List of reptiles of Lebanon
This is a list of reptiles found in Lebanon.
Emydid turtles
- Balkan terrapin, Mauremys rivulata
Land tortoises
- Greek tortoise, Testudo graeca
Marine turtles
- Loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta
- Green turtle, Chelonia mydas
Softshell turtles
- Nile softshell turtle, Trionyx triunguis
Agamid lizards
- Rough-tailed rock agama, Laudakia stellio
- Trapelus ruderatus
Chameleons
- Mediterranean chameleon, Chamaeleo chamaeleon
Geckos
- Levant fan-fingered gecko, Ptyodactylus puiseuxi
- Kotschy's gecko, Mediodactylus kotschyi
- Turkish gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus
Lacertid lizards
- Giant fringe-fingered lizard, Acanthodactylus grandis
- Schreiber's fringe-fingered lizard, Acanthodactylus schreiberi
- Lebanon fringe-fingered lizard, Acanthodactylus tristrami
- Wall lizard, Podarcis muralis
- Fraas's lizard, Parvilacerta fraasii
- Phoenicolacerta kulzeri
- Lebanon lizard, Phoenicolacerta laevis
- Levant green lizard, Lacerta media
- Blanford's short-nosed desert lizard, Mesalina brevirostris
- European snake-eyed lizard, Ophisops elegans
Skinks
- Rüppell's snake-eyed skink, Ablepharus rueppellii
- Ocellated skink, Chalcides ocellatus
- Bridled skink, Heremites vittatus
- Schneider's skink, Eumeces schneiderii
- Lataste's snake skink, Ophiomorus latastii
- Golden grass mabuya, Heremites auratus
- Budak's snake-eyed skink, Ablepharus budaki
Legless lizards
- European glass lizard, Pseudopus apodus
- Chalcides guentheri
Monitor lizards
- Desert monitor, Varanus griseus
Amphisbaenids
- Turkish worm lizard, Blanus strauchi
Blind snakes
- European blind snake, Xerotyphlops vermicularis
Pythons and boas
- Caucasian sand boa, Eryx jaculus
Colubrid snakes
- Black whipsnake, Dolichophis jugularis
- Coin-marked snake, Hemorrhois nummifer
- Roger's racer, Platyceps rogersi
- Red whip snake, Platyceps collaris
- Eirenis decemlineatus, Eirenis decemlineatus
- Eirenis levantinus
- Asia Minor dwarf racer, Eirenis modestus
- Transcaucasian ratsnake, Zamenis hohenackeri
- Montpellier snake, Malpolon insignutus
- Dice snake, Natrix tessellata
- European tiger snake, Telescopus fallax syriacus
Elapids
- Black desert cobra, Walterinnesia aegyptia
Burrowing asps
- Israeli mole viper, Atractaspis engaddensis
- Müller's two-headed snake, Micrelaps muelleri
Vipers and pit vipers
- Lebanon viper, Montivipera bornmuelleri
- Levant viper, Macrovipera lebetinus
- Palestine viper, Daboia palaestinae
References
[edit]- https://web.archive.org/web/20070927031259/http://www.shoufcedar.org/mamal.asp
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070107080429/http://en.arocha.org/lbaammiq/index4.html
- http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/search.php?freetext=&modifier=phrase&criteria=wholedb&taxa_species=1&redlistCategory%5B%5D=all&redlistAssessyear%5B%5D=all&country%5B%5D=LB&aquatic%5B%5D=all®ions%5B%5D=all&habitats%5B%5D=all&threats%5B%5D=all&Submit.x=47&Submit.y=6
- http://www.unep-wcmc.org/isdb/Taxonomy/country.cfm?displaylanguage=ENG&search=all&Country=LB
