Reptiles of
Telangana

I. ORDER CROCODYLIA

1. Family Crocodylidae

1. Mugger Crocodile Crocodylus palustris Lesson, 1831

II. ORDER TESTUDINES

1. Family Testudinidae

  1. Indian Star Tortoise Geochelone elegans (Schoepff, 1795)

2. Family Geomydidae

  2. Indian Tent Turtle Pangshura tentoria (Gray, 1834)

  3. Indian Black Turtle Melanochelys trijuga (Schweigger, 1812)

3. Family Trionychidae

  4. Indian Flap-shelled Turtle Lissemys punctata (Bonnaterre, 1789)

  5. Ganges Soft-shelled Turtle Nilssonia gangetica (Cuvier, 1825)

  6. Nagpur Soft-shelled Turtle Nilssonia leithii (Gray, 1872)

III. ORDER SQAUMATA

1. SAURIA (LACERTILIA)

1. Family Agamidae

  1. Forest Calotes Monilesaurus rouxii Dumeril & Bibron, 1837

  2. Common Garden Lizard Calotes versicolor (Daudin, 1802)

  3. Blanford’s Rock Agama Psammophilus blanfordanus (Stoliczka, 1871)

  4. Peninsular Rock Agama Psammophilus dorsalis (Gray, 1831)

  5. Spiny-headed Fan-throated Lizard Sitana spinaecephalus Deepak, Vyas & Giri, 2016

  6. Nagarjunasagar Fan-throated Lizard Sitana thondalu Deepak, Khandekar, Chaitanya & Karanth, 2018

2. Family Chamaeleonidae

  7. Indian Chameleon Chamaeleo zeylanicus Laurenti, 1768

3. Family Gekkonidae

  8. Emulous Leaf-toed Gecko Hemidactylus aemulus Kumar, Srinivasulu & Srinivasulu, 2022

  9. Mahbubnagar Yellow-tailed Brookish Gecko Hemidactylus flavicaudus Lajmi, Giri, Singh & Agarwal, 2020

  10. Yellow-bellied House Gecko Hemidactylus flaviviridis Rüppell, 1835

  11. Common House Gecko Hemidactylus frenatus Duméril & Bibron, 1836

  12. Giant Leaf-toed Gecko Hemidactylus giganteus Stoliczka, 1871

  13. Gleadow’s House Gecko Hemidactylus gleadowi Murray, 1884

  14. Graceful Leaf-toed Gecko Hemidactylus gracilis Blanford, 1870

  15. Kanger Valley Rock Gecko Hemidactylus kangerensis Mirza, Bhosale & Patil, 2017

  16. Leschenault’s Leaf-toed Gecko Hemidactylus leschenaultii Duméril & Bibron, 1836

  17. Murray’s House Gecko Hemidactylus murrayi Gleadow, 1887

  18. Spotted House Gecko Hemidactylus parvimaculatus Deraniyagala, 1953

  19. Reticulated Leaf-toed Gecko Hemidactylus reticulatus Beddome, 1870

  20. Saxatile Leaf-toed Gecko Hemidactylus saxicolus Kumar, Srinivasulu & Srinivasulu, 2022

  21. Treutler’s Gecko Hemidactylus treutleri Mahony, 2009

  22. Termite Hill Gecko Hemidactylus triedrus (Daudin, 1802)

  23. Nalgonda Yellow-tailed Brookish Gecko Hemidactylus xericolus Lajmi, Giri, Singh & Agarwal, 2020

4. Family Lacertidae

  24. Leschenault’s Snake-eyed Lizard Ophisops leschenaultii (Milne-Edwards, 1829)

  25. Jerdon’s Snake-eye Lizard Ophisops jerdonii Blyth, 1853

  26. Lesser Snake-eyed Lizard Ophisops nictans Arnold, 1989

5. Family Scincidae

  27. White-spotted Supple Skink Riopa albopunctata Gray, 1846

  28. Günther’s Writhing Skink Riopa guentheri (Peters, 1879)

  29. Common Dotted Garden Skink Riopa punctata (Gmelin, 1799)

  30. Allapalli Skink Eutropis allapallensis (Schmidt, 1926)

  31. Ashwamedha Skink Eutropis ashwamedhi (Sharma, 1969)

  32. Common Skink Eutropis carinata (Schneider, 1801)

  33. Bronze Skink Eutropis macularia (Blyth, 1853)

  34. Sharma’s Skink Eutropis nagarjunensis (Sharma, 1969)

6. Family Varanidae

  35. Common Monitor Lizard Varanus bengalensis (Daudin, 1802)

OPHIDIA (SERPENTES)

