title: List of reptiles of the Indiana Dunes
text: # List of reptiles of the Indiana Dunes
  
  Indiana Dunes National Park is a National Park Service unit on the shore of Lake Michigan in Indiana, United States. A BioBlitz took place there on May 15 and 16, 2009. During that time, a list of organisms was compiled which included a preliminary list of the reptiles of the area.
  
  Turtles (Testudinate)
  
  * Chelydra serpentina serpentina - common snapping turtle
  * Chrysemys picta marginata - painted turtle
  * Emydoidea blandingi - Blanding's turtle
  * Pseudemys scripta elegans - cooter
  * Sternotherus odoratus - common musk turtle
  
  Lizards (Sauris)
  
  * Cnemidophorus sexlineatus viridis - prairie racerunner
  * Plestiodon fasciatus - five-lined skink
  * Ophisaurus attenuatus attenuatus - slender glass lizard
  
  Snakes (Serpentes)
  
  * Coluber constrictor flaviventris - eastern racer
  * Heterodon platyrhinos - eastern hognose snake
  * Lampropeltis triangulum - milk snake
  * Nerodia sipedon sipedon - common watersnake
  * Storeria dekayi wrightorum - midland brown snake
  * Thamnophis proximus - western ribbon snake
  * Thamnophis sirtalis - common garter snake
  * Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis - eastern garter snake
  * Thamnophis radix radix - eastern plains garter snake
  