Necturus maculosus

Mudpuppy

• external gills
• keeled

Jefferson Salamander

• grey with blue legs
• light blue speckles
• large middle toe on the back foot
• slanty eyes
• wide, gaping mouth
• bigger body

Spotted Salamander

• fat
• wide mouth
• white spots with grey when dead
• alive: bright yellow on black background

Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander

• Dusky jaw line: line from eye backwards to jaw
• long hind legs
• rounded tail

Northern Two-lined Salamander

• two lines
• males are smaller than females

Spring Salamander

• keeled tail
• canthus rostralis visible in all life stages (Line diagonally up from nostril to eye)

Eastern Red-backed Salamander

• dark red or grey stripe when alive
• thin body
• nasealatoral grooves

Northern Slimy Salamander

• neck line
• alive: bright white spots, silver flecks
• white speckles underneath
• joints are white (shoulder)

American Toad

• warts on back
• belly spotted
• has real toes and one is long

Spring Peeper

• X on back
• small
• peeps in Fall: Autumnal Requidesesence 

American Bullfrog

• nasty, leathery skin
• toes have skin
• dorso lateral ridge- ends near ear
• alive: green-yellow facial fold after the eye

Green Frog

• spots are brown
• tempanick membrane
• dorsolateral fold on the top side

Pickerel Frog

• spots (compared to Leopard frog)
• square
• organized
• close together
• has white edges
• Alive: yellow under legs
• white line in upper part of jaw

Northern Leopard Frog

• rounded, non-uniform spots
• more distinctive ridges (than Pickerel)

Wood Frog

• alive: black face plate
• dorsolateral fold
• white upper lip
• they call the earliest in the year

Snapping Turtle

• diamonds ridges on back
• DINOSAUR
• holds high concentrations of heavy metals (e.g. mercury)

Painted Turtle

• pretty decorations on bottom of shell
• striped neck

Eastern Box Turtle

• walker- not swimmer
• hinged plastron (belly of shell)
• red eyes
• plastron flat (not curved up)

Eastern Fence Lizard

• Dinosaur
• keeled scales
• bright blue neck

Coal Sink

• alive: black line across side
• disturbance animal, found after fires

Ring-necked Snake

• cream ring all around neck
• cream belly
• anal scale divided
• scales in 15 rows
• Alive: yellow belly

Milksnake

• Y on head
• Checkerboard tummy
• Leopard print/ OREO MILKSHAKE
• Big mouth :)

Northern Watersnake

• Large!
• Rings on body: white with black outline
• anal plate entire
• diagonal band behind eye

Red-bellied Snake

• 3 white dots on neck
• anal plate divided
• red belly in real life
• keeled

Dekay's Brownsnake

• little brown spots all over
• long mouth for small snake
• keeled scales

Common Gartersnake

• black and long
• keeled
• anal plate entire
• tan and grey belly
• low lateral stripes line
• lateral band does not encompass the 4th row

Copperhead

• hole between eye and nostril

Timber Rattlesnake

• Well...it has a rattle.