OBLIGATE AND FACULTATIVE FAUNA SPECIES FOUND IN VERNAL HABITATS
Obligate Species | Facultative Species |
Marbled Salamander (Ambystoma opacum) | Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina serpentine) |
Blue-spotted Salamander* (Ambystoma laterale) | Eastern Mud Turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum subrubrum) |
Jefferson Salamander (Ambystoma jeffersonianum) | Spotted Turtle (Clemmys guttata) |
Eastern Tiger Salamander* (Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum) | Eastern Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta picta) |
Wood Frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) | Red-spotted Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens) |
Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) Eastern Spadefoot Toad (Scaphiopus holbrookii) | American Toad (Anaxyrus americanus) Fowler's Toad (Anaxyrus fowleri) |
Fairy shrimp (order Anostraca) | Pine Barrens Treefrog* (Hyla andersonii) |
Northern Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor) | |
Cope's (Southern Gray) Treefrog* (Hyla chrysoscelis) | |
Northern Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans) | |
New Jersey Chorus Frog (Pseudacris kalmi) | |
American Bull Frog (Lithobates catesbieanus) | |
Northern Green Frog (Lithobates clamitans) | |
Southern Leopard Frog (Lithobates sphenocephalus) | |
Four-toed Salamander (Hemidactylium scutatum) | |
Northern Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) | |
Long-tailed Salamander** (Eurycea longicauda longicauda) | |
Wood Turtle** (Glyptemys insculpta) | |
Carpenter Frog (Lithobates virgatipes) | |
Pickerel Frog (Lithobates palustris) | |
Atlantic Coast Leopard Frog (Rana kauffeldi) | |
Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea) | |
Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) | |
Eastern Musk Turtle (Sternotherus odoratus) |
* Listed as a New Jersey State endangered species
** Listed as a New Jersey State threatened species
N.J. Admin. Code Tit. 7, ch. 7A, app 1