Reptiles at your local zoo?

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CGSwans

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Hey folks - what are the best reptile collections out there?

Melbourne Zoo has the following that I recall off the top of my head. These are the animals on display - there might be others 'out the back'.

Philippine Crocodile
Freshwater Crocodile
American Alligator

Aldabra Giant Tortoise
Star Tortoise
Elongate Tortoise
Twist-necked Turtle
Macquarie River Turtler
Golden Coin Turtle
Asian Three-toed Box Turtle

Lace Monitor
Merten's Water Monitor
Pygmy Mulga Monitor
Gila Monster
Green Iguana
Fijian Banded Iguana
Crested Basilisk
Jewelled Lizard
Jackson's Chameleon
Philippine Sailfin Dragon
Frilled Dragon
Tawny Dragon
Southern Forest Dragon
Tokay Gecko
Smooth Knob-tailed Gecko
Madagascar Day Gecko
Striped Legless Lizard
Eastern Water Skink
Hosmer's Skink
Pink-tongued Skink
Blotched Blue-tongued Skink
Centralian Blue-tongued Skink

Arafura File Snake
Blood Python
Black-headed Python
Rough-scaled Python
Green Tree Python
Boa Constrictor
Emerald Tree Boa
Corn Snake
Taiwan Beauty Snake
Brown Tree Snake
Mangrove Snake
Honduran Milk Snake
Eyelash Viper
Rhinoceros Viper
Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
Aruba Island Rattlesnake
Broad-headed Snake
Coastal Taipan
White-lipped Cobra
 
Chester Zoo has * denotes currently kept offshow

turtles
Zhou's Box Turtle*
Chinese Three-striped Box Turtle
Indochinese Box Turtle*
Spiny Hill Turtle*
Beale's Four-eyed Turtle*
Vietnamese Four-eyed Turtle*
Annam Leaf Turtle* (first UK breeding 2009)
Black-breasted Leaf Turtle*
Roti Island Snake-necked Turtle*
Pig-nosed Turtle
Egyptian Tortoise
Radiated Tortoise
Galapagos Giant Tortoise
crocodiles
Philippines Crocodile
tuatara
Common Tuatara
lizards
British Sand Lizard
Green Pricklenape
Hispaniolan Rhinoceros Iguana
Lesser Antilles Iguana
Fiji Banded Iguana
Utila Spiny-tailed Iguana
Blue Spiny Lizard*
Sudanese Spiny-tailed Agama
Northern Caiman Lizard
Veiled Chameleon
Green Tree Monitor
Mangrove Monitor
Crocodile Monitor
Lace Monitor
Komodo Dragon
Rio Fuerto Beaded Lizard
Reticulated Gila Monster
snakes
Boelen's Python*
Green Tree Python
Reticulated Python
Jamaican Boa
Green Anaconda
Emerald Tree Boa*
Red-tailed Racer
Corn Snake*
Black Ratsnake*
King Ratsnake
Mexican Tiger Ratsnake
Banded Mangrove Snake
Snouted Cobra
East African Green Mamba
Eyelash Viper
White-lipped Pit Viper
Western Gaboon Viper
Rhinoceros Viper
 
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Marwell's Reptiles (not including off-show stock):

West African Dwarf Crocodile

Common Boa
Carpet Python
Royal Python
Western Hognose Snake
Green Tree Python
Central American Tree Boa
Rainbow Boa
Corn Snake

Nile Monitor
Yemen Chameleon
Spiny-Tailed Lizard
Cunningham's Skink
Oriental Water Dragon
Tokay Gecko
Flap-Neck Chameleon
Frilled Lizard
Beaded Lizard
Leopard Gecko

Malayan Box Turtle
Leopard Tortoise
Egyptian Tortoise
 
Cincinnati

Crocodilia:
Chinese alligator
American alligator
American crocodile

Lizards:
Ackies dwarf monitor
African fat-tailed gecko
Blue spiny lizard
Black tree monitor
Blue tree monitor
Desert grassland whiptail lizard
Green Anole
Green tree monitor
Heckel's leaf-tailed gecko
Knight Anole
Komodo dragon
Madagascar giant day gecko
Ornate monitor
Quince monitor
Razo Island skink
Reticulated Gila monster
Solomon Islands skink

