# 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).