Reptiles of the Yucatan Peninsula

Hawksbill Turtle Hatchling, (Photo - Hotel Eco Paraíso)

1. Morelet's Crocodile - Crocodylus moreletii
2. American Crocodile - Crocodylus acutus

1. Green Turtle - Chelonia mydas
2. Loggerhead Turtle - Caretta caretta
3. Hawksbill Turtle - Eretmochelys imbricata
4. Leatherback Turtle - Dermochelys coriacea
5. White-lipped Mud Turtle - Kinosternon leucostomum
6. Scorpion Mud Turtle - Kinosternon scorpiodes  ...photo 
7. Narrow-bridged Musk Turtle - Claudius angustatus
8. Mexican Giant Musk Turtle - Staurotypus triporcatus
9. Furrowed Wood Turtle - Rhinoclemmys areolata
10. Slider - Trachemys scripta

Morelet's Crocodile, Coba
1. Black-beaded Lizard - Heloderma horridu
2. Dwarf Gecko - Sphaerodactylus glaucus  ...photo 
3. Spotted Gecko - Sphaerodactylus millepunctatus  ...photo 
4. House Gecko - Hemidactylus frenatus...photo
5. Turnip-tailed Gecko - Thecadactylus rapicauda
6. Yucatan Banded Gecko - Coleonyx elegans  ...photo 
7. Yellow-spotted (Yucatan) Spiny Lizard - Sceloporus chrysostictus
8. Cozumel Spiny Lizard - Sceloporus cozumelae (Endemic to Cozumel and northern coasts of Yucatán peninsula)
9. Lundell’s Spiny Lizard - Sceloporus lundelli
10. Blue Spiny Lizard - Sceloporus serrifer
11. Black Iguana - Ctenosaura similis
12. Campeche Spiny-tailed Iguana - Ctenosaura alfredschmidti
13. Yucatan Spiny-tailed Iguana - Ctenosaura defensor
14. Green Iguana - Iguana iguana
15. Serrated Casquehead Iguana - Laemanctus serratus  ...photo 
16. Brown Basilisk - Basiliscus vittatus
17. Neotropical Green Anole - Norops biporcatus
18. Brown Anole - Norops sagrei  ...photo 
19. Ghost Anole - Norops lemurinus
20. Silky Anole - Norops sericeus
21. Smooth Anole - Anolis rodriguezi
22. Rainbow Amieva - Amieva undulata
23. Yucatan Whiptail - Cnemidophorus angusticeps
24. Checkered Whiptail - Aspidoscelis tesselata (Cnemidophorus tesselatus)
25. Maslin's Racerunner - Aspidoscelis maslini (Cnemidophorus maslini)
26. Cozumel Racerunner (Whiptail) - Aspidoscelis conzumela (Cnemidophorus cozumelae)
27. Schwartze's Skink (Yucatan Giant Skink)- Mesoscinucs (Eumeces) schwartzei
28. Central American Mabuya - Mabuya unimarginata

Black-tailed Indigo Snake eating Black Iguana
Red Coffee Snake, (Photo - Jim Conrad)

