Platte River Ecosystem Resources and Management, with Emphasis on the Big Bend Reach in Nebraska
Appendices
Appendix E. Amphibians and reptiles in the Platte River system in Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming. Range data are from Conant (1975). Nomenclature and phylogenetic order follow Banks et al. (1987).
| Family Name - Common Name | Scientific Name |
| Ambystomatidae | |
| Tiger salamander | Ambystoma tigrinum |
| Pelobatidae | |
| Plains spadefoot | Scaphiopus hammondii |
| Bufonidae | |
| Great plains toad | Bufo cognatus |
| Wyoming toad | Bufo hemiophrys |
| Woodhouse's toad | Bufo woodhousii |
| Hylidae | |
| Northern cricket frog | Acris crepitans |
| Striped chorus frog | Pseudacris triseriata |
| Plains leopard frog | Rana blairi |
| Bullfrog | Rana catesbeiana |
| Northern leopard frog | Rana pipiens |
| Chelydridae | |
| Snapping turtle | Chelydra serpentina |
| Emydidae | |
| Painted turtle | Chrysemys picta |
| Blanding's turtle | Emydoidea blandingii |
| Ornate Box turtle | Terrapene ornata |
| Trionychidae | |
| Smooth softshell turtle | Trionyx muticus |
| Spiny softshell turtle | Trionyx spiniferus |
| Iguanidae | |
| Lesser earless lizard | Holbrookia maculata |
| Short-horned lizard | Phrynosoma douglassii |
| Sagebrush lizard | Sceloporus graciosus |
| Eastern fence lizard | Sceloporus undulatus |
| Telidae | |
| Six-lined racerunner | Cnemidophorus sexlineatus |
| Scincidae | |
| Many-lined skink | Eumeces multivirgatus |
| Great plains skink | Eumeces obsoletus |
| Prairie skink | Eumeces septentrionalis |
| Colubridae | |
| Yellow-bellied racer | Coluber constrictor |
| Ring-necked snake | Diadophis punctatus |
| Western hog-nosed snake | Heterodon nasicus |
| Common kingsnake | Lampropeltis getulus |
| Milksnake | Lampropeltis triangulum |
| Western coachwhip | Masticophis flagellus |
| Brown water snake | Nerodia sipedon |
| Smooth green snake | Opheodrys vernalis |
| Pine snake | Pituophis melanoleucus |
| Plains black-headed snake | Tantilla nigriceps |
| Western terrestrial garter snake | Thamnophis elegans |
| Western ribbon snake | Thamnophis proximus |
| Plains garter snake | Thamnophis radix |
| Common garter snake | Thamnophis sirtalis |
| Viperidae | |
| Western rattlesnake | Crotalus viridis |
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