Endangered Reptiles List

Reptiles have survived through the earliest days of life on earth and yet many species still face extinction today. Although they are more adaptable than a lot of other creatures reptiles have to contend with humans who are intruding on their habitats and making them unsafe.

Below you’ll find the reptiles who currently face endangered status.

Species Name

1. Abronia deppii
2. Abronia martindelcampoi
3. Acanthodactylus ahmaddisii
4. Acanthodactylus mechriguensis
5. Adelaide Pigmy Blue-tongue Skink
6. Aeolian Wall Lizard
7. Afghan Tortoise
8. African Slender-Snouted Crocodile
9. African Spurred Tortoise
10. Agkistrodon bilineatus
11. Alabama Red-Belly Turtle
12. Alcatrazes Lancehead
13. Aldabra Giant Tortoise
14. Allan’s Lerista
15. Alligator Snapping Turtle
16. Amami Takachiho Snake
17. American Crocodile
18. Anegada Ground Iguana
19. Angulated Tortoise
20. Annam Leaf Turtle
21. Antiguan Racer
22. Antsingy Leaf Chameleon
23. Apaporis River Caiman
24. Aquatic Box Turtle
25. Arakan Forest Turtle
26. Aran Rock Lizard
27. Argentine Tortoise
28. Arizona Striped Whiptail
29. Armadillo Girdled Lizard
30. Aruba Island Rattlesnake
31. Asian Giant Softshell Turtle
32. Asian Giant Tortoise
33. Asiatic Softshell Turtle
34. Assam Roofed Turtle
35. Atlas Day Gecko
36. Atlas Dwarf Lizard
37. Atlas Dwarf Viper
38. Aurelio’s Rock Lizard
39. Bahamas Rock Iguana
40. Bailey’s Snake
41. Baja California Legless Lizard
42. Baja California Whiptail
43. Balsas Armed Lizard
44. Banded Day Gecko
45. Banded Toed Gecko
46. Barbados Racer
47. Bardick Snake
48. Barker’s Anole
49. Barrington Land Iguana
50. Be’er Sheva Fringe-fingered Lizard
51. Beal’s-eyed Turtle
52. Bedriaga’s Fringe-fingered Lizard
53. Bedriaga’s Rock Lizard
54. Bedriaga’s Skink
55. Bengal Monitor
56. Bengal Roof Turtle
57. Berger’s Cape Tortoise
58. Bermuda Rock Lizard
59. Big Bend Slider
60. Big-headed Amazon River Turtle
61. Big-headed Turtle
62. Black Caiman
63. Black Marsh Turtle
64. Black Racer
65. Black Sea Viper
66. Black Softshell Turtle
67. Black-breasted Hill Turtle
68. Blackbelly Garter Snake
69. Blanc’s Fringe-toed Lizard
70. Blanc’s Sand Racer
71. Blue Mountain Water Skink
72. Blunt-nosed Leopard Lizard
73. Bog Turtle
74. Bolson Tortoise
75. Borbour’s Montane Pitviper
76. Bornean River Turtle
77. Brauer’s Burrowing Skink
78. Brazilian Giant Tortoise
79. Brazilian Sideneck Turtle
80. Brazilian Snake-necked Turtle
81. Brazos River Watersnake
82. Breedlove’s Anole
83. Breyer’s Long-tailed Seps
84. Brigalow Scaly-foot
85. Broad-headed Snake
86. Broad-snouted Caiman
87. Bronzeback Snake-lizard
88. Brook Snake
89. Brother’s Island Tuatara
90. Burmese Peacock Softshell Turtle
91. Burmese Peacock Turtle
92. Burmese Roofed Turtle
93. Burmese Starred Tortoise
94. Cagle’s Map Turtle
95. Campeche Spiny-tailed Iguana
96. Cantor’s Giant Softshell
97. Carbonell’s Wall Lizard
98. Carpetane Rock Lizard
99. Carvalho’s Slider
100. Cat Island Turtle
101. Caucasian Viper
102. Cave Tropical Night Lizard
103. Cayman Island Ground Iguana
104. Cayman Islands Ground Iguana
105. Celebes Tortoise
106. Central American River Turtle
107. Central American Snapping Turtle
108. Ceron’s Glass Lizard
109. Chaco Side-necked Turtle
110. Chalcides simonyi
111. Chaney’s Spiny Lizard
112. Chevron Skink
113. Chiapan Pigmy Anole
114. Chihuahuan Fringe-toed Lizard
115. Chinese Alligator
116. Chinese Broad-headed Pond Turtle
117. Chinese Soft-shelled Turtle
118. Chinese Stripe-necked Turtle
119. Chinese Three-keeled Pond Turtle
120. Chinese Three-striped Box Turtle
