List of reptiles of Canada
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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:WildlifeofCanada This is a list of the reptiles of Canada. Most species are confined to the southernmost parts of the country. All Canadian reptiles are composed of squamates and testudines.
Conservation status - IUCN Red List of Threatened Species:
- Template:IUCN status - Extinct, Template:IUCN status - Extinct in the wild
- Template:IUCN status - Critically endangered, Template:IUCN status - Endangered, Template:IUCN status - Vulnerable
- Template:IUCN status - Near threatened, Template:IUCN status - Least concern
- Template:IUCN status - Data deficient, Template:IUCN status - Not evaluated
- (v. 2013.2, the data is current as of 5 March 2014[1])
Order Squamata
Of the order Squamata, lizards and snakes are represented. There are no known amphisbaenids native to Canada.
Snakes (suborder Serpentes)
Snakes are the best-represented group of reptiles in Canada, with 35 varieties in three families. They can be found in all provinces and territories except Yukon, Nunavut, and Newfoundland and Labrador.
- Charina bottae (rubber boa) Template:IUCN status – southern British Columbia,[2] but not Vancouver Island
- Coluber constrictor foxii (blue racer) Template:IUCN status – Pelee Island in Ontario[3]
- Coluber constrictor flaviventris (eastern yellow-bellied racer) Template:IUCN status – southern Saskatchewan[4]
- Coluber constrictor mormon (western yellow-bellied racer) Template:IUCN status – south-central British Columbia[2]
- Contia tenuis (common sharp-tailed snake) Template:IUCN status – southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia[2]
- Crotalus horridus (timber rattlesnake) Template:IUCN status – historically southern Ontario and southern Quebec, extirpated[3]
- Crotalus oreganus oreganus (northern Pacific rattlesnake) Template:IUCN status – south-central British Columbia[2]
- Crotalus viridis viridis (prairie rattlesnake) Template:IUCN status – southern Alberta,[5] southwestern Saskatchewan[4]
- Diadophis punctatus edwardsii (northern ring-necked snake) Template:IUCN status – southeastern Ontario,[3] southern Quebec, most of New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia[6]
- Hypsiglena chlorophaea (desert night snake) Template:IUCN status – extreme south-central British Columbia
- Heterodon nasicus nasicus (western hog-nosed snake) Template:IUCN status – southeastern Alberta[5] southern Saskatchewan[4] and southwestern Manitoba[7]
- Heterodon platirhinos (eastern hog-nosed snake) Template:IUCN status – southwestern Ontario[3]
- Lampropeltis triangulum (eastern milk snake) – southern Ontario[3] southern Quebec[8]
- Nerodia sipedon insularum (Lake Erie watersnake) Template:IUCN status – islands in western Lake Erie[3]
- Nerodia sipedon sipedon (northern watersnake) Template:IUCN status – southern and central Ontario,[3] southern Quebec[8]
- Opheodrys vernalis (smooth green snake) Template:IUCN status – southeast Saskatchewan,[4] southern Manitoba,[7] central and southern Ontario,[3] southern Quebec,[8] most of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island[6]
- Pantherophis gloydi (eastern foxsnake) Template:IUCN status – southwestern Ontario[3]
- Pantherophis alleghaniensis (grey ratsnake) – southeastern Ontario[6]
- Pituophis catenifer deserticola (Great Basin gophersnake) Template:IUCN status – south-central British Columbia[2]
- Pituophis catenifer sayi (bullsnake) Template:IUCN status – southern Alberta[5] and southern Saskatchewan[4]
- Regina septemvittata (queen snake) Template:IUCN status – southwestern Ontario[3]
- Sistrurus catenatus (eastern massasauga) Template:IUCN status – Bruce Peninsula and some parts of southwestern Ontario[3]
- Storeria dekayi (Dekay's brownsnake) Template:IUCN status – southern Ontario,[3] southern Quebec[8]
- Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata (northern red-bellied snake) Template:IUCN status - southeastern Saskatchewan,[4] southern Manitoba,[7] southwestern and southeastern Ontario,[3] southern Quebec,[8] most of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island[6]
