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ESTABLISHED EXTANT AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF NEBRASKA (62 SPECIES)

Amphibia Gray, 1825 — Amphibians
Anura Fischer von Waldheim, 1813 — Frogs
Bufonidae Gray, 1825 — True Toads
Anaxyrus americanus (Holbrook, 1836) — American Toad
Anaxyrus cognatus (Say in James, 1822) — Great Plains Toad
Anaxyrus woodhousii (Girard, 1854) — Woodhouse's Toad
Hylidae Rafinesque, 1815 — Treefrogs and Allies
Acris blanchardi Harper, 1947 — Blanchard's Cricket Frog
Dryophytes chrysoscelis (Cope, 1880) — Cope's Gray Treefrog
Pseudacris maculata (Agassiz, 1850) — Boreal Chorus Frog
Microhylidae Gunther, 1843 — Micohylid Frogs and Toads
Gastrophryne olivacea (Hallowell, 1857 “1856”) — Western Narrow-mouthed Toad
Ranidae Rafinesque, 1814 — True Frogs
Lithobates blairi (Mecham, Littlejohn, Oldham, Brown, and Brown, 1973) — Plains Leopard Frog
Lithobates catesbeianus (Shaw, 1802) — North American Bullfrog
Lithobates pipiens (Schreber, 1782) — Northern Leopard Frog
Scaphiopodidae Cope, 1865 — North American Spadefoots
Spea bombifrons (Cope, 1863) — Plains Spadefoot
Caudata Scopoli, 1777 — Salamanders
Ambystomatidae Gray, 1850 — Mole Salamanders
Ambystoma mavortium Baird, 1850 — Western Tiger Salamander
Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855) — Small-mouthed Salamander
Ambystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825) — Eastern Tiger Salamander
Reptilia Laurenti, 1768 — Reptiles
Squamata (part) Oppel, 1811 — Snakes
Colubridae Oppel, 1811 — Harmless Egg-laying Snakes
Arizona elegans Kennicott, in Baird, 1859 — Common Glossy Snake
Coluber constrictor Linnaeus, 1758 — North American Racer
Lampropeltis calligaster (Harlan, 1827) — Prairie Kingsnake
Lampropeltis gentilis (Baird and Girard, 1853) — Western Milksnake
Lampropeltis holbrooki Stejneger, 1902 — Speckled Kingsnake
Masticophis flagellum (Shaw, 1802) — Common Coachwhip
Opheodrys vernalis (Harlan, 1827) — Smooth Greensnake
Pantherophis emoryi (Baird and Girard, 1853) — Great Plains Ratsnake
Pantherophis obsoletus (Say in James, 1822) — Western Ratsnake
Pantherophis ramspotti (Crother, White, Savage, Eckstut, Graham and Gardner, 2011) — Western Foxsnake
Pituophis catenifer (Blainville, 1835) — Gophersnake
Tantilla nigriceps Kennicott, 1860 — Plains Black-headed Snake
Crotalidae Oppel, 1811 — Pit Vipers
Agkistrodon contortrix (Linnaeus, 1766) — Eastern Copperhead
Crotalus horridus Linnaeus, 1758 — Timber Rattlesnake
Crotalus viridis (Rafinesque, 1818) — Prairie Rattlesnake
Sistrurus tergeminus (Say, in James, 1822) — Western Massasauga
Dipsadidae Bonaparte, 1838 — Harmless Rear-Fanged Snakes
Carphophis vermis (Kennicott, 1859) — Western Wormsnake
Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus, 1766) — Ring-necked Snake
Heterodon nasicus Baird and Girard, 1852 — Western Hog-nosed Snake
Heterodon platirhinos Palisot de Beauvois in Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801 — Eastern Hog-nosed Snake
Natricidae Bonaparte, 1838 — Harmless Egg-Retaining Snakes
Nerodia sipedon (Linnaeus, 1758) — Common Watersnake
Regina grahamii Baird and Girard, 1853 — Graham's Crawfish Snake
Storeria dekayi (Holbrook, 1839) — Dekay’s Brownsnake
Storeria occipitomaculata (Storer, 1839) — Red-bellied Snake
Thamnophis elegans (Baird and Girard, 1853) — Terrestrial Gartersnake
Thamnophis proximus (Say in James, 1822) — Western Ribbonsnake
