List of threatened reptiles and amphibians of the United States
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 93 reptile and amphibian species in the United States are threatened with extinction.[1] The IUCN has classified each of these species into one of three conservation statuses: vulnerable VU, endangered EN, and critically endangered CR.
Order Crocodilia (crocodilians)
Family Crocodylidae (crocodiles)
- 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
- Pearl River map turtle (Graptemys pearlensis) EN,[2] species not recognized by 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 Testudinidae (tortoises)
- 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 Scincidae (skinks)
- Florida sand skink (Neoseps reynoldsi) VU IUCN
Family Xantusiidae (night lizards)
- 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 Rhyacotritonidae (torrent salamanders)
- 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 Bufonidae (toads)
- 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 Ranidae (true frogs)
- Chiricahua leopard frog (Lithobates chiricahuensis) VU IUCN
- Ramsey Canyon leopard frog (Lithobates subaquavocalis) CR,[4] species not recognized by 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
References
- ^ "IUCN 2013". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
- ^ van Dijk, P.P. (2016) [errata version of 2011 assessment]. "Graptemys pearlensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T184437A97423604. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T184437A8276246.en.
- ^ a b Crother, B.I., ed. (September 2008). Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding. Sixth edition. SSAR Herpetological circular No. 37. Shoreview, MN: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR). pp. 1–84 (90 pages). ISBN 978-0-916984-74-8.
- ^ Geoffrey Hammerson; Michael Sredl (2004). "Lithobates subaquavocalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004: e.T19180A8848570. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T19180A8848570.en.
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