NPS Photo Common Name Scientific Name Blanchard’s Cricket Frog Acris crepitans blanchardi Coastal Plain Toad Bufo nebulifer Great Plains Narrowmouth Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Green Tree Frog Hyla cinerea Bullfrog* Rana catesbeiana Rio Grande Chirping Frog Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides Couch’s Spadefoot Toad Scaphiopus couchii Guadalupe Spiny Softshell Apalone spinifera guadalupensis Common Snapping Turtle Chelydra serpentina Texas Tortoise Gopherus berlandieri Cagle’s Map Turtle (H) Graptemys caglei Texas River Cooter Pseudemys texana Red-eared Slider Trachemys scripta elegans Green Anole* Anolis carolinensis Texas Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis gularis Mediterranean Gecko* Hemidactylus t. turcicus Texas Spiny Lizard Sceloporus olivaceus Rose-bellied Lizard Sceloporus variabilis marmoratus Ground Skink Scincella lateralis Western Cottonmouth Agkistrodon piscivorus West. Diamondback Rattlesnake Crotalus atrox Great Plains Rat Snake Elaphe guttata emoryi Texas Rat Snake Elaphe obsolete lindheimeri Desert King Snake Lampropeltis getula splendida Plains Blind Snake Leptotyphlops dulcis dulcis Western Coachwhip Masticophis flagellum testaceus Schott’s Whipsnake Masticophis schotti Eastern Coral Snake Micrurus fulvius tener Blotched Water Snake Nerodia erythrogaster Diamondback Water Snake Nerodia rhombifer Rough Green Snake Opheodrys aestivus Texas Long-nosed Snake Rhinocheilus lecontei tessellatus Texas Patch-nosed Snake Salvadora grahamiae lineata Texas Brown Snake Storeria dekayi texana Flat-head Snake** Tantilla gracilis** Checkered Garter Snake Thamnophis marcianus Redstripe Ribbon Snake Thamnophis proximus rubrilineatus Rough Earth Snake Virginia striatula * non-native species ** discovered during herptofauna monitoring, 18 MAR 2010 (H) = historic |
Last updated: November 28, 2021