1. Black Blind Snake - Leptotyphlops goudotii
2. Yucatan Blind Snake - Typhlops microstomus
3. Boa Constrictor - Boa constrictor
4. Middle American Burrowing Snake - Adelphicos quadrivirgatus
5. Rustyhead Snake - Amastridium veliferum
6. Mussurana - Clelia clelia
7. Mexican Snake Eater - Clelia scytalina
8. Eastern Racer - Coluber constrictor
9. Two-spotted Snake - Coniophanes bipunctatus  ...photo 
10. Yellowbelly Snake - Coniophanes fissidens  ...photo 
11. Black-striped Snake - Coniophanes imperialis
12. Yucatan Striped Snake - Coniophanes meridanus  ...photo 
13. Fife-striped Snake - Coniophanes quinquevittatus
14. Faded Black-striped (Schmidt’s Striped) Snake - Coniophanes schmidti
15. Many-lined Snake (Yucatan Road Guarder) - Conophis lineatus
16. Snail-eating Thirst Snake (Short-faced Snail Sucker) - Dipsas brevifacies
17. Black-tailed Indigo Snake or Black-tailed Cribo - Drymarchon (corais?) melanurus
18. Speckled Racer - Drymobius margaritiferus
19. Middle American Smooth-scaled Racer - Dryadophis melanolomus
20. Black Blind Snake - Epictia goudotii  ...photo 
21. Blotched Hooknosed Snake - Ficimia publia
22. Keeled Earth Snake - Geophis carinosus
23. Rosebelly Earth Snake - Geophis rhodogaster  ...photo 
24. Central American Tree Snake - Imantodes gemmistratus  ...photo 
25. Yucatan Blunt-headed Tree Snake - Imantodes tenuissimus
26. Tropical Milksnake - Lampropeltis triangulum
    Blanchard's or Yucatan Milk Snake is the subspecies that is endemic to the Yucatan.
27. Rain Forest Cat-eyed Snake - Leptodeira frenata
28. Mexican Parrot Snake - Leptophis mexicanus  ...photo 
29. Neotropical Whip Snake - Masticophis mentovarius  ...photo 
30. Salmon-bellied Racer - Mastigodryas melanolomus  ...photo1   ...photo2 
31. Red Coffee Snake - Ninia sebae
32. Mexican (Neotropical) Vine Snake - Oxybelis aeneus  ...photo 
33. Green Vine Snake - Oxybelis fulgidus  ...photo 
34. Central American (Yellow-red) Rat Snake - Pseudelaphe flavirufus (Elaphe/Pantherophis flavirufa)  ...photo 
35. Bird-eating Tree Snake (Neotropical Bird Snake, Puffing Snake) - Pseustes poecilonotus  ...photo 
36. Green (Peninsular) Rat Snake - Senticolis triaspis
37. Cloudy Snail Sucker - Sibon nebulata
38. Tropical Rat Snake - Spilotes pullatus
39. Scorpion-eating Snake - Stenorrhina freminvillei
40. Yucatan White-lipped Snake - Symphimus (Opheodrys) mayae  ...photo 
41. Yucatan Centipede Snake - Tantilla cuniculator
42. Yucatan Dwarf Centipede-eater - Tantillita canula  ...photo 
43. Yucatan Checkered Garter Snake - Thamnophis marcianus
44. Western Ribbon Snake - Thamnophis proximus
45. Terrestrial Snail Sucker - Tropidodipsas (Sibon) sartorii  ...photo 
46. Brown's Coral Snake - Micrurus browni
47. Variable Coral Snake - Micrurus diastema  ...photo 
48. Mayan Coral Snake - Micrurus hippocrepis
49. Central American Coral Snake - Micrurus nigrocinctus  ...photo 
50. Cantil - Agkistrodon bilineatus
51. Jumping Pit Viper - Atropoides nummifer
52. Terciopelo (Fer-de-lance) - Bothrops asper
53. Eye-lash viper - Bothriechis schlegelii ?? (Please let us know if you have information about the status of this species in the Yucatan)
54. Yucatan Neotropical Rattlesnake (Cascabel) - Crotalus tzabcan (durissus)  ...photo 
55. Yucatan Hognose Pit Viper - Porthidium yucatanicum

• A posting on FieldHerpForum.com with lots of photos of Anoles and a discussion on identification of the species in the photos, June 2008.  ...link 
• Follow-up on the decline in hawksbills of the Yucatan region, from WWF’s Latin American and Caribbean Marine Turtle Programme, 2005.  ...link 
• The Campeche "Escorpion", an Unknown Mexican Reptile, by Peter Heimes, México desconocido, May 2000. A great article about the discovery (in 1994) and ecology of the Campeche Spiny-tailed Iguana - Ctenosaura alfredschmidti.  ...link 
• Morelet's Crocodile at Yucatan Peninsula; Crocodile Specialist Group (WWF) Newsletter; Jan-Mar 2002.  ...link 

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