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The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia

Every known species of reptile and amphibian, assembled from named scientific datasets. Every figure on every entry says how it was arrived at, how many independent sources hold it, and whether they agree. Where nobody has recorded something, the entry says that instead of leaving a gap.

Somewhere to start

Today’s entryErythrolamprus guentheriGünther's False Coral SnakeTake me somewhere else

Drawn from the 9,968 entries that carry a photograph, a common name and enough recorded facts to stand on their own. The other 11,604 are reachable through the index, and many of them hold very little — which is the state of the science, not a gap in the work.

Entries

Ball Python, Python regiusPython regiusCommon Leopard Gecko, Eublepharis maculariusEublepharis maculariusRed Cornsnake, Pantherophis guttatusPantherophis guttatusAxolotl, Ambystoma mexicanumAmbystoma mexicanumRed-Tailed Boa Constrictor, Boa constrictorBoa constrictorCentral Bearded Dragon, Pogona vitticepsPogona vitticepsCrested Gecko, Correlophus ciliatusCorrelophus ciliatusCarpet python, Morelia spilotaMorelia spilota

Ways in

The indexEvery name in the work, and 4,488 older ones that still lead somewhere. 26 letters.The platesA family gathered on one sheet so animals built the same way can be compared by eye. 111 families.Morphs & genetics321 colour forms across 126 species, each with how it is inherited — and an honest refusal where the genetics cannot carry a ratio.What is being lost4,629 species assessed as threatened and 56 recorded gone. Extinct is not a degree of endangered, and the entries say which.Known only as a name605 species for which science holds a name and nothing else. No other reference prints this, because printing it means stating the size of the hole.How to read an entryEvery mark, stated once: what the provenance codes mean, why brackets round an author matter, what a dash stands for.

What is in it

The pale bar is how many species the order holds. The solid bar inside it is how many anyone has photographed under a license that permits reuse.

Rhynchocephalia is a whole order with one living species left in it.

What is actually known

478,245
sourced facts, each carrying where it came from
129,446
of those are held by two or more independent datasets
4,297
come from an animal somebody actually weighed or measured
12,217
species have a photograph — 57% of the work
4,488
older names still lead to the animal they now belong to
344
morphs, of which a majority get no breeding odds at all

Assembled from six named scientific datasets, each credited on every entry that uses it. Nothing here was written by a language model: every sentence on an entry is built from stored values, so a fact that is not in a dataset does not appear. How this is made.