Reptiles of the Karoo

compiled by Evan Davies

Poisonous snakes are marked with a *.  The Klein Karoo can be cold in winter and most reptiles go into hibernation.

SNAKES
delalande's blind snake
brown house snake
spotted house snake
fisk's house snake
mole snake
sundevall's shovel snout
rhombic skaapsteker
karoo sand snake
dwarf beaked snake
common egg eater
boomslang*
coral snake
rinkhals*
cape cobra*
puff adder*
plain mountain adder*
many horned adder*
 
LIZARDS
cape legless skink
western rock skink
cape skink
variegated skink
knox's desert lizard
striped sandveld lizard
burchell's sand lizard
namaqua sand lizard
spotted sand lizard
cape mountain lizard
yellow throated plated lizard
short legged seps
common long tailed seps
cape girdled lizard
peer's girdled lizard
karoo girdled lizard
graceful crag lizard
cape crag lizard
southern rock agama
namaqua chameleon
striped leaf toed gecko
namaqua gecko
bibron's gecko
ocellated gecko
marico gecko
 
CHELONIANS (TERRAPINS)
marsh terrapin
 
LAND TORTOISES
greater padloper
parrot beaked tortoise
tent tortoise
boulengers padloper
angulate tortoise
leopard tortoise

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