spadefoots

Distinguished from true toads by: catlike eyes, smooth skin, indistinct/absent parotoid glands, and spade on hind feet

tree and chorus frogs

(pseudacris)

lungless salamanders

slender and short limbed

(batrachoseps, ensatina)

mole salamanders

costal grooves, stocky body, broad heads, small protuberant eyes

(ambystoma)

true frogs (lithobates, rana)

slim waist, long legs

Anaxyrus boreas (western toad)

white dorsal stripe

Anaxyrus californicus (arroyo toad)

light area across eyes and on each sacral hump

Anaxyrus cognatus (great plains)

pairs of blotches

Taricha torosa

(California newt)

Charina umbratica

(southern rubber boa)

Lichanura trivirgata

(rosy boa)

Hypsiglena ochrorhyncha

(coast/San diego nightsnake)

Lampropeltis californiae

(california kingsnake)

Lampropeltis zonata

(California mountain kingsnake)

Actinemys marmorata

(western pond turtle)

formerly Clemmys marmorata

Chrysemys picta 

(painted turtle)

Trachemys scripta

(pond slider)

Phrynosoma blainvilli

(coast horned lizard)

Phrynosoma platyrhinos 

(desert horned lizard)

Urosaurus graciosus 

(long-tailed brush lizard)

Uma scoparia

(mojave fringe-toed lizard)

Callisaurus draconoides 

(zebra-tailed lizard)

Anniella pulchra

(California legless lizard)

Crotaphytus bicinctores

(great basin collared lizard)

Gambelia sila

(blunt-nosed leopard lizard)

Gambelia wislizenii

(long-nosed leopard lizard)

Arizona elegans 

(glossy snake)

Coluber constrictor

(north american yellow-bellied racer)

Coluber flagellum

(coachwhip)

Coluber lateralis

(striped racer - also has a yellow belly)

Diadophis punctatus

(ring-necked snake)

Coleonyx variegatus

(western banded gecko)

Dipsosaurus dorsalis

(desert iguana)

Sauromalus ater

(common chuckwalla)