l to moderate size (up to 350mm). Tails are known to break off extBwremely easily. The large skinks are capable of eating baby mice and birds. A highly active and alert family of lizards.
ave large heads with hook like beaks, long tails, and can get quite large (up to 200 pounds). Live in fresB
hwater.
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Testudines
Turtle
Family: Chelydridae
The snapping turtles. Composed of two genera: Chelydra and Macroclemys. Generally have large heads with hook like beaks, long tails, and can get quite large (up to 200 pounds). Live in fresB
hwater.
Family: Emydidae
A large family of turtles comprised of box and water turtles. Genera include: Clemmys (bog and wood), Terrapene (box), Malaclemys (terrapins), Graptemys (map and sawbacks), Chrysemys (cooters
Beakslydra
Chelydridae
Family: Kinosternidae
The musk and mud turtles. Two common genera: Kinosternon and Sternotherus. Typically have an oval shell, dull coloration and short tails. They are known for the ability to emit an offensiB
ve odor when bothered or excited. Often caught on fishing lines, they are strongly aquatic, and feed and move around at the bottom of bodies of water.
BHand sliders). Most are at least semi-aquatic, but some are terrestrial. ke
Macroclemys
Pounds
Quite
Snapping
Tails
Family: Emydidae
A large family of turtles comprised of box and water turtles. Genera include: Clemmys (bog and wood), Terrapene (box), Malaclemys (terrapins), Graptemys (map and sawbacks), Chrysemys (cooters
Turtles
Typical
Typically
Unfertilized
Upper
Venom
Venomnous
Venomous
Vertically
Viperidae
Vipers
Warm-blooded
Water
Whiptail
Worldwide
Xenodontinae
Anguidae
Animalia
Animals
Anole
Anolis
Aquatic
Arboreal
Around
Attract
Beaks
Bearers
Belong
Birds
Bodies
Bothered
Bottom
Bottoms
Break
Called
Capable
Carphophis
Caught
Characterized
Chelydra
Chelydridae
Chordata
Chrysemys
Trionychidae
Turtle
Turtles
Class
Clemmys
Cnemidphorus
Cobras
Coloration
Coluber
Colubridae
Colubrinae
Common
Commonly
Composed
Comprised
Considered
Cooters
Copperheads
Coral
Cottonmouths
Crotalus
Crotaphytus
Dangerous
Decapitated
Development
Dewlap
Diadophis
Difficult
Diverse
Domed
Dorsal
Least
Leathery
Lines
Lower
Macroclemys
Malaclemys
Sawbacks
Scales
Scincella
Scincidae
Scleroporus
Semi-aquatic
Sensing
Serpentes
Several
Shell
Shells
Shiny
Short
Showy
Single
Sistrurus
Sliders
Small
Smaller
Smooth
Snake
Snakes
Snapping
Softshells
Species
Squamata
Sternotherus
Sticking
Storeria
Stores
Strongly
Stumpy
Subfamily
Suborder
Tails
Taxonomy
Teiidae
Family: Trionychidae
The soft shell turtles. These turtles have leathery, flexible upper shells and long necks and noses, and a reduced lower shell. Highly aquatic, softshells will often bury themselves in theBQ soft mud of lake and river bottoms with only their tube like noses sticking out.
Turtles
Typically
Family: Testudinidae
The gopher tortoises. The only tortoises native to the US. Smaller, stumpy front legs with larger rear legs. High domed shells. Terrestrial animals.
Common N.A. Lizard Taxonomy
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
suborder: Sauria
Families: Iguanidae, Scincidae, Anguidae, Teiidae
Animals
Domed
Family
Front
Gopher
Larger
Native
Moveable
Movement
Necks
Nerodia
Nervous
Noses
Offensive
Offspring
Often
Ophisaurus
Order
Other
Parthenogenesis
Patch
Pattern
Phrynosoma
Phylum
Pituophis
Placed
Pounds
Process
Quite
Racerunner
Reduced
Represented
Reproduction
Reptilia
Family: Iguanidae
Called the American arboreal (tree-dwelling) lizards, this is a highly diverse group of lizards. One famous member is the green anole, commonly found in pet stores, a showy lizard with a red B
throat patch (dewlap) that they inflate to attract mates. Common genera: Holbrookia, Anolis, Scleroporus, Phrynosoma, Crotaphytus. Small to moderate in size (up to 350mm).k
Family: Scincidae
The skinks, composed of 1029 species worldwide. Family characterized by very smooth, shiny scales, small flat heads, and small to moderate size (up to 350mm). Tails are known to break off extB
remely easily. The large skinks are capable of eating baby mice and birds. A highly active and alert family of lizards. Two common N.A. genera: Eumeces and Scincella.
