title: List of reptiles of Tasmania
text: # 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 | |
  