Amphibians

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Amphibians

• By Paige Mullins, Phil Bowling, Matt Estes

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painted turtle
Scientific Name Chrysemys Picta What they eat
plant and animals materials. Were they live
they like to live in places with a lot of mud.
Swampy areas and slow moving streams.
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painted turtle

• Facts
• This animal can be located by its colorful shell.
  It's sometimes hard to spot, though, because it's
  very shy and reclusive
• They may grow to be 7 in long.
• Painted Turtles can live 20-30 years and grow to
  be the size of dinner plates

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Bullfrog
Scientific Name Rana catesbeiana What they
eat big bugs, fish, mice Were they live
vegetation along the edge of large, slow moving
bodies of freshwater
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Bullfrog

• Facts
• The average life span for them tends to be around
  4 to 5 years, though there are records of
  bullfrogs living as long as 6 or 7
• A female bullfrog may lay up to 25,000 small eggs
  that are held together at the surface of the
  water.
• They grow on average to be about 3 ½ to 6 inches
  long in body length (legs adding another 7-10
  inches)

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Spiny soft-shell turtle
Scientific Name Apalene spinifera What they
eat small fish (crayfish) Were they live
soft-bottom waters, rivers, marshy creeks.
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Spiny soft-shell turtle

• Facts
• Males reach only half that length of the females
• Spiny soft-shell turtles sexually matures between
  the ages of 8 to 10 years and the estimated
  longevity is up to fifty years in a large female
• turtle Average length (females) 7-21 and
  (males) 5-9

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snapping turtle
Scientific Name Chelydra serpentine What they
eat gold fish, minnows, and any other small
feeder fish (crayfish, frogs snails and
crickets.) Were they live rivers, ponds, and
lakes.
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snapping turtle

• Facts
• They spend most of their time submerged surfacing
  periodically to breath
• They adult snapping turtle is about 20 inches
  long and weighs over 30 pounds
• They lie in the mud of river bottoms to catch
  their pray

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Tiger Salamander
Scientific Name Ambystoma Tigrinum What they
eat meat Were they live in deep burrows up
to two feet below the surface, near ponds, lakes
or slow moving streams.
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Tiger Salamander

• Facts
• They are the most wide-ranging salamander species
  in North America.
• They are highly voracious predators, they emerge
  from their burrows at night to feed
• They are relative size of a tea cup

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common garter snake
Scientific Name Thamnophis sirtalis What they
eat grass hoppers, frogs, salamanders, small
birds. Were they live parks, meadows,
woodlands, and yards. (any place there are
streams or ponds.)
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common garter snake

• Facts
• They have hard dry scales and are cold blooded.
• They gather information about their environment
  through sense of smell.
• The length of garter snake ranges between 20-30
  inches.

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Water Moccasin
Scientific Name Agkistodon Piscivorus
Conanti What they eat warm and cold blooded
animals. Were they live creeks (likes to relax
on tree branches overhanging water.)
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Water Moccasin

• Facts
• They are highly venomous
• They have heat sensitive organs for detecting
  warm blooded pray
• The maximum length is 6 foot.

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Copperhead Snake
Scientific Name Agkistrodon contortrix What
they eat birds, mice, frogs. Were they live
wooded areas.
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Copperhead Snake

• Facts
• The average length of adult copper head is 30
  inches.
• They are thick bodied
• They have keeled scales.

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Racer
Scientific Name Coluber Constrictor What they
eat frogs, lizards, and incests, small birds and
mammals. Were they live fields and
forest/wooded edges.
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Racer

• Facts
• They are among the fastest moving snakes.
• They may grow to 60 inches.
• They are non-venomous.

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Northern water snake
Scientific Name Nerodia Sipedon What they eat
frogs, turtles, fish, and other small
animals. Were they live vegetations along
waterways
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Northern water snake

• Facts
• Courtship and mating typically occur in May and
  June, and females give birth to 20-40 young in
  August and September.
• They can grow to be 24 -42 inches long.
• Females are bigger then the males.

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Ornate Box Turtle
Scientific Name Terrapene ornata What they
eat live Beatles, caterpillars, and worms Were
they live treeless plains seeking out damp or
wet areas
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Ornate Box Turtle

• Facts
• Have a hinge on their lower shell or closing
  their shell until they are about 4 to 5 years
  old.
• They are 4 to 5 inches long
• They can live up to 30 years of age.

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Corn Snakes
Scientific Name Elaphe guttata What they eat
live rodents Were they live they are found
around old house and barns
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Corn Snakes

• Facts
• They are good pest control.
• They dont eat every day, they eat every three
  days.
• The breading season is from March to May.