Invertebrates Flora Botanical gardens Civil societies This is a list of reptiles of Sri Lanka.
[1] Five genera are endemic to Sri Lanka - Aspidura, Balanophis, Cercaspis, Haplocercus, and Pseudotyphlops.
[2] Out of them only five of the land snakes are considered potentially deadly and life threatening to humans.
[4][5][6][7] Lizard diversity in the island has been documented and studied by many local scientists and researchers such as Imesh Nuwan Bandara,[8] Kalana Maduwage, Anjana Silva,[9] Rohan Pethiyagoda, and Kelum Manamendra-Arachchi.
[13] In 2019, seven more endemic day geckos have been discovered by Suranjan Karunaratne and Mendis Wickramasinghe.