- Thamnophis butleri (Butler's gartersnake) Template:IUCN status – southwestern Ontario[3]
- Thamnophis elegans vagrans (wandering gartersnake) Template:IUCN status – most of British Columbia,[2] most of Alberta,[5] southwestern Saskatchewan,[4] and possibly the Liard River Valley in southwestern Northwest Territories[9]
- Thamnophis ordinoides (northwestern gartersnake) Template:IUCN status – southwestern British Columbia, including Vancouver Island[2]
- Thamnophis radix haydeni (plains gartersnake) Template:IUCN status – eastern Alberta,[5] southern Saskatchewan[4] and southwestern Manitoba[7]
- Thamnophis saurita septentrionalis (northern ribbonsnake) Template:IUCN status – southern Ontario[3] and southwestern Nova Scotia[10]
- Thamnophis sirtalis fitchi (valley garter snake) Template:IUCN status – central mainland British Columbia almost up to the Yukon border, and northern Vancouver Island[2]
- Thamnophis sirtalis pallidulus (Maritime garter snake) Template:IUCN status – southern half of Quebec, most of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island[6]
- Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis (red-sided gartersnake) Template:IUCN status – eastern plains of British Columbia,[2] most of Alberta,[5] extreme southern Northwest Territories around the Fort Smith region,[9] most of Saskatchewan,[4] southern half of Manitoba,[7] and northwestern Ontario[3]
- Thamnophis sirtalis pickeringi (Puget Sound gartersnake) Template:IUCN status – southwest corner of British Columbia, including southern Vancouver Island[2]
- Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis (eastern gartersnake) Template:IUCN status – most of Ontario[3] and Quebec,[8] and the southeast corner of Manitoba[7]
Lizards (suborder Lacertilia)
Lizard diversity is low in Canada, with six native species and one introduced species:
- Elgaria coerulea principis (northwestern alligator lizard) Template:IUCN status – southern British Columbia, including most of Vancouver Island[2]
- Plestiodon skiltonianus (western skink) Template:IUCN status - southern interior of British Columbia
- Plestiodon fasciatus (five-lined skink) Template:IUCN status – southern Ontario[3]
- Plestiodon septentrionalis septentrionalis (northern prairie skink) Template:IUCN status – southwestern Manitoba[3]
- Phrynosoma douglasii (pygmy horned lizard) Template:IUCN status – extreme south-central British Columbia[2]
- Phrynosoma hernandesi (short-horned lizard) Template:IUCN status – extreme southeastern Alberta[5] and southern Saskatchewan[4]
- Podarcis muralis (common wall lizard) - introduced - southeastern Vancouver Island, Denman Island, single records in Vancouver, Summerland and Osoyoos but no populations on BC mainland.
Order Testudines
Of the order Testudines, pond turtles are common in all of Canada's provinces, with the exception of Newfoundland and Labrador, which has sea turtles off its shores as does British Columbia.
Land and pond turtles
- Actinemys marmorata (Pacific pond turtle) Template:IUCN status extirpated
- Apalone spinifera (spiny softshell turtle) Template:IUCN status
- Chelydra serpentina (common snapping turtle) Template:IUCN status
- Chrysemys picta (painted turtle) Template:IUCN status
- Clemmys guttata (spotted turtle) Template:IUCN status
- Emydoidea blandingii (Blanding's turtle) Template:IUCN status
- Glyptemys insculpta (wood turtle) Template:IUCN status
- Graptemys geographica (northern map turtle) Template:IUCN status
- Sternotherus odoratus (stinkpot turtle) Template:IUCN status
- Terrapene carolina (eastern box turtle) Template:IUCN status extirpated[11][12]
Sea turtles
- Caretta caretta (loggerhead sea turtle) Template:IUCN status
- Chelonia mydas (green sea turtle) Template:IUCN status
- Dermochelys coriacea (leatherback sea turtle) Template:IUCN status
- Lepidochelys kempii (Kemp's ridley sea turtle) Template:IUCN status
- Lepidochelys olivacea (olive ridley sea turtle) Template:IUCN status
See also
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