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This site was created by students in the herpetology class at Towson University.  Site last updated: 05/21/07.

Acknowledgements: Herb Harris - Range Maps;  Mark Tegges - Photography; Dan Lapascha & Gigi Forester - TU Herpetology Logo

 

Reptiles of

Maryland

 

 

       Turtles (Order Testudines)

   Snakes and Lizards (Order Squamata)

     
Family Chelydridae (Snapping Turtles)

Suborder Serpentes (Snakes)

Common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina)
Family Colubridae (Colubrid snakes)
Family Kinosternidae (Mud and Musk Turtles) Northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon)
Eastern mud turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum) Red-bellied water snake (Nerodia erythrogaster)
Stinkpot (Sternotherus odoratus) Queen snake (Regina septemvittata)
Eastern ribbon snake (Thamnophis sauritus)
Family Emydidae (Box and Water Turtles) Eastern garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis)
Spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata) Brown kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster)
Wood turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) Eastern kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula)
Bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) Milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum)
Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina) Eastern hognose snake (Heterodon platirhinos)
Diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) Eastern ringneck snake (Diadophis punctatus)
Eastern painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) Eastern worm snake (Carphophis amoenus)
Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta) Smooth earth snake (Virginia valeriae)
Northern red-bellied turtle (Pseudemys rubriventris) Red-bellied snake (Storeria occipitomaculata)
Northern map turtle (Graptemys geographic) Brown snake (Storeia dekayi)
Rough green snake (Opheodrys aestivus)
Family Trionychidae (Softshelled turtles) Smooth green snake (Opheodrys vernalis)
Spiny softshelled turtle (Apalone spinifera) Corn snake (Elaphe guttata)
Black rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta)

Snakes and Lizards (Order Squamata)

Scarlet snake (Cemophora coccinea)
Black racer (Coluber constrictor)

Suborder Sauria (Lizards)

Family Crotalidae (Pit Vipers)
Family Scincidae (Skinks) Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix)
Coal skink (Eumeces anthracinus) Timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus)
Five-lined skink (Eumeces fasciatus)
Broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps)
Ground skink (Scincella lateralis)
Family Phrynosomatidae (Spiny Lizards)
Eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus udulatus)
Family Teiidae (Whip-tailed Lizards)
Six-lined racerunner (Aspidoscelis sexlineatus)