The Endemic Herpetofauna of the Cockpit Country includes the following:

• Two Eleutherodactylus frog species (E. griphus and E. sisyphodemus) are endemic to the Cockpit Country and appear restricted to areas of heavy leaf litter in the minimally disturbed forest NW of Quick Step, Trelawny. With snout-vent lengths of 18mm, both represent the smallest hylid frogs on Jamaica.
• Three lizards of the Cockpit Country (including two local endemics) are highly specialized and found rarely anywhere else than in bromeliads. Two of the species belong to the genus of the polly lizards, Sphaerodactylus oxyrhinus, and S. semasiops. Both species grow to a snout-vent-length of slightly over 30 mm. Sphaerodactylus oxyrhinus (also found in NE Jamaica) is very a colourful lizard with a bluish head, yellowish body mottled with brown, orange tail, and bright yellow eyes. S. semasiops (CC-endemic) has a pair of prominent eyespots on the middle of the back. The "eye" has a white "pupil" and a black "iris" edged with yellow. It may serve to startle and frightening off potential predators. The third of the Cockpit bromeliad lizards is a galliwasp of about 10 cm SVL, Celestus fowleri. The animal appears to be very rare. It was described in 1971 from a single specimen captured at Windsor, and it has since been seen but one more time, close to the original site. Very recently, signs of a much larger bromeliad galliwasp, which might occupy bromeliads high in the canopy, have been located in the interior of the Cockpit Country (R. Diesel, pers. comm.). Details of life history are scant for these species.

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