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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. www.repfocus.dk (Compilation date: 14th April, 2023).

Checklist General remarks: The list includes only formally described species. Newly discovered, but still unnamed species are excluded. However, unnamed species or species unassigned to species level are included, if they are the only representatives of their genus in the region. Species counts exclude extinct and introduced species. Doubtful records, typically older voucher specimens of uncertain origin, have been excluded if considered questionable, as are records based on sources considered unreliable or controversial. Note: Your comments to the checklist (omissions, errors, etc.) are welcomed, preferably if they are provided with reliable references. If possible, please attach a pdf file of the relevant reference to an email addressed to:

	Lizards (Sauria)
	= endemicEX = extinct or assumed extinct Species References  Family Agamidae (Agamas and Dragons) Genus Calotes (South Asian Forest Agamas)   Calotes versicolor South Indian Crested Agama Smith 1935 Genus Japalura (Western Mountain Agamas)   Japalura tricarinata Three-keeled Mountain Agama Murthy 1985 Smith 1935 Tikader & Sharma 1992 Wang, Che, Lin, Deepak, Datta-Roy, Jiang, Jin, Chen & Siler 2018   Japalura variegata East Himalayan Mountain Agama Manthey 2010 Manthey, Denzer, Hou & Wang 2012 Murthy 1985 Smith 1935 Tikader & Sharma 1992  Family Anguidae (Slowworms, etc.) Genus Dopasia (Oriental Glass Lizards)   Dopasia gracilis Burmese Glass Lizard Brygoo 1987 Murthy 1985 Pradhan & Yonle 2020 Tikader & Sharma 1992  Family Gekkonidae (Typical Geckos) Genus Cyrtodactylus (Australasian Bent-toed Geckos)   Cyrtodactylus gubernatoris Darjeeling Rock Gecko Agarwal, Mahony, Giri, Chaitanya & Bauer 2018 Murthy 1985 Smith 1935 Tikader & Sharma 1992   * Cyrtodactylus himalayicus Kurseong Bent-toed Gecko Agarwal, Mahony, Giri, Chaitanya & Bauer 2018 Annandale 1906 Genus Hemidactylus (Half-toed Geckos)   Hemidactylus aquilonius Northern Burmese Half-toed Gecko Murthy 1985 [as bowringii] Smith 1935 [as bowringii]   Hemidactylus garnotii Fox Gecko Murthy 1985 Smith 1935 Tikader & Sharma 1992   Hemidactylus platyurus Flat-tailed Gecko Smith 1935 Tikader & Sharma 1992  Family Scincidae (Skinks) Genus Ablepharus (Eurasian Mountain Skinks)   Ablepharus sikkimensis Sikkim Mountain Skink Daniel 1983 Murthy 1985 Ouboter 1986 Smith 1935 Tikader & Sharma 1992 Genus Riopa (Asian Gracile Skinks)   Riopa punctata Spotted Gracile Skink Biswas & Sanyal 1977 Genus Sphenomorphus (Indo-Pacific Forest Skinks)   Sphenomorphus incognitus Koshun Forest Skink Sharma 2002 [as boulengeri]   Sphenomorphus indicus Common Indian Forest Skink Murthy 1985 Smith 1935 Tikader & Sharma 1992   Sphenomorphus maculatus Spotted Forest Skink Murthy 1985 Smith 1935  Family Varanidae (Monitor Lizards) Genus Varanus (Monitor Lizards)   Varanus bengalensis Bengal Monitor Smith 1935

	Snakes (Serpentes)
