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The following list of 25 species of reptiles and amphibians on the Pinnacle Nature Reserve includes those recorded up to 2010 by the ACT Herpetological Association [note] as well as those observed since.

All photos have been taken on the Reserve by Alison Milton and Warren Bond

	Common Name	Scientific name	hover over image to see name click to enlarge
Snakes
	Blackish blind snake	Anilos nigrescens
	Red-bellied Black Snake	Pseudechis porphyriacus
	Common or Eastern Brown Snake	Pseudonaja textilis
Skinks
	Oriental Striped Skink	Ctenotus orientalis
	Robust Striped Skink	Ctenotus robustus
	Copper-tailed Skink	Ctenotus taeniolatus
	Cunningham's Skink	Egernia cunninghami
	Three-toed Skink	Hemiergis decresiensis
	Garden Skink	Lampropholis delicata
	Boulenger's Skink	Morethia boulengeri
	Shingleback	Tiliqua rugosus
	Eastern Blue-tongued Lizard	Tiliqua scincoides
Dragons
	Jacky Dragon	Amphibolurus muricatus
	Eastern Bearded Dragon	Pogona barbata
Legless Lizards
	Pink-tailed worm-lizard	Aprasia parapulchella
	Olive Legless Lizard	Delma inornata
Monitors and Geckos
	Marbled Gecko	Christinus marmoratus
Turtles
	Eastern Long-neck Turtle	Chelodina longicollis
Frogs
	Plains Froglet	Crinia parinsignifera
	Common Eastern Froglet	Crinia signifera
	Eastern Banjo Frog, Pobblebonk	Limnodynastes dumerilii
	Brown-striped Frog	Limnodynastes peronii
	Spotted Grass Frog	Limnodynastes tasmaniensis
	Peron's Tree-frog	Litoria peronii
	Whistling Tree-frog	Litoria verreauxii
	Spotted Burrowing Frog	Neobatrachus sudellae
	Smooth Toadlet	Uperoleia laevigata

Note: fotpin is grateful to Joe McAuliffe for permission to use the original ACT Herpetological Association list on our website. For more details, see Reptiles of the Southern Tableland [ 14.8 MB]

For more photos of reptiles and amphibiansfound on the Pinnacle and elsewhere in the ACT,
follow this link to the Canberra Nature Map:

https://canberra.naturemapr.org/Locations/Guide/63/432