As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 329 near threatened reptile species.[1] 6.4% of all evaluated reptile species are listed as near threatened. The IUCN also lists two reptile subspecies as near threatened.
- Extinct in the wild (EW): 2 species
- Critically endangered (CR): 196 species
- Endangered (EN): 382 species
- Vulnerable (VU): 411 species
- Near threatened (NT, LR/cd): 329 species
- Least concern (LC): 2,900 species
- Data deficient (DD): 910 species
Reptile species (IUCN, 2016-2)
- 5130 extant species have been evaluated
- 4220 of those are fully assessed[a]
- 3229 are not threatened at present[b]
- 989 to 1899 are threatened[c]
- 26 to 43 are extinct or extinct in the wild:
- 24 extinct (EX) species[d]
- 2 extinct in the wild (EW)
- 17 possibly extinct [CR(PE)]
- 0 possibly extinct in the wild [CR(PEW)]
- ^ excludes data deficient evaluations.
- ^ NT, LR/cd, LC.
- ^ Threatened comprises CR, EN and VU. Upper estimate additionally includes DD.
- ^ Chart omits extinct (EX) species
Of the subpopulations of reptiles evaluated by the IUCN, two species subpopulations have been assessed as near threatened.
This is a complete list of near threatened reptile species and subspecies evaluated by the IUCN. Species and subspecies which have near threatened subpopulations (or stocks) are indicated.
Species
- Big-headed pantanal swamp turtle (Acanthochelys macrocephala)
- Brazilian radiolated swamp turtle (Acanthochelys radiolata)
- Black spine-neck swamp turtle (Acanthochelys spixii)
- Northern snake-necked turtle (Chelodina oblonga)
- Reimann's snake-necked turtle (Chelodina reimanni)
- Narrow-bridged musk turtle (Claudius angustatus)
- Asian leaf turtle (Cyclemys dentata)
- European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis)
- Escambia map turtle (Graptemys ernsti)
- Graptemys pulchra
- Speckled cape tortoise (Homopus signatus)
- Natal hinge-back tortoise (Kinixys natalensis)
- Tabasco mud turtle (Kinosternon acutum)
- Herrera's mud turtle (Kinosternon herrerai)
- Sonora mud turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense)
- Diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin)
- Japanese pond turtle (Mauremys japonica)
- Indian black turtle (Melanochelys trijuga)
- Vanderhaege's toad-headed turtle (Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei)
- Brown roofed turtle (Pangshura smithii)
- Arrau turtle (Podocnemis expansa)
- Rio Grande cooter (Pseudemys gorzugi)
- Northern red-bellied cooter (Pseudemys rubriventris)
- Red side-necked turtle (Rhinemys rufipes)
- Brown wood turtle (Rhinoclemmys annulata)
- Furrowed wood turtle (Rhinoclemmys areolata)
- Black river turtle (Rhinoclemmys funerea)
- Large-nosed wood turtle (Rhinoclemmys nasuta)
- Mexican spotted wood turtle (Rhinoclemmys rubida)
- Giant musk turtle (Staurotypus salvinii)
- Mexican musk turtle (Staurotypus triporcatus)
- Ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata)
- Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni)
- Central Antillean slider (Trachemys stejnegeri)
Subspecies
- Siebenrock's snake-necked turtle (Chelodina rugosa siebenrocki)
Subpopulations
- Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) (2 subpopulations)
Crocodilia species
edit- Black caiman (Melanosuchus niger)
There are 213 lizard species assessed as near threatened.
