# DWA Reptile List
***REPTILES*** | ||
**Crocodilians** | ||
**Family*** Alligatoridae: *All species. | Alligators and caimans. | |
**Family*** Crocodylidae:* All species. | Crocodiles and the false gharial. | |
**Family*** Gavialidae:* All species. | The gharial (otherwise known as the gavial). | |
**Lizards and snakes** | ||
**Family*** Atractaspididae:* All species of the genus* Atractaspis.* | Burrowing asps, also known as mole or burrowing vipers and stiletto snakes. | |
**Family** *Colubridae.* All species of the genera *Malpolon *and* Thelotornis.* The species *Dispholidus typus, Rhabdophis subminiatus, Rhabdophis tigrinus, Elapomorphus lemniscatus, Philodryas olfersii,* *Tachymenis peruviana *and* Xenodon severus.* | Certain rear-fanged venomous snakes, Montpellier snakes and African vine snakes (otherwise known as African twig or bird snakes). The boomslang, the red-necked keelback, the yamakagashi (otherwise known as the Japanese tiger-snake), the Argentine black-headed snake, the South American green racer, the Peruvian racer and the Amazon false viper. | |
**Family*** Elapidae: *All species. | Certain front-fanged venomous snakes including cobras, coral snakes, kraits, mambas, whipsnakes and all Australian poisonous snakes (including the death adders). | |
**Family*** Hydrophiidae: *All species. | Sea snakes. | |
**Family*** Helodermatidae: *All species. | The gila monster and the (Mexican) beaded lizard. | |
**Family*** Viperidae: *All species. | Certain front-fanged venomous snakes (including adders, the barba amarilla, the bushmaster, the fer-de-lance, moccasins, rattlesnakes and vipers). |