1. Herpetology
Reptiles

2. Order: Testudines Family: Chelydridae Family: Kinosternidae
Genus: Chelydra
Family: Kinosternidae
Genus: Sternotherus
Family: Emydidae
Genus: Clemmys
Genus: Glyptemys
Genus: Graptemys
Genus: Pseudemys
Genus: Chrysemys
Genus: Terrapene
Genus: Trachemys
Family: Trionychidae
Genus: Apalone

3. Family: Chelydridae

4. Eastern Snapping Turtle
Chelydra s. serpentina
Carapace with large tubercles
Plastron with less than 8 plates
Tail long
Body spiny

5. Family: Kinosternidae

6. Stinkpot Sternotherus odoratus 11 plastron shields
Spines covering the body
Dome shaped carapace

7. Family: Emydidae

8. Spotted Turtle Clemmys guttata Spots on each carapace scute
Head is spotted
Dome shaped carapace

9. Wood Turtle Glyptemys insculpta Sculptured carapace
No longitudinal stripes on head
Notched scutes

10. Northern Map Turtle Graptemys geographica Longitudinal stripes on head
Keeled carapace
Somewhat flattened
Triangular spots behind eyes

11. Ouachita Map Turtle Graptemys o. ouachitensis Very keeled carapace
Somewhat flattened
Longitudinal stripes on head
Square spots behind eyes

12. Eastern Painted Turtle
Chrysemys p. picta
Boarder around outer part of shell
Head with longitudinal stripes
Smooth carapace
First row of costals and vertebrals line up

13. Midland Painted Turtle
Chrysemys p. marginata
First line of vertebrals and costals don’t line up
Smooth carapace
Head with longitudinal stripes

14. Eastern River Cooter Pseudemys c. concinna Cusps not prominent
Longitudinal stripes on head
Longitudinal grooves on carapace

15. Northern Red-bellied Cooter
Pseudemys rubriventris
Prominent cusp on upper jaw
Plastron might have pink/red color

16. Eastern Box Turtle Terrapene c. carolina Dome shaped carapace
Orange and red-ish
Plastron with movable hinge

17. Red-eared Turtle Trachemys scripta elegans
Spot on each scute of the plastron
Longitudinal grooves on the carapace
Longitudinal stripes on head

18. Family: Trionychidae

19. Eastern Spiny Softshell
Apalone s. spinifera
Spines on the anterior part of the shell
Shell is covered with skin
Snout projected
Pancake like
Feet mottled

20. Midland Smooth Softshell
Apalone m. mutica
No spines to the anterior of the shell
Feet not mottled
Nostril rounded
Pancake like

21. Order: Squamata
Suborder: Lacertilia

22. Order: Squamata Family: Phrynosomatidae Family: Teiidae
Genus: Sceloporus
Family: Teiidae
Genus: Cnemidophorus
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Eumeces
Genus: Scincella

23. Family: Phrynosomatidae

24. Northern Fence Lizard Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus
Keeled and pointed scales

25. Family: Teiidae

26. Eastern Six-lined Racerunner
Cnemidophorus s.
sexlineatus
Scales are glossy
Ventral scales are larger than dorsal
6 lines
Black and white

27. Family: Scincidae

28. Northern Coal Skink Eumeces a. anthracinus Smooth and glossy scales
Ventral and dorsal scales the same size
2 lines dark on the sides
Lighter in the middle

29. Broad-headed Skink Eumeces laticeps Scales smooth and glossy Big
5 labials
No large postlabials

30. Common Five-lined Skink
Eumeces fasciatus
Smooth glossy scales
Scales same on dorsal and ventral
2 postlabials
4 labials
Black or brown with five stripes

31. Little Brown Skink Scincella lateralis Smooth glossy scales
Clear window like scale in lower eyelid
Brown and black stripes on dorsal