List of reptiles of Kansas

Kansas is home to 15 species of turtles.^[1]

Family Chelydridae – snapping turtles

• Alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii)
• Common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina)

Family Kinosternidae – mud and musk turtles

• Common musk turtle (stinkpot) (Sternotherus odoratus)
• Yellow mud turtle (Kinosternon flavescens)

Family Emydidae – basking and box turtles

• Painted turtle (Chrysemys picta)
• Common map turtle (Graptemys geographica)
• Ouachita map turtle (Graptemys ouachitensis)
• False map turtle (Graptemys pseudogeographica)
• River cooter (Pseudemys concinna)
• Ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata)
• Three-toed box turtle (Terrapene triunguis)
• Pond slider (Trachemys scripta)

Family Trionychidae – softshell turtles

• Spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera)
• Smooth softshell turtle (Apalone mutica)

There are 16 species of lizards in Kansas.^[2]

Anguidae – lateral fold lizards

• Slender glass lizard (Ophisaurus attenuatus)

Crotaphytidae – collared and leopard lizards

• Eastern collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)

Gekkonidae – geckos

• Mediterranean gecko (introduced) (Hemidactylus turcicus)

Lacertidae – Lacertas (wall and true lizards)

• Western green lizard (introduced) (Lacerta bilineata)
• Italian wall lizard (introduced) (Podarcis siculus)

Phrynosomatidae – spiny lizards

• Lesser earless lizard (Holbrookia maculata)
• Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum)
• Southern prairie lizard (Sceloporus consobrinus)

Scincidae – skinks

• Coal skink (Plestiodon anthracinus)
• Five-lined skink (Plestiodon fasciatus)
• Broadhead skink (Plestiodon laticeps)
• Great Plains skink (Plestiodon obsoletus)
• Prairie skink (Plestiodon septentrionalis)
• Little brown skink (Scincella lateralis)

Teiidae – whiptails

• Six-lined racerunner (Aspidoscelis sexlineatus)

• Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus)
• Broad-banded copperhead (Agkistrodon laticinctus)
• Eastern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix)
• Western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox)
• Timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus)
• Prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis)
• Western massasauga (Sistrurus tergeminus)

• Eastern glossy snake (Arizona elegans)
• Western worm snake (Carphophis vermis)
• Eastern racer (Coluber constrictor)
• Ringneck snake (Diadophis punctatus)
• Western hognose snake (Heterodon nasicus)
• Eastern hognose snake (Heterodon platirhinos)
• Chihuahuan night snake (Hypsiglena jani)
• Prairie kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster)
• Speckled kingsnake (Lampropeltis holbrooki)
• Eastern milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum)
• Western milk snake (Lampropeltis gentilis)
• Texas threadsnake (Rena dulcis)
• Coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum)
• Plainbelly water snake (Nerodia erythrogaster)
• Diamondback water snake (Nerodia rhombifer)
• Northern water snake (Nerodia sipedon)
• Rough green snake (Opheodrys aestivus)
• Great Plains rat snake (Pantherophis emoryi)
• Western rat snake (Pantherophis obsoletus)
• Gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer)
• Graham's crayfish snake (Regina grahamii)
• Longnose snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei)
• Great plains ground snake (Sonora episcopa)
• Brown snake (Storeria dekayi)
• Redbelly snake (Storeria occipitomaculata)
• Flathead snake (Tantilla gracilis)
• Plains blackhead snake (Tantilla nigriceps)
• Checkered garter snake (Thamnophis marcianus)
• Western ribbon snake (Thamnophis proximus)
• Plains garter snake (Thamnophis radix)
• Common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis)
• Lined snake (Tropidoclonion lineatum)
• Rough earth snake (Virginia striatula)
• Smooth earth snake (Virginia valeriae)