Herpetology

1. Herpetology Reptiles

2. Order: Testudines • Family: Chelydridae • Genus: Chelydra • Family: Kinosternidae • Genus: Sternotherus • Family: Emydidae • Genus: Clemmys • Genus: Glyptemys • Genus: Graptemys • Genus: Pseudemys • Genus: Chrysemys • Genus: Terrapene • Genus: Trachemys • Family: Trionychidae • Genus: Apalone

3. Family: Chelydridae

4. Eastern Snapping Turtle Chelydra s. serpentina • Carapace with large tubercles • Plastron with less than 8 plates • Tail long • Body spiny

5. Family: Kinosternidae

6. Stinkpot Sternotherus odoratus • 11 plastron shields • Spines covering the body • Dome shaped carapace

7. Family: Emydidae

8. Spotted Turtle • Spots on each carapace scute • Head is spotted • Dome shaped carapace Clemmys guttata

9. Wood Turtle • Sculptured carapace • No longitudinal stripes on head • Notched scutes Glyptemys insculpta

10. Northern Map Turtle • Longitudinal stripes on head • Keeled carapace • Somewhat flattened • Triangular spots behind eyes Graptemys geographica

11. Ouachita Map Turtle • Very keeled carapace • Somewhat flattened • Longitudinal stripes on head • Square spots behind eyes Graptemys o. ouachitensis

12. Eastern Painted Turtle • Boarder around outer part of shell • Head with longitudinal stripes • Smooth carapace • First row of costals and vertebrals line up Chrysemys p. picta

13. Midland Painted Turtle • First line of vertebrals and costals don’t line up • Smooth carapace • Head with longitudinal stripes Chrysemys p. marginata

14. Eastern River Cooter • Cusps not prominent • Longitudinal stripes on head • Longitudinal grooves on carapace Pseudemys c. concinna

15. Northern Red-bellied Cooter • Prominent cusp on upper jaw • Plastron might have pink/red color Pseudemys rubriventris

16. Eastern Box Turtle • Dome shaped carapace • Orange and red-ish • Plastron with movable hinge Terrapene c. carolina

17. Red-eared Turtle • Spot on each scute of the plastron • Longitudinal grooves on the carapace • Longitudinal stripes on head Trachemys scripta elegans

18. Family: Trionychidae

19. Eastern Spiny Softshell • Spines on the anterior part of the shell • Shell is covered with skin • Snout projected • Pancake like • Feet mottled Apalone s. spinifera

20. Midland Smooth Softshell • No spines to the anterior of the shell • Feet not mottled • Nostril rounded • Pancake like Apalone m. mutica

21. Order: Squamata Suborder: Lacertilia

22. Order: Squamata • Family: Phrynosomatidae • Genus: Sceloporus • Family: Teiidae • Genus: Cnemidophorus • Family: Scincidae • Genus: Eumeces • Genus: Scincella

23. Family: Phrynosomatidae

24. Northern Fence Lizard Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus • Keeled and pointed scales

25. Family: Teiidae

26. Eastern Six-lined Racerunner • Scales are glossy • Ventral scales are larger than dorsal • 6 lines • Black and white Cnemidophorus s. sexlineatus

27. Family: Scincidae

28. Northern Coal Skink • Smooth and glossy scales • Ventral and dorsal scales the same size • 2 lines dark on the sides • Lighter in the middle Eumeces a. anthracinus

29. Broad-headed Skink • Scales smooth and glossy • Big • Broad head • 5 labials • No large postlabials Eumeces laticeps

30. Common Five-lined Skink Eumeces fasciatus • Smooth glossy scales • Scales same on dorsal and ventral • 2 postlabials • 4 labials • Black or brown with five stripes

31. Little Brown Skink • Smooth glossy scales • Clear window like scale in lower eyelid • Brown and black stripes on dorsal Scincella lateralis