TURTLES CROCODILIANS Family Chelydridae Family Alligatordae (Snapping Turtles) (Alligators and Caimans) ______Snapping Turtle _____◊ American Alligator Reptile Checklist Chelydra serpentina Alligator mississippiensis _____◊ Alligator Snapping Turtle Macrochelys temminckii INTRODUCED EXOTICS Family Emydidae ______Cuban Brown Anole (Box and Basking Turtles) Anolis sagrei sagrei ______Southern Painted Turtle ______Mediterranean Gecko Chrysemys dorsalis Hemidactylus turcicus _____◊ Western Chicken Turtle Deirochelys reticularia miaria POTENTIAL OCCURRENCE ______Northern Map Turtle ___ Brahminy Blindsnake ___ Northern Pinesnake Graptemys geographica Indotyphlops braminus Pituophis m. melanoleucus ______Ouachita Map Turtle ___ Eastern Fence Lizard ___ Louisiana Pinesnake Graptemys ouachitensis Sceloporus undulatus Pituophis ruthveni ___ Southeastern Five-lined Skink ___ Southeastern Crowned Snake ______Mississippi Map Turtle Plestiodon inexpectatus Tantilla coronata Graptemys pseudogeographica kohnii ___ Texas Spotted Whiptail ___ Dusty Hog-nosed Snake ______Eastern River Cooter Aspidoscelis gularis gularis Heterodon gloydi A r k a n s a s Pseudemys concinna concinna ___ Broad-banded Copperhead ___ Texas Nightsnake ______Three-toed Box Turtle Agkistrodon laticinctus Hypsiglena jani texana Terrapene carolina triunguis ___ Eastern Black Kingsnake ___ Plains Threadsnake _____◊ Plains Box Turtle Lampropeltis nigra Rena dulcis dulcis Terrapene ornata ornata ___ Smooth Greensnake ___ Common Ribbonsnake NUMBER OF SPECIES ______Red-eared Slider Opheodrys vernalis Thamnophis saurita saurita ___ Red Cornsnake ___ Western Painted Turtle Snakes...... 39 Trachemys scripta elegans Pantherophis guttatus Chrysemys picta bellii (Venomous...6 ~ Nonvenomous...33) ___ Gray Ratsnake ___ Yellow Mud Turtle Lizards...... 12 Family Kinosternidae Pantherophis spiloides Kinosternon flavescens Turtles...... 16 (Mud and Musk Turtles) ___ Bullsnake ______Mississippi Mud Turtle Pituophis catenifer sayi Crocodilian (Am. Alligator)...... 1 Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis ______Razor-backed Musk Turtle KEY Sternotherus carinatus 1 2 Species of Greatest Conservation Need...... ◊ ______Eastern Musk Turtle Venomous...... ⓪ Sternotherus odoratus
Family Trionychidae 3 4 (Softshells) ______Midland Smooth Softshell List compiled by Kory Roberts Apalone mutica mutica [email protected] ______Spiny Softshell 5 6 Apalone spinifera ssp. Cover Image: Western Milksnake Copyright © 2019, HerpsOfArkansas.com Last Revision: March 27, 2019 ______Flat-headed Snake ______Western Smooth Earthsnake SNAKES Tantilla gracilis Virginia valeriae elegans Family Crotalidae (Pitvipers) Family Dipsadidae _____① Eastern Copperhead (RearFanged Snakes) LIZARDS Agkistrodon contortrix _____◊ Midwestern Wormsnake _____② Northern Cottonmouth Carphophis amoenus helenae Family Anguidae Agkistrodon piscivorus ______Western Wormsnake (Glass Lizards and Alligator Lizards) ____◊③ W. Diamond-backed Rattlesnake Carphophis vermis _____◊ Western Slender Glass Lizard Crotalus atrox ______Ring-necked Snake Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus _____④ Timber Rattlesnake Diadophis punctatus ssp. Crotalus horridus ______Western Mudsnake Family Crotaphytidae _____⑤ Western Pygmy Rattlesnake Farancia abacura reinwardtii (Collared and Leopard Lizards) Sistrurus miliarius streckeri ______Eastern Hog-nosed Snake _____◊ Eastern Collared Lizard Heterodon platirhinos Crotaphytus collaris Family Elapidae (Coralsnakes, Cobras, and Kraits) Family Natricidae Family Dactyloidae ____◊⑥Texas Gulf-Coast Coralsnake (Harmless LiveBearing Snakes) (Anoles) Micrurus tener tener ______Rough Earthsnake ______Green Anole Haldea striatula Anolis carolinensis Family Colubridae _____◊ Gulf Swampsnake (Harmless EggLaying Snakes) Liodytes rigida sinicola Family Phrynosomatidae ______Northern Scarletsnake ______Mississippi Green Watersnake (Spiny Lizards) Cemophora coccinea copei Nerodia cyclopion ______Texas Horned Lizard ______North American Racer ______Plain-bellied Watersnake Phrynosoma cornutum Coluber constrictor ssp. Nerodia erythrogaster ______Prairie Lizard ______Prairie Kingsnake ______Broad-banded Watersnake Sceloporus consobrinus Lampropeltis calligaster Nerodia fasciata confluens ______Western Milksnake ______N. Diamond-backed Watersnake Family Scincidae Lampropeltis gentilis Nerodia rhombifer rhombifer (Skinks) ______Speckled Kingsnake ______Midland Watersnake ______Southern Coal Skink Lampropeltis holbrooki Nerodia sipedon pleuralis Plestiodon anthracinus pluvialis ______Eastern Milksnake _____◊ Graham's Crayfish Snake ______Common Five-lined Skink Lampropeltis triangulum Regina grahamii Plestiodon fasciatus ______Eastern Coachwhip _____◊ Queensnake ______Broad-headed Skink Masticophis flagellum flagellum Regina septemvittata Plestiodon laticeps ______Northern Rough Greensnake ______Dekay's Brownsnake _____◊ Great Plains Skink Opheodrys aestivus aestivus Storeria dekayi Plestiodon obsoletus ______Great Plains Ratsnake ______Red-bellied Snake _____◊ Southern Prairie Skink Pantherophis emoryi Storeria occipitomaculata Plestiodon septentrionalis obtusirostris ______Western Ratsnake ______Orange-striped Ribbonsnake ______Little Brown Skink Pantherophis obsoletus Thamnophis proximus proximus Scincella lateralis complex ______Slowinski's Cornsnake ______Eastern Gartersnake Pantherophis slowinskii Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis Family Teiidae _____◊ Great Plains Groundsnake _____◊ Lined Snake (Whiptails, Racerunners, and Ameivas) Sonora episcopa Tropidoclonion lineatum ______Prairie Racerunner Aspidoscelis sexlineatus viridis