Links

Reptile Systematics:

• Terrestrial Vertebrates (Tree of Life)
• Zoological Record
• New reptile species on Dahms Tierleben
• Reptile sequences in the GenBank DNA Database: Crocodylidae, Lepidosauria, Testudines
• Turtles of the World (Iverson et al.)
• IUCN/SSC Turtles of the World: Online Turtle Taxonomic Literature Database and PDF Library
• Snake Database

Herpetological Directories:

• Herpnet.org (now Terrariumquest.com)
• World Chelonian Trust (has a pretty comprehenisve photo gallery!)

Historical Literature:

• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• HERPFAUN (faunistic bibliography by Charles H. Smith)
• Historical Documents of the Virginia Herpetological Society (currently defunct)
• IUCN turtle literature database
• see also > Publications

Other Vertebrate databases or checklists:

• Amphibians: Frost's Amphibian Species of the World; Amphibiaweb; Globalamphibians.org (Amphibian Survival Alliance)
• Birds: Avibase, The Sibley/Monroe World List of Bird Names, Global Phylogeny of Birds
• Fish: Fishbase, Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes
• Mammals: ASM Mammal Diversity Database, Mammal Species of the World (Wilson & Reeder, Bucknell University)

General Systematic Zoology sites and databases:

• Discover Life: species ID tools and other functions
• Encyclopedia of Life
• Global Names
• Interagency Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
• International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
• Systematics at the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
• SPECIES 2000 - Catalogue of Life
• Species-ID
• uBio NameBank
• US National Phenology Network
• World register of marine species (WoRMS)
• Zoobank

Vertebrate Genomics

• Earth Biogenome Project (to sequence everything, I guess)
• Genome10K Project (to sequence 10 000 vertebrate genomes)
• VGP - Vertebrate Genomes Project (to sequence the genomes of all vertebrates)

Herpetological collections (museums)

• Collections and Museum abbreviations (acronyms)
• Combined Index to Herpetological Collections
• GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)
• Global Registry of Biodiversity collections
• OZCAM (Australian Collections online)
• SysTax database (has collection data of specimens in German museums)
• VertNet

Biodiversity Informatics

• Bionames (by Roderick Page, see BioNames article in PeerJ 2013)
• Global Biodiversity Informatics Outlook
• Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Phylogenetics Resources

• The Tree of Life (tolweb.org)
• The Open Tree of Life
• TreeBASE
• Time Tree

Courses and programs in herpetology and taxonomy:

• Master Herpetology (Free University of Brussels, VUB)
• Distributed European School of Taxonomy

Reptile-related blogs

• Biology of the Reptilia
• Cascabel - A natural history blog
• Gecko Thailand Blog
• Herpetofauna of the Western Ghats
• Herpetology of Trinidad and Tobago
• Indian Snake Photography
• Life is short but snakes are long (Andrew Durso)
• M.A. Muin
• Novataxa
• Serpent Research

General: The Online Academic

Reptile-related Citizen Science Projects

• HerpMapper
• iNaturalist
• iSpotNature - Citizen Science site to share nature observations
• Observado
• Reptile Atlas of South Africa

Facebook groups

• African Herpetofauna
• Herpetology
• Snake identification
• Wikherps

Image and photo databases

• Calphotos
• Digimorph (University of Texas, Austin)
• Flickr
• iNaturalist
• HerpMapper
• Morphbank.net (not being updated)
• Morphobank.org (mainly 3D reconstructions)
• Morphosource
• Wikimedia

Other sites:

• Snake Scalation at Wikipedia
• Scientific and Common Names of the Reptiles and Amphibians of North America - Explained
• LizardBase (a database on anoles, genomics, and GIS data)
• BOLD (Barcode of Life database)
• The Macaulay library of animal audio and video recordings: Squamata (Cornell University Ornithology Lab)
• Global invasive species database (ISSG)
• Chromorep: A database of reptile karyotypes

Snakebite and venom databases:

• Clinical Toxinology
• North American Snakebite Registry
• SnakeDB
• Snake venom data (LD50 values)
• Snakebite Information and Data Platform (WHO)
• Snake venome Database

Herpetofaunistic, regional, and geographic sites

AR = amphibians and reptiles, R = reptiles, S = snakes, L = lizards, T = turtles, CL = checklist, K = key

Global

• Global Assessment of Reptile Distributions
• Global Invasive Species Database (IUCN)
• HerpMapper.org
• iNaturalist.org
• Observado.org

Africa

• African Herpetology
• Ethiopia and Eritrea: Herpetology of Ethiopia & Eritrea
• The Kenya Reptile Atlas
• Morocco Herps
• Namibia Biodiversity Database: Reptiles
• Snakes of Central and Western Africa (key)
• South African Herpetology, Reptile Atlas of Southern Africa

Asia

• China + Taiwan: Snakes of Taiwan
• India: Indian Reptiles, Indian snakes; Snakes of the Nicobar and Andaman islands
• Indonesia: Lizards of Borneo
• Japan: Japanese snakes
• Malaysia: Amphibians and Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia
• Pilippines: BREO Philippines (Biodiversity Research and Education outreach Philippines)
• Sri Lanka: Reptiles of Sri Lanka, Snakes of Sri Lanka
• Thailand: Reptile Checklist

Australia

• Australian Faunal Directory: Reptiles (list), Advanced Search
• Australian Reptile Online Database (AHS)
•  Australian Society of Herpetologists
• Reptiles of Australia
• North Queensland
• Checklist of the terrestrial vertebrate fauna of Western Australia
• Snakes of Australia (iOS App)

Pacific

• Fauna and Flora of New Caledonia: Squamates
• Atlas of the amphibians and reptiles of New Zealand
• New Zealand Herpetological Society: Herpetofauna Index

North America

• The Center for North American Herpetology (CNAH); has many state checklists.
• Snakes of North America
• Canada: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia
• DiscoverLife guides (North America): Lizards, snakes, turtles
• eNature Reptile and Amphibian ID

United States

Central America

• Belize
• Guatemala: Amphibians and Reptiles of Guatemala
• Honduras: Amphibians and Reptiles of Honduras
• Herpetology of Mexico (UTA), Mexico Herps, Herpetofauna Mexicana (Facebook)

Other countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama.

South America

• Bolivia: Herpetology
• Brazil: Atlas of Brazilian snakes
• Colombia: reptiles
• Ecuador: ReptiliaWebEcuador
• Peru: Herpetofauna del sur del Peru
• Uruguay: Reptiles, Seaturtles
• Venezuela: Snakes, ReptiliaVenezuela
• Paraguay: Fauna Paraguay (includes reptiles and amphibians)

Other countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Surinam, Trinidad, Tobago, Venezuela.

Caribbean

• Caribherp
• Father Sanchez (St. Barth)
• Caribbean Anoles
• Cayman Wildlife Connection

Europe

• Amphibians and Reptilies of Europe (Paolo Mazzei)
• New Atlas of Amphibians and Reptilies of Europe (NA2RE)
• Atlas of amphibians and reptiles in Europe (SEH)
• Herpetofauna of Europe (Jeroen Speybroek)
• Greece: Herpetofauna of Greece, herpatlas.gr
• Online-Atlas der Amphibien und Reptilien Deutschlands
• Turkey: Turkherptil
• Reptiles of Romania

List of European countries: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Azores, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia

Middle East

• Iran (lizards)