Order Family Species Common Name Counties Present Chambers Jefferson

Crocodilia Alligatoridae Alligator mississippiensis American Alligator Squamata Leptotyphlopidae Colubridae Coluber constrictor flaviventris Eastern Yellow-bellied Racer Elaphe obsoleta lindheimeri Texas Rat Snake Snakes 28 Farancia abacura reinwardti Western Mud Snake Cemophora coccinea copei Northern Scarlet Snake Heterodon nasicus gloydi Dusty Hog-nosed Snake Heterodon platirhinos Eastern Hog-nosed Snake Lampropeltis calligaster calligaster Prairie King Snake Lampropeltis getula holbrooki Speckled King Snake Lampropeltis triangulum amaura Louisiana Milk Snake Masticophis flagellum flagellum Eastern Coachwhip Nerodia clarki clarki Gulf Salt marsh Snake Nerodia cyclopion Mississippi Green Water Snake Nerodia erythrogaster flavigaster Yellow-bellied Water Snake Nerodia fasciata confluens Broad-banded Water Snake Nerodia rhombifer rhombifer Diamon-backed Water Snake Opheodrys aestivus Rough Green Snake Opheodrys veralis blanchardi Smooth Green Snake Regina grahami Graham's Crayfish Snake Regina rigida sinicola Gulf Crayfish Snake Storeria dekayi limnetes Marsh Brown Snake Tantilla gracilis Flat-headed Snake Thamniphis proximus orarius Gulf Coast Ribbion Snake Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis Eastern Garter Snake Virginia striatula Rough Earth Snake Elapidae Micrurus tener Texas Coral Snake Viperidae Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix Souther Copperhead Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma Western Cottonmouth Crotalus atrox Western Diamond-backed Rattlesnake Anguidae Ophisaurus attenautus attenuatus Western Slender Glass Lizard Gekkonidae Hemidactylus turcicus Mediterranean Gecko Phrynosomatidae Lizards 9 Phrynosoma cornutum Texas Horned Lizard Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus Northern Fence Lizard Polychrotidae Anolis carolinensis Green Anole Scincidae Eumeces fasciatus Five-lined Skink Eumeces laticeps Broadhead Skink Scincella lateralis Ground Skink Teiidae Cnemidophorus sexlineatus Six-lined Racerunner Testudines Chelydridae Chelydra serpentina Common Snapping Turtle Macroclemys temminckii Alligator Snapping Turtle Emydidae Deirochelys reticularia Chicken Turtle Turtles 11 Malaclemys terrapin Diamondback Terrapin Pseudemys concinna metteri Eastern River Cooter Terrapene carolina Eastern Box Turtle Terrapene ornata Ornate Box Turtle Trachemys scripta Slider Kinosternidae Kinosternon subrubrum Eastern Mud Turtle Sternotherus odoratus Common Musk Turtle Trionychidae Apalone spinifera pallidus Spiny Softshell