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This list of Kansas reptiles includes the snakes, turtles and lizards found in the US state of Kansas.
Turtles
Kansas is home to 15 species of turtles.
Family Chelydridae – snapping turtles
Family Kinosternidae – mud and musk turtles
- Common musk turtle (stinkpot)
- Yellow mud turtle
Family Emydidae – basking and box turtles
- Painted turtle
- Common map turtle
- Ouachita map turtle
- False map turtle
- River cooter
- Ornate box turtle
- Eastern box turtle
- Pond slider turtle
Family Trionychidae – softshell turtles
Lizards
There are 16 species of lizards in Kansas.
Anguidae – lateral fold lizards
Crotaphytidae – collared and leopard lizards
Gekkonidae – geckos
- Mediterranean gecko (introduced)
Lacertidae – lacertas (wall and true lizards)
- Western green lizard (introduced)
- Italian wall lizard (introduced)
Phrynosomatidae – spiny lizards
- Lesser earless lizard
- Texas horned lizard
- Prairie lizard (Sceloporus consobrinus)
Scincidae – skinks
- Coal skink
- Skin colored black dotted skink
- Five-lined skink
- Broadhead skink
- Great Plains skink
- Southern prairie skink (Plestiodon obtusirostris)
- Northern prairie skink (Plestiodon septentrionalis)
- Ground skink
Teiidae – whiptails
Venomous species
- Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus)
- Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix)
- Western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) (very rare)
- Timber rattlesnake species in need of conservation (Crotalus horridus)
- Prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis)
- Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus)
Non-venomous species
- Eastern glossy snake (Arizona elegans)
- Western worm snake (Carphophis vermis)
- Eastern racer (Coluber constrictor)
- Ringneck snake (Diadophis punctatus)
- Western hognose snake (Heterodon nasicus)
- Eastern hognose snake (Heterodon platirhinos)
- Night snake (Hypsiglena torquata)
- Prairie kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster)
- Common kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula)
- Milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum)
- New Mexico blind snake (Leptotyphlops dissectus)
- Coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum)
- Plainbelly water snake (Nerodia erythrogaster)
- Diamondback water snake (Nerodia rhombifer)
- Northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon)
- Rough green snake (Opheodrys aestivus)
- Great Plains rat snake (Pantherophis emoryi)
- Western rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta)
- Gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer)
- Graham's crayfish snake (Regina grahamii)
- Longnose snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei)
- Ground snake (Sonora semiannulata)
- Brown snake (Storeria dekayi)
- Redbelly snake species in need of conservation (Storeria occipitomaculata)
- Flathead snake (Tantilla gracilis)
- Plains blackhead snake (Tantilla nigriceps)
- Checkered garter snake (Thamnophis marcianus)
- Western ribbon snake (Thamnophis proximus)
- Plains garter snake (Thamnophis radix)
- Common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis)
- Lined snake (Tropidoclonion lineatum)
- Rough earth snake (Virginia striatula)
- Smooth earth snake (Virginia valeriae)
This snake has enlarged grooved teeth near the back of the upper jaw and secretes a mildly toxic saliva to incapacitate its prey. However, it is not considered dangerous to humans.
References
- Reptiles of Kansas from Great Plains Nature Center
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-01-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) – Kansas Herp Atlas
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