Reptile Checklist for Arkansas

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 Opheodrys vernalis Thamnophis saurita saurita ______ Red-eared Slider ___ 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 _____◊ Lined Snake (Whiptails, Racerunners, and Ameivas) _____◊ Great Plains Groundsnake Sonora episcopa Tropidoclonion lineatum ______ Prairie Racerunner Aspidoscelis sexlineatus viridis.

Load more