Reptiles of Berry College Campus
Turtles (Order Testudines)
- Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina)
- Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina)
- Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta)
- Slider (Pseudemys scripta)
Lizards (Order Squamata, Suborder Lacertilia)
- Southeastern Five-lined Skink (Eumeces inexpectatus)
- Broadhead Skink (Eumeces laticeps)
- Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis)
- Eastern Fence Lizard (Sceloporus undulatus)
Sceloporus undulatus
sunning itself on a fallen log (Berry Reservoir, 3 April 2004)
Snakes (Order Squamata, Suborder Serpentes)
- Common Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis)
- Northern Water Snake (Nerodia fasciata)
- Plainbelly Water Snake (Nerodia erythrogaster)
- Worm Snake (Carphophis amoenus)
- Eastern Hognose Snake (Heterodon platyrhinos)
- Common Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getulus)
- Corn Snake (Elaphe guttata guttata)
- Rat Snake (Elaphe obsoleta)
- Racer (Coluber constrictor)
- Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix)
- Timber/Canebrake Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus)
This list is based upon my own observations, and
upon specimens
collected by Zvezdana Ukropina-Crawford and John Graham
(collection,
Berry College Department of Biology). This
is
not a complete list.
Both forms of Crotalus horridus are present on campus.
Last Updated 24 March 2009
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