Thamnophis radix (Baird and Girard, 1853) — Plains Gartersnake
Thamnophis sirtalis (Linnaeus, 1758) — Common Gartersnake
Tropidoclonion lineatum (Hallowell, 1856) — Lined Snake
Squamata (part) Oppel, 1811 — Other Lizards
Anguidae Gray, 1825 — Anguid Lizards
Ophisaurus attenuatus Baird in Cope, 1880 — Slender Glass Lizard
Phrynosomatidae Fitzinger, 1843 — Sand and Spiny Lizards
Holbrookia maculata Girard, 1851 — Common Lesser Earless Lizard
Phrynosoma hernandesi Girard, 1858 — Greater Short-horned Lizard
Sceloporus consobrinus Baird and Girard, 1853 — Prairie Lizard
Sceloporus graciosus Baird and Girard, 1852 — Common Sagebrush Lizard
Scincidae Gray, 1825 — Skinks
Plestiodon fasciatus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Common Five-lined Skink
Plestiodon multivirgatus Hallowell, 1857 — Many-lined Skink
Plestiodon obsoletus Baird and Girard, 1852 — Great Plains Skink
Plestiodon septentrionalis Baird, 1859 — Prairie Skink
Teiidae Gray, 1827 — Whiptails, Racerunners, and Ameivas
Aspidoscelis sexlineatus (Linnaeus, 1766) — Six-lined Racerunner
Testudines Batsch, 1788 — Turtles
Chelydridae Gray, 1870 — Snapping Turtles
Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758) — North American Snapping Turtle
Emydidae Gray, 1825 — Box and Basking Turtles
Chrysemys picta (Schneider, 1783) — Painted Turtle
Emydoidea blandingii (Holbrook, 1838) — Blanding's Turtle
Graptemys pseudogeographica (Gray, 1831) — False Map Turtle
Terrapene ornata (Agassiz, 1857) — Ornate Box Turtle
Trachemys scripta (Thunberg in Schoepff, 1792) — Pond Slider
Kinosternidae Agassiz, 1857 — Mud and Musk Turtles
Kinosternon flavescens (Agassiz, 1857) — Yellow Mud Turtle
Trionychidae Bell, 1828 — Softshells
Apalone mutica (LeSueur, 1827) — Smooth Softshell
Apalone spinifera (LeSueur, 1827) — Spiny Softshell

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NEBRASKA ONLINE HERPETOLOGICAL REFERENCES
NEBRASKA HERPETOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS
1891 Taylor, W. Edgar. The ophidia of Nebraska. Annual Report. Nebraska State Board of Agriculture for the Year 1891. 1891():310-357
1892 Taylor, W. Edgar. Catalogue of the snakes of Nebraska with notes on their habits and distribution. The American Naturalist 26(309):742-752
1931 Burt, Charles E. A report on some amphibians and reptiles from Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (44):11-16
1948 Hudson, G. E. The amphibians and reptiles of Nebraska. Nebraska Conservation Bulletin 23(4):146 pp
1959 Gehlbach, Frederick R. and Bruce B. Collette. Distributional and biological notes on the Nebraska herpetofauna. Herpetologica 15():141-143
1964 Holman, J. Alan. Fossil snakes from the Valentine Formation of Nebraska. Copea 1964(4):631-637
1971 Chantell, Charles J. Fossil amphibians from the Egelhoff Local Fauna in North-Central Nebraska. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 23(15):239-246
1973 Holman, J. Alan. Reptiles of the Egelhoff Local Fauna (Upper Miocene) of Nebraska. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 24(12):125-134
1974 Lund, D. Amphibians and reptiles of the Nebraska midstate division: Section V. Identification and Evaluation of Present Zoologic Resources Nebraska Midstate Division Pick Sloan Missouri Basin Program and Associated Areas. Final Report. United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Grand Island, Nebraska. 54pp.
