Research Article
Diversity, Uses, and Threats in the Ghodaghodi Lake Complex, a Ramsar Site in Western Lowland Nepal
Table 7
Reptiles directly observed in the Ghodaghodi Lake complex.
| | Scientific name | Family | Common name |
| | Crocodylus palustris (VU, I ) | Crocodylidae | Marsh mugger | | Python molurus (NT, I) | Pythonidae | Python | | Kachuga tecta (LC) | Geoemydidae | Indian roofed turtle | | Kachuga kachuga (CR) | Geoemydidae | Red crowned roofed turtle | | Lissemys punctata (LC) | Trionychidae | Flap shell turtle | | Varanus flavescens (LC, I) | Varanidae | Golden monitor lizard |
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V: vulnerable, CR: critically endangered, NT: near threatened, LC: least concern (IUCN Red List Category) (source: IUCN [73]); I: CITES category.
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