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• Family

  • Genus (species-none listed) - common name

Orders For Class: REPTILIA
Crocodylia

• Crocodylidae - crocodiles

• Alligatoridae – alligators and caiman

Testudines

• Chelydridae - snapping turtles

• Kinosternidae - musk and mud turtles

• Emydidae - box, pond and marsh turtles

  • Terrapene - box turtles

  • Malaclemys - diamondback terrapins

  • Graptemys - map turtles

  • Chrysemys - painted turtles, cooters, sliders & redbelly)

  • Pseudemys – cooters

  • Clemmys – spotted, bog, and wood turtles

  • Deirochelys – chicken turtle

  • Emydoidea – Blanding’s turtle

• Testudinidae - tortoises

• Cheloniidae - sea turtles

• Trionychidae – soft shelled turtles

Squamata

SUBORDER LACERTILA OR SAURIA - LIZARDS

• Gekkonidae –  gecko lizards

• Polychridae – anoles

  • Anolis - anoles

• Iguanidae – iguanids

  • Iguana – green iguana

  • Dipsosaurus – desert iguana

  • Sauromalus – chuckwalla

• Crotaphytidae – Collared lizards

• Phrynosomatidae – earless, spiny, tree, side-blotched and horned lizards

  • Sceloporus – spiny lizards

  • Cophosaurus and Holbrookia – earless lizards

  • Uma – fringe toed lizards

  • Urosaurus and Uta – tree and side blotched lizards

  • Phrynosoma – horned lizards

• Lacertidae – wall lizards

• Teiidae – whiptails

  • Cnemidophorus – racerunners and whiptails

• Scincidae – skinks

  • Eumeces – skinks

• Anguidae – glass lizards and alligator lizard

  • Ophisaurus – glass lizards

  • Gerrhonotus – alligator lizard

• Helodermatidae – gila monster

SUBORDER SERPENTES - SNAKES

• Typhlopidae

  • Ramphotyphlops – Brahminy blind snake

• Leptotyphlopidae – blind snakes

• Boidae

  • Charina – rubber boa and rosy boa

• Colubridae – typically harmless snakes

  • Nerodia – water snakes and salt marsh snakes

  • Storeria – brown snakes and redbelly snakes

  • Thamnophis – garter, ribbon, lined snakes

  • Heterodon – hog nosed snakes

  • Diadophis – ringneck snakes

  • Coluber – racers

  • Masticophis – coachwhips and  whipsnakes

  • Opheodrys – green snakes

  • Elaphe – rat snakes

  • Pituophis – pine, bull and gopher snakes

  • Lampropeltis – king and milk snakes

  • Tantilla – crowned and blackhead snakes

• Elapidae – coral snakes

• Hydrophiidae – sea snakes

• Viperidae –  (subfamily viperinae) pit vipers

  • Agkistrodon – copperhead and cotton mouths

  • Sistrurus – pigmy and massasauga rattlesnakes

  • Crotalus – rattlesnakes

Orders For Class: AMPHIBIA
Caudata (Urodela)

• Cryptobranchidae – hellbenders

• Dicamptodontidae – giant salamanders

• Proteidae – mud puppies and water dogs

• Rhyacotritonidae – torrent or seep salamanders

• Amphiumidae – amphiumas

• Sirenidae – sirens

• Ambystomatidae – mole salamanders

• Salamandridae – newts

• Plethodontidae – lungless salamanders

  • Desmognathus – dusky salamanders & kin

  • Plethodon – woodland salamanders & kin

  • Ensatina - ensatina

  • Aneides – green/climbing salamanders

  • Batrachoseps – slender salamanders

  • Hydromantes – web-toed salamanders

  • Hemidactylium – four-toed salamanders

  • Gyrinophilus – spring salamander

  • Pseudotriton – red and mud salamanders

  • Eurycea – brook salamanders

  • Typhlomolge – Texas and Blanco blind salamanders

Anura (Salientia)

• Pelobatidae – spadefoots

  • Scaphiopus or Spea

• Bufonidae – toads

• Hylidae – tree frogs

  • Hyla - tree frogs

  • Pseudacris – chorus frogs

  • Acris – cricket frogs

• Ranidae – true frogs

• Microhylidae – narrow mouth toads