List of reptiles of Tasmania
# List of reptiles of Tasmania

This is a list of reptiles occurring in Tasmania:

## Order: Squamata (lizards and snakes)

### Lizards

| Scientific name | Distribution |
| - | - |
| Rankinia diemensis, mountain dragon | |
| Bassiana duperreyi, eastern three-lined skink | |
| Cyclodomorphus casuarinae, she-oak skink | Tasmania |
| Egernia whitii, White's skink | |
| Eulamprus tympanum, southern water skink | New South Wales, Victoria and Rodondo Island, Tasmania |
| Lampropholis delicata, delicate skink | Eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Accidentally introduced to New Zealand, Hawaii, and Lord Howe Island. |
| Lerista bougainvillii, Bougainville's skink | South-eastern Australia, including north-eastern Tasmania |
| Carinascincus ocellatus, spotted skink | Tasmania |
| Carinascinus microlepidotus, southern snow skink | Tasmania |
| Carinascinus greeni, alpine cool-skink | Tasmania |
| Carinascinus metallicus, metallic skink | Southern Victoria and Tasmania |
| Carinascinus orocryptus, Tasmanian mountain skink | Tasmania |
| Carinascinus palfreymani, Pedra Branca skink | Pedra Branca, Tasmania |
| Pseudomoia entrecasteauxii, southern grass skink | |
| Pseudemoia pagenstecheri, southern grass tussock skink | |
| Pseudemoia rawlinsoni, glossy grass skink | New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania |
| Tiliqua nigrolutea, blotched blue-tongued lizard | New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, and Tasmania |

### Snakes

| Scientific name | Distribution |
| - | - |
| Austrelaps superbus, lowland copperhead | South-eastern Australia, including Tasmania |
| Drysdalia coronoides, white-lipped snake | South-eastern Australia, including Tasmania |
| Hydrophis platurus, yellow-bellied sea snake | Tropics. Reported sightings in colder waters such as California, New Zealand, and Tasmania. |
| Notechis scutatus, tiger snake | Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania |

## Order: Testudines (turtles and tortoises)

| Scientific name | Distribution |
| - | - |
| Caretta caretta, loggerhead sea turtle | |
| Chelodina longicollis, eastern-long necked turtle | East Australia, introduced to Tasmania |
| Chelonia mydas, green sea turtle | |
| Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback sea turtle | |
