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COMMON NAMES OF AUSTRALIAN REPTILES
Based on the Census of Australian Vertebrate Species (CAVS)
- Reptiles Version 8.1 - 15 June 1995
- Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS)
Common
names and cross references added by J W Hardy, Coordinator Wildlife Licensing,
Biodiversity Management Unit, NPWS in July 1997 (Nomenclatural changes updated 1
August 2002)
PAGE 1
Acrochordidae - file snakes
Agamidae - dragon Lizards
PAGE 2
Boidae - pythons
PAGE 3
Carettochelydidae - freshwater turtle
Chelidae - freshwater turtles
PAGE 4
Cheloniidae - sea turtles
Dermochelyidae - sea turtle
Crocodylidae- crocodiles
Colubridae - tree and water snakes
PAGE 4B
TURTLES & TORTOISES
PAGE 5
Elapidae - venomous
snakes
PAGE 6
Gekkonidae -
geckos
PAGE 7
Hydrophiidae - sea snakes
Laticaudidae - sea kraits
PAGE 7
A
Pygopidae - Legless Lizards
PAGE 7
B
Scincidae - Skinks
PAGE 8
Typhlopidae - blind snakes
Varanidae - Varanidae -
monitors
NOTE REGARDING newly described species and/ or subspecies
Note that the original document has been split into pages and indexed to make it faster to load and easier to navigate. If you wish to use the list in its original layout it can be viewed HERE.
Where more than
one common name is listed for the one species, the first is that appearing in Encyclopedia of Australian Animals -
Reptiles, Harald Ehmann 1992
and/or Webster Mulimedia’s Reptiles and Frogs CD-ROM, Harald Ehmann
and Michael Tyler 1996.
Other common names were lifted from the popular
literature including Reptiles and
Amphibians of Australia, H.G. Cogger 1992;
and A Field Guide to the Snakes and Lizards of
New South Wales, Gerry Swan, 1990.
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