7. Family Typhlophidae

  36. Beaked Worm Snake Grypotyphlops acutus (Duméril & Bibron, 1844)

  37. Brahminy Worm Snake Indotyphlops braminus (Daudin, 1803)

8. Family Pythonidae

  38. Indian Rock Python Python molurus (Linnaeus, 1758)

9. Family Boidae

  39. Common Sand Boa Eryx conicus (Schneider, 1801)

  40. Red Sand Boa Eryx johnii (Russell, 1801)

10. Family Colubridae

  41. Indian Vine Snake Ahaetulla oxyrhyncha (Bell, 1825)

  42. Banded Racer Argyrogena fasciolata (Shaw, 1802)

  43. Yellow-green Cat Snake Boiga flaviviridis Vogel & Ganesh, 2013

  44. Forsten’s Cat Snake Boiga forsteni (Duméril et al., 1854)

  45. Common Cat Snake Boiga trigonata (Schneider, 1802)

  46. Indian Egg-eating Snake Boiga westermanni (Reinhardt, 1863)

  47. Golden Flying Snake Chrysopelea ornata (Shaw, 1802)

  48. Common Trinket Snake Coelognathus helena (Daudin, 1803)

  49. Indian Smooth Snake Coronella brachyura (Günther, 1866)

  50. Common Bronzeback Dendrelaphis tristis (Daudin, 1803)

  51. Slender Wolf Snake Lycodon anamallensis Günther, 1864

  52. Common Wolf Snake Lycodon aulicus (Linnaeus, 1758)

  53. Yellow-collared Wolf Snake Lycodon flavicollis Mukherjee & Bhupathy, 2007

  54. Yellow-spotted Wolf Snake Lycodon flavomaculatus Wall, 1907

  55. Bridal Snake Lycodon nympha (Daudin, 1803)

  56. Barred Wolf Snake Lycodon striatus (Shaw, 1802)

  57. Common Kukri Snake Oligodon arnensis (Shaw, 1802)

  58. Russell’s Kukri Snake Oligodon taeniolatus (Jerdon, 1853)

  59. Nagarjunsagar Racer Platyceps bholanathi (Sharma, 1976)

  60. Indian Rat Snake Ptyas mucosa (Linnaeus, 1758)

  61. Dumeril’s Black-headed Snake Sibynophis subpunctatus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)

11. Family Natricidae

  62. Striped Keelback Amphiesma stolatum (Linnaeus, 1758)

  63. Olive Keelback Atretium schistosum (Daudin, 1803)

  64. Checkered Keelback Fowlea piscator (Schneider, 1799)

  65. Green Keelback Rhabdophis plumbicolor (Cantor, 1839)

12. Family Psammophidae

  66. Indian Sand Snake Psammophis condanarus (Merrem, 1820)

  67. Stout Sand Snake Psammophis longifrons Boulenger, 1890

13. Family Elapidae

  68. Common Indian Krait Bungarus caeruleus (Schneider, 1801)

  69. Banded Krait Bungarus fasciatus (Schneider, 1801)

  70. Slender Coral Snake Calliophis melanurus (Shaw, 1802)

  71. Spectacled Cobra Naja naja (Linnaeus, 1758)

14. Family Viperidae

  72. Russell’s Viper Daboia russelii (Shaw & Nodder, 1797)

  73. Saw-scaled Viper Echis carinatus (Schneider, 1801)

  74. Bamboo Pit Viper Trimeresurus gramineus (Shaw, 1802)

15. Family Uropeltidae

  75. Elliot’s Earth Snake Uropeltis ellioti (Gray, 1858)