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Image Common name Scientific name Status Notes Distribution Jefferson salamander: Ambystoma jeffersonianum (Green, 1827) Species of special concern Females of this species can form a unisexual form that cannot be identified to species level without DNA testing [3] Statewide, seemingly absent from near Philadelphia and the surrounding counties
These mountains and plateau have over 20 species of reptiles represented as lizard, skink, turtle and snake. Some of the icterid birds visit the mountains as well as the hermit thrush and wood thrush. North American migrant birds live throughout the mountains during the warmer seasons.
In the Great Lakes region, there is a cluster of three states (Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio) that named a reptile. [20] [29] [40] In the Northeast, there is another cluster of three participating states (Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont). [27] [36] [53] Neither of the noncontiguous states, Alaska and Hawaii, have named a state reptile. [90]
Wykoff Run in Quehanna Wild Area, the largest such protected area in Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States includes 18 wild areas in its State Forest system. [1]
This is a checklist of American reptiles found in Northern America, based primarily on publications by the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR). [1] [2] [3] It includes all species of Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and the United States including recently introduced species such as chameleons, the Nile monitor, and the Burmese python.
It is sometimes referred to as the prairie lizard, fence swift, gray lizard, gravid lizard, northern fence lizard or pine lizard. [4] It is also referred to colloquially as the horn-billed lizard. One of its most notable behaviors is that of its escape behavior when encountering fire ants, which have been known to invade and negatively affect ...
Pages in category "Mountain ranges of Pennsylvania" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The region near Philadelphia is very densely populated, but population density decreases to the west. One onset of such rapid growth has come from immigrants, with extensive influxes of Asian , European , and African peoples to the eastern counties, and Hispanic peoples region wide especially in counties such as Berks , Lehigh , and Lancaster .