List of U.S. state reptiles
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This is a list of official U.S. state reptiles:
| State | State reptile | Binomial nomenclature |
Image | Year adopted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Alabama red-bellied turtle | Pseudemys alabamensis |  |
1990[1] |
| California | Desert Tortoise | Gopherus agassizii |  |
1972 |
| Colorado | Western Painted Turtle | Chrysemys picta subspecies belli |
 |
2008 |
| Florida | American Alligator | Alligator mississippiensis |  |
1987 |
| Georgia | Gopher tortoise | Gopherus polyphemus |  |
1989 |
| Hawaii | Gold dust day gecko | Phelsuma laticauda subspecies laticauda |
 |
Unofficial |
| Illinois | Painted Turtle | Chrysemys picta | |
2005 |
| Kansas | Ornate Box Turtle | Terrapene ornata subspecies ornata |
|
1986 |
| Louisiana | American Alligator | Alligator mississippiensis | |
1983 |
| Maryland | Diamondback terrapin | Malaclemys terrapin |  |
1994 |
| Massachusetts | Garter snake | Thamnophis (whole genus) |
 |
2006 |
| Michigan | Painted Turtle | Chrysemys picta | |
1995 |
| Minnesota | Blanding's Turtle | Emydoidea blandingii |  |
Unofficial[2] |
| Mississippi | American Alligator | Alligator mississippiensis | |
2005 |
| Missouri | Three-toed box turtle | Terrapene carolina subspecies triunguis |
 |
2007 |
| Nevada | Desert Tortoise | Gopherus agassizii | |
1989 |
| New Mexico | New Mexico Whiptail Lizard | Cnemidophorus neomexicanus |
|
2003 |
| New York | Common Snapping Turtle | Chelydra serpentina |  |
2006 |
| North Carolina | Eastern Box Turtle | Terrapene carolina subspecies carolina |
 |
1979[3] |
| Ohio | Black Racer | Coluber constrictor subspecies constrictor |
 |
1995 |
| Oklahoma | Collared Lizard | Crotaphytus collaris |  |
1969 |
| South Carolina | Loggerhead Sea Turtle | Caretta caretta |  |
1988 |
| Tennessee | Eastern Box Turtle | Terrapene carolina subspecies carolina |
|
1995 |
| Texas | Texas horned lizard | Phrynosoma cornutum |  |
1993 |
| West Virginia | Timber rattler[4] | Crotalus horridus | .jpg) |
2008[5] |
| Wyoming | Horned lizard | Phrynosoma (whole genus) |
 |
1993 |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Official Alabama Reptile". Alabama Emblems, Symbols and Honors. Alabama Department of Archives & History. 2001-07-12. http://www.archives.state.al.us/emblems/st_rept.html. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Official State Symbols of North Carolina". North Carolina State Library. State of North Carolina. http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/NC/SYMBOLS/SYMBOLS.HTM. Retrieved on 2008-01-26.
- ^ The Timber Rattler was the Perfect Choice
- ^ Manchins signs bills involving snakes, fossils, research into law
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