List of reptiles of the Indiana Dunes
Indiana Dunes National Park is a National Park Service unit on the shore of Lake Michigan in Indiana, United States. A BioBlitz took place there on May 15 and 16, 2009.[1] During that time, a list of organisms was compiled which included a preliminary list of the reptiles of the area.[2]
Turtles (Testudinate)
- Chelydra serpentina serpentina[3] - common snapping turtle
- Chrysemys picta marginata[3] - painted turtle[4]
- Emydoidea blandingi[3] - Blanding's turtle
- Pseudemys scripta elegans[3] - cooter
- Sternotherus odoratus[3] - common musk turtle
Lizards (Sauris)
- Cnemidophorus sexlineatus viridis[3][4] - prairie racerunner
- Plestiodon fasciatus[3] - five-lined skink
- Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus - slender glass lizard[4]
Snakes (Serpentes)
- Coluber constrictor flaviventris[3] - eastern racer
- Heterodon platyrhinos[3] - eastern hognose snake[4]
- Lampropeltis triangulum - milk snake[4]
- Nerodia sipedon sipedon[3] - common watersnake[4]
- Storeria dekayi wrightorum[3] - midland brown snake[4]
- Thamnophis proximus - western ribbon snake[4]
- Thamnophis sirtalis[4] - common garter snake
- Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis[3] - eastern garter snake
- Thamnophis radix radix[3] - eastern plains garter snake
Notes
[edit]- ^ Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
- ^ Temporary list of Species found (June 6, 2009) Archived February 7, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Ecology of Miller Woods, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Research Program, Report 90-01; National Park Service, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore; Porter Indiana; 1990
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Environmental Assessment, Portage Lakefront, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore; National Park Service; May 2007