	= endemicEX = extinct or assumed extinct Species References  Family Colubridae (Typical Snakes or Colubrids) Genus Amphiesma (South Asian Keelbacks)   Amphiesma stolatum Buff-striped Keelback Nanhoe & Ouboter 1987 Genus Boiga (Australasian Cat Snakes)   Boiga cyanea Green Cat Snake Murthy 1985 Orlov & Ryabov 2002 Smith 1943 Whitaker & Captain 2004   Boiga forsteni Speckled Cat Snake Smith 1943 Whitaker & Captain 2004   Boiga gocool Eastern Gamma Cat Snake Choure, Kashyap, Adhikari & Lalremsanga 2020 Das, Mohapatra, Purkayastha, Sengupta, Dutta, Ahmed & Tillack 2010 Murthy 1985 Smith 1943 Whitaker & Captain 2004   Boiga multifasciata Many-banded Cat Snake Smith 1943 Whitaker & Captain 2004   Boiga ochracea Tawny Cat Snake Orlov & Ryabov 2002 Smith 1943 Whitaker & Captain 2004 Genus Chrysopelea (Flying Tree Snakes)   Chrysopelea ornata Ornate Flying Tree Snake Smith 1943 Genus Dendrelaphis (Bronzebacks)   Dendrelaphis biloreatus Himalayan Bronzeback Murthy 1985 [as gorei] Smith 1943 [as gorei]   Dendrelaphis cyanochloris Green Bronzeback Biakzuala, Lalremsanga, Tariang, Vabeiryureilai, Muansanga, Hrima, Kumar, Kundu, Purkayastha & Vogel 2022 Murthy 1985 Smith 1943 Whitaker & Captain 2004   Dendrelaphis tristis Common Indian Bronzeback Kramer 1977 Smith 1943 Whitaker & Captain 2004 Genus Elaphe (Palearctic-Oriental Rat Snakes)   Elaphe cantoris Eastern Trinket Snake Murthy 1985 Smith 1943 Whitaker & Captain 2004   Elaphe hodgsonii Himalayan Trinket Snake Whitaker & Captain 2004   Elaphe taeniura Stripe-tailed Rat Snake Murthy 1985 Smith 1943 Whitaker & Captain 2004 Genus Fowlea (Fishing Keelbacks)   Fowlea piscator Checkered Keelback Nanhoe & Ouboter 1987 Vogel & David 2012 Whitaker & Captain 2004 [as sanctijohannis] Genus Gonyosoma (Oriental Green Rat Snakes and Rainbow Tree Snake)   Gonyosoma prasinum Green Bush Rat Snake David, Campbell, Deuti, Hauser, Luu, Nguyen, Orlov, Pauwels, Scheinberg, Sethy, Smits, Teynie & Vogel 2022 Smith 1943 Whitaker & Captain 2004 Genus Hebius (Oriental Equatorial Keelbacks)   Hebius clerki Kachin Keelback David, Agarwal, Athreya, Mathew, Vogel & Mistry 2015 David, Vogel & Pauwels 2005 [as Amphiesma parallelum] Purkayastha & David 2019 Genus Herpetoreas (Himalayan Mountain Keelbacks)   Herpetoreas platyceps Himalayan Flat-headed Keelback David, Agarwal, Athreya, Mathew, Vogel & Mistry 2015 Lalremsanga, Bal, Vogel & Biakzuala 2022 Malnate 1966 Purkayastha & David 2019 Ren, Jiang, Huang, David & Li 2022 Smith 1943   Herpetoreas sieboldii Sikkim Keelback David, Agarwal, Athreya, Mathew, Vogel & Mistry 2015 Lalremsanga, Bal, Vogel & Biakzuala 2022 Malnate 1966 Purkayastha & David 2019 Ren, Jiang, Huang, David & Li 2022 Genus Liopeltis (Ringneck Snakes)   Liopeltis rappii Himalayan Ringneck Snake Murthy 1985 Smith 1943   Liopeltis stoliczkae Northeast Indian Ringneck Snake Murthy 1985 Smith 1943 Genus Lycodon (Oriental Wolf Snakes)   Lycodon aulicus Indian Wolf Snake Nanhoe & Ouboter 1987   Lycodon fasciatus Yellow-banded Wolf Snake Vogel & David 2019 Vogel, David, Pauwels, Sumontha, Norval, Hendrix, Vu & Ziegler 2009   Lycodon gammiei Sikkim Wolf Snake Mistry, Vogel & Tillack 2007 Murthy 1985 Smith 1943   Lycodon septentrionalis Northern Big-toothed Snake Das & Vasudevan 2015 [as Dinodon septentrionale chapaense] Murthy 1985 Smith 1943 Genus Oligodon (Kukri Snakes)   Oligodon albocinctus White-barred Kukri Snake Daniel 1983   Oligodon cyclurus Northeast Indian Kukri Snake David, Das & Vogel 2011 David, Nguyen, Nguyen, Jiang, Chen, Teynie & Ziegler 2012   Oligodon erythrogaster Red-bellied Kukri Snake Murthy 1985 Smith 1943   Oligodon juglandifer Darjeeling Kukri Snake Murthy 1985 Smith 1943   Oligodon melaneus Black Kukri Snake Murthy 1985 Smith 1943 Genus Oreocryptophis (Red Mountain Rat Snake)   Oreocryptophis porphyraceus Red Mountain Rat Snake Murthy 1985 Schulz & Helfenberger 1998 Smith 1943 Whitaker & Captain 2004 Genus Pseudoxenodon (Mock Cobras)   Pseudoxenodon macrops Common Large-eyed Mock Cobra