121. Chiszar’s Arboreal Alligator Lizard
122. Christmas Island Blind Snake
123. Clarion Island Whip Snake
124. Cloud Forest Parrot Snake
125. Coachella Valley Fringe-toed Lizard
126. Coahuila Collared Lizard
127. Cochin Forest Cane Turtle
128. Collared Delma
129. Colorado Checkered Whiptail
130. Colorado Desert Fringe-toed Lizard
131. Common Tortoise
132. Concho Water Snake
133. Cope’s Mountain Meadow Snake
134. Crevice Tortoise
135. Crocker’s Sea Snake
136. Crowned River Turtle
137. Cuatro Cienegas Slider
138. Cuatro Cienegas Softshell Turtle
139. Cuban Crocodile
140. Culebra Island Giant Anole
141. Cyclades Blunt-nosed Viper
142. Cyprus Whip Snake
143. Cyrtopodion amictopholis
144. Dahl’s Toad-headed Turtle
145. Darevsky’s Viper
146. Dary’s Burrowing Snake
147. Desert Monitor
148. Desert Tortoise
149. Desert Viper
150. Dixon’s Ground Snake
151. Doumergue’s Fringe-fingered Lizard
152. Doumergue’s Skink
153. Dumeril’s Boa
154. Dunes Sagebrush Lizard
155. Dunmall’s Snake
156. Dunn’s Mud Turtle
157. Dwarf Bronze Gecko
158. Dwarf Crag Lizard
159. Dwarf Crocodile
160. Eastern Fox Snake
161. Ebner’s Skink
162. Egyptian Tortoise
163. El Muerto Side-blotched Lizard
164. Elongated Tortoise
165. Enchanted Side-blotched Lizard
166. Eumeces dugesi
167. Euphrates Softshell Turtle
168. European Leaf-toed Gecko
169. False Smooth Snake
170. Fiji Crested Iguana
171. Fiji Snake
172. Fijji Banded Iguana
173. File-tailed Ground Snake
174. Fisk’s House Snake
175. Fitzroy River Turtle
176. Five-keeled Spiny-tailed Iguana
177. Flat-tailed Horned Lizard
178. Flat-tailed Tortoise
179. Flathead Knob-Scaled Lizard
180. Flattened Musk Turtle
181. Florida Sand Skink
182. Florida Scrub Lizard
183. Fly River Turtle
184. Four-eyed Turtle
185. Fraas’ Lizard
186. Fringe-toed Sand Lizard
187. Furrowed Wood Turtle
188. Gaige’s Tropical Night Lizard
189. Galapagos Land Iguana
190. Galapagos Marine Iguana
191. Galapagos Tortoise
192. Ganges Soft-shelled Turtle
193. Gavial
194. Geometric Tortoise
195. Giant Asian Pond Turtle
196. Giant Bronze Gecko
197. Giant Garter Snake
198. Giant Girdled Lizard
199. Giant Hispaniolan Galliwasp
200. Giant Hispaniolan Galliwasp
201. Giant Hispaniolan Galliwasp
202. Gila Monster
203. Golden Lancehead
204. Goldman’s Bunchgrass Lizard
205. Gopher Tortoise
206. Grand Cayman Ground Iguana
207. Grand Skink
208. Gray’s Monitor
209. Gray-checkered Whiptail
210. Great Desert Skink
211. Greek Algyroides
212. Greek Rock Lizard
213. Green Psammodromus
214. Green Sea Turtle
215. Guatemalan Spiny-tailed Iguana
216. Gunther’s Cylindrical Skink
217. Gunther’s Dwarf Burrowing Skink
218. Haitian Slider
219. Hamelin Ctenotus
220. Hardy’s Hooknose Snake
221. Hawksbill Sea Turtle
222. Herrera’s Alligator Lizard
223. Herrera’s Mud Turtle
224. Hidalgo Anole
225. Hispaniolan Ground Iguana
226. Home’s Hinge-back Tortoise
227. Honduran Paleate Spiny-tailed Iguana
228. Horvath’s Rock Lizard
229. Iberian Emerald Lizard
230. Iberian Rock Lizard
231. Ibiza Wall Lizard
232. Impressed Tortoise
233. Inagua Island Turtle
234. Indian Eyed Turtle
235. Indian Python
236. Indian Sawback Turtle
237. Indian Softshell Turtle
238. Indochinese Box Turtle
239. Jagged-shelled Turtle
240. Jamaican Boa
241. Jamaican Iguana
242. Kasner’s Dwarf Burrowing Skink
243. Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle
244. Kikuzato’s Brook Snake
245. Kirtland’s Snake
246. Komodo Island Monitor
247. Kuroiwa’s Ground Gecko
248. La Gomera Giant Lizard
249. La Palma Giant Lizard
250. Labord’s Chameleon
251. Lacepede’s Ground Snake
