DEP Urges Motorists to Watch for Turtles Crossing Roadways as Vehicle-Strike Risk Increases During Nesting Season (DEP News Release, 6/19/18)
Governor Murphy Designates Bog Turtle as New Jersey’s State Reptile (Governor's Office News Release, 6/18/18)
Division Biologist Receives Award
Reptiles and Amphibians in Winter (Discover DEP Podcast)
Meet The 22 Snake Species of the Garden State (nj.com)

With its many landscapes and habitat types, New Jersey has a wide variety of reptiles and amphibians. Calling spring peepers enhance spring evenings and summer bullfrogs entertain us at night. Children thrill to finding familiar box turtles or garter snakes, and endangered salamanders struggle to survive as habitat is lost. Division biologists have worked extensively with some species (such as bog turtles) to halt their decline and restore populations.

See the links below for more information about New Jersey's reptiles and amphibians.

Reptile and Amphibian (Herpetile) Information

	Online Field Guide for Reptiles and Amphibians - Information on 71 New Jersey species
	Snakes of NJ (pdf, 260kb) Snake ID At a Glance - Northern NJ (pdf, 390kb) Snake ID At a Glance - Southern NJ (pdf, 390kb)
	Status Assessment of the Northern Pine Snake in N.J. (pdf, 510kb)
	Northern Pine Snake - September 2003 Species of the Month
	Timber Rattlesnake
	"Timber Rattlesnakes in New Jersey" Program
	Venomous Snake Response Team
	Frogs of NJ (pdf, 610kb) Atlantic Coast Leopard Frog
	Turtles of NJ (pdf, 520kb)
	Herp Education
	Herp Atlas Project
	Eastern Tiger Salamander - February 2003 Species of the Month
	Pine Barrens Treefrog - May 2003 Species of the Month
	Reptiles and Amphibians of NJ Teacher Resource Package
	NJ Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Conservation Workshop Proceedings - April 17-19, 2006 (pdf, 1mb)