THE REPTILES OF AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIAN REPTILE PHOTOS, DISTRIBUTION MAPS AND INFORMATION
Covering Snakes and Lizards, Crocodiles and Turtles, including Colubrid snakes, Pythons, Elapids (called Cobras or Coral Snakes in some countries), Sea Snakes, File Snakes, Blind (or Worm) Snakes, Sea Turtles, Freshwater Turtles (or Tortoises) Dragon Lizards (Agamas), Gecko's, Legless Lizards Monitor Lizards (often called Goanna's in Australia), Skinks and Crocodilia

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HOME COLUBRID SNAKES - Colubridae Homalopsidae Mud Snakes PYTHON SNAKES - Pythonidae ELAPID SNAKES - Elapidae Cobras Coral Snakes SEA SNAKES - Hydrophiinae Laticaudidae Sea Kraits FILE SNAKES - Acrochordidae BLIND SNAKES - Worm Snakes - Typhlopidae Ramphotyphlops TURTLES Tortoises Chelonii Testudines DRAGON LIZARDS Agamas Agamidae GECKO LIZARDS Gekkonidae LEGLESS LIZARDS Pygopodidae Pygopods MONITOR LIZARDS Goannas Varanids Varanidae SKINK LIZARDS Scincidae CROCODILES Crocodylia Crocodilia Saltwater freshwater estuarine

Colubrids & Mud Snakes

Pythons Elapid Snakes Sea Snakes File Snakes Blind Snakes Turtles Tortoises Dragons Agamas Geckos Legless Lizards Monitor Lizards Skinks Crocodiles



Reptiles of Australia


Our thanks to those who have assisted in building this site. Owing to the massive scope of the project, it would not have been possible without their assistance.
IMPORTANT - if you have assisted in any way with this website, but your name does not appear in these credits, please let me know - I would like to include your details.


Basic taxonomic data was taken from Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia by Harold G. Cogger, Reed Books Pty. Ltd., NSW, Australia.
All of the range maps have been done by John Hollister, using data borrowed primarily from the same book.

Also used was "A complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia" by Steve Wilson and Gerry Swan.

Reference was also made to The Australian Reptile Online Database and the Atlas of Living Australia

 


CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
Our thanks to those who have written pages for this site.

Adam Britton, PhD, for writing the pages for both the crocodile species, and supplying photographs


CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

Our thanks to those who have made the taxonomy as current as possible.

Mark Hutchinson ( South Australian Museum - Curator of Herpetology) for supplying a list of the reptiles of South Australia, and for assisting in identification and nomenclature .

Harold De Lisle, PhD. for his work on the taxonomy of the monitors.


PHOTO CREDITS

Our sincere thanks to those who have supplied photographs for this site.

 


David Williams  of Australia for python and elapid pictures.

Tim Jackson - Photos including Hawksbill Turtles

Dr. Eric Pianka of the University of Texas for many fine photographs. Check out his site at UT

Brian Bush, Snakes Harmful or Harmless, for his pictures of various lizards.

Pavel German for various pictures.

Matthew Bonnett  for numerous pictures.

John Weigel  of the Australian Reptile Park.

Tim Nias for photographs of various snakes and lizards

Antonia Pachmann for various reptile photographs

Niels Gruendel for various reptile photographs including Moritz's leaf-tailed gecko Saltuarius moritzi

Mark Sanders of EcoSmart Ecology for various reptile photographs

Brad Maryan for assistance in identification.

Sam Rogers - Long-nosed Water Dragon

Note that most distribution maps were created by John Hollister and some have been modified or created by John Fowler

Permission is needed to use, (or link directly to our distribution maps), however it is OK to link directly to the whole page without permission.

 

Our thanks also goes to all the reptile stores, zoos, wildlife parks and private keepers and anyone else that has assisted us in any way, including
Scales & Tails, Reptile City and Ultimate Reptile Supplies for allowing me to photograph reptiles.

The Reptile Zoo California

The House of Reptiles - Jacksonville Florida

Armadale Reptile & Wildlife Centre Western Australia



Bev McGrane of Perth WA, for photo of Hemiergis quadrilineata

Scott Papworth for photo of Ramphotyphlops Nigrescens

Peter Street - Photos of the SOUTHERN DWARF CROWNED SNAKE Cacophis krefftii

Brian Levet - Photos of Southern Blind Snake Ramphotyphlops australis

Daniel Hossack & Shawn Scott

Kerry Barnes for Pebble Dragon photograph

Sue Gow Humpty Doo NT - For allowing me to take photos of her reptiles.

Drew Smith of South Australia- For allowing me to take photos of his reptiles.

Tim Jackson - Sea Turtle photos

David Kirshner - Photographs (including Lace Monitors)

Nansi Finch for Photos of the SOUTHERN LEAF-TAILED GECKO - Saltuarius swaini

 

All other Photographs not supplied by people mentioned above were taken by John Fowler should you find any unlabeled or incorrectly labeled photographs or notice any names missing from the credits please Contact John Fowler

 

If your name has been accidently omitted, please let me know !


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February 4, 2013