IL-GAP Reptiles


 

This list of 61 reptiles was compiled from "Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Illinois" (Phillips et al.1999). All models have been reviewed by Chris Phillips, a herpetologist at the Illinois Natural History Survey. Click on the common name of a species to see the species accounts from the INHS collections.
   
TNC ELEMENT CODE
COMMON NAME
SCIENTIFIC NAME *
ARAAB01010
 Snapping Turtle Chelydra serpentina
ARAAB02010
 Alligator Snapping Turtle Macroclemys temminckii SE
ARAAD01010
 Painted Turtle Chrysemys picta
ARAAD02010
 Spotted Turtle Clemmys guttata SE
ARAAD04010
 Blanding's Turtle Emydoidea blandingii ST
ARAAD05040
 Common Map Turtle Graptemys geographica
ARAAD05080
 False Map Turtle Graptemys pseudogeographica
ARAAD05110
 Ouachita Map Turtle Graptemys ouachitensis
ARAAD07020
 River Cooter Pseudemys concinna SE
ARAAD08010
 Eastern Box Turtle Terrapene carolina
ARAAD08020
 Western/Ornate Box Turtle Terrapene ornata
ARAAD09010
 Slider Trachemys scripta
ARAAE01020
 Yellow Mud Turtle Kinosternon flavescens SE
ARAAE01050
 Eastern Mud Turtle Kinosternon subrubrum
ARAAE02040
 Common Musk Turtle Sternotherus odoratus
ARAAG01020
 Smooth Softshell Turtle Apalone mutica
ARAAG01030
 Spiny Softshell Turtle Apalone spinifera,
ARACB02010
 Slender Glass Lizard Ophisaurus attenuatus
ARACF14130
 Fence/Prairie/Plateau Lizard Sceloporus undulatus
ARACH01050
 Five-lined Skink Eumeces fasciatus
ARACH01080
 Broadhead Skink Eumeces laticeps
ARACH03010
 Ground Skink Scincella lateralis
ARACJ02110
 Six-lined Racerunner Cnemidophorus sexlineatus
ARADB02010
 Worm Snake Carphophis amoenus
ARADB03010
 Scarlet Snake Cemophora coccinea
ARADB06010
 Kirtland's Snake Clonophis kirtlandii ST
ARADB07010
 Racer Coluber constrictor
ARADB10010
 Ringneck Snake Diadophis punctatus
ARADB13020
 Corn Snake Elaphe guttata emoryi ST
ARADB13030
 Rat Snake Elaphe obsoleta
ARADB13060
 Fox Snake Elaphe vulpina
ARADB14010
 Mud Snake Farancia abacura
ARADB17010
 Western Hognose Snake Heterodon nasicus ST
ARADB17020
 Eastern Hognose Snake Heterodon platirhinos
ARADB19010
 Prairie Kingsnake Lampropeltis calligaster
ARADB19020
 Common Kingsnake Lampropeltis getula
ARADB19050
 Milk Snake Lampropeltis triangulum
ARADB21020
 Coachwhip Masticophis flagellum SE
ARADB22010
 Mississippi Green Water Snake Nerodia cyclopion ST
ARADB22020
 Plainbelly Water Snake ++ Nerodia erythrogaster
ARADB22030
 Southern Water Snake Nerodia fasciata SE
ARADB22050
 Diamondback Water Snake Nerodia rhombifer
ARADB22060
 Northern Water Snake Nerodia sipedon
ARADB23010
 Rough Green Snake Opheodrys aestivus
ARADB26010
 Bullsnake Pituophis catenifer
ARADB27020
 Graham's Crayfish Snake Regina grahamii
ARADB27040
 Queen Snake Regina septemvittata
ARADB34010
 Brown Snake Storeria dekayi
ARADB34030
 Redbelly Snake Storeria occipitomaculata
ARADB35040
 Flathead Snake Tantilla gracilis ST
ARADB36090
 Western Ribbon Snake Thamnophis proximus
ARADB36100
 Plains Garter Snake Thamnophis radix
ARADB36120
 Eastern Ribbon Snake Thamnophis sauritus SE
ARADB36130
 Common Garter Snake Thamnophis sirtalis
ARADB38010
 Lined Snake Tropidoclonion lineatum
ARADB39020
 Smooth Earth Snake Virginia valeriae
ARADB47010
 Smooth Green Snake Opheodrys vernalis
ARADE01010
 Copperhead Agkistrodon contortrix
ARADE01020
 Cottonmouth Agkistrodon piscivorus
ARADE02040
 Timber Rattlesnake Crotalus horridus ST
ARADE03011
 Eastern Massasauga Sistrurus catenatus catenatus SE

* SE = State Endangered, ST = State Threatened

** H = Hexagon Range, D = Predicted Species Distribution

++ Through a conservation agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the copperbelly subspecies is protected as though it were listed in Illinois.

   

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