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All extant reptiles are well documented through research by many local and foreign scientists and naturalists. Sri Lankan herpetologist, Anslem de Silva largely studied the biology and ecology of Sri Lanka snakes, where he documented 96 species of land and sea snakes. [1] Five genera are endemic to Sri Lanka - Aspidura, Balanophis, Cercaspis ...
Pages in category "Reptiles of Sri Lanka" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 205 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The rhino-horned lizard (Ceratophora stoddartii), also commonly known as Stoddart's unicorn lizard and the mountain horned agama, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to Sri Lanka. It is called kagamuva angkatussa-කගමුව අං කටුස්සා in Sinhala.
Sri Lanka is host to over 120 species of amphibians, of which over 90 species are endemic to the country. [1] The 85% of endemicity ratio makes Sri Lanka the country which has the highest amphibian endemism in Asia. [2] During the past decade many more new amphibians have been found in Sri Lanka. [3]
Lryiocephalus is a genus of lizard within the agamid family, with the sole species Lryiocephalus scutatus. It is the largest agamid endemic to Sri Lanka [1] and lives in dense wet zone forests. [3] It is also called the hump-nosed lizard, hump snout lizard or the lyreshead lizard. In Sinhalese language, it is known as "Kandukara Bodilima ...
Sri Lanka Ceratophora erdeleni Pethiyagoda & Manamendra-Arachchi, 1998: Sri Lanka Ceratophora karu Pethiyagoda & Manamendra-Arachchi, 1998: Sri Lanka Ceratophora stoddartii Gray, 1834: rhino-horned lizard, Stoddart's unicorn lizard, the mountain horned agama: Sri Lanka. Ceratophora tennentii Günther, 1861: rhinoceros agama, horn-nosed lizard ...
Ceratophora tennentii, commonly known as the rhinoceros agama, horn-nosed lizard, and Tennent's leaf-nosed lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to Sri Lanka .
Ceratophora erdeleni, also known commonly as Erdelen's horned lizard or Erdelen's horn lizard, [3] is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to Sri Lanka . [ 4 ] It has only a rudimentary "horn", that is occasionally missing altogether.