White List Species
Figure: 31 TAC §65.331(d)
Frogs and Toads
- Great Plains toad (Bufo cognatus)
- Green toad (Bufo debilis)
- Red-spotted toad (Bufo punctatus)
- Texas toad (Bufo speciosus)
- Gulf Coast toad (Bufo valliceps)
- Woodhouse's toad (Bufo woodhousei)
- Green treefrog (Hyla cinerea)
- Bull frog (Rana catesbeiana)
- Couch's spadefoot (Scaphiopus couchii)
- Plains spadefoot (Spea bombifrons)
- New Mexico spadefoot (Spea multiplicata)
Salamanders
- Tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum)
Lizards
- Green anole (Anolis carolinensis)
- Chihuahuan spotted whiptail (Aspidoscelis exsanguis)
- Texas spotted whiptail (Aspidoscelis gularis)
- Marbled whiptail (Aspidoscelis marmoratus)
- Six-lined racerunner (Aspidoscelis sexlineatus)
- Checkered whiptail (Aspidoscelis tesselatus)
- Texas banded gecko (Coleonyx brevis)
- Greater earless lizard (Cophosaurus texanus)
- Collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris)
- Five-lined skink (Eumeces fasciatus)
- Great plains skink (Eumeces obsoletus)
- Texas alligator lizard (Gerrhonotus infernalis)
- Lesser earless lizard (Holbrookia maculata)
- Crevice spiny lizard (Sceloporus poinsettii)
- Prairie lizard (Sceloporus undulatus)
- Ground skink (Scincella lateralis)
- Tree lizard (Urosaurus ornatus)
- Side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana)
Snakes
- Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix)
- Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus)
- Glossy snake (Arizona elegans)
- Trans-Pecos rat snake (Bogertophis subocularis)
- Racer (Coluber constrictor)
- Western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox)
- Rock rattlesnake (Crotalus lepidus)
- Blacktail rattlesnake (Crotalus molossus)
- Mojave rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus)
- Prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis)
- Baird's rat snake (Elaphe bairdi)
- Great Plains rat snake (Elaphe emoryi)
- Texas rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta)
- Slowinski's cornsnake (Elaphe slowinskii)
- Western hognose snake (Heterodon nasicus)
- Eastern hognose snake (Heterodon platirhinos)
- Texas night snake (Hypsiglena torquata)
- Gray-banded kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna)
- Prairie kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster)
- Speckled or desert kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula)
- Milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum)
- Texas blind snake (Leptotyphlops dulcis)
- Coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum)
- Schott's whipsnake (Masticophis schotti)
- Striped whipsnake (Masticophis taeniatus)
- Texas coral snake (Micrurus tener)
- Blotched or yellowbelly water snake (Nerodia erythrogaster)
- Broad-banded water snake (Nerodia fasciata)
- Diamondback water snake (Nerodia rhombifer)
- Rough green snake (Opheodrys aestivus)
- Bullsnake or gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer)
- Texas longnose snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei)
- Western blackneck garter snake (Thamnophis cyrtopsis)
- Checkered garter snake (Thamnophis marcianus)
- Western ribbon snake (Thamnophis proximus)
- Big Bend patchnose snake (Salvadora deserticola)
- Texas or mountain patchnose snake (Salvadora grahamiae)
- Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus)
- Pygmy rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius)
- Ground snake (Sonora semiannulata)
- Brown snake (Storeria dekayi)
- Flathead snake (Tantilla gracilis)
- Southwestern blackhead snake (Tantilla hobartsmithi)
- Plains blackhead snake (Tantilla nigriceps)
- Lined snake (Tropidoclonion lineatum)
- Rough earth snake (Virginia striatula)
Mammals
- Texas Antelope Squirrel (Ammospermophilus interpres)
- Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus)
- Merriam's Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys merriami)
- Eastern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys volans)
- Black-tailed Jackrabbit (Lepus californicus)
- Spotted Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus spilosoma)
- Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus)
- Rock Squirrel (Spermophilus variegatus)