REPTILES OF PAKISTAN

No.

Common name

Pond and River Turtles

1.
Spotted Mud Turtle
2.
Crowned River Turtle
3.
Brown River turtle
4.
Sawback Turtle
Tortoise
5
Afghan Tortoise
6
Sindh Star Tortoise
Marine Turtle
7.
Green turtle
8
Hawksbill
9
Olive Ridley turtle
10
Loggerhead turtle
11
Leatherback
Softshell Turtles
12
Narrow-headed Softshell
13
Indian Soft-shell
14
Peacock softshell
15
Indian Flapshell
Crocodile
16
Mugger
Eyelid and lidless Geckos
17
Nikolsky Spider Gecko
18
Sharp-tailed Spider Gecko
19.
Blunt-tailed Spider gecko
1

Scientific name

Conservation Status1

Geoclemys hamiltonii
Hardella thurjii
Kachuga smithii
Kachuga tecta tecta

Vulnerable
Vulnerable
Low risk
Not evaluated

Testudo horsfieldii
Geochelone elegans

Vulnerable
Not evaluated

Chelonia mydas japonica

Eretmochelys imbricate bissa
Lepidochelys olivacea olivacea
Caretta caretta gigas
Dermochelys coriascea

Endangered
Critically endangered
Endangered
Endangered
Critically endangered

Chitra indica
Aspideretes gangeticus
Aspideretes hurum
Lissemys punctata andersoni

Endangered
Vulnerable
Vulnerable
Not evaluated

Crocodylus palustris palustris

Vulnerable

Cyrtopodium agomuroides
Rhinogecko femoralis
Agamura persica

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Distribution in Pakistan

Conservation status is mentioned according to the Red List of IUCN, any species not mentioned in the red list is assumed as not evaluated.

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20.
21.
22.
23.

Common name
Baloch Rock Gecko
Fat-tailed Gecko
Swat Stone Gecko
Warty Rock Gecko

24.

Quetta Rock Gecko

25.

Ingoldbys Stone Gecko

26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32

Salt Range Rock Gecko

Keeled Rock Gecko
Mintons Gecko
Hazara Gecko
Persian pygmy Gecko
Pygmy Flat Gecko
Spotted Indian house
Gecko
Yellow-nellied House
Gecko
South Asian Waif Gecko
Bark Gecko
Persian Gecko
Bloched Gecko
Mediterranean Gecko
Fan Toe-tip Gecko
Balochistan Sand Gecko
Whip-tailed Sand Gecko
Sindh Sand Gecko
Batura thin-toed Gecko
Fort Munro Gecko
Soan Sakaser Gecko

33
34
35
36
37
38
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.

Scientific name
Alsophylax tuberculatus
Eublepharis macularis
Cyrtodactylus walli
Cyrtodactylus kachhensis
kachhensis
Cyrtodactylus kachhensis
watsoni
Cyrtodactylus kachhensis
ingoldbyi
Cyrtodactylus montiumsalsorum
Cyrtodactylus scaber
Cyrtodactylus mintoni
Cyrtodactylus dattanensis
Tropiocolotes persica
Tropiocolotes depressus
Hemidactylus brookii brookii

Conservation Status1
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Hemidactylus flavivirdis

Not evaluated

Hemidactylus frenatus
Hemidactylus leschenaultia
Hemidactylus persicus
Hemidactylus triedrus triedrus
Hemidactylus turcicus turcicus
Ptyodactylus homolepis
Crossobamon lumsdenii
Crossobamon maynardi
Crossobamon orientalis
Tenuidactylus baturensis
Tenuidactylus fortmunroi
Tenuidactylus indusoani

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Distribution in Pakistan

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Common name
Red tailed Gecko
Rohtas Fort Gecko
Sindh Ground Gecko
Baluch Plate-tailed Gecko
Turkestan Plate-tailed
Gecko
Mountain Dwraf Gecko
Banded Dwarf Gecko
Agamas
Kumaon Agama
Agror Valley Agama
Caucasian Rock Agama
Badkshan Agama
Himalayan Rock Agama
Black Rock Agama
Yellow-headed Black
Agama
Large scaled Agama
Yellow headed Agama
Kashmir Rock Agama
Briliant Agama
Spotted Ground Agama
Red throated Ground
Common Ground Agama
Small tail Ground Agama
Changeable Lizard
Northern Forest Lizard
Clarks Toad-headed
Agama

Scientific name
Tenuidactylus rhodocaudus
Tenuidactylus rohtasfortai
Teratolepis fasciata
Teratoscincus microlepis
Teratoscincus scincus

Conservation Status1
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Tropiocolotes depresses
Tropiocolotes helenae

Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Japalura kumaonensis
Laudakia agrorensis
Laudakia caucasicus
Laudakia badakhshana
Laudakia himalayanus
himalyanus
Laudakia melanurus
Laudakia nuptus liratus

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Laudakia melanurus melanurus

Laudakia nuptus nuptus
Laudakia nuptus fusca
Laudakia tuberculatus
Trapelus agilus agilus
Trapelus ruderatua
Trapelus rubrigularis
Trapelus ruderata baluchiana
Brachysaura minor
Calotes versicolor
Calotes versicolor farooqi
Phrynocephalus clarkorum

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Distribution in Pakistan

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72.
73.
74.
75.
76.

