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Category: Reptiles
Argentine Black-and-white Tegu
A large intelligent tegu with black-and-white banded scales, omnivorous and increasingly popular as a pet.
Short-horned Lizard
A small flat lizard with short horns, living at high altitudes and giving live birth.
European Glass Lizard
The largest European legless lizard, brown with yellow stripes, tail easily shed.
Frilled Lizard
A lizard with a large neck frill spread like an umbrella to intimidate predators, bipedal runner.
Crested Gecko
A tree-dwelling gecko with eyelash-like ridges above the eyes and a prehensile tail, famous for its ability to…
Hawksbill Sea Turtle
Famous for its overlapping, saw-toothed scutes and hawklike beak.
Bullsnake
A large yellow-brown snake with dark blotches, a powerful constrictor of prairies, hisses loudly.
Egyptian Cobra
A large cobra of North Africa, brown to black, iconic in ancient Egyptian symbolism.
Gaboon Viper
A massive viper with the longest fangs of any snake and a beautiful geometric pattern.
Elephant Trunk Snake
A fully aquatic snake with loose, wrinkled skin and a small head, living in Southeast Asian rivers.
Indian Python
A large tan constrictor with a dark arrowhead mark on the head, native to the Indian subcontinent.
Green Anaconda
The heaviest snake in the world, a massive semi-aquatic constrictor of South American rivers and swamps.
Desert Iguana
A pale gray-brown iguana of arid deserts, tolerating extreme heat, herbivorous.
Ocellated Lizard
Europe's largest lacertid, green with blue ocelli spots, powerful and fast.
Five-lined Skink
A North American skink with five pale stripes, juveniles have a bright blue tail.
Common Chameleon
The only chameleon found in Europe, gray-green with the classic color-change behavior.
Savannah Monitor
A heavy-bodied terrestrial monitor of African savannas, hardy and frequently kept, but demanding.
Cuban Anole
A green anole with a high head crest and red dewlap, endemic to Cuba.
Red Tegu
A large reddish tegu of South America, omnivorous and adaptable.
Plateau Horned Lizard
A flat spiny lizard of rocky plateaus, feeding on ants.
Oriental Garden Lizard
A common tree lizard of Asia, males turn bright orange-red during breeding season.
Gargoyle Gecko
A sturdy gecko with a prehensile tail and knob-like bumps on the head, calm and nocturnal.
Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
The smallest and most endangered sea turtle, known for the spectacular synchronized mass nesting 'arribada'.
Eastern Rat Snake
A large black glossy snake of eastern North America, excellent climber, hunts rodents.
