Everglades Invasive Reptiles


Subject Name Scientific Name
African redhead agamaAgama agama africana (Hallowell 1844)
South American ground lizardAmeiva ameiva (Linnaeus, 1758)
Hispaniolan green anoleAnolis chlorocyanus Duméril and Bibron, 1837
Largehead anoleAnolis cybotes Cope, 1862
Cuban knight anoleAnolis equestris persparsus Schwartz & Garrido, 1972
Knight anoleAnolis equestris equestris Merrem, 1820
Barbados anoleAnolis extremus Garman,1887
Cuban Green AnoleAnolis porcatus Gray, 1840
brown anoleAnolis sagrei (Cocteau in Duméril and Bibron, 1837)
brown basiliskBasiliscus vittatus Wiegmann, 1828
common boaBoa constrictor Linnaeus, 1758
brown tree snakeBoiga irregularis (Merrem, 1802)
common caimanCaiman crocodilus (Linnaeus, 1758)
caimanCaiman spp. Spix, 1825
White-lipped CalotesCalotes mystaceus Duméril and Bibron, 1837
Oriental Garden LizardCalotes versicolor Fitzinger, 1826
veiled chameleonChamaeleo calyptratus Duméril and Bibron, 1851
rubber boaCharina bottae (Blainville, 1835)
rainbow WhiptailCnemidophorus lemniscatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
giant whiptailCnemidophorus motaguae Sackett, 1941
flat-tailed house geckoCosymbotus platyurus (Schneider, 1792)
Puerto Rican crested anoleCtenonotus cristatellus cristatellus Dumeril & Bibron 1837
bark anoleCtenonotus distichus (Cope, 1861)
Mexican Spiny-tailed IguanaCtenosaura pectinata Wiegmann, 1834
black spiny-tailed iguanaCtenosaura similis (Gray, 1831)
Colombian Rainbow BoaEpicrates cenchria maurus Gray, 1849
green anacondaEunectes murinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
yellow anacondaEunectes notaeus Cope, 1862
Tokay GekkoGekko gecko (Linnaeus, 1758)
yellow-headed geckoGonatodes albogularis (Duméril and Bibron, 1836)
Kenyan sand boaGongylophis colubrinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
common house geckoHemidactylus frenatus Duméril and Bibron, 1836
Indo-Pacific GeckoHemidactylus garnotii Duméril and Bibron, 1836
Tropical House GeckoHemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818)
Mediterranean geckoHemidactylus turcicus (Linnaeus, 1758)
green iguanaIguana iguana (Linnaeus, 1758)
Northern Curly-tailed LizardLeiocephalus carinatus armouri Gray, 1827
Haitian Curlytail LizardLeiocephalus personatus scalaris Cochran, 1932
Red-sided Curly-tailed LizardLeiocephalus schreibersii schreibersii (Gravenhorst, 1837)
Butterfly lizardLeiolepis belliana belliana Smith 1935
many-striped skinkMabuya multifasciata (Kuhl, 1820)
Jamaican giant anoleNorops garmani Stejneger, 1899
Giant day geckoPhelsuma madagascariensis grandis Gray 1870
Texas horned lizardPhrynosoma cornutum (Harlan, 1825)
Burmese pythonPython molurus ssp. bivittatus Kuhl, 1820
ball pythonPython regius (Shaw, 1802)
Reticulated PythonPython reticulatus (Schneider, 1801)
African rock pythonPython sebae (Gmelin, 1788)
pythonsPython spp. Daudin, 1803
brahminy blind snakeRamphotyphlops braminus (Daudin, 1803)
Ocellated GeckoSphaerodactylus argus argus Gosse, 1850
Ashy geckoSphaerodactylus elegans elegans Macleay 1834
White-spotted Wall GeckoTarentola annularis (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827)
Moorish Wall GeckoTarentola mauritanica (Linnaeus, 1758)
red-eared sliderTrachemys scritpa elegans (Wied-Neuwied, 1839)
black and white teguTupinambis merianae Linnaeus, 1758
red teguTupinambis rufescens (Guenther 1871)
Unidentified TeguTupinambis spp. Daudin, 1803
Gold teguTupinambis teguixin (Linnaeus, 1758)
black-throated monitorVaranus albigularis ionidesi Laurent, 1964
Savannah monitorVaranus exanthematicus (Bosc, 1792)
Peach-throated MonitorVaranus jobiensis Ahl, 1932
Nile monitorVaranus niloticus (Linnaeus in Hasselquist, 1762)
crocodile monitorVaranus salvadorii (Peters and Doria, 1878)
common water monitorVaranus salvator (Laurenti, 1768)




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