List of threatened reptiles and amphibians of the United States
According to the
Order Crocodilia (crocodilians)
Family
- American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) VU IUCN
Order Testudines (turtles)
Family Chelydridae (snapping turtles)
- Alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) VU IUCN
Family Kinosternidae (mud turtles and musk turtles)
- Flattened musk turtle (Sternotherus depressus) CR IUCN
Family Emydidae (pond turtles)
- Spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata) EN IUCN
- Bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) CR IUCN
- Wood turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) EN IUCN
- Common box turtle (Terrapene carolina) VU IUCN
- Blanding's turtle (Emys blandingii) EN IUCN
- Western pond turtle (Actinemys marmorata) VU IUCN
- Barbour's map turtle (Graptemys barbouri) VU IUCN
- Cagle's map turtle (Graptemys caglei) EN IUCN
- Yellow-blotched map turtle (Graptemys flavimaculata) VU IUCN
- Pascagoula map turtle (Graptemys gibbonsi) EN IUCN
- SSAR[3]
- Ringed map turtle (Graptemys oculifera) VU IUCN
- Big Bend slider (Trachemys gaigeae) VU IUCN
- Alabama red-bellied cooter (Pseudemys alabamensis) EN IUCN
Family
- Gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) VU IUCN
- Desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) VU IUCN
Family Cheloniidae (sea turtles)
- Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) VU IUCN
- Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) EN IUCN (Hawaiian subpopulation: LC IUCN)
- Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) CR IUCN
- Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) CR IUCN
- Olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) VU IUCN
Family Dermochelyidae (leatherback sea turtle)
- Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) VU IUCN (East Pacific Ocean subpopulation - i.e. Hawaiian Is.: CR IUCN, West Pacific Ocean subpopulation: CR IUCN, Northwest Atlantic Ocean subpopulation: EN IUCN)
Family Trionychidae (softshells)
- Wattle-necked softshell turtle (Palea steindachneri) (introduced) CR IUCN
Order Squamata (scaled reptiles)
Family Crotaphytidae (collared lizards)
- Reticulated collared lizard (Crotaphytus reticulatus) VU IUCN
- Blunt-nosed leopard lizard (Gambelia sila) EN IUCN
Family Phrynosomatidae (horned lizards and spiny lizards)
- Dunes sagebrush lizard (Sceloporus arenicolus) VU IUCN
- Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard (Uma inornata) EN IUCN
Family Teiidae (whiptails)
- Little white whiptail (Aspidoscelis gypsi) VU IUCN
Family
- Florida sand skink (Neoseps reynoldsi) VU IUCN
Family
- Sandstone night lizard (Xantusia gracilis) VU IUCN
Family Anguidae (glass lizards, alligator lizards, and relatives)
- Panamint alligator lizard (Elgaria panamintina) VU IUCN
Family Colubridae (colubrid snakes)
- Southern hog-nosed snake (Heterodon simus) VU IUCN
- Louisiana pine snake (Pituophis ruthveni) EN IUCN
- Rim rock crown snake (Tantilla oolitica) EN IUCN
- Giant garter snake (Thamnophis gigas) VU IUCN
Order Caudata (salamanders)
Family Proteidae (waterdogs)
- Alabama waterdog (Necturus alabamensis) EN IUCN
Family Ambystomatidae (mole salamanders)
- Reticulated flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma bishopi) VU IUCN
- California tiger salamander (Ambystoma californiense) VU IUCN
- Frosted flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum) VU IUCN
Family
- Olympic torrent salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus) VU IUCN
Family Salamandridae (newts)
- Black-spotted newt (Notophthalmus meridionalis) EN IUCN
Family Plethodontidae (lungless salamanders)
- Inyo Mountains salamander (Batrachoseps campi) EN IUCN
- Kings River slender salamander (Batrachoseps regius) VU IUCN
- Kern Canyon slender salamander (Batrachoseps simatus) VU IUCN
- Tehachapi slender salamander (Batrachoseps stebbinsi) VU IUCN
- Oregon slender salamander (Batrachoseps wrightorum) VU IUCN
- Red Hills salamander (Phaeognathus hubrichti) EN IUCN
- Peaks of Otter salamander (Plethodon hubrichti) VU IUCN
- Shenandoah salamander (Plethodon shenandoah) VU IUCN
- Weller's salamander (Plethodon welleri) EN IUCN
- Pigeon Mountain salamander (Plethodon petraeus) VU IUCN
- Blue Ridge gray-cheeked salamander (Plethodon amplus) VU IUCN
- Scott Bar salamander (Plethodon asupak) VU IUCN
- Cheoah Bald salamander (Plethodon cheoah) VU IUCN
- Fourche Mountain salamander (Plethodon fourchensis) VU IUCN
- South Mountain gray-cheeked salamander (Plethodon meridianus) VU IUCN
- Big Levels salamander (Plethodon sherando) VU IUCN
- Red-legged salamander (Plethodon shermani) VU IUCN
- Siskiyou Mountains salamander (Plethodon stormi) EN IUCN
- Limestone salamander (Hydromantes brunus) VU IUCN
- Shasta salamander (Hydromantes shastae) VU IUCN
- Berry Cave salamander (Gyrinophilus gulolineatus) EN IUCN
- West Virginia spring salamander (Gyrinophilus subterraneus) EN IUCN
- Tennessee cave salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus) VU IUCN
- Salado Springs salamander (Eurycea chisholmensis) VU IUCN
- Junaluska salamander (Eurycea junaluska) VU IUCN
- Cascade Caverns salamander (Eurycea latitans) VU IUCN
- San Marcos salamander (Eurycea nana) VU IUCN
- Georgetown salamander (Eurycea naufragia) EN IUCN
- Texas salamander (Eurycea neotenes) VU IUCN
- Barton Springs salamander (Eurycea sosorum) VU IUCN
- Jollyville Plateau salamander (Eurycea tonkawae) EN IUCN
- Comal blind salamander (Eurycea tridentifera) VU IUCN
- Texas blind salamander (Eurycea rathbuni) VU IUCN
- Austin blind salamander (Eurycea waterlooensis) VU IUCN
- Georgia blind salamander (Haideotriton wallacei) VU IUCN
Order Anura (frogs)
Family
- Arroyo toad (Anaxyrus californicus) EN IUCN
- Yosemite toad (Anaxyrus canorus) EN IUCN
- Black toad (Anaxyrus exsul) VU IUCN
- Houston toad (Anaxyrus houstonensis) EN IUCN
- Amargosa toad (Anaxyrus nelsoni) EN IUCN
Family
- Chiricahua leopard frog (Lithobates chiricahuensis) VU IUCN
- SSAR[3]
- Florida bog frog (Lithobates okaloosae) VU IUCN
- Relict leopard frog (Lithobates onca) EN IUCN
- Mississippi gopher frog (Lithobates sevosus) CR IUCN
- Tarahumara frog (Lithobates tarahumarae) VU IUCN
- California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii) VU IUCN
- Mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa) EN IUCN
- Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa) VU IUCN
- Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog (Rana sierrae) EN IUCN
See also
- List of North American reptiles
- List of North American amphibians
References
- ^ "IUCN 2013". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
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- ^ ISBN 978-0-916984-74-8.
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