Did you know these herps exist? PHOTOS - UPDATED! 10/20/16

[Robert Walker]

1. Olms (Salamander)
2. Spider tailed Horned Viper (snake)
3. Cnemaspis psychedelica (rainbow looking gecko)
4. cloud forest pinocchio lizard

 

[Robert Walker]

5. Borneo Earness Monitor
6. Calotes calotes
7. Dragon Snake - Xenodermus javanicus
8. Sri Lankan Pipe Snake (looks kind of like Sri Lanka's version of BRB w/ two heads)

 

[Robert Walker]

9. Great Crested Newt
10. European Glass Lizard - Pseudopus apodus
11. Secret toad-head agama
12. hump-nosed lizard

 

[Herpin Man]

Those are some interesting critters!

 

[Robert Walker]

13. Leaf Litter Pygmy Chameleon
14. Mossy leaf chameleon
15. Purple frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis)
16. Lake Titicaca Water Frog (Telmatobius culeus) super loose skin

 

[Robert Walker]

Those are some interesting critters!

100% agreed. A lot more out there besides some of the standard "pet trade" herps.

 

[sarahle]

these are gorgeous


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[Lucille]

Beautiful photos, interesting critters!

 

[Reptiles 101]

I knew about 8 of them, very cool critters.

 

[Pasodama]

Very cool critters!
At times, I enjoy searching for "not well known" animals. For this reason, I knew of some of these. Though not some others.
This is a great thread.

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[BeardieSUSU]

The earless monitor is probably my favorite reptile! They are the only lizards related to the varanids (monitors) and the helodermatids (beaded lizards). I'd love to own one but they are EXTREMELY rare and are under threat to become extinct

 

[Robert Walker]

A couple more:
17. Conception Bank silver boa (Chilabothrus argentum) discovered in 2016 in the Bahamas
18. Tuatara - not actually a lizard, but rather part of the Order:Rhynchocephalia
19. Brown Leaf Chameleon (Brookesia Superciliaris)
20. Blanford's rock agama (Psammophilus blanfordanus)

 

[Robert Walker]

21. Burton’s legless lizard (Lialis burtonis) - Australian, almost exclusive lizard eater and wide variety of colors.
22. Green Thornytail Iguana (Uracentron azureum) - I want one of these!
23. Eastern sandfish (Scincus mitranus)
24. Galapagos land iguana (Conolophus subcristatus) - I was aware of the marine iguana, but not the land version.

 

[Robert Walker]

25. Lycodryas (Lycodryas citrinus)
26. Chamaeleo (Trioceros) quadricornis
27. Large shieldtail snake (Pseudotyphlops philippinus)
28. Minor’s chameleon (Furcifer minor) - I've seen tons of gorgeous chameleons before, but never this pattern arrangement. This is female instead of a male too.

 

[Reptiles 101]

Minors chameleon i think is now on the top of my want list, only second to the earless monitor.

 

[LauraB]

Wonderful list, Robert! I am familiar with quite a few, but love learning about the others I know nothing about. The female Minor's pictured, by the way, is gravid. Female Minor's are more colorful than the males, but only look that astonishing when gravid.

 

[Reptiles 101]

Wonderful list, Robert! I am familiar with quite a few, but love learning about the others I know nothing about. The female Minor's pictured, by the way, is gravid. Female Minor's are more colorful than the males, but only look that astonishing when gravid.

That makes them even cooler!!!

 

[Robert Walker]

Wonderful list, Robert! ...only look that astonishing when gravid.

Thanks Laura!
I guess if they only look that awesome when they are gravid, you don't have to wonder if she is or not.

I'll be adding some more pictures shortly

 

[Robert Walker]

Amphibian Edition:

29. Sagalla caecilian (Boulengerula niedeni) - this not a burrowing snake or legless lizard, this is an amphibian.
30. Chinese Giant Salamander (Andrias davidianus) - largest living species of amphibian, reaching a maximum length of 1.8 metres
31. Schistometopum thomense, referred to as the cobra bobo, or yellow snake, by the locals of São Tomé Island in the Gulf of Guinea.
32. African wart frog (Acanthixalus sonjae)

 

[Robert Walker]

33. Calumma (Calumma gallus) Chameleon
34. Aquatic Coral Snake (Micrurus surinamensis)
35. Atheris Squamigeria
36. Giraffe Treefrog (Dendropsophus leucophyllatus)