Explore reptiles including turtles, snakes, lizards, and crocodilians, with species profiles covering size, habitat, lifespan, traits, and IUCN status.
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Reptiles are traditionally divided into four major orders: Lepidosauria (snakes and lizards), Testudinata (turtles), Crocodilia (crocodiles), and Rhynchocephalus (representatives of ancient reptiles).
| Classification level | Order | Family | Genus | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lepidosaurs | Squamata | Lacertidae | Lacerta | Green lizard, sand lizard |
| Varanidae | Varanus | Komodo dragon | ||
| Viperidae | Vipera | Common viper | ||
| Elapidae | Naja | Cobra, Black Mamba | ||
| Boa | Python | |||
| Crotalinae | Crotalus | Rattlesnake | ||
| Testudinata | Testudinata (Testudines) | Testudinidae | Testudo | Sulcata tortoise, Indian star tortoise |
| Cheloniidae | Chelonia | Green turtle, hawksbill turtle | ||
| Mud turtle family (Kinosternidae) | Mud turtle genus (Kinosternon) | Mud turtle | ||
| Trionychidae | Pelodiscus | Chinese softshell turtle | ||
| Crocodylia | Crocodile (Crocodylidae) | Crocodile (Crocodylus) | Nile crocodile, saltwater crocodile | Nile crocodile, saltwater crocodile |
| Alligatoridae | Alligator (Alligator) | American alligator, Chinese alligator | ||
| Gavialidae | Gavialis | Gharials | ||
| Rhynchocephalia | Rhynchocephalia | Sphenodontidae | Sphenodon | Sphenodon (endemic to Oceania) |
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Mauremys nigricans,Red-necked pond turtle,Painted turtle, black-necked painted turtle, three-lined turtle, Guangdong grass turtle, black-necked terrapin
The black-necked turtle is large in size and lives in streams in subtropical hilly and mountainous forests. The black-necked turtl···
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Cyclemys oldhamii,Snake-catching turtle, snake-catch turtle, snake-killing turtle
The European turtle is a wild animal of the order Testudinata and family Geochelone. In the wild, it often hides near dead trees t···
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Testudo horsfieldii,Afghan Tortoise Central Asian Tortoise Four-toed Tortoise Horsfield's Tortoise Steppe Tortoise,Land turtle, taspaha, prairie tortoise, land tortoise, turtle
In the Yili River Valley in Xinjiang, China, there is a small creature called "Tasipaka". "Tasipaka" means &qu···
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Manouria impressa,Impressed Tortoise, Kirin tortoise
Concave-shelled tortoise lives in tropical and subtropical mountainous areas. Adults live on the banks of mountain streams, and yo···
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Indotestudo elongata,Elongated Tortoise,Yellow elephant turtle, pillow turtle, dry turtle, Burma land, dragon claw turtle and so on
Burmese tortoises are subtropical terrestrial tortoises, living in mountains, hills and bush forests, active at night, warm and af···
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Platysternon megacephalum，Big-headed Turtle，Hawk-billed turtle, big-headed flat-chested turtle, eagle turtle, etc
Flat chest turtle like Yin fear of high temperature, fierce temperament, rock climbing and tree climbing ability is very strong. I···
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Tortoise, golden turtle, grass turtle, mud turtle, mountain turtle, black turtle, flower turtle
In a broad sense, turtle refers to the general term for animals of the order Testudinata, and in a narrow sense, refers to species···
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Ophiophagus hannah,King Cobra
King cobra is different from real cobra. It is not a member of the genus Cobra, but belongs to the independent genus Cobra. Compar···
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Aldabra giant tortoise, Seychelles giant tortoise, Darding giant tortoise, Arnold's giant tortoise
This tortoise was discovered by humans more than 400 years ago. At that time, people did not realize that it was a long-lived anim···
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Sulcata tortoise, Sulcata tortoise, African spurred tortoise, spurred tortoise, hairy-clawed tortoise
The Sulcata tortoise is a tortoise reptile that lives on land. It originally belonged to the family Testudinidae and the genus Tes···
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green sea turtle,Green turtle, blue turtle, stone turtle, tsio̍h-ku,ku-piah,ku-phi̍ah
Turtles are one of the oldest animals on Earth. These creatures have existed in the world for more than 200 million years, but the···
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Frilled lizard, cloaked lizard, frilled lizard, Australian cloaked lizard, pleated lizard, wrinkled lizard
伞蜥来自新几内亚南部和澳大利亚北部沿海地区，是一种知名度极高的中大型蜥蜴，在鬣蜥科属于第二大蜥蜴（最大的是斑帆蜥）。两种不同产地的···
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Water monitor, marsh monitor, five-clawed golden dragon, four-legged snake, round-nosed monitor
Speaking of the nickname of the water monitor lizard, everyone is familiar with it, that is - the five-clawed golden dragon.Althou···
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Veiled chameleon
The veiled chameleon is native to Central Asia, such as Saudi Arabia and Yemen, so they have another name - Yemen chameleon. They ···
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carpet python, felt python, central python
All pythons are non-venomous, and carpet pythons are no exception.Carpet pythons strangle their prey by constricting their bodies.···
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Crocodile lizard, water gecko, Yaoshan crocodile lizard, big sleeping snake, wood sleeping fish, drowned dog
Between 1928 and 1929, the biology department of Sun Yat-sen University went to Dayao Mountain in Guangxi, China, and collected 28···
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Malayan alligator, Malayan crocodile
The Malayan crocodile looks very similar to the Ganges crocodile (Gavialis gangeticus), but its head gradually narrows towards the···
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Grassland monitor lizard, plains monitor lizard
The plain monitor lizard is docile and not too big; it rarely has problems with eating. Because it has a low sense of aggression a···
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Chameleon, horsehair snake, cockscomb snake, four-legged snake
Ancient folklore says that if you are bitten by a crested snake, you will definitely die. However, up to now, no snake has been fo···