Common name
Beautiful Toad-head
Agama
Speckled Toad-headed
Agama
Black-tailed Toad Agama

79.

Ornate Toaded-headed A
Grey Toad-headed Agama
Spinytail Lizard
Baloch Spiny-tailed Lizard
Common Spiny-tailed
Chameleons
Ceylon Chameleon

80.

Sand Lizards
Indian Fringe-toed sand L

77.
78.

81.
82.
83.
84.
85.
86.
87.
88.
89.
90.

Mekran Fringe-toed Sand

Lizard
Yellow-tailed Sand Lizard
Recticulate Desert Lacerta
Chagai Desert Lacerta
Short-nosed Desert
Lacerta
Yellow-headed desert
Long-tailed Desert Lacerta
Caspian desert Lacerta
Persian Steppe Lacerta
Elegant Snake-eyed
Lacerta

Scientific name
Phrynocephalus euptilopus

Conservation Status1
Not evaluated

Phrynocephalus luteoguttatus

Not evaluated

Phrynocephalus maculates
maculatus
Phrynocephalus ornatus
Phrynocephalus scutellatus

Not evaluated

Urommastyx asmusi
Urommastyx hardwickii

Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Chamaeleo chamaeleo
zeylanicus

Not evaluated

Acenthodactylus cantoris
cantoris
Acenthodactylus cantoris
blanfordi
Acenthodactylus micropholis
Eremias acutirostris
Eremias aporosceles
Eremias brevirostris

Not evaluated

Eremias faciata
Eremias guttulata watsonana
Eremias scripta
Eremias velox persica
Ophisops elegans elegans

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Distribution in Pakistan

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92.
93.

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Common name
Punjab Snake-eyed
Lacerta
Blanford Snake-eyed
Lacerta
Indian Snake-eyed
Lacerta
Skinks
Earless Dwarf Skink
Easterm Dwarf Snake
Oceelated Skink
Orange-tailed Skink
Zarudnys Skink
Yellow-bellied mole skink
Thal Skink
Himalayan Ground Skink
Glacier Skink
Striped Grass Skink
Bronze Grass Skink
Many Keeled Grass Skink
Mekran sand Swimmer
Short-toed Sand Swimmer
Indus Sand Swimmer
Afghan sand Swimmer
Dotted garden Skink
Monitor Lizards
Yellow Monitor
Indian Monitor
Transcaspian Desert
Monitor
Pakistan Desert Monitor

Scientific name
Ophisops jerdonii

Conservation Status1
Not evaluated

Ophisops blanfordi

Not evaluated

Ophisops microlepis

Not evaluated

Ablepharus grayanus
Ablepharus pannonianus
Chalcides ocellatus ocellatus
Eumeces schneiderii blythianus
Eumeces schneiderii zarudnyi
Eumeces taeniolatus
Eumeces indothalensis
Leiolopisma himalayana
Leiolopisma ladacensis
Mabuya dissimilis
Mabuya macularia
Mabuya carinata
Ophiomorus blanfordi
Ophiomorus blanfordi
Ophiomorus raithmai
Ophiomorus tridactylus
Riopa punctata

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Varanus flavescens
Varanus bengalensis
Varanus griseus caspius

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Varanus griseus konieczsyi

Not evaluated

Distribution in Pakistan

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115.
116
117.
118
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121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133

Common name
Blind Snakes
Brahminy Blind snake
Ahsans Blind Snake
Thick Blind Snake
Slender Pakistani Blind
Snake
Madges Blind Snake
Shermans Blind Snake
Thread Snakes
Sindh Thread Snake
Beaked Thread Snake
Boas
Russells Sand Boa
Indian Sand Boa
Tartary Sand Boa
Pythons
Indian Python
Colubrids
Indian Gamma Snake
Dark-headed Gamma
Snake
Banded Racer
Spotted Desert Racer
Mintons Snake
Mountain Racer
Cliff Racer

134. Red Cliff Racer

135 Kashmir Cliff Racer

Scientific name

Conservation Status1

Typhlops braminus
Typhlops ahsanai
Typhlops diardi platyventris
Typhlops ductuliformes

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Typhlops m. madgemintonai
Typhlops m. shermanai

Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Leptotyphlops blandfordii
Leptotyphlops macrorhynchus

Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Eryx conicus
Eryx johnii johnii
Eryx tataricus speciosus

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Python molurus molurus

Near threatened

Boiga trigonata trigonata

Boiga trigonata melanocephala

Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Coluber faciolatus
Coluber karelini karelini
Coluber karelini mintonorum
Coluber ravergeiri ravergeiri
Coluber rhodorachis
rhodorachis
Coluber rhodorachis ladacensis
Coluber rhodorachis

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Distribution in Pakistan

No.

