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- March 6th, 2016, 3:43 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A question on wild snake growth rates.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3241
Re: A question on wild snake growth rates.
I have only done mark/recapture on racers and coachwhips, and didn't measure them -- just wanted to check for return offenders in the pine snake traps. I had a look at Fitch's study on Red-sided Garter Snakes in northeastern Kansas, and he has some growth records. Average snout-vent length of young ...
- February 28th, 2016, 10:30 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: What is calling?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2443
Re: What is calling?
Nick
Last week a few peepers were calling at midday, full sun, about 63°F, southeast Louisiana at just under 31° Lat. That was unusual, as there have been some good rains this winter, and I haven't heard them calling in a few weeks. I thought it would be over, but there are stragglers.
Jeff
Last week a few peepers were calling at midday, full sun, about 63°F, southeast Louisiana at just under 31° Lat. That was unusual, as there have been some good rains this winter, and I haven't heard them calling in a few weeks. I thought it would be over, but there are stragglers.
Jeff
- February 10th, 2016, 9:00 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The interesting story of the Clarion Island Nightsnake
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6058
Re: The interesting story of the Clarion Island Nightsnake
Beebe did, in fact, keep the specimen, which went to his base of operations at the American Museum of Natural History. Using that pickled specimen, Wilmer Tanner described it as a new subspecies (Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus unaocularis) in 1946, and using the newly collected things, Mulcahy recently el...
- January 12th, 2016, 8:07 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Andrea and Mike's 2015 Species Seen (xposted from NE Chapter
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7215
Re: Andrea and Mike's 2015 Species Seen (xposted from NE Cha
The funny rat from Collier County looks like what was known as Elaphe obsoleta deckerti into the 1970s - the Key Rat, which was a yellow rat that kept the baby blotches. My Massachusetts Blanding's Turtle story was posted prior to the crash, so I will repeat: In 2nd grade, about 1967 in Acton, Mass,...
- January 12th, 2016, 11:09 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snake on Google Earth
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1369
Snake on Google Earth
I'm not saying you can see snakes using Google Earth, but there is a young adult San Joaquin Coachwhip that someone posted in the Cuyama Valley. The icon is at 35-03-21 N and 119-54-49 W.
- October 4th, 2015, 3:32 pm
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: Free to a good home
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8309
Free to a good home
I have many journals, fairly complete sets, mostly 1960s-1990s of
Copeia
Herpetologica
Journal of Herpetology
Herpetological Review
Herpetological Natural History
They are free, you just have to come to Louisiana to pick them up.
Send me a PM if interested,
Jeff
Copeia
Herpetologica
Journal of Herpetology
Herpetological Review
Herpetological Natural History
They are free, you just have to come to Louisiana to pick them up.
Send me a PM if interested,
Jeff
- September 17th, 2015, 8:51 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Introduced Aspidoscelis sonorae, or is it something else??
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3038
Re: Introduced Aspidoscelis sonorae, or is it something else
Those look like Giant Spotted Whiptails as they look in the Pajarito Mountains.
Jeff
Jeff
- September 9th, 2015, 6:05 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Salamander ID request from Oregon
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2405
Re: Salamander ID request from Oregon
It's a Plethodon dunni, but of a morph that was known for some time as the Mary's Peak Salamander, Plethodon gordoni.
Jeff
Jeff
- September 9th, 2015, 6:03 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: ANF let me in on it's secret.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5657
Re: ANF let me in on it's secret.
Eight known from Louisiana, last one in 1990.
- September 9th, 2015, 10:48 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Valley Gartersnake?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2986
Re: Valley Gartersnake?
The quick ID character for it being a Mountain Garter is the finely serrate margins of the vertebral stripe, which can be seen as tiny pale marks extending outward from the stripe.
Jeff
Jeff
- June 20th, 2015, 4:45 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Not the only one out looking for 'snakes'
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8819
Re: Not the only one out looking for 'snakes'
I'm hearing you Musk, I guess I didn't have the looks back in the day (1960s-1970s).
However, we were well warned......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcy_6anmVUc
However, we were well warned......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcy_6anmVUc
- June 11th, 2015, 2:35 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The Most Common Herp in Your Area
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5044
Re: The Most Common Herp in Your Area
My home in suburban Baton Rouge Backyard http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m581/JeffBoundy/DSC_0428.jpg Most common (only) salamander is the Three-toed Amphiuma http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m581/JeffBoundy/DSC_0755.jpg Most common anuran is the Eastern Narrowmouth Toad http://i1133.photobuc...
