List of REPTILIA species in Sri Lanka



This is a list of REPTILIA in Sri Lanka according to the IUCN Red List.

This list was last updated 2019-09-14

 

This list contains only species that have been assessed for the IUCN Red List. It is therefore not representative of all the species in the country.

Species counts by country: Total | Amphibians | Birds | Fish | Mammals | Reptiles | Vascular Plants.

scientific_namecommon_nametaxonidcategory
Ceratophora tennentii Tennent's Leaf-nosed Lizard 4178 EN
Lankascincus deignani Deignan Tree Skink 178268 EN
Rhinophis drummondhayi Drummond-hay's Earth Snake 178286 NT
Lygosoma singha Taylor’s Skink 178303 DD
Boiga ranawanei 63657 DD
Aspidura copei Cope's Rough-side 176348 DD
Rhabdophis ceylonensis Blossom Krait 176363 NT
Hemidactylus depressus Kandyan Gecko 178464 LC
Ceratophora aspera Sri-lanka Horned Agama 170383 VU
Lyriocephalus scutatus Lyre Head Lizard 170409 NT
Hypnale nepa Geckos 178661 LC
Cnemaspis podihuna Dwarf Day Gecko 178662 LC
Boiga beddomei Beddome's Cat Snake 176619 DD
Cyrtodactylus triedrus Sri Lanka Gecko 178698 NT
Cnemaspis kandiana Kandy Rock Gecko 178710 LC
Lankascincus taprobanensis Ceylon Tree Skink 178728 NT
Hydrophis bituberculatus Peters' Sea Snake 176728 DD
Lycodon osmanhilli Flowerly Wolf Snake 176844 LC
Caretta caretta North East Indian Ocean subpopulation Loggerhead Turtle 84126444 CR
Oligodon sublineatus Duméril's Kukri Snake 177419 LC
Calotes liocephalus Spineless Forest Lizard 3630 EN
Rhinophis oxyrhynchus Schneider's Earth Snake 178248 LC
Cophotis dumbara Dumbara Agama 169677 CR

 

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Species are classified by the IUCN Red List into nine groups:
  • Extinct (EX) – beyond reasonable doubt that the species is no longer extant.
  • Extinct in the wild (EW) – survives only in captivity, cultivation and/or outside native range, as presumed after exhaustive surveys.
  • Critically endangered (CR) – in a particularly and extremely critical state.
  • Endangered (EN) – very high risk of extinction in the wild, meets any of criteria A to E for Endangered.
  • Vulnerable (VU) – meets one of the 5 red list criteria and thus considered to be at high risk of unnatural (human-caused) extinction without further human intervention.
  • Near threatened (NT) – close to being at high risk of extinction in the near future.
  • Least concern (LC) – unlikely to become extinct in the near future.
  • Data deficient (DD)
  • Not evaluated (NE)