(Texas) Diamondback Terrapin
Malaclemys terrapin littoralis
Diamondback Terrapin
(photo by Howard Eskin)
Gulf Coast Toad
Bufo valliceps valliceps
A Gulf Coast Toad during a FONT tour
Bullfrog
Rana catesbeiana
Two photographs of Bullfrogs
(upper photo courtesy of Doris Potter;
lower photo during a FONT tour
Two photographs of Bullfrogs
(upper photo courtesy of Doris Potter;
lower photo during a FONT tour
Pickerel Frog
(in eastern Texas)
Rana palustris
Pickerel Frog
(photo by Marie Gardner)
Rana palustris
Pickerel Frog
(photo by Marie Gardner)
(Dwarf) American Toad (ph) (*) ______
Bufo americanus charlesmithi
American Toad
(photo by Howard Eskin)
Bufo americanus charlesmithi
American Toad
(photo by Howard Eskin)
Alligator mississippiensis
An American Alligator
(photo by Howard Eskin)
Two photographs of the American Alligator during a FONT Tour in Texas
(photos by Karl Frafjord)
Snapping Turtle
Chleydra serpentina
Snapping Turtle
(photo by Howard Eskin)
Texas River Cooter
Pseudemys texana
Texas River Cooters photographed during a FONT tour in Texas
(photo by Karl Frafjord)
( Three-toed) Box Turtle
Terrapene carolina triunguis
Box Turtle
(photo by Howard Eskin
(Southern) Painted Turtle
(an isolated colony in central Texas)
Chrysemys picta dorsalis
Painted Turtles
(photo by Howard Eskin)
Red-eared Slider
Trachemys scripta elegans
In Trachemys scripta, the reddish stripe behind the eye is unique among North American turtles, but not all Red-ears have it. Rarely the red is replaced by yellow.
A Red-eared Slider photographed during a FONT Texas Tour.
This turtle was crossing a road west of Austin.
It's hard to see the red line behind the eye, but it's there.
(photo by Karl Frafjord)
Loggerhead (Sea Turtle)
(offshore in the Gulf of Mexico)
Caretta caretta
Loggerhead Sea Turtle (photographed by Alan Brady during a FONT tour)
Spiny Softshell
Apalone spinifera pallida Pallid Spiny Softshell ______
Apalone spinifera emoryi Texas Spiny Softshell ______
A Texas Spiny Softshell photographed during a FONT tour in Texas
(photo by Karl Frafjord)
Greater Earless Lizard
Cophosaurus t. texanus Texas Earless Lizard
Cophosaurus texanusscitulus Southwestern Earless Lizard (in west Texas)
A Greater Earless Lizard photographed during a FONT tour
Twin-spotted (or Desert) Spiny Lizard (in west Texas)
Sceloporus magister bimaculosus
A Twin-spotted, or Desert Spiny Lizard during a FONT tour
Desert Side-blotched Lizard
Uta stansburiana stejnegeri
Desert Side-blotched Lizard
(photo by Howard Eskin)
Plainbelly Water Snake
Nerodia erythrogaster flavigaster (in east Texas)
Nerodia erythrogaster transversa Blotched Water Snake
A Blotched Water Snake swimming across a small river.
(photographed during a FONT Texas Tour in May 2010, by Karl Frafjord)
Speckled Racer
Drymobius m. margaritiferus
A Speckled Racer during a FONT Tour
Garter Snake
Thamnophis s. sirtalis Eastern Garter Snake
Thamnophis sirtalis annectens Texas Garter Snake
Two photographs of the Eastern Garter Snake
(above photo by Doris Potter; lower photo by Howard Eskin)
Western Cottonmouth (venomous)
Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostma
Western Cottonmouth
(photo during a FONT Texas Tour in May 2010 by Karl Frafjord)
Timber Rattlesnake (in east Texas) (venomous)
Crotalus horridus
Timber Rattlesnake
(photo by Fred Lesser)
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