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Worm snakes (Typhlopidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Typhlops monastus: Montserrat worm snake: Regional endemic; found on both main islands and some of the offshore islands. Colubrids Species Common name(s) Notes Image Alsophis antiguae: Antiguan racer: Critically endangered. Endemic; found only on Great Bird Island off the coast of ...
Barbour's map turtle (Graptemys barbouri) VU; Cagle's map turtle (Graptemys caglei) EN; Yellow-blotched map turtle (Graptemys flavimaculata) VU; Pascagoula map turtle (Graptemys gibbonsi) EN. Pearl River map turtle (Graptemys pearlensis) EN, [2] species not recognized by SSAR [3] Ringed map turtle (Graptemys oculifera) VU
The most significant threat to the Alameda whipsnake is human impact. Approximately, 60 percent of the snake's habitat is owned by the public. One of the major threats to the Alameda whipsnake is habitat loss as a result of urban expansion. Road and highway construction has been increasing, making the snake even more vulnerable of extinction.
By 1995, the species was found only on Great Bird Island, a small island 2.5 km off of the northeast coast of Antigua. [5] The island is extremely small at only 8.4 hectares. [ 5 ] The Antiguan racer prefers to live in shady woodlands with dense undergrowth, although it is also found on sandy beaches and rocky outcrops.
The San Francisco garter snake, a subspecies of the common garter snake, is found in scattered wetland areas on the San Francisco Peninsula from approximately the northern boundary of San Mateo County south along the eastern and western bases of the Santa Cruz Mountains, at least to the Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir, and along the Pacific coast south to Año Nuevo Point, and thence to ...
The California condor is a critically endangered species, with only 350 left “and a significant piece of that population lives in ground zero of where these fires have happened,” Corwin noted.
California's Wildlife Conservation Board voted last week to grant more than $10 million to protect a 27,000-acre cattle ranch on the the Central Coast.
The California whipsnake, M. lateralis, has a range from Trinity County, California, west of the Sierra Nevada Mountains to northwestern Baja California, at altitudes between 0–2,250 metres (0–7,382 ft) and is known to use a wide variety of habitat types including the California coast and in the foothills, the chaparral of northern Baja, mixed deciduous and pine forests of the Sierra de ...