Appendix 8 - Species list: Reptiles

Reptile species recorded in the Garden Route National Park. Source: Branch & Hanekom (1987); Grindley (1985); Jacobsen & Randall (2013); SANParks unpublished data; Whitfield et al. (1983).

Scientific Name Common Name

SQUAMATA - SERPENTES (SNAKES) TYPHLOPIDAE Rhinotyphlops lalandei Delalande’s beaked blind snake

COLUBRIDAE Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia Herald snake Dasypeltis scabra Common eggeater Dispholidus typus Boomslang Duberria lutrix Common slug-eater Lamprophis aurora Aurora house snake Lamprophis fuliginosus Brown house snake Lamprophis inornatus Olive house snake Lycodonomorphys rufulus Brown water snake Lycophidion capense Cape wolf snake Philothamnus hoplogaster Green water snake Philothamnus natalensis Western Natal green snake Psammophis crucifer Cross-marked grass snake Psammophylax rhombeatus Spotted skaapsteker Pseudaspis cana Mole snake

ELAPIDAE Homoroselaps lacteus Spotted harlequin snake Pelamis platura Yellow-bellied sea snake Naja nivea Cape cobra

VIPERIDAE Bitis arietans arietans Puff adder Bitis atropos Cape mountain adder Causus rhombeatus Common night adder

SQUAMATA - SAURIA (LIZARDS) SCINCIDAE Acontias meleagris Cape legless skink Eremias lineocelata Sand lizard Pedioplanis lineocellata Spotted sand lizard Trachylepis homalocephala Red-sided skink Trachylepis capensis Cape skink

GERRHOSAURIDAE Gerrhosaurus flavigularis Yellow-throated plated lizard Tetradactylus seps seps Short-legged seps

CORDYLIDAE Chamaesaura anguina Cape grass lizard Cordylus cordylus Cape girldiled lizard Ninurta coeruleopunctatus Blue-spotted girdled lizard Pseudocordylus microlepidotus Cape crag lizard

LACERTIDAE Tropidosaura gularis Yellow-striped mountain lizard

CHAMAELEONIDAE Bradypodion damaranum Knysna dwarf chameleon

GEKKONIDAE Pachydactylus geitjie Ocellated thick-toed gecko Afrogecko porpyreus Marbled leaf-toe gecko

AGAMINAE Agama atra atra Common rock agama

VARANIDAE Varanus exanthematicus Rock monitor

TESTUDINES (TORTOISES / TERRAPINS / TURTLES) TESTUDINIDAE Chersina angulata Angulate tortoise Stigmochelys pardalis Leopard tortoise Homopus areolatus Parrot-beaked tortoise

DERMOCHELYIDAE Eretmochelys imbricata Hawksbill sea turtle Dermochelys coriacea Leatherback turtle

CHELONIIDAE Caretta caretta Loggerhead turtle Chelonia mydas Green turtle

PELOMEDUSIDAE Pelomedusa subrufa Cape terrapin