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This is a list of reptiles of Europe. It includes all reptiles currently found in Europe . It does not include species found only in captivity or extinct in Europe , except where there is some doubt about this, nor (with few exceptions) does it currently include species introduced in recent decades.
Marine reptiles are reptiles which have become secondarily adapted for an aquatic or semiaquatic life in a marine environment. Only about 100 of the 12,000 extant reptile species and subspecies are classed as marine reptiles, including marine iguanas , sea snakes , sea turtles and saltwater crocodiles .
Disteira walli (Wall's sea snake) Enhydrina schistosa (Beaked sea snake, hook-nosed sea snake, common sea snake, Valakadyn sea snake) Enhydrina zweifeli (Sepik or Zweifel’s beaked seasnake) Hydrophis; Hydrophis belcheri (Faint-banded sea snake, Belcher's sea snake) Hydrophis bituberculatus (Peters' sea snake) Hydrophis brooki
The Lacertidae are the family of the wall lizards, true lizards, or sometimes simply lacertas, which are native to Afro-Eurasia. It is a diverse family with at about 360 species in 39 genera . They represent the dominant group of reptiles found in Europe.
Pages in category "Reptiles of Europe" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. ... This page was last edited on 3 March 2023, at 18:44 (UTC).
A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the ...
A massive jawbone found by a father-daughter fossil-collecting duo on a beach in Somerset along the English coast belonged to a newfound species that’s likely the largest known marine reptile to ...
The gharial (Gavialis gangeticus), also known as gavial or fish-eating crocodile, is a crocodilian in the family Gavialidae and among the longest of all living crocodilians. . Mature females are 2.6 to 4.5 m (8 ft 6 in to 14 ft 9 in) long, and males 3 to 6 m (9 ft 10 in to 19 ft 8