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African reptiles are categorized by reptilian order:
Order Testudines: turtles
Image | Common Name(s) | Scientific name | Distribution | Notes |
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African spurred tortoise or Sulcata tortoise | Centrochelys sulcata | southern edge of the Sahara Desert | Third largest species of tortoise in the world; the largest non-island species. [1] | |
African helmeted turtle Marsh terrapin |
Pelomedusa subrufa | Very wide range | ||
Aldabra giant tortoise | Aldabrachelys gigantea | Seychelles | ||
Angonoka tortoise | Astrochelys yniphora | native to Madagascar | ||
Aubry's flapshell turtle | Cycloderma aubryi | Democratic Republic of Congo, Zaire, Gabon, Angola and theCentral African Republic | ||
East African black mud turtle | Pelusios subniger | East Africa | ||
Geometric tortoise | Psammobates geometricus | Cape area of South Africa | ||
Leopard tortoise | Stigmochelys pardalis | savannah from Sudan to South Africa [2] | ||
Lobatse hinge-back tortoise | Kinixys lobatsiana | Southern Africa | ||
African softshell turtle | Trionyx triunguis | parts of East, West and Middle Africa | ||
Pancake tortoise | Malacochersus tornieri | most common in Kenya and Tanzania [3] | ||
Radiated tortoise | Astrochelys radiata | native to southern Madagascar [4] | ||
Speke's hinge-back tortoise | Kinixys spekii | Tanzania, etc. | ||
Turkana mud turtle | Pelusios broadleyi | Eastern Africa (Kenya, etc.) | ||
Upemba mud turtle | Pelusios upembae | Democratic Republic of the Congo | ||
Yellowbelly mud turtle | Pelusios castanoides | Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, and Tanzania |
Order Squamata: snakes and lizards
Order Crocodilia: crocodiles
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