BULLETIN FLORIDA MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY VOL. 38 PT. I


Hyla chrysoscelis Cope, COPE'S GRAY TREEFROG. Rare. Known from one immature specimen caught
 at a sandhill pond (Breezeway Pond).
Hyla cinerea (Schneider), GREEN TREEFROG. Abundant Primarily darkwater lakes and ponds.
Hyla gratiosa Leconte, BARKING TREEFROG. Common. Breeds in ponds that lack fish populations.
Hylafemoralis Sonnini and Laterille, PINE WOODS TREEFROG. Common. Breeds in darkwater and
 sandhill ponds, and occasionally sandhill lakes.
Hyla squirella Bosc, SQUIRREL TREEFROG. Common. Breeds primarily in darkwater ponds and
 marshes.
Pseudacris crucifer bartramiana Harper, SOUTHERN SPRING PEEPER. Common. Breeds primarily
 along margins of darkwater ponds and lakes.
Pseudacris ocularis (Bose and Daudin), LITTLE GRASS FROG. Common. Breeds primarily along
 margins of sandhill lakes and ponds.

FAMILY Microhylidae
Gastrophryne carolinensis (Holbrook), EASTERN NARROWMOUTH TOAD. Abundant Breeds along
 the margins of darkwater and sandhill ponds and lakes.

FAMILY Ranidae
Rana capitol aesopus Cope, FLORIDA GOPHER FROG. Common. High pine sandhills. Breeds in ponds
 that lack fish populations.
Rana catesbeiana Shaw, BULLFROG. Uncommon. Breeds primarily in small sandhill ponds.
Rana clamitans clamitans Latreille, BRONZE FROG. Common. Margins of darkwater lakes and in the
 Mill Creek Swamp.
Rana heckscheri Wright, RIVER FROG. Uncommon. Darkwater lakes and in the Mill Creek Swamp.
Rana grylio Stejneger, PIG FROG. Common. Primarily in darkwater lakes and ponds, and to a lesser
 extent in sandhill lakes and ponds.
Rana utricularia sphenocephala Cope, FLORIDA LEOPARD FROG. Abundant Breeds in most water
 bodies on the property. Occasionally found on upland sites.


 REPTILES


FAMILY Alligatoridae
Alligator mississippiensis (Daudin), AMERICAN ALLIGATOR. Common. Primarily in darkwater lakes,
 and occasionally in sandhill lakes and ponds.

FAMILY Chelydridae
Chelydra serpentina osceola Stejneder, FLORIDA SNAPPING TURTLE. Probably uncommon.
 Darkwater lakes.

FAMILY Kinosteridae
Kinosternon baurii palmarum Stejneger, STRIPED MUD TURTLE. Common. Primarily in darkwater
 ponds and lakes.
Kinosternon subrubrum steindachneri Siebenrock, FLORIDA MUD TURTLE. Common. Primarily in
 sandhill ponds and lakes and darkwater marshes.
Sternotherus odoratus (Latreille), COMMON MUSK TURTLE. Common. Darkwater and sandhill ponds
 and lakes.

FAMILY Emydidae
Deirochelys reticularia chrysea Schwartz, FLORIDA CHICKEN TURTLE. Uncommon. Darkwater and
 sandhill ponds and marshes.
Pseudemysfloridana peninsularis Carr, PENINSULA COOTER. Common. Primarily in sandhill ponds
 and lakes, less common in darkwater habitats.
Pseudemys nelsoni Carr, FLORIDA REDBELLY TURTLE. Common. Primarily in darkwater ponds,
 lakes and marshes.