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B. Banded krait; Banded wolf snake; Beauty rat snake; Beddome's coral snake; Beddome's day gecko; Bengal monitor; Big Four (Indian snakes) Black pond turtle
The following is a list of reptiles in and around the Indian subcontinent, primarily covering the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, parts of Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Island chains.
This is an index to the amphibians found in India. The amphibians of India show a high level of endemism. [1] This list is based largely on Darrel Frost (2006) [2] and includes common names from older books and journals. [3] [4] [5] Some Indian frogs
India is home to 423 mammals, 1233 birds, 526 reptiles, 342 amphibians, 3022 fish apart from other species which form 7.6% of mammal, 14.7% of amphibian, 6% of bird, 6.2% of reptilian species worldwide. [3] [5] Among Indian species, only 12.6% of mammals and 4.5% of birds are endemic, contrasting with 45.8% of reptiles and 55.8% of amphibians. [5]
Fossil taxa from the Cretaceous show links to the Seychelles and Madagascar chain of islands. [4] The Cretaceous fauna include reptiles, amphibians and fishes and an extant species demonstrating this phylogeographical link is the purple frog. The separation of India and Madagascar is traditionally estimated to have taken place about 88 million ...
The study of the traditional reptile orders, customarily in combination with the study of modern amphibians, is called herpetology. Reptiles have been subject to several conflicting taxonomic definitions. In Linnaean taxonomy, reptiles are gathered together under the class Reptilia (/ r ɛ p ˈ t ɪ l i ə / rep-TIL-ee-ə), which
India's Red List of 2018 was released at the Rio+20 Earth Summit. [1] [2] Since then, new animals have been added yearly.While previously this list contained 132 species of plants and animals in 2018, as of the 2023-1 update from the IUCN Red List, over 950 species of animals (and over 600 species of plants) are listed as critically endangered, endangered, or vulnerable.
Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. The study of these traditional reptile orders , historically combined with that of modern amphibians , is called herpetology .