- Gracile bavayia (Bavayia geitaina)
- High elevation bavayia (Bavayia madjo)
- Pretty bavayia (Bavayia pulchella)
- Robust forest bavayia (Bavayia robusta)
- Pale-stripe bavayia (Bavayia septuiclavis)
- Bauer's chameleon gecko (Eurydactylodes agricolae)
- Vieillard's chameleon gecko (Eurydactylodes vieillardi)
- Black-eyed gecko (Hoplodactylus kahutarae)
- Harlequin gecko (Hoplodactylus rakiurae)
- Jewelled gecko (Naultinus gemmeus)
- Golden spiny-tailed gecko (Strophurus taenicauda)
- Zululand dwarf chameleon (Bradypodion nemorale)
- Natal Midlands dwarf chameleon (Bradypodion thamnobates)
- Amber mountain leaf chameleon (Brookesia ambreensis)
- Antakarana leaf chameleon (Brookesia antakarana)
- Brookesia betschi
- Brookesia brunoi
- Brookesia confidens
- Brookesia griveaudi
- Brookesia micra
- Amber mountain chameleon (Calumma amber)
- Calumma ambreense
- Calumma guibei
- Calumma marojezense
- Parson's chameleon (Calumma parsonii)
- Peltier's chameleon (Calumma peltierorum)
- Socotran chameleon (Chamaeleo monachus)
- Furcifer timoni
- Mount Nyiro bearded chameleon (Kinyongia asheorum)
- Taita blade-horned chameleon (Kinyongia boehmei)
- Carpenter's chameleon (Kinyongia carpenteri)
- Fischer's chameleon (Kinyongia fischeri)
- Sharp-nosed chameleon (Kinyongia oxyrhina)
- Kilimanjaro blade-horned chameleon (Kinyongia tavetana)
- Strange-nosed chameleon (Kinyongia xenorhina)
- Mount Mabu chameleon (Nadzikambia baylissi)
- Palleon lolontany
- Mount Mabu pygmy chameleon (Rhampholeon maspictus)
- Bale two-horned chameleon (Trioceros balebicornutus)
- Bioko montane chameleon (Trioceros feae)
- Mount Hanang chameleon (Trioceros hanangensis)
- Trioceros kinangopensis
- Marsabit one-horned chameleon (Trioceros marsabitensis)
- Cameroon sailfin chameleon (Trioceros montium)
- Mount Kulal stump-nosed chameleo (Trioceros narraioca)
- Mount Kenya dwarf chameleon (Trioceros schubotzi)
- Barahona grass anole (Anolis alumina)
- Armour's anole (Anolis armouri)
- Foothill anole (Anolis monticola)
- Ghost anole (Anolis spectrum)
- Speckled anole (Anolis ventrimaculatus)
- Hawequa flat gecko (Afroedura hawequensis)
- Dwarf bronze gecko (Ailuronyx tachyscopaeus)
- Different-scaled day gecko (Cnemaspis heteropholis)
- Ponmudi day gecko (Cnemaspis nairi)
- Ornate day gecko (Cnemaspis ornata)
- Sispara day gecko (Cnemaspis sisparensis)
- Sikkimese bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus gubernatoris)
- Palawan bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus redimiculus)
- Cyrtodactylus salomonensis
- Islands striped gecko (Dierogekko insularis)
- Spotted bowfinger gecko (Geckoella triedrus)
- Smooth-scaled narrow-disked gecko (Gekko athymus)
- Small-scaled leaf-toed gecko (Goggia microlepidota)
- Anamalai Hill gecko (Hemidactylus anamallensis)
- Boavista leaf-toed gecko (Hemidactylus boavistensis)
- Grant's leaf-toed gecko (Hemidactylus granti)
- Muller's velvet gecko (Homopholis mulleri)
- Lygodactylus blancae
- Lygodactylus expectatus
- Western dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus guibei)
- Malagasy dwarf gecko (Lygodactylus klemmeri)
- Lygodactylus rarus
- Lygodactylus viscatus
- Tsodilo thick-toed gecko (Pachydactylus tsodiloensis)
- Paroedura ibityensis
- Paroedura maingoka
- Nosy Be ground gecko (Paroedura oviceps)
- Phelsuma berghofi
- Phelsuma dorsivittata
- Phelsuma malamakibo
- Pasteur's day gecko (Phelsuma pasteuri)
- Philippine flying gecko (Ptychozoon intermedium)
- Namaqua day gecko (Rhoptropella ocellata)
- Uroplatus alluaudi
- Uroplatus finiavana
- Bedriaga's fringe-fingered lizard (Acanthodactylus bedriagai)
- Savigny's Fringe-fingered Lizard (Acanthodactylus savignyi)
- Alpine meadow lizard (Adolfus alleni)
- Adolfus masavaensis
- Greek algyroides (Algyroides moreoticus)
- Bedriaga's rock lizard (Archaeolacerta bedriagae)
- Atlas dwarf lizard (Atlantolacerta andreanskyi)
- Soutpansberg rock lizard (Australolacerta rupicola)
- Darevskia dahli
- Derjugin's lizard (Darevskia derjugini)
- Ajarian lizard (Darevskia mixta)
- Meadow lizard (Darevskia praticola)
- Unisexual lizard (Darevskia unisexualis)
- Green keel-bellied lizard (Gastropholis prasina)
- Greek rock lizard (Hellenolacerta graeca)
- Pyrenean rock lizard (Iberolacerta bonnali)
- Iberolacerta galani
- Horvath's rock lizard (Iberolacerta horvathi)
- Iberian emerald lizard (Lacerta schreiberi)
- Ibiza wall lizard (Podarcis pityusensis)
