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Variable Skink
African Reptiles guide Information: Variable Skink (Mabuya varia) - A medium-sized skink with a rounded snout and a window in each lower lid. Colouration is variable; the back may be blackish, olive...
Vine Snake
African Reptiles guide Information: Southern Vine Snake, Twig Snake, Bird Snake [Thelotornis capensis capensis]. This extremely thin snake has a lance-shaped head and large eyes with keyhole-shaped pupils...
Sundevalls Writhing Skink
African Reptiles guide Information: Sundevalls Writhing Skink [Lygosoma sundevalli]. The body of this small burrowing skink is light brown to grey, usually with a dark spot at the base of each scale...
Striped Skink
African Reptiles guide Information: Striped Skink, African Striped Skink [Trachylepsis striata]. This medium-sized skink has a window in each of the lower eyelids. The ear openings are lobed. Colouration differs...
Spotted Thick Toed Gecko
African Reptiles guide Information: Thick-Toed Gecko or Spotted Gecko [Pachydactylus maculates]. A small, gentle gecko with a fat body and a rounded snout. The back is grey to greyish-brown, with 4 rows of elongated, blackish spots...
Spotted Sandveld Lizard
African Reptiles guide Information: Spotted Sandveld Lizard [Nucras intertexta]. A large sandveld lizard, usually with a spotted back and an orange-brown tail. The back is light brown to reddish-brown, with a series of pale spots...
Spotted Bush Snake
African Reptiles guide Information: Spotted Bush Snake [Philothamnus semivariegatus]. A very slender snake with a flat, distinct head and a long tail. The body is bright green to olive, usually with dark spots on the bars...
Spekes Hinged Tortoise
African Reptiles guide Information: Speke's Hinge-Back Tortoise [Kinixys spekii]. A medium-sized tortoise with a smooth, depressed carapace with a well developed hinge. The shell of juveniles has a zonary pattern...
Southern Tree Agama
African Reptiles guide Information: Southern Tree Agama, Black-necked Agama or Blue-throated Agama [Acanthocercus atricollis]. A very large agama with a broad head. Breeding males have a dull blue to bluish...
Serrated Hinged Terrapin
African Reptiles guide Information: The Serrated Hinged Terrapin is the largest hinged terrapin. The carapace and bridge are uniform black in colour. The plastron is yellow-centered, with a sharply defined, black, angular pattern...
Rough Scaled Plated Lizard
African Reptiles guide Information: Sudan Plated Lizard, Great Plated Lizard or Rough-scaled Plated Lizard [Gerrhosaurus major]. The Sudan Plated Lizard is a large, stout lizard, with a short head and large eyes...
Whitethroated Monitor
African Reptiles guide Information: The White-throated Monitor is a very large, stout lizard with strong, stocky limbs and sharp claws. The head has a bulbous snout, with slit-like nostrils nearer to the eyes...
Puff Adder
African Reptiles guide Information: Puff Adder [Bitis arietans]. This thick, heavily built snake has a large, flattened, triangular head and large nostrils which point vertically upwards. The body is yellow-brown to light brown...
Pan Hinged Terrapin
African Reptiles guide Information: Pan Hinged Terrapin [Pelusios subniger]. A small hinged terrapin with a rounded, smooth shell and a small plastral hinge; no axillary. The head is large, with a blunt snout and smooth beak...
Ornate Sandveld Lizard
African Reptiles guide Information: A large sandveld lizard with a blotched pattern in adults. Juveniles are blackish-brown on the back with 3 white longitudinal stripes. Adults are brown dorsally with irregular black blotches...
Olive Grass Snake
African Reptiles guide Information: The Olive Grass Snake is a large, robust snake with a non-flattened snout and a long tail. The back is olive-brown (paler towards the tail), sometimes with black-edged scales...
Leopard Tortoise
African Reptiles guide Information: Leopard Tortoise [Stigmochelys pardalis] still classified by some as [Geochelone pardalis]. They may exceed 700 mm in length and 40 kg in weight. The carapace is domed and not hinged...
Red Lipped Snake
African Reptiles guide Information: The Red Lipped Snake is a small snake with a broad, obvious head and a short tail. The scales are in 19 rows at midbody and are dull; the head is iridescent when the skin is freshly shed...
Giant Plated Lizard
African Reptiles guide Information: The Giant Plated Lizard is a large lizard with a flattened head and body. In adults, the back is dark brown to black. The throat is dirty white, and the belly is light brown...
Flap Neck Chameleon
African Reptiles guide Information: The Flapped-Necked Chameleon is a large chameleon with a continuous crest of small, white, triangular tubercles on the throat and belly. Colouration varies, from pale yellow...
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