252. Lacerta clarkorum
253. Lacerta kulzeri
254. Lake Cronin Snake
255. Lancelin Island Skink
256. Lanza’s Skink
257. Lar Valley Viper
258. Large-headed Water Snake
259. Largescale Spiny Lizard
260. Lataste’s Viper
261. Leaf-nosed Lizard
262. Leatherback Sea Turtle
263. Lebanon Viper
264. Leeward Island Racer
265. Leith’s Softshell Turtle
266. Leopard Fringe-fingered Lizard
267. Lesser Antillean Iguana
268. Lesser Chameleon
269. Lesser Night Gecko
270. Lilford’s Wall Lizard
271. Liolaemus lutzae
272. Liolaemus occipitalis
273. Liolaemus rabinoi
274. Liolaemus huacahuasicus
275. Lipetz’s Tropical Night Lizard
276. Lister’s Gecko
277. Little White Whiptail
278. Loggerhead Sea Turtle
279. Lomi’s Blind Legless Skink
280. Long-legged Worm-skink
281. Longtail Rattlesnake
282. Lord Howe Island Skink
283. Lord Howe Island Southern Gecko
284. Louisiana Pine Snake
285. Macgregor’s Skink
286. Madagascar Big-headed Turtle
287. Madagascar Boa
288. Madagascar Day Gecko
289. Madagascar Forest Chameleon
290. Madagascar Radiated Tortoise
291. Madagascar Tree Boa
292. Malayan Flat-shelled Turtle
293. Malayan Snail-eating Turtle
294. Mallee Worm-lizard
295. Manuel’s Skink
296. Marcella’s Graceful Brown Snake
297. Maria Island Ground Lizard
298. Maria Island Snake
299. Mary River Turtle
300. Matuda’s Arboreal Alligator Lizard
301. McCord’s Box Turtle
302. Mclachlan’s Girdled Lizard
303. Meadow Viper
304. Methuen’s Dwarf Gecko
305. Mexican Black-tailed Pit Viper
306. Mexican Horned Pitviper
307. Mexican Spotted Terrapin
308. Mexican Yellow-bellied Brown Snake
309. Miles Wall Lizard
310. Mixtecan Arboreal Alligator Lizard
311. Mona Blind Snake
312. Monito Gecko
313. Monte Cristo Arboreal Alligator Lizard
314. Montserrat Galliwasp
315. Moorish Viper
316. Morelet’s Crocodile
317. Moroccan Three-toed Skink
318. Mosor Rock Lizard
319. Moss-backed Turtle
320. Mount Bulgar Viper
321. Mount Cooper Striped Lerista
322. Mount Zempoaltepec Alligator Lizard
323. Mountain Skink
324. Mountain Viper
325. Mugger Crocodile
326. Namaqua Dwarf Adder
327. Namoi River Snapping Turtle
328. Narrow-bridged Mud Turtle
329. Narrow-headed Softshell Turtle
330. Negev Tortoise
331. Newman’s Knob-Scaled Lizard
332. Northern Arboreal Alligator Lizard
333. Northern Bahamian Rock Iguana
334. Northern Chiapas Anole
335. Nuevo Leon Graceful Brown Snake
336. Oaxacan Arboreal Alligator Lizard
337. Oaxacan Coral Snake
338. Oaxacan Dwarf Boa
339. Oaxacan Spiny-tailed Iguana
340. Ocellated Lizard
341. Olive Ridley Sea Turtle
342. Orinoco Crocodile
343. Ornamental Snake
344. Ornate Slider
345. Ornate Spiny Lizard
346. Otago Skink
347. Pacific Pond Turtle
348. Painted Batagur
349. Pan’s Box Turtle
350. Panamint Alligator Lizard
351. Paraguanan Ground Gecko
352. Parker’s Snake-necked Turtle
353. Peacock Soft-shelled Turtle
354. Peacock Softshell Turtle
355. Pedra Branca Skink
356. Peloponnese Slow Worm
357. Pena de Francia Rock Lizard
358. Pernatty Knob-tail
359. Philippine Crocodile
360. Philippine Pond Turtle
361. Philochortus zolii
362. Piraja’s Lancehead
363. Plain Mountain Adder
364. Plymouth Red-bellied Turtle
365. Potosi Centipede Snake
366. Pritchard’s Snake-necked Turtle
367. Puerto Rican Boa
368. Pygmy Alligator Lizard
369. Pygmy Copperhead
370. Pyrenean Rock Lizard
371. Queretaran Desert Lizard
372. Ramsay’s Python
373. Red-bellied Earth Runner
374. Red-bellied Racer
375. Red-headed Amazon River Turtle
376. Red-necked Pond Turtle
377. Reticulate Collared Lizard
378. Rhadinaea fulvivittis
379. Rhinoceros Iguana
380. Rim Rock Crowned Snake
381. Ringed Sawback
