THE REPTILES OF AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIAN REPTILE PHOTOS, DISTRIBUTION MAPS AND INFORMATION
This site covers 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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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

 

Colubrids & Mud Snakes

Pythons

 

 

Elapid Snakes

 

Sea
Snakes
& Sea
Kraits

File Snakes

 

Blind Snakes

 

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

Turtles Tortoises

Dragons Agamas

Geckos

 

Legless Lizards

Monitor Lizards

Skinks

 

Crocodiles

 

(MILDLY VENOMOUS - Not normally considered dangerous)


AUSTRALIAN BOCKADAM
Cerberus australis
(was Cerberus rynchops)

This is a species of Mud Snake
Family Homalopsidae (previously Colubridae)

Cerberus rynchops - Dog Faced Water Snake - BOCKADAM 
Australian Bockadam Cerberus australis


Cerberus rynchops - Dog Faced Water Snake - BOCKADAM
Australian Bockadam Cerberus australis


Australian distribution map for Cerberus rynchops - Dog Faced Water Snake - BOCKADAM - Reptiles of Australia

The status of the taxonomy of Cerberus australis and Cerberus rynchops seems to be uncertain

LINKS OF INTEREST

Click here for more information about Australian Colubrids and Mud Snakes

Click here for complete lists of Australian Colubrids and Mud Snakes

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