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Herps of Iowa: Multiple Choice

Select the photo of the named reptile or amphibian found in Iowa
All the answers are found in Iowa.
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1. Common Garter Snake
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Common garter snakes can be distinguished from plains garter snakes from their lack of thick vertical lip bars..
2. Timber Rattlesnake
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Timber rattlesnakes are thicker bodied than Iowa's other rattlesnake, the Massasauga.
3. Slender Glass Lizard
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Glass lizards are legless, while still retaining the external ears of most lizards.
4. Fox Snake
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Adult fox snakes have a coppery colored head.
5. Five-lined Skink
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Count the lines! Prairie skinks have 7 and plains skinks have none.
6. Western Hognose Snake
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Western hognose snakes have a mostly black belly.
7. Redbelly Snake
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Redbelly snakes only have red... on their belly. It doesn't extend to their sides at all.
8. Ouachita Map Turtle
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Ouachita map turtles have multiple yellow splotches on their face, unlike false map turtles which have only 1 behind the eye, or commons which have none.
9. Red-eared Slider
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As their name suggests, red-eared sliders have a red patch behind their eye.
10. Musk Turtle
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Musk turtles have a rounded, tortoise-like shell with a small plastron. They also have yellow lines on towards the top of their head.
11. Ornate Box Turtle
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Box turtles are largely terrestrial, and have a hinged plastrons that covers their head when retracted.
12. Spiny Softshell Turtle
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Their "spines" are really more like bumpy nodules on the front of their carapace. They also have macaroni shaped nostrils!
13. Northern Leopard Frog
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Northerns have no white dot in their tympanum (ear) as well as no yellow under their hindlegs.
14. Pickerel Frog
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Pickerel frogs have yellow under their hindlegs but no white in their tympanums (ear).
15. Green Frog
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Unlike the bullfrog, the ridge (lateral line) over the green frog's tympanum (ear) extends down their body.
16. Spring Peeper
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Spring peepers have a cross pattern on their backs. Unlike the parallel lines of the similar chorus frog.
17. Small-mouth Salamander
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Smallmouth's lack clear spots and gills as adults.
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