382. Rio Magdalena River Turtle
383. River Terrapin
384. Roatan Spiny-tailed Iguana
385. Robust Skink
386. Rodeck’s Whiptail
387. Rodrigues Day Gecko
388. Roque Chico de Salmor Giant Lizard
389. Roti Island Snake-necked Turtle
390. Roughneck Alligator Lizard
391. Round Island Burrowing Boa
392. Round Island Casarea Boa
393. Round Island Day Gecko
394. Round Island Skink
395. Rowley’s Palm Pit Viper
396. Royal Yarrow’s Spiny Lizard
397. Ruthvens Kingsnake
398. Ryukyu Black-breasted Leaf Turtle
399. Saltwater Crocodile
400. San Esteban Island Chuckwalla
401. San Francisco Garter Snake
402. San Lucan Leaf-toed Gecko
403. San Pedro Martir Side-blotched Lizard
404. San Pedro Martir Whiptail
405. Sandstone Night Lizard
406. Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake
407. Santa Catalina Island Whiptail
408. Savigny’s Agama
409. Savigny’s Fringe-fingered Lizard
410. Schreiber’s Fringe-fingered Lizard
411. Scree Skink
412. Serpent Island Gecko
413. Setaro’s Dwarf Chameleon
414. Seychelles House Snake
415. Seychelles Wolf Snake
416. Shanghai Soft-shell Turtle
417. Short-necked Turtle
418. Short-tailed Snake
419. Siamese Crocodile
420. Sierra Juarez Alligator Lizard
421. Six-tubercled Amazon River Turtle
422. Skyros Wall Lizard
423. Small Three-toed Skink
424. Small-scaled Skink
425. Smith’s Dwarf Chamaeleon
426. Sonora Mud Turtle
427. South American Red-lined Turtle
428. South Asian Box Turtle
429. Southern Hog-nosed Snake
430. Southern New Guinea Snapping Turtle
431. Spanish Algyroides
432. Spatula-toothed Snake
433. Spider Tortoise
434. Spineless Forest Lizard
435. Spiny Terrapin
436. Spot-tailed Earless Lizard
437. Spotted Pond Turtle
438. Spotted Spiny Lizard
439. Spotted Turtle
440. St. Croix Ground Lizard
441. St. Vincent Blacksnake
442. Stephen’s Island Gecko
443. Striped Legless Lizard
444. Striped Narrow-headed Softshell Turtle
445. Striped Skink
446. Striped Tailed Delma
447. Sulawesi Forest Turtle
448. Swollen-nosed Side-blotched Lizard
449. Tamaulipan Montane Garter Snake
450. Tancitaran Dusky Rattlesnake
451. Tantalophis discolor
452. Tartaruga
453. Telescopus hoogstraali
454. Tenerife Speckled Lizard
455. Terrestrial Arboreal Alligator Lizard
456. Thamnophis scaliger
457. Three-keeled Asian Turtle
458. Three-striped Roof Turtle
459. Tiger Chameleon
460. Todos Santos Island Kingsnake
461. Tomistoma
462. Tracaja
463. Travancore Tortoise
464. Trimeresurus mangshanensis
465. Tropical Forest Snake
466. Tropical Forest Snake
467. Tuatara
468. Turkana Mud Turtle
469. Tuxtlan Earth Snake
470. Twin-spotted Tolucan Ground Snake
471. Two-fingered Skink
472. Uromastyx alfredschmidti
473. Urosaurus clarionensis
474. Urosaurus auriculatus
475. Utila Spiny-tailed Iguana
476. Vesey-fitzgerald’s Burrowing Skink
477. Vipera dinniki
478. Virgin Islands Tree Boa
479. Wagner’s Viper
480. Watling Island Iguana
481. Wattle-necked Softshell Turtle
482. Whitaker’s Skink
483. Wiegmann’s Tree Lizard
484. Wood Turtle
485. Woodbush Legless Skink
486. Wright’s Skink
487. Xenosaurus grandis
488. Yaqui Slider
489. Yarrow’s Blue-spotted Spiny Lizard
490. Yellow Blotched Sawback
491. Yellow Monitor
492. Yellow-Blotched Palm Pit Viper
493. Yellow-headed Box Turtle
494. Yellow-headed Temple Turtle
495. Yellow-Lined Centipede Snake
496. Yellow-margined Box Turtle
497. Yellowback Spiny-tailed Iguana
498. Yinnietharra Rock Dragon
499. Yucatan Spiny-tailed Iguana
500. Yuman Desert Fringe-toed Lizard
501. Zhou’s Box Turtle
502. Zulia Toad Headed Sideneck

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