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Caeciliaidae (9 species) 
Caecilia leucocephala Taylor, 1968. Panama (Darien Province), 
Colombia, Brasil. 
Caecilia nigricans Boulenger, 1902. Panama (Atlantic versant), 
Colombia, Ecuador. 
Caecilia tentaculata Linnaeus, 1758. Panama, South America east 
of the Andes, south to Peru. 
Caecilia volcani Taylor, 1969. Panama (known from the type 
locality-Cocle Province, El Valle de Anton and from Bocas 
del Toro and Chiriqui Provinces at the continental divide). 
Dermophis mexicanus (Dumeril and Bibron, 1841). Mexico to 
Panama (western Pacific versant). 
Dermophis parviceps (Dunn, 1924). Panama (Bocas del Toro 
Province). 
Gymnopis multiplicata Peters, 1874. Honduras to Panama. 
Oscaecilia elongata (Dunn, 1942). Panama (known from the type 
locality only-Darien Province, Yaviza). 
Oscaecilia ochrocephala (Cope, 1866). Panama (Atlantic versant of 
Darien Province). 
REPTILIA (225 native species; 6 introduced) 
I. AMPHISBAENIA (3 species) 
Amphisbaenidae (3 species) 
Amphisbaena alba Linnaeus, 1758. Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, the 
Guianas, Trinidad, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay. 
Amphisbaena fuliginosa Laurenti, 1768. Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, 
Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina. 
Amphisbaena spurrelli Boulenger, 1915. Panama, Colombia 
(northern). 
II. CROCODYLIA (2 species) 
A. Alligatoridae (1 species) 
Caiman crocodilus (Linnaeus, 1758). CITES Appendix II. Mexico to 
Argentina, Trinidad, Tobago. 
B. Crocodylidae (1 species) 
Crocodylus acutus (Cuvier, 1807). CITES Appendix I/USFW 
Endangered. South Florida, Cuba, Isla de Juventud, Jamaica, 
Hispaniola, Atlantic coastal drainages from Mexico to 
Venezuela, Pacific coastal drainages from Mexico to Peru. 
III. LACERTILIA (74 native species; 6 introduced) 