Easily
Eating
Elaphe
Elapidae
Elapids
Emydidae
Eumeces
Excited
External
Extremely
Eyelids
Facial
Families
Family
Famliy
Famous
Fangs
Females
Fishing
Flexible
Forward
Found
Larger
Least
Leathery
Lines
Lizard
Lower
Macroclemys
Malaclemys
Family: Anguidae
The glass lizards, characterized by reduced or absent limbs. Commonly mistaken for snakes, however, lizards have moveable eyelids and external ears. Represented by a single common N.A. genus: B
Ophisaurus.us.
Freshwater
Front
Genera
Generally
Genus
Glass
Heads
Highly
Holbrookia
Iguanidae
Include
Inflate
Kingdom
Kinosternidae
Kinosternon
Known
Large
Larger
Least
Leathery
Lines
Lizard
Lizards
Lower
Macroclemys
Malaclemys
Mates
Member
Moderate
Throat
Through
Tortoises
Tree-dwelling
Trionychidae
Turtle
Turtles
Family: Teiidae
The whiptail and racerunner lizards. Only one genus in the US: Cnemidphorus. Have long tails, and a nervous, active pattern of movement. Several species are known to be composed of only femalesBx, and reproduction is through the development of an unfertilized egg, a rare process in animals called parthenogenesis.
Moderate
Scales
Gopher
Graptemys
Green
Group
Harmless
Heads
Heterodon
lbrookia
However
Iguanidae
Include
Inflate
Kingdom
Kinosternidae
Kinosternon
Known
Large
Larger
Least
Leathery
Limbs
Lines
Lizard
Lizards
Lower
Macroclemys
Malaclemys
Mates
Member
Mistaken
Moderate
Teiidae
Terrapene
Terrapins
Terrestrial
Testudines
Testudinidae
Thamnophis
Their
Themselves
These
Family: Scincidae
The skinks, composed of 1029 species worldwide. Family characterized by very smooth, shiny scales, small flat heads, and small to moderate size (up to 350mm). Tails are known to break off extB
remely easily. The large skinks are capable of eating baby mice and birds. A highly active and alert family of lizards. Two common N.A. genera: Eumeces and Scincella.
Common N.A. Snake Taxonomy
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
suborder: Serpentes
Families: Colubridae, Viperidae, Elapidae
adophis and Carphophis belong to the subfamily Xenodontinae, and a
nimalia
Chordata
Class
Colubridae
Common
Elapidaelum
Reptiliahylummy
Family: Elapidae
The coral snakes, an extremely venomnous group of terrestrial snakes. Their small mouths and rear fangs (fangs are placed in the back of the mouth) make it difficult for these snakes to bite hBiumans but their venom is some of the most dangerous. Other famous Elapids include the cobras and mambas.
odontinae
re egg layers with some rear fangs. Genera such as Coluber, Elaphe, Pituophis, and Lampropeltis belong to the subfamily Colubrinae and are egg layers with smooth dorsal scales. Genera such as Thamnophis, NerodiCZa and Storeria are live offspring bearers with ridged dorsal scales, and are semi-aquatic.
Famliy: Colubridae
Considered the typical, harmless snakes, and is the largest family worldwide with 1550 species. Genera such as Heterodon, Diadophis and Carphophis belong to the subfamily Xenodontinae, and a
nd a live-bearing reproductive mode. Typical genera include CrotalB
us (rattlers), Agkistrodon (copperheads and cottonmouths), and Sistrurus (massasaugas and pygmy rattlers). Pit vipers get their name from the presence of a facial pit that is a heat sensing organ that allow the
Venomnous
Highly
Holbrookia
However
Humans
Iguanidae
Include
Inflate
Kingdom
Kinosternidae
Kinosternon
Known
Lampropeltis
Large
Larger
Largest
Layers
Least
Leathery
Limbs
Lines
Lizard
Lizards
Lower
Macroclemys
Malaclemys
Mambas
Mates
Member
Mistaken
Moderate
Ridged
River
Sauria
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Agkistrodon
Allow
Characterized
Fangs
Forward
Genera
Include
Live-bearing
Pit-vipers
Placed
Pupils
Rattlers
Reproductive
Snakes
Typical
Venomous
Vertically
Viperidae
Vipers
Mouth
Mouths
Cdm to find warm-blooded prey. Even dead, decapitated snakes have been known to bite by reflex action.
Famliy: Viperidae
The vipers and pit-vipers. A family of venomous snakes. Characterized by long forward placed fangs, vertically slit pupils, and a live-bearing reproductive mode. Typical genera include CrotalB
us (rattlers), Agkistrodon (copperheads and cottonmouths), and Sistrurus (massasaugas and pygmy rattlers). Pit vipers get their name from the presence of a facial pit that is a heat sensing organ that allow the
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