Research Centre, Mogalakwena Farm MR 383, Alldays, Limpopo E: [email protected] | W: www.researchlimpopo.com & www.mogalakwena.com REPTILE LIST SPECIES COMMON NAME Land tortoises Geochelone pardalis Mountain or leopard tortoise Kinixys spekii Speke's hinged tortoise Terrapin Pelomedusa subrufa Marsh terrapin Pelusios sinuatus Serrated hinged terrapin Burrowing asps, mole vipers, Atractaspis bibronii Southern stiletto snake or Bibron's stiletto snakes burrowing asp Aparallactus capensis Cape or black-headed centipede-eater Xenocalamus bicolor Slender quill-snouted snake Blind snakes Rhinotyphlops lalandei Delalande's beaked blind snake Rhinotyphlops schlegelii Schlegel's beaked blind snake Thread snakes Leptotyphlops longicaudus Long-tailed thread snake Leptotyphlops scutifrons Peter's worm or thread snake Boas and pythons Python natalensis Southern African python Typical snakes Boaedon capensis Cape or brown house snake Lycophidion capense Cape wolf snake Mehelya nyassae Black file snake Pseudaspis cana Mole snake Rhamphiophis rostratus Rufous beaked snake Telescopus semiannulatus African tiger snake Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia Herald snake Prosymna bivittata Two-striped shovel snout Sand snakes and relatives Psammophylax tritaeniatus Striped skaapsteker Psammophis subtaeniatus Western stripe-bellied sand snake Colubrine snakes Philothamnus semivariegatus Spotted bush snake Dasypeltis scabra Common or rhombic egg eater Dispholidus typus typus Boomslang Thelotornis capensis capensis Twig or vine snake Experience, create, research… SPECIES COMMON NAME Cobras, mambas and relatives Aspidelaps scutatus Shield-nose snake Naja annulifera Snouted or Egyptian cobra Naja mossambica Mozambique spitting cobra Dendroaspis polylepis Black mamba Vipers Bitis arietans African puff adder Tropical worm lizards Monopeltis sphenorhynchus Slender spade-snouted worm lizard Skinks Mochlus sundevallii Sundevall's writhing skink Trachylepis capensis Cape skink Trachylepis margeritifer Rainbow or five-line skink Trachylepis striata African striped skink Trachylepis varia Variable skink Trachylepis variegata Variegated skink Afroablepharus maculicollis Spotted lidless skink Panaspis spp. Spotted-neck snake-eyed skink Scelotes limpopoensis Limpopo burrowing skink Old world lizards Heliobolus lugubris Bushveld lizard Nucras holubi Holub's sandveld lizard Plated lizards Gerrhosaurus nigrolineatus Black-lined plated lizard Gerrhosaurus validus Giant plated lizard Girdled lizards Cordylus jonesii Limpopo girdled lizard Cordylus tropidosternum jonesi Tropical girdled lizard Platysaurus intermedius rhodesianus Common flat lizard Desert lizards Meroles squamulosa Common rough scaled lizard Monitors Varanus albigularis Rock monitor Varanus niloticus Nile monitor Agamas Agama aculeata Ground agama Agama armata Peter's ground agama Acanthocercus atricollis Black-necked agama Chameleons Camaeleo dilepsis Flap-necked chameleon SPECIES COMMON NAME Geckos Chondrodactylus turneri Turner's thick-toed gecko Hemidactylus mabouia Moreau's tropical house gecko Homopholis wahlbergii Wahlberg's velvet gecko Lygodactylus capensis Cape dwarf gecko Pachydactylus punctatus Speckled thick-toed gecko Pachydactylus turneri bibronii Turner's thick-toed gecko Chondrodactylus turneri Turner's thick-toed gecko Crocodiles Crocodylus niloticus Nile crocodile .