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- December 10th, 2017, 10:16 am
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Thailand
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11873
Re: A Field Guide to the Reptiles of Thailand
New paperbacks are $42 from the publisher, but you can find them online for a little less (mine was $39). I don't know the hardback price, as Oxford Press offers it in paperback. Coming from Oxford, there were probably many printed, and Oxford has regular discount catalogs. Buying expensive hardback...
- November 4th, 2017, 5:14 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Sumatra frog ID
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2340
- November 1st, 2017, 11:01 am
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: Commercial harvest and export of snapping turtles
- Replies: 24
- Views: 27977
Re: Commercial harvest and export of snapping turtles
Is there a mechanism to propose changing the forms to better reflect the animals' source and therefore greatly improve management of the species (and others)? Seems like the farmers would be all about calling their respective Congressmen to help make it happen. Louisiana turtle farmers have been wo...
- October 31st, 2017, 6:39 am
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: Commercial harvest and export of snapping turtles
- Replies: 24
- Views: 27977
Re: Commercial harvest and export of snapping turtles
The reported numbers of wild-caught turtles that leave the United States are false due to reporting requirements on export forms. All farm-raised hatchling turtles that leave Louisiana, typically around a million per year, are required to be reported as "W" for wild-caught. The Federal exp...
- September 25th, 2017, 5:32 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Herpetologists - you can help save Nevada's reptiles
- Replies: 37
- Views: 16792
Re: Herpetologists - you can help save Nevada's reptiles
Regarding Zach's question: Wildlife enforcement tends to operate on directives from above about what agents should be looking for during a particular day, week, or season. When this new regulation takes effect, enforcement agents may be in warning mode (informing people that they encounter about the...
- September 25th, 2017, 2:12 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Herpetologists - you can help save Nevada's reptiles
- Replies: 37
- Views: 16792
- September 16th, 2017, 8:29 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Herpetologists - you can help save Nevada's reptiles
- Replies: 37
- Views: 16792
Re: Herpetologists - you can help save Nevada's reptiles
Kelly, Chris, Richard and Save Nevada: I am also curious about who is/are Save Nevada, but the link that was provided regarding the history of Nevada commercial take was neutral and informative. From the linked data it is apparent that a half dozen species are targeted for commercial take. From the ...
- September 14th, 2017, 5:59 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: San Francisco Garter Snake (LIFER)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6533
Re: San Francisco Garter Snake (LIFER)
Lou
Was that really in Santa Cruz County, or maybe San Mateo. There is one valid record from Santa Cruz County, and finding another would be very important toward understanding the distribution of SF Garters vs California Red-sided.
Jeff
Was that really in Santa Cruz County, or maybe San Mateo. There is one valid record from Santa Cruz County, and finding another would be very important toward understanding the distribution of SF Garters vs California Red-sided.
Jeff
- August 25th, 2017, 4:36 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Joint Herping Post: Michigan
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4308
Re: Joint Herping Post: Michigan
Bethany Good see an old young face back on the Forum. This is a great tour of a place that I've never been, and I am always interested in posts from the non-usual places. It is intriguing to see animals at the margins of their geographic/climatic tolerance. What does a hog-nosed snake do during a su...
- August 15th, 2017, 5:42 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Gartersnake swallowing a green frog
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4105
Re: Gartersnake swallowing a green frog
I've lived in Baton Rouge for 25 years, but came here from California and other parts west, including western Washington (not Seattle).What part of Louisiana are you from. My family is from South Plaquemines, but I grew up in Chalmette
Jeff
- August 14th, 2017, 7:12 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Gartersnake swallowing a green frog
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4105
Re: Gartersnake swallowing a green frog
Exhibit A: One of the sad sounds of the Louisiana swamp is the scream of small Rana clamitans being swallowed feet-first by Western Ribbon Snakes.
Evidently it is not restricted to the South.
Jeff
Evidently it is not restricted to the South.
Jeff
- August 14th, 2017, 6:07 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Arizona Part 1.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8526
Re: Arizona Part 1.
The patchnose is a Big Bend. Mountains have a single, wide black stripe on each side:
- August 1st, 2017, 5:15 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Florida hot grand slam in 4.5 days
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8217
Re: Florida hot grand slam in 4.5 days
Nice job Kris. The photographic backdrops in some are great - so difficult to achieve in the shadowy east.
If the incerts reflect the new potential for Scott's photo hosting, then let me be the first to congratulate Scott on making this option available.
Jeff
If the incerts reflect the new potential for Scott's photo hosting, then let me be the first to congratulate Scott on making this option available.
Jeff
- July 23rd, 2017, 6:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Marbled salamander (Ambystoma opacum) progression from larva
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8255
Re: Marbled salamander (Ambystoma opacum) progression from l
Ah, much better.
I anxiously await your posts on A. talpoideum, A. texanum and A. maculatum.
Jeff
I anxiously await your posts on A. talpoideum, A. texanum and A. maculatum.
Jeff
- July 23rd, 2017, 1:15 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Marbled salamander (Ambystoma opacum) progression from larva
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8255
Re: Marbled salamander (Ambystoma opacum) progression from l
This is great for those of us in the land of 4 Ambystomas, but photos 3 and 4 have disappeared.