- Blanc's sand racer (Psammodromus blanci)
- Ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus)
- Cottrell's mountain lizard (Tropidosaura cottrelli)
- Short-headed legless skink (Acontias breviceps)
- Elongate short-legged burrowing skink (Brachymeles bicolor)
- Brachymeles minimus
- Northern litter skink (Caledoniscincus aquilonius)
- Armitage's cylindrical skink (Chalcides armitagei)
- Bedriaga's skink (Chalcides bedriagai)
- Chalcides lanzai
- Chalcides montanus
- Moroccan Three-toed Skink (Chalcides pseudostriatus)
- Stanger's skink (Chioninia stangeri)
- Three-toed snake-tooth skink (Coeranoscincus reticulatus)
- Viti slender treeskink (Emoia concolor)
- Sharma's mabuya (Eutropis nagarjuni)
- Solomon minute skink (Geomyersia glabra)
- Hakaria simonyi
- Ceylon tree skink (Lankascincus taprobanensis)
- Tiller's maquis skink (Lioscincus tillieri)
- Pandanus skink (Lipinia leptosoma)
- Stumpff's skink (Madascincus stumpffi)
- Fiordland skink (Oligosoma acrinasum)
- Speckled Skink (Oligosoma infrapunctatum)
- Marbled skink (Oligosoma oliveri)
- Paracontias brocchii
- Paracontias hafa
- Kishinoue's giant skink (Plestiodon kishinouyei)
- Gronovi's dwarf burrowing skink (Scelotes gronovii)
- Mountainous dwarf skink (Scincella monticola)
- Deplanche's shiny skink (Sigaloseps deplanchei)
- Beyer's sphenomorphus (Sphenomorphus beyeri)
- Sphenomorphus cyanolaemus
- Leyte sphenomorphus (Sphenomorphus llanosi)
- Highland sphenomorphus (Sphenomorphus luzonense)
- Mindanao sphenomorphus (Sphenomorphus mindanensis)
- Aurora mountain skink (Sphenomorphus tagapayo)
- Sphenomorphus victoria
- Alpine meadow mabuya (Trachylepis irregularis)
- Trachylepis nancycoutuae
- Trachylepis volamenaloha
- Voeltzkowia petiti
- Hispaniolan giant gecko (Aristelliger lar)
- European leaf-toed gecko (Euleptes europaea)
- Wadi Kharrar rock gecko (Pristurus gallagheri)
- Atlas day gecko (Quedenfeldtia trachyblepharus)
- Jamaican forest sphaero (Sphaerodactylus goniorhynchus)
- Zapata big-scaled sphaero (Sphaerodactylus richardi)
- Barahona limestone sphaero (Sphaerodactylus thompsoni)
- Rodrigues' lava lizard (Eurolophosaurus nanuzae)
- Tiburon curlytail (Leiocephalus melanochlorus)
- San Cristobal lava lizard (Microlophus bivittatus)
- Microlophus duncanensis
- Floreana lava lizard (Microlophus grayii)
- Stenocercus angel
- Western leaf lizard (Stenocercus fimbriatus)
- Lesser ornate whorltail iguana (Stenocercus ornatissimus)
- Tropidurus erythrocephalus
- Solomons tree dragon (Hypsilurus macrolepis)
- Hump snout lizard (Lyriocephalus scutatus)
- Schmidt's mastigure (Uromastyx alfredschmidti)
- Uromastyx shobraki
- South Arabian spiny-tailed lizard (Uromastyx yemenensis)
- Darwin's leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus darwini)
- Galapagos leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus galapagensis)
- San Cristóbal Island leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus leei)
- Phyllodactylus unctus
- Tarentola raziana
- Spot-tailed earless lizard (Holbrookia lacerata)
- Flat-tail horned lizard (Phrynosoma mcallii)
- Sceloporus ornatus
- Florida scrub lizard (Sceloporus woodi)
- Colorado desert fringe-toed lizard (Uma notata)
- Uma paraphygas
- Yuman desert fringe-toed lizard (Uma rufopunctata)
Other lizard species
edit- Amphisbaena hyporissor
- Amphisbaena schmidti
- Peloponnese slow worm (Anguis cephalonnica)
- Flinders Ranges worm-lizard (Aprasia pseudopulchella)
- Arizona striped whiptail (Aspidoscelis arizonae)
- Gray checkered whiptail (Aspidoscelis dixoni)
- Colorado checkered whiptail (Aspidoscelis neotesselata)
- Aspidoscelis rodecki
- Bachia blairi
- Celestus hylaius
- Celestus scansorius
- Lang's crag lizard (Cordylus langi)
- Lawrence's girdled lizard (Cordylus lawrenci)
- Campeche spiny-tailed iguana (Ctenosaura alfredschmidti)
- Echinosaura orcesi
- Namaqua plated lizard (Gerrhosaurus typicus)
- Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum)
- Mayan tropical night lizard (Lepidophyma mayae)
- Mountain pholidobolus (Pholidobolus montium)
- Soutpansberg flat lizard (Platysaurus relictus)
- Largescale lizard (Ptychoglossus eurylepis)
- Angel Island chuckwalla (Sauromalus hispidus)
- Border thick-tailed gecko (Uvidicolus sphyrurus)
- Varanus nuchalis
- Green Madagascar girdled lizard (Zonosaurus haraldmeieri)
- Red-legged girdled lizard (Zonosaurus rufipes)
There are 81 species and one subspecies of snake assessed as near threatened.
