Species list: Reptiles
The following species are known or expected to occur in the Greater Sossusvlei-Namib Landscape:
Species | |
Geochelone pardalis | leopard tortoise |
Rhinotyphlops schinzi | Schinz's beaked blind snake |
Lamprophis fuliginosus | brown house snake |
Pseudaspis cana | mole snake |
Pythonodipsas carinata | Western keeled snake |
Prosymna frontalis | South-western shovel-snout |
Dipsina multimaculata | dwarf beaked snake |
Psammophis leightoni namibensis | Namib sand snake |
Psammophis notostictus | whip snake / Karoo sand snake |
Dasypeltis scabra | common or rhombic egg eater |
Telescopus beetzii | Beetz's tiger snake |
Aspidelaps lubricus | coral snake |
Dendroaspis polylepsis | black mamba |
Naja nivea | Cape cobra |
Naja nigricollis | black-necked spitting cobra |
Bitis arietans | puff adder |
Bitis caudalis | horned adder |
Bitis peringueyi | Péringuey's adder |
Acontias lineatus | striped legless skink |
Typhlosaurus braini | Brain's blind legless skink |
Scelotes capensis | Western dwarf burrowing skink |
Mabuya capensis | Cape skink |
Mabuya occidentalis | Western three-striped skink |
Mabuya spilogaster | Kalahari tree skink |
Mabuya = Trachylepis sulcata | Western rock skink |
Mabuya = Trachylepis variegata | variegated skink |
Mabuya = Trachylepis acutilabris | wedge-snouted skink |
Meroles anchietae | shovel-snouted lizard |
Meroles ctenodactylus | Smith's desert lizard |
Meroles cuneirostris | wedge-snouted desert lizard |
Meroles suborbitalis | spotted desert lizard |
Nucras tessellata | Western sandveld lizard |
Pediopanis namaquensis | Namaqua sand lizard |
Pediopanis undata? | Western sand lizard |
Pedioplanis inornata? | plain sand lizard |
Cordylosaurus subtessellatus | dwarf plated lizard |
Cordylus polyzonus | Karoo girdled lizard |
Varanus albigularis albigularis | rock or white-throated monitor |
Agama planiceps planiceps | Namibian rock agama |
Chamaeleo namaquensis | Namaqua chameleon |
Chondrodactylus angulifer angulifer | giant ground gecko |
Narudasia festiva | festive gecko |
Pachydactylus = Chondrodactylus turneri | Turner's thick-toed gecko |
Pachydactylus punctatus? | speckled thick-toed gecko |
Pachydactylus rugosus | rough thick-toed gecko |
Pachydacylus weberi | Weber's thick-toed gecko |
Pachydactylus etultra | new (palmato) gecko species |
Palmatogecko = Pachydactylus rangei | web-footed gecko |
Ptenopus garrulus maculatus | common barking gecko |
Ptenopus kochi | Koch's barking gecko |