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List of reptiles of Spain facts for kids

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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.

Order Testudines

Family Testudinidae

Family Emydidae

Family Geoemydidae

  • Mauremys leprosa (Spanish pond turtle)

Family Dermochelyidae

Family Cheloniidae

Order Squamata

Family Chamaeleonidae

Family Blanidae

Family Agamidae

Family Anguidae

Gekkota (families Gekkonidae, Sphaerodactylidae, Phyllodactylidae)

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

Family Trogonophidae

Serpentes

Family Colubridae

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

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Anexo:Reptiles de España para niños

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