Jeff
Jeff
- July 21st, 2017, 5:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: turtle ID request
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3595
Re: turtle ID request
Old male Red-eared Slider.
Jeff
Jeff
- July 19th, 2017, 8:07 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Of mountains, lakes and human fish - Slovenian vacation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4225
Re: Of mountains, lakes and human fish - Slovenian vacation
Yours was a very nice travelogue to a place that most of us will never see. Combining scenic photographs with the animals allows viewers to see, in a two-dimensional sense, what was certainly a very memorable trip. Pelias basking on a rock in a stream! The offhand remark that you left the family in ...
- July 8th, 2017, 5:35 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Question: What is the etymology of the word oreganus
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4555
Re: Question: What is the etymology of the word oreganus
Holbrook's original description of Crotalus oreganus was spelled thus in the first edition of his "North American Herpetology", 4th part of 1840. In his second edition (1842), he spelled the name Crotalus oregonus. In both editions he stated "...the celebrated naturalist Mr. Nuttall, ...
- July 6th, 2017, 6:38 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Documenting my Life List
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14047
Re: Documenting my Life List
Just checked with my wife of 28 years -- was not the big life list.....Have any of you guys ever picked up a lady by embellishing your life list?
- July 1st, 2017, 11:30 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Documenting my Life List
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14047
Re: Documenting my Life List
Sorry, 459 U.S. species, natives only, first one logged in 1964.And still only two people posted their life totals
Jeff
- June 28th, 2017, 5:07 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Checking my boards - 1st half of 2017 (NJ + MD)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7839
Re: Checking my boards - 1st half of 2017 (NJ + MD)
That was an enjoyable tour of a part of the country that I have not explored. Snow in March - ugh! There are 5 mole king records for Louisiana, and none by me. I wouldn't want to ruin the thrill of the catch by finding two in a trash dump, or would I? Nevermind, I'll take one in a trash dump over 0 ...
- June 28th, 2017, 4:26 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Mojave Springtime
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5094
Re: Mojave Springtime
That first uta picture is also superb, much closer in detail than most of us ever took a second look. America's most underrated feeder lizard.
Jeff
Jeff
- June 25th, 2017, 3:32 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Visual Guide to Tadpoles and Morphs of the Eastern U.S.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 15028
Re: Visual Guide to Tadpoles and Morphs of the Eastern U.S.
I just looked at this fantastic resource - great work! Hopefully it can be stuck on fhf in a permanent format.
If not, perhaps an edited version of this post could be placed on www.amphibiaweb.org or separc.org
Jeff
If not, perhaps an edited version of this post could be placed on www.amphibiaweb.org or separc.org
Jeff
- June 24th, 2017, 9:57 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: One-eyed Tadpole
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2945
Re: One-eyed Tadpole
Nice diagnostic photo in the middle.
Slow month in Florida?
Jeff
Slow month in Florida?
Jeff
- June 24th, 2017, 6:00 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Documenting my Life List
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14047
Re: Documenting my Life List
you gotta take a photo or it don't count Brian seems to have missed the gold standard - you gotta pickle it for it to count. Most of the folks that I know, casual field types to academics, don't think about life lists. Most of the field-oriented folks focus on finding certain taxa, such as snakes t...
- June 23rd, 2017, 3:39 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Road cruising question...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3232
Re: Road cruising question...
The Mojave can get very snake-less during the summer, whereas portions of the Sonoran Desert wake up as humidity rises in July and August from adjacent monsoon activity. I analyzed my snake counts during moon phase in the non-monsoon road cruises and found that activity of some species (glossy, long...
- June 20th, 2017, 11:09 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Peterson FIeld Guide to Reptiles & Amphibians 2016
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3504
Re: Peterson FIeld Guide to Reptiles & Amphibians 2016
Most complaints will be attributed to the publisher: smaller illustrations are due to the colored border to each plate, very uneven map sizes, and loss of most of the natural history to maintain standard pagination. I also like the maps, and because Bob asked me to review those for Louisiana, I have...
- June 5th, 2017, 7:26 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Reccomendations for pygmies
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6515
Re: Reccomendations for pygmies
Gulf Coast pygmies this time of year: They are going to be in the most deer-fly-infested places. If the flies are so bad that you risk life by leaving the car, then you are in pygmy heaven. This is not a joke.
Jeff
Jeff
- May 30th, 2017, 5:56 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Big Bend - Species Confirmation Support
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1836
Re: Big Bend - Species Confirmation Support
A nice haul.
Regarding IDs, all look correct, except the glossy is a Great Plains Rat Snake (Pantherophis emoryi).
Jeff
Regarding IDs, all look correct, except the glossy is a Great Plains Rat Snake (Pantherophis emoryi).
Jeff
- May 29th, 2017, 9:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: QUESTION: Does Your State Ban Road Cruising?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 18237
Re: QUESTION: Does Your State Ban Road Cruising?
Not prohibited in Louisiana
RS56.632-637
RS76.XV.100
RS56.632-637
RS76.XV.100
- May 29th, 2017, 9:17 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Patternless N.e. transversa?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3329
Re: Patternless N.e. transversa?
