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Botswana Conservation LIST OF THE REPTILES OF WILD AT TULI Updated December 2013 ENGLISH NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME Order CHELONIA Family TESTUDINIDAE Leopard Tortoise Geochelone pardalis Family PELOMEDUSIDAE Serrated Hinged Terrapin Pelusios sinuatus Order SQUAMATA Suborder SERPENTES (Snakes) Family BOIDAE Southern African Python Python natalensis Family LEPTOTYPHLOPIDAE Peter’s Thread Snake Leptotyphlops scutifrons Family ATRACTASPIDIDAE Cape Centipede Eater Aparallactus capensis Family COLUBRIDAE Brown House Snake Lamprophis fuliginosus Two-Striped Shovel-Snout Prosymna bivittata East African Shovel-Snout Prosymna stuhlmannii Strip-Bellied Sand Snake Psammophis subtaeniatus Spotted Bush Snake Philothamnus semivariegatus Eastern Tiger Snake Telescopus semiannulatus Family ELAPIDAE Mozambique Spitting Cobra Naja mossambica Black Mamba Dendroaspis polyepis Family VIPERIDAE Puff Adder Bitis arietans Horned Adder Bitis caudalis Suborder SAURIA (Lizards) Family SCINCIDAE Sundevall’s Writhing Skink Lygosoma sundevallii Rainbow Skink Mabuya quinquetaenaiata Striped Skink Mabuya striata Family LACERTIDAE Bushveld Lizard Heliobolus lugubris Family GERRHOSAURIDAE Black-lined Plated Lizard Gerrhosaurus nigrolineatus Giant Plated Lizard Gerrhosaurus validus validus Family CORDYLIDAE Tropical Girdled Lizard Cordylus tropidosternum jonesi Common Flat Lizard Platysaurus intermedius Family VARANIDAE Rock Monitor Varanus albigularis Water Monitor Varanus niloticus Family AGAMIDAE Peter’s Ground Agama Agama armata Southern Tree Agama Acanthocercus atricollis Family CHAMAELEONIDAE Flap-Neck Chameleon Chamaeleo dilepis Family GEKKONIDAE Moreau’s Tropical House Gecko Hemidactylus mabouia Cape Dwarf Gecko Lygodactylus capensis Turner’s Thick-Toed Gecko Pachydactylus turneri Speckled Thick-Toed Gecko Pachydactylus punctatus Order CROCODYLIA Family CROCODYLIDAE Nile Crocodile Crocodylus niloticus .

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