75 Colourful But Scary Reptiles

Life Trends / June 24, 2017 / Wright Jr.

List of Reptiles. What is the difference between amphibians and reptiles? How many are the reptiles? In our previous articles, we listed 50 sort of amphibians here, some 200+ mammalian animals, while we tried to see to some 200+ types of birds here. If that wasn’t enough, Topify did as much to get you familiar with 199 Dog Breeds you probably don’t know if their existence (see also our list of 313 top strange animals).

However, the fact remains that the difference between amphibians and reptiles is that reptiles exhibit a suite of characteristics understandable as adaptations to life on land at increasing distance from water. Although many species of amphibians live on land in adulthood, most have an aquatic larval stage, and few can exist for long without moisture even during their terrestrial stages of life.

Amphibians are tied to water—most species are not found more than a few meters from water or from moist soil, humus, or vegetation. Reptiles of many species are relatively liberated from water and can inhabit both mesic (moist) and xeric (dry) environments. Reptiles need water for various physiological processes, as do all living things, but some reptiles can obtain the water they need from the foods they eat and through conservative metabolic processes without drinking or by drinking only infrequently.

List of Reptiles

1. Pig-nose turtles
2. Australo-American sideneck turtles
3. Seaturtles
4. Snapping turtles
5. Central American river turtles
6. Leatherback seaturtles
7. New World pond turtles
8. Eurasian pond
9. River turtles
10. Neotropical wood turtles
11. American mud
12. Musk turtles
13. African sideneck turtles
14. Big-headed turtles
15. Afro-American river turtles
16. Tortoises
17. Softshell turtles
18. Gharials
19. Alligators
20. Caimans
21. Crocodiles
22. False gharials
23. Tuatara
24. Angleheads
25. Calotes
26. Dragon lizards
27. Chameleons
28. Anoles
29. Iguanas
30. Geckos
31. Pygopods
32. Blindskinks
33. Wormlizards
34. Mole-limbed wormlizards
35. Florida wormlizards
36. Spade-headed wormlizards
37. Night lizards
38. Wall lizards
39. Rock lizards
40. Microteiids
41. Whiptail lizards
42. Tegus
43. Girdled and plated lizards
44. Skinks
45. Alligator lizards
46. Galliwasps
47. Glass lizards
48. Knob-scaled lizards
49. Gila monsters
50. Mexican beaded lizards
51. Goannas
52. Earless monitors
53. Early blindsnakes
54. Slender blindsnakes
55. Blindsnakes
56. False blindsnakes
57. Shieldtail snakes
58. Pipe snakes
59. False coral snakes
60. Sunbeam snakes
61. Neotropical sunbeam snakes
62. Boas
63. Pythons
64. Splitjaw snakes
65. Woodsnakes
66. Spinejaw snakes
67. File snakes
68. Vipers
69. Pitvipers
70. African burrowing snakes
71. Colubrids
72. Cobras
73. Kraits
74. Seasnakes
75. Death adders

Note: There are several species under each of the above listed animals. You can see all are in plurals.