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This list of reptiles of Texas includes the snakes, lizards, crocodilians, and turtles native to the U.S. state of Texas.. Texas has a large range of habitats, from swamps, coastal marshes and pine forests in the east, rocky hills and limestone karst in the center, desert in the south and west, mountains in the far west, and grassland prairie in the north.
[nb 8] [nb 9] Eighteen states name a reptile at the species level, [nb 10] two a genus, [nb 11] and seven a subspecies. [nb 12] The species most frequently adopted as a state reptile is the painted turtle, with four states designating it: Colorado (the western subspecies), Illinois, Michigan, and Vermont.
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The Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) is one of about 21 North American species of spikey-bodied reptiles called horned lizards, all belonging the genus Phrynosoma. [3] It occurs in south-central regions of the US and northeastern Mexico, as well as several isolated introduced records and populations from Southern United States .
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[1] 56% of all evaluated reptile species are listed as least concern. The IUCN also lists two reptile subspecies as least concern. Of the subpopulations of reptiles evaluated by the IUCN, six species subpopulations have been assessed as least concern. This is a complete list of least concern reptile species and subspecies evaluated by the IUCN ...
The following list of reptiles lists the vertebrate class of reptiles by family, spanning two subclasses. Reptile here is taken in its traditional ( paraphyletic ) sense, and thus birds are not included (although birds are considered reptiles in the cladistic sense).
Texas cooter (Pseudemys texana) left, and red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta) right, basking in the Colorado River, Travis County, Texas (12 April 2012). The Texas river cooter is a relatively large turtle, capable of growing to a shell length of 12+ inches (30.5 cm). They are green in color, with yellow and black markings that fade with age.