This is a list of reptiles in Guatemala, including snakes, lizards, crocodilians, and turtles. Guatemala has a large variety of habitats, from tropical rain forests, dry thorn scrubs, cloud forests, coastal marshes, pine forests, mountains and lowlands. This vast contrast in biomes makes Guatemala home to a large variety of herpetofauna. These include approximately 240 species of reptiles, subdivided in 3 orders and 29 families.
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Turtles: Cheloniidae • Dermochelyidae • Chelydridae • Dermatemydidae • Emydidae • Kinosternidae • |
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Lizards: Anguidae • Gekkonidae • Helodermatidae • Corytophanidae • Iguanidae • Phrynosomatidae • Polychrotidae • Scincidae • Teiidae • Gymnophthalmidae • Xantusiidae • Xenosauridae • |
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Snakes: Leptotyphlopidae • Typhlopidae • Boidae • Loxocemidae • Tropidophiidae • Colubridae • Elapidae • Viperidae • |