Reptiles of the Yucatan Peninsula

Loggerhead Turtle Hatchling, (Photo - Hotel Eco Paraíso)

1. Morelet's Crocodile - Crocodylus moreletii
2. American Crocodile - Crocodylus acutus

1. Green Turtle - Chelonia mydas (Threatened)
2. Loggerhead Turtle - Caretta caretta (Threatened)
3. Hawksbill Turtle - Eretmochelys imbricata (Endangered)
4. Leatherback Turtle - Dermochelys coriacea (Endangered)
5. Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle - Lepidochelys kempi (Endangered)
6. Tabasco Mud Turtle - Kinosternon acutum
7. Creaser's Mud Turtle - Kinosternon creaseri
8. White-lipped Mud Turtle - Kinosternon leucostomum
9. Scorpion Mud Turtle - Kinosternon scorpiodes  ...photo 
10. Narrow-bridged Musk Turtle - Claudius angustatus
11. Mexican Giant Musk Turtle - Staurotypus triporcatus
12. Furrowed Wood Turtle - Rhinoclemmys areolata
13. Yucatan Box Turtle - Terrapene carolina yucatana
14. Slider - Trachemys scripta
15. Central American River Turtle - Dermatemys mawii (in far-southern Quintana Roo & western Campeche)
16. Common Snapping Turtle - Chelydra serpentina rossignonii

Morelet's Crocodile, Coba
1. Black-beaded Lizard - Heloderma horridu
2. Dwarf Gecko - Sphaerodactylus glaucus  ...photo 
3. Spotted Gecko - Sphaerodactylus millepunctatus  ...photo 
4. Ocellated Dwarf Gecko - Sphaerodactylus argus
5. House Gecko - Hemidactylus frenatus...photo
6. Mediterranean Gecko - Hemidactylus turcicus
7. Saint George Island Gecko - Aristelliger georgeensis
8. Tuberculate Leaf-toed Gecko - Phyllodactylus tuberculosus
9. Central American Smooth Gecko (Turnip-tailed Gecko) - Thecadactylus rapicauda
10. Yucatan Banded Gecko - Coleonyx elegans  ...photo 
11. Yellow-spotted (Yucatan) Spiny Lizard - Sceloporus chrysostictus (endemic to the Yucatan Peninsula)
12. Cozumel Spiny Lizard - Sceloporus cozumelae (Endemic to Cozumel and northern coasts of Yucatán peninsula)
13. Lundell’s Spiny Lizard - Sceloporus lundelli
14. Blue Spiny Lizard - Sceloporus serrifer
15. Rose-bellied Spiny Lizard (Rosebelly Lizard) - Sceloporus variabilis (in far-southwestern Quintana Roo)
16. Black Iguana - Ctenosaura similis
17. Campeche Spiny-tailed Iguana - Ctenosaura alfredschmidti
18. Yucatan Spiny-tailed Iguana - Ctenosaura defensor (endemic to the Yucatan, only in the western part of the peninsula)
19. Green Iguana - Iguana iguana
20. Eastern Casquehead Iguana - Laemanctus longipes (in far-southern Campeche & far-southwestern Quintana Roo)
21. Serrated Casquehead Iguana - Laemanctus serratus  ...photo 
22. Brown Basilisk - Basiliscus vittatus
23. Smoothhead Helmeted Basilisk (Elegant-headed Basilisk or "Casque-headed Lizard") - Corytophanes cristatus (in south Campeche)
24. Helmeted Basilisk - Corytophanes hernandezii
25. Neotropical Green Anole - Norops biporcatus
26. Brown Anole - Norops sagrei  ...photo 
27. Ghost Anole - Norops lemurinus
28. Silky Anole - Norops sericeus
29. Smooth Anole - Norops rodriguezi
30. Greater Scaly Anole - Norops tropidonotus
31. Rainbow Amieva - Amieva undulata
32. Yucatan Whiptail - Cnemidophorus angusticeps
33. Checkered Whiptail - Aspidoscelis tesselata (Cnemidophorus tesselatus)
34. Maslin's Racerunner - Aspidoscelis maslini (Cnemidophorus maslini)
35. Cozumel Racerunner (Whiptail) - Aspidoscelis cozumela (Cnemidophorus cozumelae)
36. Rodeck's Whiptail - Aspidoscelis (Cnemidophorus) rodecki (endemic to Islas Contoy & Mujeres off the north Yucatan Peninsula, and on the mainland in the vicinity of Puerto Juarez)
37. Schwartze's Skink (Yucatan Giant Skink)- Eumeces schwartzei
38. Sumichrast's Skink - Eumeces sumichrasti
39. Central American Mabuya (Bronze-backed Climbing Skink) - Mabuya unimarginata

Black-tailed Indigo Snake eating Black Iguana
Red Coffee Snake, (Photo - Jim Conrad)

