Links

Reptile Systematics:

• Terrestrial Vertebrates (Tree of Life)
• Zoological Record
• Reptile sequences in the GenBank DNA Database: Crocodylidae, Lepidosauria, Testudines
• Amphibia-Reptilia.com (some sort of reptile database)
• Turtles of the World (Iverson et al.)
• Turtles of the World (Ernst, Altenburg & Barbour)

Herpetological Directories:

• Reptiles (Yahoo)
• Combined Index to Herpetological Collections
• Herpnet.org
• Museum abbreviations

Historical Literature:

• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Current contents of herpetological journals
• HERPFAUN (faunistic bibliography by Charles H. Smith)
• Historical Documents of the Virginia Herpetological Society
• IUCN turtle literature database
• see also > Publications

Other Vertebrate databases or checklists:

• Amphibians: Frost's Amphibian Species of the World; Amphibiaweb; Globalamphibians.org
• Birds: Avibase, The Sibley/Monroe World List of Bird Names
• Fish: Fishbase
• Mammals: Mammal Species of the World
• Introduced reptiles to North America: CNAH

General Systematic Zoology sites and databases:

• Encyclopedia of Life
• GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)
• Global Names
• Interagency Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
• International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
• Systematics at the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
• SPECIES 2000 - Catalogue of Life
• Species-ID
• uBio NameBank
• US National Phenology Network
• World register of marine species (WoRMS)
• Zoobank

Phylogenetics Resources

• The Tree of Life (tolweb.org)
• The Open Tree of Life
• TreeBASE
• Time Tree

Courses and programs in herpetology and taxonomy:

• Master Herpetology (Free University of Brussels, VUB)
• Distributed European School of Taxonom

Reptile-related blogs

• Biology of the Reptilia
• Gecko Thailand Blog
• Grathwohl Herpetology
• Herpetofauna of the Western Ghats
• Herpetology of Trinidad and Tobago
• Indian Snake Photography
• M.A. Muin
• Novataxa
• Serpent Research

Other sites:

• Snake Scalation at Wikipedia
• Scientific and Common Names of the Reptiles and Amphibians of North America - Explained
• LizardBase (a database on anoles, genomics, and GIS data)
• BOLD (Barcode of Life database)

Herpetofaunistic, regional, and geographic sites

R = reptiles, S = snakes, L = lizards, T = turtles, CL = checklist, K = key

Africa

• African Herpetology
• South African Herpetology
• Reptile Atlas of Southern Africa
• Herpetology of Ethiopia & Eritrea

Asia

• Lizards of Borneo
• Reptiles of Sri Lanka, Snakes of Sri Lanka
• Reptiles of Indonesia
• Fauna of India; Indian snakes; Snakes of the Nicobar and Andaman islands
• Amphibians and Reptiles of Southern India
• Snakes of Taiwan
• Herpwatch Philippines

Australia

• Queensland (Queensland Museum)
• North Queensland

North America

• The Center for North American Herpetology (CNAH); has many state checklists.
• Snakes of North America
• Canada: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia

United States

Central America

• Belize
• Guatemala: Amphibians and Reptiles of Guatemala
• Honduras: Amphibians and Reptiles of Honduras
• Mexico Herps, Herpetofauna Mexicana (Facebook)

Other countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama.

South America

• Bolivia: Herpetology
• Colombia: reptiles
• Ecuador: ReptiliaWebEcuador
• Uruguay: Reptiles, Seaturtles
• Venezuela: Snakes
• Paraguay: Fauna Paraguay (includes reptiles and amphibians)

Other countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Surinam, Trinidad, Tobago, Venezuela.

Caribbean

• Caribherp
• Father Sanchez (St. Barth)
• Caribbean Anoles
• Cayman Wildlife Connection

Europe

• Amphibians and Reptilies of Europe
• New Atlas of Amphibians and Reptilies of Europe
• Herpetofauna of Europe
• Turkey: Turkherptil

Albania, Andorra, Austria, Azores, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia

Middle East

• Iran (lizards)