Editing Sulawesi (section)

===Reptiles===
The larger reptiles of Sulawesi are not endemic and include [[reticulated python|reticulated]] and [[Burmese python|Burmese]] pythons, the [[Pacific ground boa]], [[king cobra]]s, [[water monitor]]s, [[Hydrosaurus amboinensis|sailfin lizard]]s,<ref name="Whitten2012">{{cite book|author1=Whitten, T.|author2=Henderson, G. S.|title=Ecology of Sulawesi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q__PAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA496|date=19 June 2012|publisher=Tuttle Publishing|isbn=978-1462905072|pages=496–499}}</ref> [[saltwater crocodile]]s<ref name="Whitten2012" /><ref name = "Sideleau2016">{{cite web |url= https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301894377 |title= Recent Records of Crocodiles on the Island of Sulawesi, Indonesia |last= Sideleau |first= B. M. |date= April 2016 |access-date= 2018-05-05}}</ref> and [[green sea turtle]]s. An extinct giant [[tortoise]], ''[[Megalochelys atlas]]'', was formerly present, but disappeared by 840,000 years ago, possibly because of the arrival of [[Homo erectus]].<ref name="Corlett2010">{{cite book|editor1=Haberle, S. G.|editor2=Stevenson, J.|editor3=Prebble, M.|author= Corlett, R. T.|series= Terra Australis|volume= 32|url= http://press.anu.edu.au?p=18701|chapter-url= https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265605015|title= Altered Ecologies: Fire, Climate and Human Influence on Terrestrial Landscapes |chapter= Megafaunal extinctions and their consequences in the tropical Indo-Pacific |pages= 117–132 (see p. 122)|date= November 2010|publisher= ANU Press|isbn= 978-1921666803|doi=10.22459/TA32.11.2010 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Morwood2016">{{cite book|author1= Morwood, M.|author2=van Oosterzee, P.|title=A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia, Updated Paperback Edition|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yRCmDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA146|date=5 December 2016|publisher= Taylor & Francis|isbn= 978-1315435633|page=146}}</ref> Similarly, [[komodo dragon]]s or similar lizards appear to have inhabited the island, being among its [[apex predator]]s.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Hocknull | first1 = S. A. | last2 = Piper | first2 = P. J. | last3 = van den Bergh | first3 = G. D. | last4 = Due | first4 = R. A. | last5 = Morwood | first5 = M. J. | last6 = Kurniawan | first6 = I. | year = 2009 | title = Dragon's paradise lost: palaeobiogeography, evolution and extinction of the largest-ever terrestrial lizards (Varanidae) | journal = PLOS ONE| volume = 4 | issue = 9| page = e7241 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0007241 | pmid = 19789642 | pmc = 2748693 | bibcode = 2009PLoSO...4.7241H | doi-access = free }}</ref> The smaller snakes of Sulawesi include nonendemic forms such as the gliding species ''[[Chrysopelea paradisi]]'' and endemic forms such as ''[[Calamaria]] [[Calamaria boesemani|boesemani]]'', ''[[Calamaria muelleri]]'', ''[[Calamaria nuchalis]]'', ''[[Cyclotyphlops]]'', ''[[Enhydris]] [[Enhydris matannensis|matannensis]]'', ''[[Ptyas]] [[Ptyas dipsas|dipsas]]'', ''[[Rabdion grovesi]]'', ''[[Tropidolaemus laticinctus]]'' and ''[[Typhlops conradi]]''. Similarly, the smaller lizards of Sulawesi include nonendemic species such as ''[[Bronchocela jubata]]'', ''[[Dibamus novaeguineae]]'' and ''[[Gekko smithii]]'', as well as endemic species such as ''[[Lipinia]] [[Lipinia infralineolata|infralineolata]]'' and ''[[Gekko iskandari]]''.

Sulawesi also harbours several species of freshwater chelonians, two of which are endemic. They include the [[Forsten's tortoise]] and the [[Sulawesi forest turtle]], both of which likely attribute their respective origins to the dispersal of the mainland Asian [[elongated tortoise]] and [[Malayan flat-shelled turtle]] from the then-exposed subcontinent of [[Sundaland]] during the [[Pleistocene epoch]].

The remaining two species consist of the non-endemic [[Malayan box turtle]] of the Wallacean subspecies, and the [[Asiatic softshell turtle]].