- June 8th, 2015, 7:13 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Gartersnake Game - what am I?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2552
Re: Gartersnake Game - what am I?
I would refer you to a book, "Harmless Snakes of the West", which provides the necessary, um, diagnostic..., um, photograp....This was a trick question.
...nevermind
what Owen said.
Jeff
- June 5th, 2015, 10:38 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Aquatic garter snake question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1980
Re: Aquatic garter snake question
I just got a Hubbs alert about this critter, and see that before I could hang up the phone he had already edited his post, riding my coattails to correctness. It is, indeed, a Diablo Range garter. They occur on the southeast flank of the Santa Cruz Mountains in the semi-open country, and mingle with...
- June 1st, 2015, 6:22 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A froggy night north of Houston
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2530
Re: A froggy night north of Houston
Matt That is a great peak of activity. Unless you are under water now due to subsequent floods... Is that a place that might have Houston Toads? You heard Strecker's Chorus frogs: a colleague thought he might have heard some in central Louisiana at the same time. How does a guy know for sure that is...
- May 29th, 2015, 2:20 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: BioBlitz 2013
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5551
Re: BioBlitz 2013
Heather
Are you SURE that the Sceloporus and pine tree were part of that particular Bioblitz? Neither are native inhabitants south of Lake Pontchartrain. As the semi-official herpetogeographer for Louisiana, I must ask.
Jeff
Are you SURE that the Sceloporus and pine tree were part of that particular Bioblitz? Neither are native inhabitants south of Lake Pontchartrain. As the semi-official herpetogeographer for Louisiana, I must ask.
Jeff
- May 29th, 2015, 1:47 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Snake ID (Enhydris)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2203
Re: Bornean Snake ID (Enhydris)
It looks like Homalophis doriae, formerly Enhydris doriae.
Jeff
Jeff
- May 13th, 2015, 5:38 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: We've lost another great herpetologist
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3227
Re: We've lost another great herpetologist
Charlie was a great guy, and I consider his a very untimely, and misfortunate passing. The last time I spent time with Charlie was at a Federal meeting in 2010. He sat next to me for four days, and we grilled each other during the tedium about herpetofaunal exploits over the years. He spent much of ...
- April 18th, 2015, 6:39 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: My FIRST in situ photographs - POST YOURS
- Replies: 33
- Views: 9874
Re: My FIRST in situ photographs - POST YOURS
Draco
Amazing spot on that alligator lizard.
Jeff
Amazing spot on that alligator lizard.
Jeff
- April 13th, 2015, 4:50 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Western Pond Turtle endangered?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3085
Western Pond Turtle endangered?
The US Fish & Wildlife Service has determined that a petition to list the Western Pond Turtle as federally Threatened or Endangered is warranted, and they are soliciting information that supports or contradicts that determination.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-04 ... -07837.pdf
Jeff
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-04 ... -07837.pdf
Jeff
- April 3rd, 2015, 12:14 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Four Corners lizard ID
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1584
Re: Four Corners lizard ID
Second on Telegans
- April 1st, 2015, 6:58 pm
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: New Thailand Guide
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3775
New Thailand Guide
This just in... 314 pages, $40 paperback....



Jeff



Jeff
- March 16th, 2015, 2:34 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snakes and Agamids from South-east Asia - ID help
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1733
Re: Snakes and Agamids from South-east Asia - ID help
First lizard looks like Gonocephalus grandis
- March 16th, 2015, 2:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snakes and Agamids from South-east Asia - ID help
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1733
Re: Snakes and Agamids from South-east Asia - ID help
Kongi
Second lizard looks like a female Calotes mystaceus
First snake looks like a species of Calamaria
Second snake is Pseudoxendon macrops
Jeff
Second lizard looks like a female Calotes mystaceus
First snake looks like a species of Calamaria
Second snake is Pseudoxendon macrops
Jeff
- March 13th, 2015, 6:00 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Translocation of snakes
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7330
Re: Translocation of snakes
Some previous discussions on the matter....
http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/vie ... 16&t=21377
http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/vie ... 16&t=20983
http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/vie ... =2&t=18801
Jeff
http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/vie ... 16&t=21377
http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/vie ... 16&t=20983
http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/vie ... =2&t=18801
Jeff
- March 10th, 2015, 7:16 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The First 2 Months
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3364
Re: The First 2 Months
Noah
I also heard the crickets chirping. Snake and lizard activity is really up over here as well. I think the folks north of the 31st parallel are in denial. By the time their snow melts we will be contemplating the Fall activity peak. Hasta Septiembre!
