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
- Pig-nose turtles
- Australo-American sideneck turtles
- Seaturtles
- Snapping turtles
- Central American river turtles
- Leatherback seaturtles
- New World pond turtles
- Eurasian pond
- River turtles
- Neotropical wood turtles
- American mud
- Musk turtles
- African sideneck turtles
- Big-headed turtles
- Afro-American river turtles
- Tortoises
- Softshell turtles
- Gharials
- Alligators
- Caimans
- Crocodiles
- False gharials
- Tuatara
- Angleheads
- Calotes
- Dragon lizards
- Chameleons
- Anoles
- Iguanas
- Geckos
- Pygopods
- Blindskinks
- Wormlizards
- Mole-limbed wormlizards
- Florida wormlizards
- Spade-headed wormlizards
- Night lizards
- Wall lizards
- Rock lizards
- Microteiids
- Whiptail lizards
- Tegus
- Girdled and plated lizards
- Skinks
- Alligator lizards
- Galliwasps
- Glass lizards
- Knob-scaled lizards
- Gila monsters
- Mexican beaded lizards
- Goannas
- Earless monitors
- Early blindsnakes
- Slender blindsnakes
- Blindsnakes
- False blindsnakes
- Shieldtail snakes
- Pipe snakes
- False coral snakes
- Sunbeam snakes
- Neotropical sunbeam snakes
- Boas
- Pythons
- Splitjaw snakes
- Woodsnakes
- Spinejaw snakes
- File snakes
- Vipers
- Pitvipers
- African burrowing snakes
- Colubrids
- Cobras
- Kraits
- Seasnakes
- Death adders
Note: There are several species under each of the above listed animals. You can see all are in plurals.
