Greater Waterberg Landscape: 74 species of reptiles known or expected to occur:

TORTOISES & Leopard Tortoise Stigmochelys pardalis TERRAPINS

Kalahari Tent Tortoise Psammobates oculiferus

Marsh/Helmeted Terrapin Pelomedusa subrufa

SNAKES

Blind Snakes Boyle’s Beaked Blind Snake Rhinotyphlops boylei

Schinz’s Beaked Blind Snake Rhinotyphlops schinzi

Schlegel’s Beaked Blind Snake Rhinotyphlops schlegelii

Thread Snakes Peter’s Thread Snake Leptotyphlops scutifrons

Pythons Southern African Python Python natalensis

Burrowing Asps Bibron’s Burrowing Asp Atractaspis bibronii

Purple Glossed Kalahari Purple-glossed Snake Amblyodipsas ventrimaculata Snakes

Quill Snouted Bicoloured Quill-snouted Snake Xenocalamus bicolor Snakes

Elongate Quill-snouted Snake Xenocalamus mechowii

Typical Snakes Brown House Snake Lamprophis fuliginosus

Cape Wolf Snake Lycophidion capense

Angola File Snake Mehelya vernayi

Mole Snake Pseudaspis cana

Two-striped Shovel-snout Prosymna bivittata

South-western Shovel-snout Prosymna frontalis

Viperine Bark Snake Hemirhagerrhis viperinus

Dwarf Beaked Snake Dipsina multimaculata

Striped Skaapsteker Psammophylax tritaeniatus

Karoo Sand Snake Psammophis notostictus

Namib Sand Snake Psammophis leightoni trinasalis

Jalla’s Sand Snake Psammophis jallae

Stripe-bellied Sand Snake Psammophis subtaeniatus

Leopard and Short-snouted Psammophis brevirostris leopardinus Grass Snakes

Olive grass snake Psammophis mossambicus

Spotted Bush Snake Philothamnus semivariegatus

Common/Rhombic Egg Eater Dasypeltis scabra Eastern Tiger Snake Telescopus semiannulatus

Boomslang Dispholidus typus

Coral Snake Aspidelaps lubricus infuscatus

Shield-nose Snake Aspidelaps scutatus scutatus

Angolan Garter Snake Elapsoidea semiannulata

Sundevall’s Garter Snake Elapsoidea sunderwallii fitzsimonsi

Snouted Cobra Naja annulifera

Black-necked Spitting Cobra Naya nigricollis nigricincta

Black Mamba Dendroaspis polylepis

Puff Adder Bitis arietans

Horned Adder Bitis caudalis

Anchieta’s Spade-snouted Worm Lizards Monopeltis anchietae Worm Lizard

Kalahari Round-headed Worm Zygaspis quadrifrons Lizard

Dusky Spade-snouted Worm Monopeltis infuscata Lizard

Slender Spade-snouted Worm Monopeltis sphenorhynchus Lizard

LIZARDS

Skinks Percival’s Legless Skink Acontias percivali

Sundevall’s Writhing Skink Lygosoma sundevallii

Western Three-striped Skink Mabuya occidentalis

Kalahari Tree Skink Mabuya spilogaster

Striped Skink Mabuya striata wahlbergi

Western Rock Skink Mabuya sulcata

Variable Skink Trachylepis varia

Variegated Skink Mabuya variegata punctulata

Old World Lizards Bushveld Lizard Heliobolus lugubris

Cape Rough-scaled Lizard Ichnotropis capensis

Common Rough-scaled Lizard Ichnotropis squamulosa

Spotted Sandveld Lizard Nucras intertexta

Holub’s Sandveld Lizard Nucras holubi

Spotted Sand Lizard Pedioplanis lineoocellata lineoocellata

Namaqua Sand Lizard Pedioplanis namaquensis Plated Lizards Kalahari Plated Lizard Gerrhosaurus multilineatus

Giant Plated Lizard Gerrhosaurus validus

Girdled Lizards Jordan’s Girdled Lizard Cordylus jordani

Monitors Rock or White-throated Monitor Varanus albigularis

Agamas Ground Agama Agama aculeata

Anchieta’s Agama Agama anchietae

Namibian Rock Agama Agama planiceps

Chameleons Flap-neck Chameleon Chamaeleo dilepis

Geckos Bradfield’s Dwarf Gecko Lygodactylus bradfieldi

Festive Gecko Narudasia festiva

Velvety Thick-toed Gecko Pachydactylus bicolor

Cape Thick-toed Gecko Pachydactylus capensis

Turner’s Thick-toed Gecko Pachydactylus turneri

Speckled Thick-toed Gecko Pachydactylus punctatus

Common Barking Gecko Ptenopus garrulus garrulus