title: List of reptiles of Arizona
text: # List of reptiles of Arizona
  
  This is a list of the known extant reptiles of Arizona. The Arizona state reptile is the Arizona ridge-nosed rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi willardi).
  
  ## Turtles and tortoises
  
  ### Chelydridae
  
  * Common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina)
  
  ### Emydidae
  
  * Painted turtle (Chrysemys picta)
  * Desert box turtle (Terrapene ornata luteola)
  * Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)
  
  ### Kinosternidae
  
  * Arizona mud turtle (Kinosternon stejnegeri)
  * Yellow mud turtle (Kinosternon flavescens)
  * Sonora mud turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense)
  
  ### Testudinidae
  
  * Desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii)
  * Sonoran Desert tortoise (Gopherus morafkai)
  
  ### Trionychidae
  
  * Spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera)
  
  ## Lizards
  
  ### Anguidae
  
  * Madrean alligator lizard (Elgaria kingii)
  
  ### Eublepharidae
  
  * Western banded gecko (Coleonyx variegatus)
  
  ### Gekkonidae
  
  * Mediterranean house gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus)
  
  ### Helodermatidae
  
  * Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum)
  
  ### Xantusiidae
  
  * Arizona night lizard (Xantusia arizona)
  * Bezy's night lizard (Xantusia bezyi)
  * Desert night lizard (Xantusia vigilis)
  
  ## Snakes
  
  ### Boidae
  
  * Desert rosy boa (Lichanura trivirgata)
  
  ### Elapidae
  
  * Arizona coral snake (Micruroides euryxanthus)
  
  ### Leptotyphlopidae
  
  * New Mexico threadsnake (Rena dissecta)
  * Western threadsnake (Rena humilis)
  
  ### Viperidae
  
  * Sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes)
  * Western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox)
  