1975 Iverson, John. B. Notes on Nebraska reptiles. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 78(1-2):51-62
1976 Holman, J. Alan. A new Peltosaurus (Reptilia, Sauria, Anguidae) from the Upper Miocene of Nebraska. Journal of Herpetology 10(1):41-44
1976 Holman, J. Alan. Snakes of the gering formation (lower Miocene) of Nebraska. Herpetologica 32(1):88-94
1976 Holman, J. Alan. The herpetofauna of the lower Valentine formation, north-central Nebraska. Herpetologica 32(3):262-268
1976 Holman, J. Alan. A boid and a colubrid snake from the Harrison Formation (Lower Miocene: Arikareean) of Siouz County, Nebraska. Herpetologica 32(4):387-389
1977 Holman, J. Alan. Upper Miocene snakes (Reptilia, Serpentes) from southeastern Nebraska. Journal of Herpetology 11(3):323-335
1977 Holman, J. Alan. Additional snakes form the Miocene of western Nebraska. Herpetologica 33(4):443-446
1977 Iverson, John. B. Further notes on Nebraska reptiles. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 80(1-2):55-59
1979 Ballinger, R. E. ; Lynch, J. D. ; Cole, P. H. Distribution and natural history of amphibians and reptiles in western Nebraska with ecological notes on the herpetiles of Arapaho Prairie. Prairie Naturalist 11(3):65-74
1979 Erwin, W. J. and R. H. Stasiak. Vertebrate mortality during the burning of a reestablished prairie in Nebraska. American Midland Naturalist 101(1):247-249
1981 Jones, S. M. ; Ballinger, R. E. ; Nietfeldt, J. W. Herpetofauna of Mormon Island Preserve, Hall County, Nebraska. Prairie Naturalist 13(2):33-41
1981 Holman, J. Alan. Fossil amphibians and reptiles of Nebraska and Kansas. National Geographic Society Research Reports 13(Project year 1971, 1972):253-262
1983 Holman, J. Alan. A New Species of Helagras (Serpentes) from the Middle Oligocene of Nebraska. Journal of Herpetology 17(4):417-419
1985 Lynch, J. D. Annotated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Nebraska. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 13():33-57
1985 Ballinger, R. E. ; Jones, S. M. Ecological disturbance in a sandhills prairie: Impact and importance to the lizard community on Arapaho Prairie in western Nebraska. Prairie Naturalist 17(2):91-100
1989 Cox, M. K. ; Franklin, W. L. Terrestrial vertebrates of Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska. Great Basin Naturalist 49(4):597-613
1990 Ballinger, R. E. ; Jones, S. M. ; Nietfeldt, J. W. Patterns of resource use in a lizard community in the Nebraska sandhills prairie. Prairie Naturalist 22(2):75-86
1992 Finch, D. M. Threatened, endangered, and vulnerable species of terrestrial vertebrates in the Rocky Mountain region. United States Forest Service General Technical Report RM, 215. 1-38pp.
1992 Garbin, C. P. ; Rowe, J. An initial study of hatchling food preferences and group feeding behaviors of four species of Nebraskan turtles. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 27(3):57-62
1995 Holycross, Andrew T. Serpents of the sandhills. Nebraskaland (73(6)):29-35
2003 Bury, R. Bruce and D. J. Germano. Differences in habitat use by Blanding's turtles, Emydoidea blandingii, and painted turtles, Chrysemys picta, in the Nebraska sandhills. American Midland Naturalist (149):241-244
2010 Fogell, Daniel D. A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Nebraska University of Nebraska, Lincoln. pp.
2010 Ballinger, Royce E., John D. Lynch, and Geoffrey R. Smith. Amphibians and Reptiles of Nebraska Rusty Lizard Press, Oro Valley, Arizona. 400pp.
2011 O'Connell, K. A. ; Ferraro, D. M. A Herpetological survey of Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge, Washington County, Nebraska. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 37():10-15
2012 Geluso, Keith. Sixteen county records of herpetofauna from south-central Nebraska. Collinsorum 1(2/3):3-6
2013 Hubbs, B. New county records and an update for Kansas and Nebraska, USA. Herpetological Review 44(3):481-482
2014 Davis, Drew R., S. R. Siddons, and J. L. Kerby. New amphibian and reptile county records from eastern Nebraska, USA. Herpetological Review 45(1):99-100
2015 Andersen, Brett R., Michael G. Breight, Emily D. Plock, Joshua D. Wiese, Mikalah M. Brown, Ashley J. Forrester, Kayla E. Francis, Madeline S. Franks, Bryan J. O’Connor, Landis R. Slepicka, Andrew M. Yantzie, Anthony E. Bridger, Chase T. Svoboda, and Keith Geluso Fourteen county records of herpetofauna from Nebraska, USA, 2014-2015. Collinsorum 4(3):7-10
2016 Hubbs, B. New county records for Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, USA. Herpetological Review 47(1):94-95
2022 Somma, Louis A. Provenance of the Red-bellied Snake, Storeria occipitomaculata (Storer) (Squamata: Natricidae), collected from eastern Nebraska, U.S.A., in the 19th Century. Breviora (575):1-10
2022 Geluso, Keith, Jamila L. Bajelan, Joshua A. Blaesi, Amber D. Dzingle, Kaylee L. Gibson, Logan H. Grose, Caine M. Haarberg, Treyton L. Hebblethwaite, Shaylee M. Johnson, Tylin K. Masco, Corral M. McClintock, Emma L. Roberts, Brock J. Uhlir, Tyler L. Underwood, Jonathan R. Wentz, Braden M. Wilkes, and Travis J. Woodcock. First reproductive evidence for the Slender Glass Lizard (Ophisaurus attenuatus) in Nebraska. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 42():10-14
2024 Lowe, Taylor C., Sarah M. Bailey, Daniel D. Fogell, and Keith Geluso. Records of the Red-bellied Snake (Storeria occipitomaculata) in central and northeastern Nebraska. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 44():1-6

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