title: List of reptiles of Costa Rica
text: # List of reptiles of Costa Rica
  
  This is a list of reptiles in Costa Rica.
  
  ## Lizards
  
  ### Family Corytophanidae
  
  * Genus Basiliscus (brown basilisk, common basilisk, plumed basilisk)
  * Genus Corytophanes (helmeted iguana)
  * Genus Laemanctus (casquehead iguana)
  
  ### Family Dactyloidae
  
  * Genus Anolis (Anolis insignis, Anolis microtus)
  
  ### Family Gekkonidae
  
  * Genus Gonatodes (yellow-headed gecko)
  * Genus Hemidactylus (common house gecko)
  * Genus Lepidoblepharis (Costa Rica scaly-eyed gecko)
  * Genus Sphaerodactylus (yellow-tailed dwarf gecko, spotted dwarf gecko)
  * Genus Lepidodactylus (mourning gecko)
  
  ### Family Iguanidae
  
  * Genus Ctenosaura (black spiny-tailed iguana)
  * Genus Iguana (green iguana)
  
  ### Family Phyllodactylidae
  
  * Genus Thecadactylus (turnip-tailed gecko)
  
  ### Family Polychrotidae
  
  * Genus Norops (21 species, including blue-eyed anole, Carpenter's anole, green tree anole, ground anole, lemur anole, lichen anole, many-scaled anole, pug-nosed anole, slender anole, stream anole, water anole)
  * Genus Polychrus (neotropical chameleon)
  
  ### Family Scincidae
  
  * Mabuya unamarginata
  
  ### Family Teiidae
  
  * Anadia ocellata
  * Holcosus quadrilineatus
  * Holcosus festivus
  * Ptychoglossus plicatus
  
  ### Family Xantusiidae
  
  * Lepidophyma reticulatum
  
  ## Snakes
  
  ### Family Anomalepididae
  
  * Anomalepis mexicana
  * Helminthophis frontalis
  * Liotyphlops albirostris
  
  ### Family Boidae
  
  * Boa constrictor
  * Boa imperator
  * Epicrates cenchria
  
  ### Family Colubridae
  
  * Amastridium veliferum (rufous-headed snake)
  * Chironius exoletus
  * Clelia clelia
  * Drymobius melanotropis (black forest racer)
  * Drymobius margaritiferus (speckled racer)
  * Enulius sclateri
  * Erythrolampus mimus
  * Imantodes cenchoa
  * Lampropeltis triangulatum
  * Leptophis ahaetulla (parrot snake)
  * Liophis epinphalus
  * Leptodeira septentrionalis
  * Mastigodryas melanolomus
  * Ninia maculata
  * Scaphiodontophis venustissimus
  * Senticolis triaspis (green rat snake)
  * Stenorrhina degenhardtii
  * Stenorrhina fremenvilli
  * Genus Tantilla (centipede snakes)
  * Thamnophis proximus
  * Xenodon rhabdocephalus
  
  ### Family Elapidae
  
  * Micrurus alleni
  * Micrurus mipartitus
  
  ### Family Leptotyphlopidae
  
  * Leptotyphlops goudotii
  
  ### Family Loxocemidae
  
  * Loxocemus bicolor
  
  ### Family Tropidophiidae
  
  * Ungaliophis panamensis
  
  ### Family Typhlopidae
  
  * Typhlops costaricensis
  
  ### Family Viperidae
  
  * Atropoides nummifer
  * Atropoides picadoi
  * Bothriechis lateralis
  * Bothriechis schlegelii
  * Bothrops asper
  * Porthidium nasutum
  * Lachesis stenophrys Cope 1875 Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
  * Lachesis melanocephala Solòrzano & Cerdas 1986 southeastern Costa Rica and adjoining areas of western Panama
  
  ## Turtles
  
  * Kinosternon leucostomum
  * Rhinoclemmys annulata
  * Rhinoclemmys funerea
  * Rhinoclemmys pulcherrima
  * Trachemys emolli
  * Trachemys venusta
  
  ## Crocodilians
  
  ### Family Crocodylidae
  
  * American crocodile
  
  ### Family Alligatoridae
  
  * Spectacled caiman
  