List of reptiles of Portugal
This is a list of the reptiles found in Portugal.
Turtles
Family: Cheloniidae
- Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)
- Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
- Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii)
- Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)
Family: Dermochelyidae
- Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
Family: Emydinae
- European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis)
- Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta)
Family: Geoemydidae
- Mediterranean pond turtle (Mauremys leprosa)
Amphisbaenians (worm lizards)
- Blanus cinereus[1]
- Blanus mariae[1]
Lizards
Family: Anguidae
- Slowworm (Anguis fragilis)
Family: Chamaeleonidae
- Gemeines chameleon (Chamaeleo chamaeleon)[2]
Family: Gekkonidae
- House gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia)
- Mediterranean house gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus)
- Moorish gecko (Tarentola mauritanica)
Family: Lacertidae
- Algerian psammodromus (Psammodromus algirus)[3]
- Andalusian wall lizard (Podarcis vaucheri)
- Bocage's wall lizard (Podarcis bocagei)[4]
- Carbonell's wall lizard (Podarcis carbonelli)[5]
- Iberian emerald lizard (Lacerta schreiberi)[6]
- Iberian mountain lizard (Iberolacerta monticola)[7]
- Iberian wall lizard (Podarcis hispanicus)
- Madeira wall lizard (Teira dugesii)[8]
- Ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus)
- Red-tailed spiny footed lizard (Acanthodactylus erythrurus)
- Spanish psammodromus (Psammodromus hispanicus)[9]
Family: Scinidae
- Cylindrical skink (Chalcides chalcides)
- Fogo skink (Chioninia fogoensis)[10]
- Spanish cylindrical skink (Chalcides bedriagai)
- Western three-toed skink (Chalcides striatus)[11]
Snakes
Family: Colubridae
- False smooth snake (Macroprotodon cucullatus)
- Iberian grass snake (Natrix astreptophora)[12]
- Horseshoe snake (Hemorrhois hippocrepis)
- Ladder snake (Rhinechis scalaris)
- Smooth snake (Coronella austriaca)
- Southern smooth snake (Coronella girondica)
- Viperine water snake (Natrix maura)
- Western false smooth snake (Macroprotodon brevis)
Family: Lamprophiidae
- Montpelier snake (Malpolon monspessulanus)
Family: Viperidae
- Lataste's viper (Vipera latastei)
- Portuguese viper (Vipera seoanei)
References
- ^ a b Albert, E. M., R. Zardoya, and M. García-París. "Phylogeographical and Speciation Patterns in Subterranean Worm Lizards of the Genus Blanus (Amphisbaenia: Blanidae)." Molecular Ecology 16.7 (2007): 1519-531. Print.
- ^ Vogrin, M., Corti, C., Pérez Mellado, V., Sá-Sousa, P., Cheylan, M., Pleguezuelos, J., Baha El Din, S. & Al Johany, A.M.H. 2012. Chamaeleo chamaeleon. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 December 2013.
- ^ Miras, J.A.M., Cheylan, M., Nouira, M.S., Joger, U., Sá-Sousa, P. & Pérez-Mellado, V. 2005. Psammodromus algirus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 24 December 2013.
- ^ Sá-Sousa, P. & Pérez-Mellado, V. 2005. Podarcis bocagei. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 December 2013.
- ^ Sá-Sousa, P. & Pérez-Mellado, V. 2005. Podarcis carbonelli. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 December 2013.
- ^ Sá-Sousa, P., Marquez, R. & Pérez-Mellado, V. 2005. Lacerta schreiberi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 December 2013.
- ^ Pérez-Mellado, V., Sá-Sousa, P., Marquez, R. & Martínez-Solano, I. (2009). "'Iberolacerta monticola'". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
- ^ Sá-Sousa, P. 2005. Lacerta dugesii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 December 2013.
- ^ Pleguezuelos, J., Sá-Sousa, P., Pérez-Mellado, V., Marquez, R. & Cheylan, M. 2005. Psammodromus hispanicus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 December 2013.
- ^ Clemens, David. J.; Allain, Steven J. R. (2020). "First evidence of Fogo skink (Chioninia fogoensis) introduction to Madeira". Herpetological Bulletin. 152: 40–41. doi:10.33256/152.4041. S2CID 225634421.
- ^ * Pleguezuelos, J., Sá-Sousa, P., Pérez-Mellado, V., Marquez, R. & Cheylan, M. 2005. Chalcides striatus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 December 2013.
- ^ "Herping Portugal | BALL PYTHON BREEDER UK July 19, 2022". 22 February 2021.
External links
- The Reptile Database