List of reptiles of China
China has around 403 different species of reptiles that can be found in many environments including deserts, grasslands, rivers, and forests. It is the country with the seventh largest amount of different reptile species.
Turtles and tortoises
Geoemydid turtles
Box turtles
- Amboina box turtle
- Yellow-headed box turtle
- Vietnamese three-striped box turtle
- Chinese box turtle
- Indochinese box turtle
- McCord's box turtle
- Keeled box turtle
- Pan's box turtle
- Golden coin turtle
- Yunnan box turtle
- Zhou's box turtle
Eyed turtles
Leaf turtles
Pond turtles
- Chinese broad-headed pond turtle
- Yellow pond turtle
- Red-necked pond turtle
- Chinese pond turtle
- Chinese stripe-necked turtle
Roofed turtles
Miscellaneous and monotypic
Sea turtles
- Loggerhead sea turtle
- Green sea turtle
- Leatherback sea turtle
- Hawksbill sea turtle
- Olive ridley sea turtle
Softshell turtles
- Wattle-necked softshell turtle
- Cantor's giant softshell turtle
- Hunan softshell turtle
- Amur softshell turtle
- Lesser Chinese softshell turtle
- Chinese softshell turtle
- Yangtze giant softshell turtle
Tortoises
Snakes
Blindsnakes
- Diard's blindsnake
- White-headed blindsnake
- Brahminy blind snake Indotyphlops lazelli
- Striped blindsnake
Boas
Cat snakes
Cobras
Coral snakes
- Speckled coral snake
- Kellogg's coral snake Sinomicrurus hatori
- MacClelland's coral snake
- Taiwanese coral snake
Green snakes
Kraits
Lamprophiid snakes
Miscellaneous and monotypic
- Blyth's reticulated snake
- Collared reed snake
- Bearded snake Gonyosoma frenatum
- King cobra
- Bailey's snake
Natricine snakes
Odd-scaled snakes
- Bourret's odd-scaled snake
- Formosan odd-scaled snake
- Hainan odd-scaled snake
- Hunan odd-scaled snake
- Zong's odd-scaled snake
- Sichuan odd-scaled snake
- Black odd-scaled snake
- Boulenger's odd-scaled snake
- Peters's odd-scaled snake
Pipe snakes
Pitvipers
- Sharp-nosed pit viper
- Mamushi
- Jenkins' mountain pitviper
- Taiwan mountain pitviper
- Mountain pitviper
- Jerdon's pit viper
- Brown-spotted pitviper
- Taiwan pit viper
- Bamboo pit viper Trimeresurus loong
- Mangshan pitviper
- Motuo bamboo pitviper
- Stejneger's pit viper
Pythons
Ratsnakes
- Korean ratsnake
- Twin-spotted ratsnake
- King ratsnake
- David's ratsnake
- Amur rat snake
- Beauty rat snake Elaphe zoigeensis
- Mandarin ratsnake
Sea kraits
Sea snakes
- Beaded sea snake
- Golden sea snake
- Stokes' seasnake
- Turtlehead sea snake
- Dwarf sea snake
- Shaw's sea snake
- Annulated sea snake
- Striped sea snake
- Graceful small-headed sea snake
- Spine-bellied sea snake
- Plain sea snake
- Jerdon's sea snake
- Slender-necked sea snake
- Ornate reef sea snake Hydrophis parviceps
- Spiny-headed seasnake
- Yellow-bellied sea snake
- Yellow sea snake
- Stokes's sea snake
- West coast black-headed sea snake
- Viperine sea snake
- Jerdon's sea snake
- Shaw's sea snake
- Anomalous sea snake
Slug snakes
- Atayal slug-eating snake
- Boulenger's slug snake
- Keeled slug-eating snake
- Chinese slug snake
- Formosan slug snake
- Hampton's slug snake
- Taiwan slug snake
- Spotted slug snake
- Common slug snake
- Xiaoheishan slug-eating snake
- Stanley's slug snake
Sunbeam snakes
Xenopeltis hainanensisVipers
- Fea's viper
- White-headed Fea viper
- Russell's viper
- Eastern Russell's viper
- Common European viper
- Meadow viper
Wart snakes
Water snakes
Worm-eating snakes
Crocodilians
Alligators
Crocodiles
Lizards
Agamid lizards (flying)
Agamid lizards (non-flying)
- Armored pricklenape
- Brown pricklenape
- Emma Gray's forest lizard