Non-venomous Snakes

1. Black Blind Snake - Leptotyphlops goudotii
2. Yucatan Blind Snake - Typhlops microstomus
3. Boa Constrictor - Boa constrictor
4. Middle American Burrowing Snake - Adelphicos quadrivirgatus
5. Rustyhead Snake - Amastridium veliferum
6. Mussurana - Clelia clelia
7. Mexican Snake Eater - Clelia scytalina
8. Eastern Racer - Coluber constrictor
9. Two-spotted Snake - Coniophanes bipunctatus  ...photo 
10. Yellowbelly Snake - Coniophanes fissidens  ...photo 
11. Black-striped Snake - Coniophanes imperialis
12. Peninsular Stripeless Snake (Yucatan Striped Snake) - Coniophanes meridanus (endemic to the northern end of the Yucatan Peninsula, in northern Campeche and Quintana Roo)
13. Five-striped Snake - Coniophanes quinquevittatus
14. Faded Black-striped (Schmidt's Striped) Snake - Coniophanes schmidti
15. Many-lined Snake (Yucatan Road Guarder) - Conophis lineatus
16. Snail-eating Thirst Snake (Short-faced Snail Sucker) - Dipsas brevifacies
17. Middle American Smooth-scaled Racer (Brown Racer) - Dryadophis melanolomus
18. Black-tailed Indigo Snake or Black-tailed Cribo - Drymarchon (corais?) melanurus
19. Speckled Racer - Drymobius margaritiferus
20. Black Blind Snake - Epictia goudotii  ...photo 
21. Blotched Hooknosed Snake - Ficimia publia
22. Tehuantepec Hooknose Snake - Ficimia variegata
23. Keeled Earth Snake - Geophis carinosus
24. Rosebelly Earth Snake - Geophis rhodogaster  ...photo 
25. Blunt-headed Tree Snake (Brown Blunt-headed Vine Snake) - Imantodes cenchoa
26. Central American Tree Snake - Imantodes gemmistratus  ...photo 
27. Yucatan Blunt-headed Tree Snake - Imantodes tenuissimus
28. Tropical Milksnake - Lampropeltis triangulum
    Blanchard's or Yucatan Milk Snake is the subspecies that is endemic to the Yucatan.
29. Rain Forest Cat-eyed Snake - Leptodeira frenata
30. Northern Cat-eyed Snake - Leptodeira septentrionalis  ...photo 
31. Green Treesnake (Parrot Snake) - Leptophis ahaetulla
32. Green-headed Treesnake (Mexican Parrot Snake) - Leptophis mexicanus  ...photo 
33. Neotropical Whip Snake - Masticophis mentovarius  ...photo 
34. Salmon-bellied Racer - Mastigodryas melanolomus  ...photo1   ...photo2 
35. Red Coffee Snake - Ninia sebae
36. Mexican (Neotropical) Vine Snake - Oxybelis aeneus  ...photo 
37. Green Vine Snake - Oxybelis fulgidus  ...photo 
38. Variegated False Coral Snake - Pliocercus (Urotheca) elapoides  ...photo 
39. Central American (Yellow-red) Rat Snake - Pseudelaphe flavirufus (Elaphe/Pantherophis flavirufa)  ...photo 
40. Bird-eating Tree Snake (Neotropical Bird Snake, Puffing Snake) - Pseustes poecilonotus  ...photo 
41. Adorned Graceful Brown (Striped Forest) Snake - Rhadinaea decorata  ...photo 
42. Guatemala Neckband Snake (Shovel-toothed) Snake - Scaphiodontophis annulatus  ...photo 
43. Green (Peninsular) Rat Snake - Senticolis triaspis
44. Banded Snail Sucker - Sibon fasciata
45. Cloudy Snail-eating Snake (Snail Sucker) - Sibon nebulata  ...photo 
46. Pigmy Snail Sucker - Sibon sanniolus
47. Tropical Rat Snake (Tiger Treesnake) - Spilotes pullatus
48. Scorpion-eating Snake - Stenorrhina freminvillei
49. Yucatan White-lipped Snake - Symphimus (Opheodrys) mayae  ...photo 
50. Yucatan Centipede Snake - Tantilla cuniculator
51. Blackbelly Centipede Snake - Tantilla moesta
52. Yucatan Dwarf Centipede-eater - Tantillita canula  ...photo 
53. Linton's Dwarf Short-tail Snake - Tantillita lintoni
54. Checkered Garter Snake - Thamnophis marcianus
55. Western Ribbon Snake - Thamnophis proximus
56. Orangebelly Swamp Snake - Tretanorhinus nigroluteus  ...photo 
57. Terrestrial Snail Sucker - Tropidodipsas (Sibon) sartorii  ...photo 
58. Yucatecan Worm Snake - Typhlops microstomus
59. False Fer-de-lance - Xenodon rabdocephalus  ...photo 

Venomous Snakes

1. Cantil - Agkistrodon bilineatus
2. Jumping Pit Viper - Atropoides nummifer
3. Terciopelo (Fer-de-lance) - Bothrops asper
4. Eye-lash viper - Bothriechis schlegelii ?? (Please let us know if you have information about the status of this species in the Yucatan)
5. Yucatan Neotropical Rattlesnake (Cascabel) - Crotalus tzabcan (durissus)  ...photo 
6. Brown's Coral Snake - Micrurus browni
7. Variable Coral Snake - Micrurus diastema  ...photo 
8. Mayan Coral Snake - Micrurus hippocrepis
9. Central American Coral Snake - Micrurus nigrocinctus  ...photo 
10. Hognosed Pit Viper - Porthidium nasutum  ...photo 
11. Slender Hognose Pit Viper - Porthidium ophryomegas  ...photo 
12. Yucatan Hognose Pit Viper - Porthidium yucatanicum

Note: many of the location details are from Focus on Nature tours list of reptiles  ...link 

• Snakes of the Yucatan, YucatanLiving, Feb 2010  ...link 
• A posting on FieldHerpForum.com with lots of photos of Anoles and a discussion on identification of the species in the photos, June 2008.  ...link 
• Follow-up on the decline in hawksbills of the Yucatan region, from WWF's Latin American and Caribbean Marine Turtle Programme, 2005.  ...link 
• The Campeche "Escorpion", an Unknown Mexican Reptile, by Peter Heimes, México desconocido, May 2000. A great article about the discovery (in 1994) and ecology of the Campeche Spiny-tailed Iguana - Ctenosaura alfredschmidti.  ...link 
• Morelet's Crocodile at Yucatan Peninsula; Crocodile Specialist Group (WWF) Newsletter; Jan-Mar 2002.  ...link 

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