Nanhoe & Ouboter 1987 Whitaker & Captain 2004 Genus Ptyas (Giant Rat Snakes and Oriental Green Snakes)   Ptyas nigromarginata Oriental Green Rat Snake Murthy 1985 Smith 1943 Vogel & Hauser 2013 Whitaker & Captain 2004 Genus Rhabdophis (Asian Keelbacks)   Rhabdophis helleri Northern Red-necked Keelback David & Vogel 2021   Rhabdophis himalayanus Common Himalayan Keelback Das, Smith, Sidik, Sarker, Boruah, Patel, Murthy & Deepak 2021 Nanhoe & Ouboter 1987 Genus Sibynophis (Oriental Black-headed Snakes)   Sibynophis collaris Collared Black-headed Snake Lalremsanga, Bal, Vogel & Biakzuala 2022 Genus Trachischium (Oriental Slender Snakes)   Trachischium fuscum Darjeeling Slender Snake Bhosale, Gowande & Mirza 2019 Murthy & Sharma 1976 Murthy 1985 Raha, Das, Bag, Debnath & Pramanick 2018 Smith 1943   Trachischium guentheri Rose-bellied Slender Snake Bhosale, Gowande & Mirza 2019 Murthy 1985 Smith 1943   Trachischium monticola Assam Slender Snake Bhosale, Gowande & Mirza 2019   Trachischium tenuiceps Orange-bellied Slender Snake Raha, Das, Bag, Debnath & Pramanick 2018 Smith 1943  Family Elapidae [part 1: terrestrial species] (Cobras, Mambas, etc.) Genus Bungarus (Kraits)   Bungarus bungaroides Northeastern Hill Krait Smith 1943   Bungarus lividus Lesser Black Krait Lalbiakzuala, Purkayastha, Rathee & Lalremsanga 2021 Smith 1943   Bungarus niger Greater Black Krait Smith 1943 Genus Naja (Typical Cobras)   Naja kaouthia Monocellate Cobra Wuster & Thorpe 1992 Genus Sinomicrurus (East Asian Coral Snakes)   Sinomicrurus macclellandii Southeast Asian Coral Snake Smart, Ingrasci, Sarker, Lalremsanga, Murphy, Ota, Tu, Shouche, Orlov & Smith 2021 Smith 1943 Smith, Ogale, Deepak & Giri 2012 Whitaker & Captain 2004  Family Gerrhopilidae (Indo-Malayan Blind Snakes) Genus Gerrhopilus (Indo-Malayan Blind Snakes)   Gerrhopilus oligolepis Nagri Valley Blind Snake McDiarmid, Campbell & Toure 1999 Smith 1943  Family Homalopsidae (Australasian Mud Snakes) Genus Enhydris (Asian Mud Snakes)   Enhydris enhydris Striped Mud Snake Gyi 1970  Family Pareidae (Oriental Slug Eaters) Genus Pareas (Typical Oriental Slug Eaters)   Pareas macularius Black-spotted Slug Eater Murthy 1985 Smith 1943 Whitaker & Captain 2004   Pareas monticola Assam Slug Eater Ding, Chen, Suwannapoom, Nguyen, Pogarkov & Vogel 2020 Smith 1943  Family Typhlopidae (Typical Blind Snakes) Genus Indotyphlops (South Asian Blind Snakes)   Indotyphlops jerdoni Khasi Hills Blind Snake Hahn 1980 Smith 1943   * Indotyphlops meszoelyi Darjeeling Blind Snake Wallach 1999  Family Viperidae (Vipers) Genus Daboia (Daboias)   Daboia russelii Indian Chain Viper Smith 1943 Genus Ovophis (Asian Mountain Pitvipers)   Ovophis monticola Western Mountain Pitviper Zhao & Adler 1993 Genus Popeia (South Asian Bamboo Pitvipers)   Popeia popeiorum Northern Bamboo Pitviper Mirza, Lalremsanga, Bhosale, Gowande, Patel, Idiatullina & Poyarkov 2023 Whitaker & Captain 2004 Genus Trimeresurus (Oriental Pitvipers)   Trimeresurus albolabris Southeast Asian White-lipped Tree Pitviper Regenass & Kramer 1981 Whitaker & Captain 2004 Genus Viridovipera (Green Tree Pitvipers)   Viridovipera yunnanensis Yunnan Green Tree Pitviper Gumprecht, Tillack, Orlov, Captain & Ryabov 2004

	Turtles (Testudines)
	= endemicEX = extinct or assumed extinct Species References  Family Geoemydidae (Eastern Pond Turtles) Genus Cyclemys (Asian Leaf Turtles)   Cyclemys gemeli Assam Leaf Turtle Pradhan, Chettri & Sengupta 2020 Thapa, Pradhan, Thakur, Joshi, Sharma & Chandra 2021