Common name

136 Plains Racer

137. Bengal Plains Racer
138

Indus Plains Racer

139
140
141
142
143

146
147
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149
150
151
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153.
154
155.
156
157

Dark-neck Dwarf Racer

Sindh lake Snake
Common Wolf Snake
Northern Wolf Snake
Golden Spotted Wolf
Snake
Travancore Wolf Snake
Maynards Awl-headed
Snake
Sindh Awl-headed Snake
Afghan Awl-headed Snake
Flat-headed Keelback
Siebolds Snake
Striped Keelback
Tessellated Water Snake
Dark-bellied marsh snake
Johans water snake
Checkered Keelback
Russet Kukri Snake
Streaked Kukri Snake
Indian Sand Snake

158
159
160

Pakistan Ribbon Snake

Steppe Ribbon Snake
Afro-asian Sand Snake

144
145

Scientific name
kasmirensis
Coluber v. ventromaculatus
Coluber ventromaculatus
bengalensis
Coluber ventromaculatus
indusai
Pseudocyclophis persica
Enhydris pakistanica
Lycodon aulicus aulicus
Lycodon striatus striatus
Lycodon striatus

Conservation Status1

Lycodon travancore
Lytorhynchus maynardi

Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Lytorhynchus maynardi
Lytorhynchus ridgewayi
Amphiesma platyceps
Amphiesma sielboldii
Amphiesma stolata stolata
Natrix tessellata tessellata
Xenochrophis cerasogaster
Xenochrophis sanctijohannis
Xenochrophis piscator piscator
Oligodon arnensis
Oligodon taeniolatus
Psammophis condanarus
condanarus
Psammophis leithii
Psammophis lineolatus
Psammophis schokari

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Distribution in Pakistan

No.
161
162
163
164

Common name
Dhaman
Golden head Snake
Red-spotted Diadem
Snake
Eastern Diadem Snake

165

Persian Diadem Snake

166

Indian Desert Cat Snake

Kraits and Cobras
Krait
Sindh Krait
Northern Punjab Krait
Indian Cobra
Oxus Cobra
Sea Snake
Stokes Sea Snake
Beaked Sea snake
Many-toothed Sea Snake

167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183

Annulated Sea Snake

Spotted Sea Snake
Persian Gulf Sea Snake
Bombay Sea Snake
Ornate Sea Snake
Yellow Sea Snake
Short Sea Snake
Cantors Small-headed
Sea Snake
Common Small-headed
Sea Snake

Scientific name
Ptyas mucosus
Sibynophis sagittarius
Spalerosophis arenarius

Conservation Status1
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Spalerosophis diadema
diadema
Spalerosophis diadema
schirazianus
Telescopus rhinopoma

Not evaluated

Bungarus caeruleus
Bungarus s. sindanus
Bungarus sindanus razai
Naja naja naja
Naja naja oxiana

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Astrotia stokesii
Enhydrina schistose
Hydrophis caerulescens
caerulescens
Hydrophis cyanocinctus
Hydrophis fasciatus fasciatus
Hydrophis lapemoides
Hydrophis mamillaris
Hydrophis ornatus ornatus
Hydrophis spiralis
Lapemis curtus
Microcephalophis cantoris

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Microcephalophis gracilis
gracilis

Not evaluated

Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Distribution in Pakistan

No.
184
185

189
190
191

Common name
Pelagic Sea Snake
Viperine Sea Snake
Vipers and Pit Vipers
Saw-scaled Viper
Eastern Saw-scaled Viper
Transcaspian Saw-scaled
Viper
Astola Saw-scaled Viper
Leaf-nosed Viper
Persian Horned Viper

192
193
194

Levantine Viper
Russells Viper
Himalayan Pit Viper

186
187
188

Scientific name
Pelamis platurus
Praescutata viperina

Conservation Status1
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Echis carinatus pyramidum

Echis carinatus sochureki
Echis carinatus multisquamatus

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Echis carinatus astolae

Eristicophis macmahonii
Pseudocerastes persicus
persicus
Macrovipera labetina obtuse
Daboia russelii russelii
Gloydius himalayanus

Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated
Not evaluated

Distribution in Pakistan