During the past decade we have witnessed an upsurge in the number of people visiting the Amazon Basin of Peru, particularly in the general region of Iquitos. The excellent inventory work performed in the 1970's by James R. Dixon and Pekka Soini (1986. The reptiles of the upper Amazon Basin, Iquitos region, Peru. 2nd ed. Milwaukee Pub. Mus.) is dated and I have been able to expand considerably on their base over the last six years. Specimens herein cited for the first time from Amazonian Peru are vouchered as slides in the collection at the University of Texas at Arlington Collection of Vertebrates. The following list includes 194 taxa that I recognize as actually or potentially occurring in the Iquitos region as of 1998. This area falls entirely within the Departamento de Loreto, Peru, and comprises a partial radius of 500 km, and extends east from Iquitos to Leticia, Colombia, thence south along the Yavar?- G?lvez, Yaquerana river system (Peru-Brazil border) to the community of Requena on the Ucayali River. From this point west to the Intuto vicinity on the Tigre River and back north to Iquitos. The area circumscribed is not biotically defined but rather includes most routes followed by boats hosting eco- tourists and visiting scientists.
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