List of reptiles of Turkey
This is a list of the reptiles of Turkey.
There are 136 species of reptiles in Turkey.
Class: Reptilia">Reptile">Reptilia
Order: [Squamata] (lizards and snakes)
Suborder: [Amphisbaenia] (worm lizards)
- Family: Blanidae
- * Genus: Blanus
- ** Alexander's worm lizard
- ** Turkish worm lizard
- ** Anatolian worm lizard
Suborder: [Anguimorpha] (legless lizards and monitors)
- Family: Anguidae
- * Genus: Pseudopus
- ** Sheltopusik
- * Genus: Anguis
- ** Common slowworm
- Family: Varanidae
- * Genus: Varanus
- ** Desert monitor
Suborder: [Iguania] (agamas and chameleons)
- Family: Agamidae
- * Genus: Paralaudakia
- ** Caucasian agama
- * Genus: Laudakia
- ** Laudakia stellio
- * Genus: Phrynocephalus
- ** Sunwatcher toad-headed agama
- ** Persian toad-headed agama
- * Genus: Trapelus
- ** Horny-scaled agama
- Family: Chamaeleonidae
- * Genus: Chamaeleo
- ** Common chameleon
Suborder: [Lacertilia] (true lizards)
- Family: Lacertidae
- * Genus: Acanthodactylus
- ** Bosc's fringe-toed lizard
- ** Harran fringe-toed lizard
- ** Schreiber's fringe-fingered lizard
- * Genus: Anatololacerta
- ** Anatolian rock lizard
- ** Danford's lizard
- * Genus: Apathya
- ** Anatolian lizard
- * Genus: Darevskia
- ** Armenian lizard
- ** Bendimahi lizard
- ** Brauner's lizard
- ** Clark's lizard
- ** Derjugin's lizard
- ** Charnali lizard
- ** Ajarian lizard
- ** Georgian lizard
- ** Meadow lizard
- ** Radde's lizard
- ** Spiny-tailed lizard
- ** Van lizard
- ** Saxicolous lizard
- ** White-bellied lizard
- ** Uzzell's lizard
- ** Valentin's lizard
- * Genus: Eremias
- ** Steppe-runner
- ** Pleske's racerunner
- ** Strauch's racerunner
- ** Suphan racerunner
- * Genus: Lacerta
- ** Sand lizard
- ** Three-lined lizard
- ** Rock lizard
- ** Pamphylian green lizard
- ** Caspian green lizard
- ** Balkan green lizard
- ** European green lizard
- * Genus: Mesalina
- ** Blanford's short-nosed desert lizard
- * Genus: Ophisops
- ** Snake-eyed lizard
- * Genus: Parvilacerta
- ** Dwarf lizard
- * Genus: Phoenicolacerta
- ** Sparse blue lizard
- ** Lebanon lizard
- * Genus: Podarcis
- ** Common wall lizard
- ** Italian wall lizard
- ** Balkan wall lizard
- * Genus: Timon
- ** Siirt lizard
Suborder: [Scincomorpha] (skinks)
- Family: Scincidae
- * Genus: Ablepharus
- ** Twin-striped skink
- ** Budak's snake-eyed skink
- ** Chernov's skink
- ** European copper skink
- * Genus: Chalcides
- ** Gongilo
- * Genus: Eumeces
- ** Berber skink
- * Genus: Ophiomorus
- ** Limbless skink
- * Genus: Heremites
- ** Golden grass mabuya
- * Genus: Trachylepis
- ** Bridled mabuya
Suborder: [Scleroglossa] (geckos)
- Family: Gekkonidae
- * Genus: Cyrtopodion
- ** Blanford's middle-toed gecko
- ** Kotschy's middle-toed gecko
- ** Rough-tailed gecko
- * Genus: Eublepharis
- ** Iranian fat-tailed gecko
- * Genus: Hemidactylus
- ** Mediterranean house gecko
- * Genus: Stenodactylus
- ** Jordan short-fingered gecko
- Family: Phyllodactylidae
- * Genus: Asaccus
- ** Werner's leaf-toed gecko
Suborder: [Serpentes] (snakes)
- Family: Typhlopidae
- * Genus: Letheobia
- ** Beaked blindsnake
- * Genus: Typhlops
- ** European blindsnake
- Family: Leptotyphlopidae
- * Genus: Myriopholis
- ** Long-nosed worm-snake
- Family: Boidae
- * Genus: Eryx
- ** Javelin sand boa
- Family: Colubridae
- * Genus: Coronella
- ** Smooth snake
- * Genus: Dolichophis
- ** Caspian whipsnake
- ** Black whipsnake
- ** Red-bellied racer
- * Genus: Eirenis
- ** Bolkar dwarf snake
- ** Baran's dwarf racer
- ** Collared dwarf racer
- ** Crowned dwarf snake
- ** Narrow-striped dwarf snake
- ** Eiselt's dwarf racer
- ** Hakkari dwarf snake
- ** Levantine dwarf snake
- ** Striped dwarf snake
- ** Ring-headed dwarf snake
- ** Dotted dwarf racer
- ** Roth's dwarf racer
- ** Van dwarf snake
- * Genus: Elaphe
- ** Blotched snake
- * Genus: Hemorrhois
- ** Coin-marked snake
- ** Spotted whipsnake
- * Genus: Malpolon
- ** Montpellier snake
- * Genus: Muhtarophis
- ** Baran's black-headed dwarf snake
- * Genus: Natrix
- ** Large-headed water snake
- ** Grass snake
- ** Dice snake
- * Genus: Platyceps
- ** Red whipsnake
- ** Dahl's whipsnake
- ** Glossy-bellied racer
- * Genus: Pseudocyclophis
- ** Dark-headed dwarf racer
- * Genus: Rhynchocalamus
- ** Black-headed groundsnake
- * Genus: Spalerosophis
- ** Diadem snake
- * Genus: Telescopus
- ** European catsnake
- ** Black catsnake
- * Genus: Zamenis
- ** Transcaucasian ratsnake
- ** Aesculapian snake
- ** European ratsnake
- Family: Elapidae
- * Genus: Walterinnesia
- ** Eastern desert black snake
- Family: Viperidae
- * Genus: Macrovipera
- ** Blunt-nosed viper
- * Genus: Montivipera
- ** Central Turkish mountain viper
- ** Armenian viper
- ** Ocellated mountain viper
- ** Ottoman viper
- * Genus: Pseudocerastes
- ** Persian horned viper
- * Genus: Vipera
- ** Long-nosed viper
- ** Baran's adder
- ** Common European adder
- ** Darevsky's viper
- ** Armenian steppe viper
- ** Caucasus viper
- ** Pontic adder
- ** Transcaucasian sand viper
- ** Meadow viper
Order: [Testudines] (turtles and tortoises)
Suborder: [Cryptodira]
- Family: Dermochelyidae
- * Genus: Dermochelys
- ** Leatherback sea turtle
- Family: Cheloniidae
- * Genus: Caretta
- ** Loggerhead sea turtle
- * Genus: Chelonia
- ** Green sea turtle
- Family: Emydidae
- * Genus: Emys
- ** European pond turtle
- Family: Geoemydidae
- * Genus: Mauremys
- ** Caspian turtle
- ** Balkan pond turtle
- Family: Trionychidae
- * Genus: Rafetus
- ** Euphrates softshell turtle
- * Genus: Trionyx
- ** African softshell turtle
- Family: Testudinidae
- * Genus: Testudo
- ** Spur-thighed tortoise
- ** Hermann's tortoise
- ** Marginated tortoise