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Reptiles

About 20 species of snakes inhabit the Pinelands, and several of these populations are quite remarkable.

For example, the Timber Rattlesnake is the only venomous species in the Pinelands and exists here as a disjunct population. Having been extirpated from the immediate environs of the Pinelands, they have managed to survive in about seven reproducing populations scattered through the region. The closest neighboring populations are in far north Jersey. The Northern Pine Snake populations of the Pinelands are also cut off from their own kind. Northern Pine Snakes are not found again until you get all the way down to Virginia and West Virginia. Similarly, the Pinelands hosts the northernmost population of the Corn Snake. The most common snake of the Pinelands may be the Northern Water Snake. Surely the most bizarre snake of the area is the Eastern Hognose, also known as the Puff Adder, since it often spreads its neck, cobra-like, when alarmed.

	Black Rat Snake Elaphe obsoleta Learn More
	Common Snapping Turtle Chelydra serpentina Learn More
	Eastern Box Turtle Terrapene carolina Learn More
	Eastern Hognose Snake Heterodon platyrhinos Learn More
	Eastern King Snake Lampropeltis getulus Learn More
	Eastern Mud Turtle Kinosternon subrubrum Learn More
	Eastern Painted Turtle Chrysemys picta Learn More
	Eastern Ribbon Snake Thamnophis sauritus Learn More
	Musk Turtle Sternotherus odoratus Learn More
	Northern Black Racer Coluber constrictor Learn More
	Northern Fence Lizard Sceloporus undulatus hyacinthinus Learn More
	Northern Pine Snake Pituophis melanoleucus Learn More
	Northern Water Snake Natrix sipedon Learn More
	Red-bellied Turtle Chrysemys rubriventris Learn More
	Corn Snake Elaphe guttata Learn More
	Rough Green Snake Opheodrys aesrivus Learn More
	Spotted Turtle Clemmys guttata Learn More
	Timber Rattlesnake Crotalus horridus Learn More

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