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The following list of wildlife that is native to Virginia is provided by Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
List of Native and Naturalized Fauna of Virginia August, 2000. When finding differant creatures in the wild or around the home it is easier to identify the found creature if you can narrow the search. This list is for Virginia and most any creature found in Virginia will be listed here. IMPORTANT PLEASE READ!!!!!Most of the photos that you see are Copyrighted. Therefore the laws protecting the copyrighted material should be adhered to. There are exceptions for educational use, please check with your teacher for proper procedures. Some sites provide information on usage and what you must do to use the photos. This is a guide and to validate the infomation always use several sources. Wildlife highlighted in red are endangered or threatened. Wildlife highlighted in green are dangerous, and some very dangerous.Information on the dangerous wildlife may be found at Enature Order Squamata (amphisbaenians, lizards, and snakes) Suborder Serpentes (snakes) Superfamily Henophidia (boas, pythons, and relatives) Family Aniliidae (coral pipe snakes and pipe snakes) Family Anomochilidae (dwarf pipe snakes) Family Boidae (boas and pythons) Family Bolyeridae (Round Island boas) Family Cylindrophiidae (Asian pipe snakes) Family Loxocemidae (Mexican burrowing pythons) Family Tropidophiidae (dwarf boas) Family Uropeltidae (shield-tailed snakes and short-tail snakes) Family Xenopeltidae (sunbeam snakes) Superfamily Typhlopoidea (blind snakes) Family Anomalepidae (dawn blind snakes) Family Leptotyphlopidae (slender blind snakes) Family Typhlopidae (blind snakes) Superfamily Xenophidia (colubrids, vipers, and relatives) Family Acrochordidae (file snakes) Family Atractaspididae (mole vipers) Family Colubridae (colubrids) Family Elapidae (cobras, coral snakes, and kraits) Family Hydrophiidae (sea snakes) Family Viperidae (pit vipers and vipers) For more information on Snakes in general goto Here A basic listing of all the snakes in North America are at Here There are about 2,400 species of snakes in the world. Snakes Eastern black kingsnake Lampropeltis getula nigra |