Snakes:
Angolan python
Aruba Island rattlesnake
Black rat snake
Boa constrictor
Brazilian lancehead
Brazilian rainbow boa
Caatinga lanceheads
California king snake
Corn snake
Dumeril's ground boa
Eastern diamonback rattlesnakes
Everglades rat snake
Eyelash viper
Gaboon viper
Green tree python
Jameson' mamba
King cobra
Mangrove water snake
Mexican west coast rattlesnake
Nelson's milksnake
Puff adder
Rough green snake
Southern copperhead
Tercipelo
Thai red mountain snake
Timber rattlesnake
Yellow rat snake
Yucatan neotropical rattlesnake

Turtle and tortoises:
African-helmeted turtle
Alligator snapping turtle
Common snapping turtle
Florida cooter
Galapagos tortoise
Gopher tortoise
Loggerhead musk turtle
Mata mata
Radiated tortoise
Red-eared slider
Red-footed tortoise
Northern red-bellied turtle
Pancake tortoises
Peninsula cooter
Spotted turtle

Newport Aquarium

American alligator
Cuvier's dwarf caiman
Common caiman
Dwarf crocodile
Eyelash Viper
Malaysian gharial
Morelet crocodile
Nile crocodile
Orinoco crocodile
Siamese crocodile
 
bongorob said:
Chester Zoo has * denotes currently kept offshow

turtles
Zhou's Box Turtle*
Chinese Three-striped Box Turtle
Indochinese Box Turtle*
Spiny Hill Turtle*
Beale's Four-eyed Turtle*
Vietnamese Four-eyed Turtle*
Annam Leaf Turtle* (first UK breeding 2009)
Black-breasted Leaf Turtle*
Roti Island Snake-necked Turtle*
Pig-nosed Turtle
Egyptian Tortoise
Radiated Tortoise
Galapagos Giant Tortoise
crocodiles
Philippines Crocodile
tuatara
Common Tuatara
lizards
British Sand Lizard
Green Pricklenape
Hispaniolan Rhinoceros Iguana
Lesser Antilles Iguana
Fiji Banded Iguana
Utila Spiny-tailed Iguana
Blue Spiny Lizard*
Sudanese Spiny-tailed Agama
Northern Caiman Lizard
Veiled Chameleon
Green Tree Monitor
Mangrove Monitor
Crocodile Monitor
Lace Monitor
Komodo Dragon
Rio Fuerto Beaded Lizard
Reticulated Gila Monster
snakes
Boelen's Python*
Green Tree Python
Reticulated Python
Jamaican Boa
Green Anaconda
Emerald Tree Boa*
Red-tailed Racer
Corn Snake*
Black Ratsnake*
King Ratsnake
Mexican Tiger Ratsnake
Banded Mangrove Snake
Snouted Cobra
East African Green Mamba
Eyelash Viper
White-lipped Pit Viper
Western Gaboon Viper
Rhinoceros Viper
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Mexican Tiger Ratsnake,East African Green Mamba,Snouted Cobra,Reticulated Gila Monster,Phillipine Crocodile,Beale's Four-eyed Turtle,Vietnamese Four-eyed Turtle,Sudanese Spiny-tailed Agama and Lace Monitor have all left the collection!
 
zoogiraffe said:
Mexican Tiger Ratsnake,East African Green Mamba,Snouted Cobra,Reticulated Gila Monster,Phillipine Crocodile,Beale's Four-eyed Turtle,Vietnamese Four-eyed Turtle,Sudanese Spiny-tailed Agama and Lace Monitor have all left the collection!
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By the way, the post you quoted was posted in 2009! :p
 
A * indicates that the animal is an education animal or is off-exhibit.
American Alligator (Some on exhibit and some are education animals)
Yacare Caiman
Eastern Box Turtle
Common Snapping Turtle
Yellow-Bellied Slider
Cooter Turtle
Florida Red-Bellied Turtle
Amazon Tree Boa
Black Rat Snake
Boa Constrictor
Eastern Milk Snake
Common Garter Snake
Mata Mata Turtle
Emerald Tree Boa
Musk Turtle
Red-Footed Tortoise
Three-Toed Box Turtle
Spotted Turtle
Wood Turtle
Eastern Mud Turtle
Diamondback Terrapin
Red-Bellied Slider (Some on exhibit and some are education animals)
Green Iguana*
Northern Pine Snake*
Red-Tailed Boa*
New Caledonian Crested Gecko*
Blue-Tongued Skink*
Inland Bearded Dragon*
Bull Snake*
 
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I'm guessing Post#8 refers to Beardsley Zoo?

:p

Hix
 
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