- Indo-Chinese forest lizard
- Medog bloodsucker
- Blue-crested lizard
- Oriental garden lizard Japalura andersoniana
- Three-keeled mountain lizard Diploderma batangensisDiploderma brevicauda
- Short-legged japalure
- Banded japalure
- Dymond's japalure
- Sichuan japalure
- Graham's japalure
- Emerald mountain dragon
- Smooth-venter mountain dragon Diploderma luei
- Ota's japalure Diploderma micangshanensis
- Ryukyu japalure Diploderma slowinskii
- Japalura tree dragon
- Taiwan japalure )
- Chinese japalure
- Sail mountain lizard Diploderma yulongense
- Yunnan japalure Diploderma zhaoermii
- Badakhshana rock agama
- Himalayan agama
- Papenfuss' rock agama
- Anan's rock agama
- Mongolian rock agama
- Kashmir rock agama
- Wu's rock agama
- Reeves' butterfly lizard
- Small forest lizard
- Yarkand toad-headed agama Phrynocephalus erythrurus
- Forsyth's toadhead agama
- Shanxi toadhead agama
- Spotted toadhead agama
- Sunwatcher toadhead agama
- Secret toadhead agama
- Przewalski's toadhead agama Phrynocephalus putjatai
- Roborowski's toadhead agama
- Theobald's toad-headed agama
- Variegated toadhead agama
- Qinghai toadhead agama
- Chinese water dragon
- Vietnam false bloodsucker
- Kakhyen Hills spiny lizard
- Kingdonward's bloodsucker
- Burmese false bloodsucker
- Green fan-throated lizard
- Brilliant ground agama
- Steppe agama
Geckos
- Kaspischer even-fingered gecko
- Xinjiang even-fingered gecko
- Frontier bow-fingered gecko
- Cayu bent-toed gecko Cyrtodactylus tibetanusCyrtodactylus wayakoneiCyrtodactylus zhaoermiiCyrtopodion medogense
- Common four-clawed gecko
- Adler's gecko
- Shanxi gecko
- Gray's Chinese gecko
- Tokay gecko Gekko guishanicus
- Hokou gecko
- Schlegel's Japanese gecko
- Botel gecko
- Kwangsi gecko
- Libo's gecko
- Mell's gecko
- Reeves's Tokay gecko
- Yunnan gecko Gekko similignumGekko subpalmatus
- Peking gecko
- Mingtao's gecko Gekko tesselatusGekko wenxianensis
- Vietnamese leopard gecko Goniurosaurus bawanglingensisGoniurosaurus hainanensis
- Kadoories's cave gecko
- Guangxi cave gecko Goniurosaurus liboensis
- Lichtenfelder's gecko Goniurosaurus luii
- Yingde leopard gecko
- Zhe-long's leopard gecko
- Zhou's leopard gecko Hemidactylus aquilonius
- Oriental leaf-tailed gecko
- Common house gecko
- Indo-Pacific gecko
- Flat-tailed house gecko
- Stejneger's leaf-toed gecko
- Changning slender gecko
- Dushan slender gecko
- Hong Kong slender gecko Hemiphyllodactylus huishuiensis
- Jinping slender gecko
- Longling slender gecko
- Indopacific tree gecko
- Asian slender gecko
- Zug's slender gecko
- Mourning gecko
- Transcaspian bent-toed gecko Tenuidactylus dadunensis
- Yangihissar gecko
- Przewalski's wonder gecko Teratoscincus roborowskii
- Common wonder gecko
Glass lizards
Miscellaneous and monotypic
Skinks
Asymblepharus alaicus- Ladak ground skink
- Sikkim ground skink
- Chinese short-limbed skink
- Longtail mabuya
- East Indian brown mabuya
- Short-limbed supple skink
- Gail's eyelid skink
- Chinese skink
- Shanghai skink
- Ladakh ground skink Plestiodon liui
- Pope's skink
- Hong Kong skink
- Vietnam skink Plestiodon tunganus
- Barbour's ground skink
- Doria's ground skink Scincella huanrenensis
- Modest ground skink Scincella monticolaScincella potaniniScincella przewalskii
- Reeves' smooth skink Scincella schmidtiScincella tsinlingensisSphenomorphus courcyanusSphenomorphus incognitus
- Indian forest skink
- Spotted forest skink
- Christmas Island grass-skink
- Berdmore's water skink Tropidophorus guangxiensis
- Hainan water skink
- Chinese water skink