List of reptiles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

This is a list of reptiles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by family and order. It lists all families and species of reptiles in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The list below follows Donald George Broadley's 1998 "The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa)", and the Reptile Database.

There are 336 species of reptiles (class Reptilia), in 109 genera, in 22 families, in 5 orders, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Some are presumed to occur in the DRC, because they have been found in neighboring areas, but have not yet been found in DRC (see comment after name).

Order Amphisbaenia - amphisbaenids

10 species in 4 genera in 1 family

Order Crocodylia - crocodiles

3 species in 3 genera in 1 family

Order Sauria - lizards

120 species in 35 genera in 8 families

Order Serpentes - snakes

182 species in 59 genera in 8 families

Order Testudines - turtles

22 species in 8 genera in 5 families

See also

Sources

    • Broadley, D. G. (1998). "The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa)". In: Schmidt, K. P. and Noble, G. K. Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo. (reprint of the 1919 and 1923 papers). SSAR Facsimile reprints in Herpetology, 780 pp.
    • Uetz, P. et al. (eds) The Reptile Database (formerly the EMBL/EBI Reptile Database, more recently the TIGR-Reptile Database).
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