The Wildebeest's guide to South Africa
Reptiles of Kruger National Park
Afrikaans name: Reptiele van Krugerwildtuin
Kruger National Park has a list of over 100 species of reptiles. The following list is fairly comprehensive but new species are being added to their list on a regular basis.
When visiting Kruger National Park there is one reptile that you are almost guaranteed to see. It happens to be the biggest species. It is the Nile Crocodile. A smaller reptile that is also commonly seen is the Marsh Terrapin. As you can see from the list below there are numerous other species of reptiles that may be encountered in the park. In a number of cases you probably don't want to encounter! I don't think that a Black Mamba is something that most people will feel disappointed if they don't see one.
Your best chance of finding some of these interesting creatures is in the camp site itself. Many of them make their homes amongst the trees and rocks in the camps.
Common Ground Agama
Lang's Worm Lizard
Cape Worm Lizard
Kalahari Worm Lizard
Slender Worm Lizard
Kalahari Dwarf Worm Lizard
Violet Dwarf Worm Lizard
Natal Purple-glossed Snake
Eastern Purple-glossed Snake
Soutpansberg Purple-glossed snake
Common Purple-glossed Snake
Black-headed Centipede-eater
Reticulated Centipede-eater
Bibron's Stiletto Snake
Striped Quill-snouted Snake
Brown House Snake
Red-lipped Herald Snake
Rhombic Egg-eater
Marbled Tree Snake
Common File Snake
Black File Snake
Eastern Bark Snake
Floodplain Water Snake
Brown Water Snake
Cape Wolf Snake
Variegated Wolf Snake
South Eastern Green Snake
Two-striped Shovel-snout
East African Shovel-snout
Sundevall's Shovel-snout
Dwarf Sand Snake
Cape Sand Snake (see 2273)
Olive Grass Snake
Western Yellow-bellied Sand Snake
Striped Grass Snake
Rufous Beaked Snake
Eastern Tiger Snake
Southern Twig Snake
Jones' Girdled Lizard
Zimbabwe Flat Lizard
Wilhelm's Flat Lizard
Van Dam's Girdled Lizard
Flat Girdled Lizard
Warren's Girdled Lizard
Intermediate Shield Cobra
Boulenger's Garter Snake
Long-tailed Garter Snake
Mozambique Spitting Cobra
Lang's Flat Gecko
Pondo Flat Gecko
Zimbabwe Flat Gecko
Wahlberg's Velvet Gecko
Common Dwarf Gecko
Stevenson's Dwarf Gecko
Speckled Gecko
Tiger Gecko
Yellow-throated Plated Lizard
Rough-scaled Plated Lizard
Black-lined Plated Lizard
Bushveld Lizard
Common Rough-scaled Lizard
Blue-tailed Sandveld Lizard
Spotted Sandveld Lizard
Ornate Sandveld Lizard
Distant's Thread Snake
Eastern Thread Snake
Peters' Thread Snake
Long-tailed Thread Snake
Golden Blind Legless Skink
Cregoi's Blind Legless Skink
Giant Legless Skink
Wahlberg's Snake-eyed Skink
Sundevall's Writhing Skink
Lowveld Dwarf Burrowing Skink
Limpopo Dwarf Burrowing Skink
Mozambique Dwarf Burrowing Skink
Red-sided Skink
Schlegel's Giant Blind Snake (see 2596)
Delalande's Beaked Blind Snake
Horned Adder
Snouted Night Adder
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