Daily Reptile Report

Daily Uploads of Different Snakes, Lizards, Frogs, Turtles, and Other Reptiles

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Northern Blue-Tongued Skink

They are commonly called blue-tongued lizards or simply blue-tongues or blueys in Australia. As suggested by these common names, a prominent characteristic of these lizards is their large blue tongues that can be bared as a bluff-warning to potential enemies. Blue-tongued skinks are also bred in captivity and sold as house pets. They are relatively shy in comparison with other lizards, and also significantly slower due to their short legs.

Scientific name: Tiliqua scincoides

Conservation Status: Common

Length: 18-20 inches

Weight: 1 pound

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Eastern Green Mamba

The eastern green mamba is a highly venomous snake species of mamba native to the coastal regions of southern East Africa. First described by Scottish surgeon and zoologist Andrew Smith in 1849, it has a slender build with bright green upperparts and yellow-green underparts.

Scientific name: Dendroaspis angusticeps

Conservation Status: Stable

Length: 5-6 feet

Weight: 2-3 pounds

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Dwarf Crocodile

The dwarf crocodile, also known as the African dwarf crocodile, broad-snouted crocodile or bony crocodile, is an African crocodile that is also the smallest extant species of crocodile. Sampling has identified three genetically distinct populations.

Scientific name: Osteolaemus tetraspis

Conservation status: Vulnerable

Length: 4-6 feet

Weight: 40-70 pounds

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Panther Chameleon

The panther chameleon is a species of chameleon found in the eastern and northern parts of Madagascar in a tropical forest biome. Coloration varies with location, and the different color patterns of panther chameleons are commonly referred to as 'locales', which are named after the geographical location in which they are found. Panther chameleons from the areas of Nosy Be, Ankify, and Ambanja are typically a vibrant blue, and those from Ambilobe, Antsiranana, and Sambava are red, green or orange. The areas of Maroantsetra and Tamatave yield primarily red specimens.

Scientific name: Furcifer pardalis

Conservation status: Least Concern

Length: 10-18 inches

Weight: 60-180 grams

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Electric Blue Gecko

Lygodactylus williamsi is a critically endangered species of lizards, endemic to a small area of Tanzania. Common names include Turquoise Dwarf Gecko, William's Dwarf Gecko, or in the pet trade, Electric Blue Gecko. Illegal wild-caught specimens are widely sold in the pet trade, often misdescribed as captive-bred.

Scientific name: Lygodactylus williamsi

Conservation status: Critically Endangered

Length: 8.5 cm

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The Alabama Red-Bellied Cooter

The Alabama red-bellied cooter or Alabama red-bellied turtle, is native to Alabama. It belongs to the turtle family Emydidae, the pond turtles. It is the official reptile of the state of Alabama.

Scientific Name: Pseudemys alabamensis

Conservation Status: Endangered

Length: 12-14 inches

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Black Toad

The Black Toad, also known as the Inyo Toad or Deep Springs Toad, is a true toad that lives only in scattered oases in the Deep Springs Valley of Inyo County, California

Scientific name: Bufo exsul

Conservation Status: Vulnerable

Length: 2 inches

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Black Banded Sea Krait

The Black-Banded Sea Krait, also known commonly as the Chinese Sea Snake, is a species of venomous snake in the subfamily Laticaudinae of the family Elapidae. In Japan it is known as Erabu Umi Hebi, and in Okinawa as the Irabu. It is found in most of the warm waters of the western Pacific Ocean.

Scientific name: Laticauda semifasciata

Conservation status: Near Threatened

Length: 50 inches

Weight: 1-4 pounds

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African Fat Tailed Gecko

The African fat-tailed gecko is found in West Africa, from Senegal to Cameroon. Their habitat is dry and arid, although they will spend most of their time in a dark, humid hiding place. In captivity, it is important to provide these geckos with a source of humidity that mimics these conditions.

Scientific name: Hemitheconyx caudicinctus

Conservation Status: Common in the Wild

Length: 7-9 inches

Weight: 45-75 grams

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The Spotted Turtle

Their broad, smooth, low dark-colored upper shell, or carapace, ranges in its exact colour from black to a bluish black with a number of tiny yellow round spots. The spotting patterning extends from the head, to the neck and out onto the limbs. Males and females can be distinguished by differences in plastron shape and eye and chin colouration.

Scientific name: Clemmys guttata

Conservation Status: Endangered due to Human Impact

Length: 3.5-5 inches

Weight: 1/2 to 1 pound

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The Speckled Kingsnake

The speckled kingsnake is a nonvenomous species of kingsnake, which is endemic to the United States. The common name is derived from the pattern, which is black, with small yellow-white specks, one speck in the center of almost every dorsal scale. It is also known as the "salt-and-pepper snake".

Scientific name: Lampropeltis holbrooki

Conservation Status: Common in the Wild

Length: 48 inches on Average

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Blue Tailed Skink

The Christmas Island blue-tailed shining-skink, blue-tailed skink, or Christmas Island blue-tailed skink, is a species of skink that is native to Australia's Christmas Island. They are not closely related to the skinks of North America, whose juveniles are known for their blue tails. They are relatively small with a black body with yellow stripes going to a bright blue tail.

Scientific name: Cryptoblepharus egeriae

Conservation Status: Extinct in the Wild

Length: 4-8.5 inches

Weight: 10-18 ounces

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Painted Terrapin

The painted terrapin, painted batagur, or saw-jawed turtle is a species of turtles in the family Geoemydidae. It was formerly in its own genus, Callagur, but has been reclassified to the genus, Batagur.

Scientific name: Batagur borneoensis

Conservation status: Critically Endangered

Length: 12-28 inches

Weight: 50 pounds on Average

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Amazonian Poison Dart Frog

The Amazonian Poison Dart Frog is in the genus Ranitomeya. It was first described by Rainer Schulte in 1999 as Dendrobates amazonicus when he separated it from Dendrobates ventrimaculatus, primarily on the basis of call characteristics.

Scientific Name: Ranitomeya Amazonica

Conservation Status: Threatened by habitat loss and collection for the pet trade.

Length: 16-19mm

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Bush Vipers

Atheris is a genus of venomous vipers known as Bush Vipers. They are found only in tropical sub-saharan Africa (excluding southern Africa) and many species have isolated and fragmented distributions due to their confinement to rain forests. In an example of convergent evolution, they show many similarities to the arboreal pit vipers of Asia and South America. Seventeen species are currently recognized.

Scientific name: Atheris

Conservation Status: Some species are threatened by habitat destruction

Length: 40-78 cm

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The Grand Cayman Ground Iguana

The blue iguana, also known as the Grand Cayman ground iguana, Grand Cayman blue iguana or Cayman Island rock iguana, is an endangered species of lizard which is endemic to the island of Grand Cayman.

Scientific name: Cyclura lewisi

Conservation status: Endangered (Population increasing) 

Length: 1.7 – 2.5 ft.

Mass: 31 lbs on Average