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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.
Beddome's coral snake. Beddome's day gecko. Bengal monitor. Big Four (Indian snakes) Black pond turtle. Black softshell turtle. Blanford's rock agama. Blue-lipped sea krait. Blyth's reticulated snake.
Yellow sea snake Hydrophis spiralis (Shaw, 1802) Collared sea snake Hydrophis stricticollis Günther, 1864. Jerdon's sea snake Kerilia jerdonii India, Sri Lanka, Malay peninsula. Bighead sea snake Kolpophis annandalei (Laidlaw, 1901) Short sea snake Lapemis curtus (Shaw, 1802) Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Malay region, Indo-China.
Big Four (Indian snakes) The four venomous snake species responsible for causing the greatest number of medically significant human snake bite cases on the Indian subcontinent (majorly in India and Sri Lanka) are sometimes collectively referred to as the Big Four. They are as follows: [1][2] Russell's viper, Daboia russelii.
Indian cobra. The Indian cobra (Naja naja), also known commonly as the spectacled cobra, Asian cobra, or binocellate cobra, is a species of cobra, a venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is native to the Indian subcontinent, and is a member of the "big four" species that are responsible for the most snakebite cases in India. [6][7]
Pseudoboa caerulea Schneider, 1801, Bungarus candidus var. Cærulus Boulenger, 1896. The common krait (Bungarus caeruleus), also known as Bengal krait, is a species of highly venomous snakes of the genus Bungarus in the Elapidae family, native to the Indian subcontinent. It is one of the Big Four Indian snakes that inflict the most snakebites ...
King cobra in Pune, India. The king cobra is an apex predator and dominant over all other snakes except large pythons. [31] Its diet consists primarily of other snakes and lizards, including Indian cobra, banded krait, rat snake, pythons, green whip snake, keelback, banded wolf snake and Blyth's reticulated snake. [32]
Wildlife of India. India is one of the most biodiverse regions and is home to a large variety of wildlife. It is one of the 17 megadiverse countries and includes three of the world's 36 biodiversity hotspots – the Western Ghats, the Eastern Himalayas, and the Indo-Burma hotspot. [1][2] About 24.6% of the total land area is covered by forests.