Jeff
I also heard the crickets chirping. Snake and lizard activity is really up over here as well. I think the folks north of the 31st parallel are in denial. By the time their snow melts we will be contemplating the Fall activity peak. Hasta Septiembre!
Jeff
- March 10th, 2015, 6:54 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Lunch break
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1607
Re: Lunch break
Are those desperate animals, or typical spring verdure? Folks in the United States may not realize that you are at the latitude of middle Canada and southern Alaska!
- March 6th, 2015, 5:48 pm
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: If there could be a book
- Replies: 12
- Views: 15620
Re: If there could be a book
it's no secret to those who pay attention to the literature that there simply are not enough books out there to satisfy one's appetite for herpetological knowledge. Particularly frustrating is the lack of books that discuss a country or region's herpetofauna in a monograph-type fashion. I have been...
- January 23rd, 2015, 3:06 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Educational Ethics
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9556
Re: Educational Ethics
Your statement "bring harm" is equivocal - bring spiritual harm? physical harm? Perhaps holding the snake and allowing each student, volunteer only, to come and touch the snake, as per potential physical agonistic reactions. The kid in question can watch through the classroom door. That would be edu...
- January 23rd, 2015, 2:42 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: 2015 Officer List
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1946
Re: 2015 Officer List
Noah
I volunteered myself as Vice President
Jeff
I volunteered myself as Vice President
Jeff
- January 5th, 2015, 5:37 pm
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: The Better Guide?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4455
Re: The Better Guide?
In addition to Jerry's comments -- I have both in hand, and have never been anywhere near that part of the world. Thus, with some objectivitiy: 1- Lee has range maps for each species, Campbell has none 2- Lee covers all of the Yucatan, Campbell only the southern base 3- Lee uses excellent ink drawin...
- December 23rd, 2014, 3:21 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Peepers calling yet? LA, TX, AR.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1949
Re: Peepers calling yet? LA, TX, AR.
Peepers really going around Baton Rouge as of this afternoon, with more rain coming.
- December 14th, 2014, 8:23 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Peepers calling yet? LA, TX, AR.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1949
Re: Peepers calling yet? LA, TX, AR.
Nick
No rain in the southern half of LA for two weeks, and none forecast. The northern half of LA has gotten some light showers, but probably just the sort that gets the soil damp.
Jeff
No rain in the southern half of LA for two weeks, and none forecast. The northern half of LA has gotten some light showers, but probably just the sort that gets the soil damp.
Jeff
- December 13th, 2014, 2:11 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Pa Timber at its finest.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3326
Re: Pa Timber at its finest.
That's a very unique picture, and looks precarious as well! It reminds me of rock rattlesnake habitat at the top of the reef in Carr Canyon in the Huachucas.
Jeff
Jeff
- December 10th, 2014, 6:20 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Always check those roadkills!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5809
Re: Always check those roadkills!
John Presumably the isolated gulf coast populations of green snakes, 13-lined ground squirrels, and ring-necked snakes are derived from populations to the north. I say that because there are no populations nearby in the other directions. I've never seen those species depicted from the gulf populatio...
- December 6th, 2014, 5:52 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Always check those roadkills!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5809
Re: Always check those roadkills!
Chris That garter snake is a spectacular find. Thamnopis sirtalis was the topic of my dissertation, but I was not able to cover the Texas coast populations. They are not assignable to current subspecies, and there is no connection between them and T. s. annectens or T. s. sirtalis. Yours matches the...
- December 1st, 2014, 6:07 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Florida Herping 1950's trip
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1806
Re: Florida Herping 1950's trip
Dear Failedherper I guess we need an "attempted satire" alert (emoticon, please!). Neither Hubbs nor I were much out of diapers in the 50s. Also need a "waiting for the point" emoticon.... Scott.... anybody? Nevermind, got it :sleep: There are some true 1950s Florida field trip accounts in old local...
