Data and photo credits

Taxonomic data

Every species list, classification, scientific name, author citation, and subspecies on this site comes from:

Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., Reyes, F., Kudera, J. & Hosek, J. (eds.) (2026), The Reptile Database (checklist release 2026_06), reptile-database.org, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

We are grateful to the herpetologists who maintain it. Any mistakes in how we present the data are ours, and we fix them fast when readers point them out.

Photographs

Photographs on this site are free-licensed (public domain, CC0, CC-BY, or CC-BY-SA), mostly from Wikimedia Commons and iNaturalist photographers who chose to share their work. Every photo carries a credit line naming the photographer and license right where it appears. We never use photos with non-commercial or unclear licenses.

Stories and illustrations

The stories, page text, and every drawing and silhouette on this site are original work made for I Love Reptile. Facts inside stories are verified against the scientific record before publishing.