchoa
- Lampropeltis triangulum
- Leptophis ahaetulla (parrot snake)
- Erythrolamprus epinephalus (fire-bellied snake)
- Leptodeira septentrionalis
- Mastigodryas melanolomus
- Ninia maculata
- Scaphiodontophis venustissimus
- Senticolis triaspis (green rat snake)
- Stenorrhina degenhardtii
- Stenorrhina freminvillei (blood snake)
- Genus Tantilla (centipede snakes)
- Thamnophis proximus
- Xenodon rhabdocephalus
Family Leptotyphlopidae
[edit]Family Loxocemidae
[edit]Family Tropidophiidae
[edit]Family Typhlopidae
[edit]- Atropoides nummifer
- Atropoides picadoi
- Bothriechis lateralis
- Bothriechis nigroadspersus
- Bothrops asper
- Porthidium nasutum
- Lachesis stenophrys Cope 1875 Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
- Lachesis melanocephala Solòrzano & Cerdas 1986 southeastern Costa Rica and adjoining areas of western Panama
Turtles
[edit]- Kinosternon leucostomum
- Rhinoclemmys annulata
- Rhinoclemmys funerea
- Rhinoclemmys pulcherrima
- Trachemys emolli
- Trachemys venusta
Crocodilians
[edit]Family Crocodylidae
[edit]Family Alligatoridae
[edit]See also
[edit]- List of amphibians of Costa Rica
- List of birds of Costa Rica
- List of mammals of Costa Rica
- List of non-marine molluscs of Costa Rica
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ a b c Guyer, Craig; Donnelly, Maureen A. (2004). "Corytophanidae". Amphibians and reptiles of la selva, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean slope: a comprehensive guide (1st ed.). University of California Press. pp. 120–6. ISBN 978-0520237599.
- ^ a b c d Guyer, Craig; Donnelly, Maureen A. (2004). "Gekkonidae". Amphibians and reptiles of la selva, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean slope: a comprehensive guide (1st ed.). University of California Press. pp. 143–50. ISBN 978-0520237599.
- ^ "Lepidodactylus lugubris". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 2019-03-31.
- ^ a b Guyer, Craig; Donnelly, Maureen A. (2004). "Iguanidae". Amphibians and reptiles of la selva, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean slope: a comprehensive guide (1st ed.). University of California Press. pp. 126–8. ISBN 978-0520237599.
- ^ Echelle, A.A., A.F. Echelle and H.S. Fitch. 1971. A new anole from Costa Rica. Herpetologica 27(3): 354-362.
- ^ a b Guyer, Craig; Donnelly, Maureen A. (2004). "Polychrotidae". Amphibians and reptiles of la selva, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean slope: a comprehensive guide (1st ed.). University of California Press. pp. 128–42. ISBN 978-0520237599.
- ^ Henderson, Carrol L. (2010). "Polychrotidae". Mammals, amphibians, and reptiles of Costa Rica: a field guide. University of Texas Press. pp. 122–32. ISBN 978-0292722743.
- ^ Guyer, Craig; Donnelly, Maureen A. (2004). "Scincidae". Amphibians and reptiles of la selva, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean slope: a comprehensive guide (1st ed.). University of California Press. pp. 151–2. ISBN 978-0520237599.
- ^ Guyer, Craig; Donnelly, Maureen A. (2004). "Xantusiidae". Amphibians and reptiles of la selva, Costa Rica, and the Caribbean slope: a comprehensive guide (1st ed.). University of California Press. pp. 150–1. ISBN 978-0520237599.