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Reptile & Amphibian Species of Carolinian Wetlands, Lakes,
Rivers & Shorelines
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Great
Egret, (Ardea alba)
Natural
history information at the Patuxent Bird Identification
InfoCenter
Photo: George Jameson
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King
Rail,
(Rallus elegans)
Endangered Nationally
and Provincially.
Photo: George Peck
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Blanchart's
Cricket Frog, Acris
crepitans blanchardi
Classified as Endangered nationally
and provincially.
Species at Risk information Northern
Cricket Frog
Photo: Natural Resources Canada
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Eastern
Spiny Softshell Turtle,
Apalone spinifera spinifera
Most turtles have hard shells, but the softshell turtle has
a pliable, leathery skin. Brown in colour, it lives in streams,
marshes, and larger rivers along Lake Erie. This species
has sharp 'spines' on the front edges of its shell. In profile
it is thinner and flatter than most turtles, giving it a pancake
like appearance.
Species-at-risk
information.
Photo: John Mitchell /© ROM
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Lake Erie Water
Snake, Nerodia sipedon
insularum
Endangered Nationally
and Provincially.
Photo: John Mitchell © ROM
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Fowlers
Toad, Bufo fowleri
Fowler's
Toad is threatened nationally.
Photo: Natural Resources Canada
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Fox
Snake, Elaphe vulpina
The Eastern fox snake, a species found only in the Great
Lakes region, is threatened
in Ontario, where it has most of its range. Though protected,
it is in decline due to loss of its preferred habitat: dunes,
shorelines, oak savanna
and tallgrass prairie.
A large, docile member of the constrictor family, it is often
mistaken for a copperhead or rattlesnake.
Natural history: See the Rouge River Project's description
of the fox snake.
Photo: © P. Allen Woodliffe
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