- Compsophis albiventris
- Compsophis fatsibe
- Heteroliodon lava
- Liophidium pattoni
- Liopholidophis dimorphus
- Lycodryas carleti
- St. Johann's tree snake (Lycodryas sanctijohannis)
- Pseudoxyrhopus ambreensis
- Pseudoxyrhopus analabe
- Plateau brook snake (Pseudoxyrhopus imerinae)
- Thamnosophis mavotenda
- Agkistrodon bilineatus
- Desert viper (Daboia deserti)
- Moorish viper (Daboia mauritanica)
- Armenian viper (Montivipera raddei)
- Kinabalu green pit viper (Parias malcolmi)
- Large-scaled pit viper (Peltopelor macrolepis)
- Horned pit viper (Protobothrops cornutus)
- Brongersma's pit viper (Trimeresurus brongersmai)
- Vipera barani
- Lotiev's viper (Vipera lotievi)
- Atlas dwarf viper (Vipera monticola)
- Transcaucasian long-nosed viper (Vipera transcaucasiana)
- Grey ground snake (Atractus occipitoalbus)
- Taylor's snail-eater (Dipsas tenuissima)
- Geophis nigroalbus
- Ninia celata
- Espinal's coffee snake (Ninia espinali)
- Vermiculate graceful brown snake (Rhadinaea vermiculaticeps)
- Stuart's graceful brown snake (Rhadinella pilonoarum)
- Rhadinella rogerromani
- Sibon manzanaresi
- Sibon miskitus
- Xizang hot-spring keel-back (Thermophis baileyi)
- Striped swamp snake (Tretanorhinus taeniatus)
- Bardick (Echiopsis curta)
- Short-nosed snake (Elapognathus minor)
- Stephen's banded snake (Hoplocephalus stephensii)
- Large-headed seasnake (Hydrophis pacificus)
- Yellow-lipped sea snake (Laticauda frontalis)
- Laticauda guineai
- Black-banded sea krait (Laticauda semifasciata)
- Cauca coral snake (Micrurus multiscutatus)
- Micrurus spurrelli
- Philippine cobra (Naja philippinensis)
- Black-striped snake (Simoselaps calonotus)
- Japanese coral snake (Sinomicrurus japonicus)
- Günther's vine snake (Ahaetulla dispar)
- Conopsis amphisticha
- Four-lined snake (Elaphe quatuorlineata)
- Socotran racer (Hemerophis socotrae)
- Short-tailed snake (Lampropeltis extenuata)
- Ruthvens kingsnake (Lampropeltis ruthveni)
- Sakashima green snake (Liopeltis herminae)
- Western false smooth snake (Macroprotodon brevis)
- Northern short-headed snake (Oligodon ancorus)
- Oligodon lungshenensis
- Perkin's short-headed snake (Oligodon perkinsi)
- Pantherophis gloydi
- Sinai banded racer (Platyceps sinai)
- Triangled black-headed snake (Sibynophis triangularis)
- Sonora aemula
- Stegonotus muelleri
- Blossom krait (Balanophis ceylonensis)
- Kirtland's snake (Clonophis kirtlandii)
- Taron keelback (Hebius taronensis)
- Brazos water snake (Nerodia harteri)
- Concho watersnake (Nerodia paucimaculata)
- Anderson's stream snake (Opisthotropis andersonii)
- Dao Van Tien's stream snake (Opisthotropis daovantieni)
- Guanxi mountain keelback (Opisthotropis guangxiensis)
Other snakes
editSpecies
- Lined centipede-eater (Aparallactus lineatus)
- African rock python (Python sebae)
- Ball python (Python regius)
- Indian rock python (Python molurus)
- Smith's earth snake (Uropeltis smithi)
Subspecies
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "IUCN Red List version 2016-2". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Retrieved 8 September 2016.