- November 21st, 2014, 4:37 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Herp collecting surveys
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9180
Re: Herp collecting surveys
Yuesam Can you tell us what country or organization you were associated with during your negative experience? Bryan, Cappy, Jerry, mfb and Bill M have countered with the modern explanations about why additional animals are collected, and I will try not to repeat their experienced responses. The mean...
- November 7th, 2014, 5:29 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A Dream Come True in Borneo!
- Replies: 33
- Views: 16249
Re: A Dream Come True in Borneo!
Ditto on the Wows! Your photo says much more about the species than published photos of dead or limply dying specimens. For example, at the midbody it is evident that the snake is extending its ribs outward, evidently to grip the rock. And if that is its typical habitat, the rib clutch is well suite...
- November 1st, 2014, 4:37 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: November Species List
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2668
Re: November Species List
Sorry Jeff Cricket frogs can be tough, even with a piece of note paper and pencil in my shirt pocket. One day along the sandy shore of the Comite there were seemingly 5-10 juveniles leaping at every step, and some would jump over each other, some landing ahead, perhaps to be counted again. To furth...
- October 31st, 2014, 5:47 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Sometimes it pays to stop and watch a Uta.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3097
Re: Sometimes it pays to stop and watch a Uta.
Yes, DG Whiptailfrom what I can tell, it is a Desert Grassland Whiptail
- October 27th, 2014, 5:09 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Aspidoscelis septemvittata?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1740
Re: Aspidoscelis septemvittata?
Oh, yes, the thighs. I'm with the young tesselata ID.
Jeff
Jeff
- October 24th, 2014, 2:29 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: New Game-What is it?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2987
Re: New Game-What is it?
Kermit
No, he identified it as a puppetThat's close...at least you identified it as a frog...
- October 24th, 2014, 2:29 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: New Game-What is it?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1602
Re: New Game-What is it?
Kermit
No, he identified it as a puppetThat's close...at least you identified it as a frog...
- October 21st, 2014, 4:43 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Possible Hybird Wandering Gartersnake
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6365
Re: Possible Hybird Wandering Gartersnake
Brian There is nothing behind the eyes that indicates that it is anything but a Wandering Garter Snake. Clearly, the rostro-ocular area is messed up, probably pre-parturition. The snout is blunted, the iris is black, the rostral area is non-pigmented -- these are not characteristics of T. sirtalis. ...
- October 20th, 2014, 1:59 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Texas ID ?'s
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3061
Re: Texas ID ?'s
The water is N. erythrogaster - pattern clear in the underwater shot
First lizard is Sceloporus merriami
Spiny is S. magister/S.bimaculosus, whatever you wish to call it
First whiptail is Asp. tessellatus
Second is A. septemvittatus
I'd be guessing on the rest....
Jeff
First lizard is Sceloporus merriami
Spiny is S. magister/S.bimaculosus, whatever you wish to call it
First whiptail is Asp. tessellatus
Second is A. septemvittatus
I'd be guessing on the rest....
Jeff
- October 19th, 2014, 4:59 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Ontario Herping & Nature Images 2013-14
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9205
Re: Ontario Herping & Nature Images 2013-14
a
They vary geographically and ontogenetically in spot size and density.
Jeff
They vary geographically and ontogenetically in spot size and density.
Jeff
- October 19th, 2014, 11:49 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Ontario Herping & Nature Images 2013-14
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9205
Re: Ontario Herping & Nature Images 2013-14
a
That blue-spotted salamander looks VERY much like a Slimy Salamander (even spotting, nasolabial protrusions, round tail, etc.). I know they aren't supposed to be in Ontario, so did you take the photo elsewhere?
Jeff
That blue-spotted salamander looks VERY much like a Slimy Salamander (even spotting, nasolabial protrusions, round tail, etc.). I know they aren't supposed to be in Ontario, so did you take the photo elsewhere?
Jeff
- October 6th, 2014, 6:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Completed goals of 2014
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4706
Re: Completed goals of 2014
Welcome, you are a herpetologist!Darn well I got one less lifer I guess... but hey I still got quite a few!
Jeff
- October 5th, 2014, 7:53 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: October Species list
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1581
Re: October Species list
That's a pretty good haul for this time of year, especially the marbled salamander plus 3 racers.
If you can count the TMTC, please do -- it makes a difference for trend analyses.
Jeff
If you can count the TMTC, please do -- it makes a difference for trend analyses.
Jeff