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Class Reptilia Order Testudines Family Emydidae [Pond, Marsh and Box Turtles] Chrysemys picta – Painted Turtle Habitat: Slow-moving shallow rivers, streams, and lakes, especially vegetated soft-bottoms with half submerged logs. Order Squamata Family Iguanidae [Iguanids] Gambelia wislizenii – Leopard Lizard Habitat: Semi-arid regions where soil is sandy or gravelly, and vegetation sparse or in clumps. Phrynosoma douglasii – Short-horned Lizard Habitat: Open, rocky or sandy plains to forested areas. Sceloporus graciosus – Sagebrush Lizard Habitat: Areas of sagebrush and gravelly soils. Sceloporus occidentalis – Western Fence Lizard Habitat: Rocky and mixed forest areas, freqeunts stone fences, fence posts, and old buildings. Uta Stansburiana – Side-blotched Lizard Habitat: Arid to semi-arid regions with course gravelly soil and low growing vegetation. Family Scincidae [Skinks] Eumeces skiltonianus – Western Skink Habitat: Forest, open woodland and grassy areas especially where rocks are abundant. Family Boidae [Boa and Pythons] Charina bottae – Rubber Boa Habitat: Damp woodland and coniferous forest, large grassy areas, and moist sandy areas along streams Family Colubridae [Colubrid Snakes] Hypsiglena torquata – Night Snake Habitat: Semi-arid sandy or rocky areas.
Masticophus teaniatus – Striped Whipsnake Habitat: Grassland, arid bushy flatland to mountainous areas. Pituophis melanoleucus – Pine Gopher Snake Habitat: Dry sandy pine-oak woodlands and pine flatwoods, cultivated fields, prairies, open brushland and rocky deserts. Thamnophis elegans – Western Terrestrial Garter Snake Habitat: Moist areas near water, open grasslands to forest. Thamnophis Sirtalis – Common Garter Snake Habitat: Moist areas near water, meadows, marshes, irrigation ditches and farms. Colubar constrictor – Western Yellow-bellied Racer Habitat: Fields, grassland, sparse brushy areas along prairie land, open woodland, and meadows. Family Viperidae [Pit Vipers] Crotalus viridis – Western Prairie Rattlesnake Habitat: Timberline of coniferous forests, rocky outcrops, talus slopes, stony canyons and prairie dog towns. Crotalus atrox – Western Diamondback Rattlesnake Habitat: Semi-arid areas from plains to mountains, brushy desert, rocky canyons, bluffs along rivers, sparsely vegetated rocky foothills. Crotalus horridus – Timber Rattlesnake Habitat: Remote wooded hillsides with rock outcrops.
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Last updated: February 28, 2015