List of reptiles of Spain facts for kids
This is a list of all reptiles living in Spain, both in the Iberian Peninsula and other territories such as Ceuta, Melilla, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands (including marine reptiles that can be found on its shores). Both native and introduced species are included.
Contents
Order Testudines
Family Testudinidae
- Testudo graeca (Spur-thighed tortoise)
- Testudo hermanni (Hermann's tortoise)
Family Emydidae
- Emys orbicularis (European pond turtle)
- Trachemys scripta (Pond slider)
Family Geoemydidae
- Mauremys leprosa (Spanish pond turtle)
Family Dermochelyidae
- Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback sea turtle)
Family Cheloniidae
- Caretta caretta (Loggerhead sea turtle)
- Chelonia mydas (Green sea turtle)
- Eretmochelys imbricata (Hawksbill sea turtle)
Order Squamata
Family Chamaeleonidae
- Chamaeleo chamaeleon (Common Chameleon)
Family Blanidae
- Blanus cinereus (Iberian Worm Lizard)
- Blanus tingitanus
Family Agamidae
- Agama impalearis (Bibron's agama)
Family Anguidae
- Anguis fragilis (Slowworm)
Gekkota (families Gekkonidae, Sphaerodactylidae, Phyllodactylidae)
- Hemidactylus turcicus (Mediterranean house gecko)
- Saurodactylus mauritanicus
- Tarentola angustimentalis (East Canary Gecko)
- Tarentola boettgeri (Boettger's Wall Gecko)
- Tarentola delalandii (Tenerife Gecko)
- Tarentola gomerensis (Gomero Wall Gecko)
- Tarentola mauritanica (Common or Moorish Wall Gecko, Salamanquesa, Crocodile gecko, European common gecko, Maurita naca gecko)
Family Scincidae
- Chalcides bedriagai (Bedriaga's Skink)
- Chalcides coeruleopunctatus
- Chalcides colosii (Riffian Skink, Colosi's Cylindrical Skink)
- Chalcides mauritanicus (Two-Fingered Skink)
- Chalcides minutus (Small Three-Toed Skink)
- Chalcides ocellatus (Ocellated Skink, Eyed Skink, gongilo)
- Chalcides parallelus (Doumergue's Skink)
- Chalcides pseudostriatus (Moroccan Three-toed Skink)
- Chalcides sexlineatus (Gran Canaria Skink)
- Chalcides simonyi
- Chalcides striatus (Western Three-toed Skink)
- Chalcides viridanus (West Canary Skink, Lisa Dorada)
- Eumeces algeriensis (Algerian Orange-Tailed Skink, Eumece D'Algerie, Bulán)
Family Lacertidae
- Acanthodactylus erythrurus (Red-tailed Spiny-footed Lizard)
- Algyroides marchi (Spanish Algyroides)
- Gallotia atlantica (Atlantic Lizard)
- Gallotia auaritae (La Palma Giant Lizard)
- Gallotia bravoana (La Gomera Giant Lizard)
- Gallotia caesaris (Boettger's Lizard)
- Gallotia galloti (Tenerife Lizard, Western Canaries Lizard)
- Gallotia intermedia (Tenerife Speckled Lizard)
- Gallotia simonyi (El Hierro Giant Lizard)
- Gallotia stehlini (Gran Canaria Giant Lizard)
- Iberolacerta aranica (Aran Rock Lizard)
- Iberolacerta aurelioi (Aurelio's Rock Lizard)
- Iberolacerta bonnali (Pyrenean Rock Lizard)
- Iberolacerta cyreni
- Iberolacerta galani (Lagartija leonesa)
- Iberolacerta martinezricai
- Iberolacerta monticola (Iberian Rock Lizard)
- Lacerta agilis (Sand Lizard)
- Lacerta bilineata (Western Green Lizard)
- Lacerta schreiberi (Iberian Emerald Lizard, Schreiber's Green Lizard)
- Podarcis atrata
- Podarcis bocagei (Bocage's Wall Lizard)
- Podarcis carbonelli
- Podarcis hispanicus (Iberian Wall Lizard)
- Podarcis lilfordi (Lilford's Wall Lizard)
- Podarcis muralis (Wall lizard)
- Podarcis pityusensis (Ibiza Wall Lizard)
- Podarcis siculus (Italian wall lizard, Ruin lizard)
- Podarcis vaucheri
- Psammodromus algirus (Large Psammodromus)
- Psammodromus blanci (Blanc's Sand Racer)
- Psammodromus hispanicus (Spanish Psammodromus)
- Psammodromus jeanneae
- Psammodromus manuelae
- Scelarcis perspicillata (Moroccan rock lizard)
- Timon lepidus (Ocellated Lizard)
- Timon tangitana
- Zootoca vivipara (Viviparous lizard, common lizard)
Family Trogonophidae
- Trogonophis wiegmanni (Checkerboard worm lizard)
Serpentes
Family Colubridae
- Coronella austriaca (Smooth snake)
- Coronella girondica (Southern smooth snake, Riccioli's snake)
- Hemorrhois hippocrepis (Horseshoe whip snake)
- Hierophis viridiflavus (Green Whip Snake, Western Whip Snake)
- Macroprotodon abubakeri
- Macroprotodon brevis (False smooth snake)
- Macroprotodon mauritanicus
- Malpolon monspessulanus (Montpellier snake)
- Natrix maura (Viperine water snake, viperine snake)
- Natrix natrix (Grass snake, ringed snake, water snake)
- Zamenis scalaris (Ladder snake)
- Zamenis longissimus (Aesculapian Snake)
Family Viperidae
- Vipera aspis (Asp, asp viper, European asp, aspic viper, European viper, Jura viper)
- Vipera latastei (Lataste's viper, snub-nosed viper, snub-nosed adder)
- Vipera seoanei (Baskian viper, Iberian cross adder, Portuguese viper)
See also
In Spanish: Anexo:Reptiles de España para niños
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