List of reptiles of Italy

The Italian reptile fauna totals 58 species (including introduced and naturalised species).They are listed here in three systematic groups (Sauria, Serpentes, and Testudines) in alphabetical order by scientific name.

Sauria (lizards)

European green lizards

Ocellated lizard

Italian wall lizard

Common wall lizard

Algyroides fitzingeri – Fitzinger's algyroides LC (endemic to Sardinia and Corsica)
Algyroides nigropunctatus – blue-throated keeled lizard LC
Anguis fragilis – common slowworm NE
Anguis veronensis – Italian slowworm NE
Archaeolacerta bedriagae – Bedriaga's rock lizard NT
Chalcides chalcides – Italian three-toed skink LC
Chalcides striatus – western three-toed skink LC
Chalcides ocellatus – ocellated skink NT
Chamaeleo chamaeleon – Mediterranean chameleon
Cyrtopodion kotschyi – tree gecko LC
Euleptes europaea – European leaf-toed gecko NT
Hemidactylus turcicus – Mediterranean house gecko LC
Lacerta agilis – sand lizard LC
Lacerta bilineata – western green lizard LC
Lacerta horvathi – Horvath's rock lizard NT
Lacerta viridis – European green lizard LC
Podarcis filfolensis – Filfola lizard LC
Podarcis melisellensis – Dalmatian wall lizard LC
Podarcis muralis – common wall lizard LC
Podarcis raffonei – Aeolian wall lizard CR
Podarcis siculus – Italian wall lizard LC
Podarcis tiliguerta – Tyrrhenian wall lizard LC
Podarcis waglerianus – Sicilian wall lizard LC (endemic to Sicily)
Psammodromus algirus – large psammodromus LC
Pseudopus apodus – European legless lizard, sheltopusik NE
Tarentola mauritanica – Moorish wall gecko LC
Timon lepidus – ocellated lizard NT
Zootoca vivipara – viviparous lizard LC

Caretta caretta – loggerhead sea turtle LC ^[2]
Chelonia mydas – green sea turtle EN ^[2]
Chelydra serpentina – common snapping turtle (introduced)
Dermochelys coriacea – leatherback sea turtle VU ^[2]
Emys orbicularis NT
- Emys orbicularis orbicularis – European pond turtle^[2]
- Emys orbicularis galloitalica – Franco-Italian pond turtle^[2]
- Emys orbicularis hellenica – Hellenic pond turtle^[2]
- Emys orbicularis ingauna – Ligurian pond turtle^[2]
Emys trinacris – Sicilian pond turtle DD ^[2]
Lepidochelys kempii – Kemp's ridley sea turtle CR ^[2]
Testudo graeca – spur-thighed tortoise VU ^[2]
Testudo hermanni – Hermann's tortoise EN ^[2]
Testudo marginata – marginated tortoise LC ^[2]
Trachemys scripta elegans – red-eared slider NE (introduced)^[2]