List of reptiles of the Indiana Dunes
Encyclopedia
The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
is a National Park Service
unit on the shore of Lake Michigan
in Indiana
, USA. A BioBlitz
took place there on May 15 and 16, 2009. During that time, a list of organisms was compiled which included a preliminary list of the reptiles of the area.
Turtles (Testudinate)
Lizards (Sauris)
Snakes (Serpentes)
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is a U.S. National Lakeshore located in northwest Indiana and managed by the National Park Service. It was authorized by Congress in 1966. The national lakeshore runs for nearly along the southern shore of Lake Michigan, from Gary, Indiana, on the west to Michigan...
is a National Park Service
National Park Service
The National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations...
unit on the shore of Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron...
in Indiana
Indiana
Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
, USA. A BioBlitz
BioBlitz
A BioBlitz, also written without capitals bioblitz, is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area. Groups of scientists, naturalists and volunteers conduct an intensive field study over a short, usually 24 hour, time...
took place there on May 15 and 16, 2009. During that time, a list of organisms was compiled which included a preliminary list of the reptiles of the area.
Turtles (Testudinate)
- Chelydra serpentina serpentina - Common Snapping Turtle
- Chrysemys picta marginata - Painted TurtlePainted TurtleThe painted turtle is the most widespread native turtle of North America. It lives in slow-moving fresh waters, from southern Canada to Louisiana and northern Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The turtle is the only species of the genus Chrysemys, which is part of the pond turtle...
- Emydoidea blandingi] - Blanding's TurtleBlanding's TurtleBlanding's turtle is a semi-aquatic turtle of the family Emydidae. It is considered to be an endangered species throughout much of its range.-Taxonomy:...
- PseudemysPseudemysPseudemys is a genus of large, herbivorous, freshwater turtles of the eastern United States. They are often referred to as cooters, which stems from kuta, the word for turtle in the Bambara and Malinké languages, brought to America by African slaves....
scripta elegans - cooter - Sternotherus odoratusSternotherus odoratusSternotherus odoratus is a species of small turtle native to southeastern Canada and much of the Eastern United States. It is also known as the common musk turtle or stinkpot due to its ability to release a foul musky odor to deter predation...
- Common Musk Turtle
Lizards (Sauris)
- Cnemidophorus sexlineatus viridisCnemidophorus sexlineatus viridisThe Prairie Racerunner is a subspecies of the Six-lined Racerunner lizard,...
- Prairie Racerunner - Plestiodon fasciatus - Five-lined Skink
- Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus - Slender Glass Lizard
Snakes (Serpentes)
- Coluber constrictorColuber constrictorColuber constrictor is a species of nonvenomous, colubrid snakes commonly referred to as the eastern racers. They are primarily found throughout the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains, but they range north into Canada, and south into Mexico, Guatemala and Belize...
flaviventris - Eastern Racer - Heterodon platyrhinos - Eastern Hognose Snake
- Lampropeltis triangulum - Milk snake
- Nerodia sipedon sipedon - Northern Water SnakeNorthern Water SnakeThe Northern water snake is a large, nonvenomous, well-known snake in the Colubridae family that is native to North America.-Behavior:...
- Storeria dekayiStoreria dekayiStoreria dekayi, commonly known as the brown snake or De Kay's snake, is a small species of colubrid snake.-Geographic range:...
wrightorum - Midland Brown Snake - Thamnophis proximusThamnophis proximusThe Western Ribbon Snake is a species of garter snake. There are several subspecies.- Taxonomy :*Western Ribbon Snake, Thamnophis proximus**Chiapas Highland Ribbon Snake, Thamnophis proximus alpinus...
Western ribbon snake - Thamnophis sirtalis - Common Garter Snake
- Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis - Eastern Garter Snake
- Thamnophis radix radix - Eastern Plains Garter Snake