Biodiversity of Sri Lanka

A very common, non-venomous , terrestrial snake occurs in secondary forests and anthropogenic areas from low country to the hills up to abo...

 A non-venomous aquatic snake inhabiting damp places near water bodies such as streams, ponds, wells, paddy fields as well as brackish habit...

පහත රට වියලි කලාපයේ වැව්, ගංගා, විල්ලු සහ විශාල ජලාශ වල මෙන්ම ඇතැම් විට ලුණු ලේවා වලද දැකිය හැකි හැළ කිඹුලා මිරිදිය ජලයේ වසන උරගයෙකි. හැළ කි...

 වැඩුණු සතුන් සෙන්ටිමීටර 26 සිට 31 පමණ දිග කුඩා, නිර්විෂ, මෙරටට ආවේනික භෞමික සර්පයෙකි පුල්ලි දත් කැටියා. දිවා කාලයේ හැසිරෙන සර්පයෙකු වන අතර ...

 මධ්‍යම කඳුකරයේ මුහුදු මටටමේ සිට මීටර් 1500 ත් 2200 ත් අතර උසින් යුත් කලාපයේ නුවරඑලිය, මහඑලිය (හොර්ටන් තැන්න), ශ්‍රිපාද අඩවිය වැනි ප්‍රදේශ ...

An endemic,  Non venomous, sub fossorial snake   common from lowland plains to about 1200 m elevations in the hills.  It   is a nocturnal  s...

පිනුම් කටුස්සා මුහුදු මට්ටමේ සිට මීටර 1300 පමණ උසක් දක්වා තෙත් කලාපයේ වනාන්තර ප්‍රදේශ වල පමණක් භෞමිකව හමුවන මෙරටට ආවේණික උරගයෙකි. වනාන්තර...

A small non venomous worm like blind snake lives under the soil, under and inside decaying logs, under stones and leaf litter. Brahminy B...

An endemic Non venomous snake occurs in all parts of the island up to about 2000 m a.s.l. Rather common in urban and sub urban areas. It...

An endemic lizard rather common in dry lowlands up to about 400 m elevations. It lives  among leaf litter of forest floor and sometimes e...

An endemic lizard confine to the semi-evergreen monsoon forests, home gardens and plantations in the dry and intermediate zones up to abo...

Fan throated Lizard inhabiting dry coastal areas of  the North, Northwestern and Southeastern part of the country was formerly consider...

Streaked Kukri Snake is a small  (26-31 cm in length)  non-venomous and terrestrial snake endemic to the  Sri Lanka . It is diurnal ...

Spotted Bowfinger Gecko is a g round dwelling gecko found under stones, among leaf litter and under decaying logs of forests, plantat...

The Crestless lizard inhabiting Knuckles range has been recently described as a new endemic species base on morphological features ( Amar...

A non-venomous, semi-aquatic snake inhabiting streams, rivers, paddy fields, tanks, marshes etc. from lowlands up to about 1200m elevatio...

An endemic snake restricted to the lowland rain forests of the south-western wet zone up to foot hills of the central highlands.  It is ...

Blossom krait is a rear-fanged mildly venomous terrestrial snake found among leaf litter in forests of low country to central hills.  Als...

The Trinket snake is a common non-venomous, terrestrial snake widely distributed in lowlands up to about 600m elevation. It can be fou...

An endemic skink found in rock crevices, leaf litter of forests or under logs in both wet and dry zone up to about 800m elevation .