It's a Cottonmouth
- January 12th, 2017, 7:13 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Louisianna and/or East Texas this weekend; last minute trip
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5364
Re: Louisianna and/or East Texas this weekend; last minute t
The past few days, and next week, are lows in the 60s, highs in the mid 70s for southern Louisiana - shirt is optional. I could show you some spots. Otherwise, look for bottomland hardwood forest and look for trash dumps.
Jeff
Jeff
- January 11th, 2017, 5:13 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Hooked on 2016. La,Tx,NM, Yucatan. EOY
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10861
Re: Hooked on 2016. La,Tx,NM, Yucatan. EOY
BTW, your pics leave to the imagination an endless possibility of enticing and gripping tales of wonderful finds and field experiences!! Like the number of mosquito bites fielded while waiting for the retinue to set up and arrange the camera/flash studio in preparation for R-Man to spend 15 minutes...
- January 8th, 2017, 4:58 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Hooked on 2016. La,Tx,NM, Yucatan. EOY
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10861
Re: Hooked on 2016. La,Tx,NM, Yucatan. EOY
Armin
It appears that all of your commentary was deleted.
Jeff
It appears that all of your commentary was deleted.
Jeff
- January 1st, 2017, 1:10 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: It's been awhile! Year end review 2016 (CA, TX, AZ, and MX)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6874
- December 21st, 2016, 4:42 pm
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: Lifetime Reproduction in a Northern Metapopulation of Timber
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10884
Re: Lifetime Reproduction in a Northern Metapopulation of Ti
That is a very rare career indeed -- someone who has devoted over 30 years to study a snake population. Brown is definitely from the Henry Fitch school of autecological, perpetual inquiry. I was very surprised by the length to maturity, and then the infrequency of reproduction, in which a long-lived...
- December 11th, 2016, 4:04 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Sweet '16: Year in Review (TX, LA, NM, UT, MT)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13902
Re: Sweet '16: Year in Review (TX, LA, NM, UT, MT)
an'allota milks at that!
- December 11th, 2016, 11:25 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: One Day in Seattle
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7000
Re: One Day in Seattle
The second garter is a Northwestern (blunt head, big eye, and one of the dozens of usual color morphs, also 17 scale rows).
Jeff
Jeff
- December 10th, 2016, 3:15 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Calotes bachae
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5463
Re: Calotes bachae
Evgeny
No photos, but here are links --
http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/fauna/ search Sceloporus formosus and Sceloporus malachiticus
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2040886
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3838237
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3740293
Jeff
No photos, but here are links --
http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/fauna/ search Sceloporus formosus and Sceloporus malachiticus
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2040886
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3838237
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3740293
Jeff
- December 9th, 2016, 4:46 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Calotes bachae
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5463
Re: Calotes bachae
Evgeny
Those are spectacular male colors. They seem to be mirrored in North America by members of the Sceloporus formosus group - bright blue and green males and gray females with transverse markings, and I suppose also with African Agama agama.
Jeff
Those are spectacular male colors. They seem to be mirrored in North America by members of the Sceloporus formosus group - bright blue and green males and gray females with transverse markings, and I suppose also with African Agama agama.
Jeff
- December 8th, 2016, 9:22 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Sulawesi snake ID help!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4912
Re: Sulawesi snake ID help!
I'll stick with Rhabdophis chrysargoides.
Jeff
Jeff
- December 7th, 2016, 4:03 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Vipera berus nikolskii
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4198
Re: Vipera berus nikolskii
Evgeny
The black morph really contrasts the red eyes.
Do you have a picture of the habitat?
Jeff
The black morph really contrasts the red eyes.
Do you have a picture of the habitat?
Jeff
- December 7th, 2016, 1:35 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Sulawesi snake ID help!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4912
Re: Sulawesi snake ID help!
Guess #1 on snake is Rhabdophis chrysargoides
#2 Xenochrophis trianguligerus
But like Paul said - other shots?
Jeff
#2 Xenochrophis trianguligerus
But like Paul said - other shots?
Jeff
- November 24th, 2016, 8:11 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Sierra Leone RFI
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4168
Re: Sierra Leone RFI
What to "be on the lookout for" is a question of many avenues.
Look out for house geckos, because they will defecate on you from the ceiling of your lodging. They will do this at night while you are sleeping on the "three seasons" mattress -- the one that lacks Springs.
Look out for house geckos, because they will defecate on you from the ceiling of your lodging. They will do this at night while you are sleeping on the "three seasons" mattress -- the one that lacks Springs.
- November 18th, 2016, 1:13 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Salamanders.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6381
Re: Salamanders.
Indeed, a very nice selection of salamanders, all nicely presented.
I've seen almost half of the U.S. species, so maybe I could get beyond the 50-yard line with a trip north to my neighbor state.
Jeff
I've seen almost half of the U.S. species, so maybe I could get beyond the 50-yard line with a trip north to my neighbor state.
Jeff
Re: Turtle
Looks like a Scorpion Mud Turtle (Kinosternon scorpioides).
- November 10th, 2016, 6:31 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: New to the forum currently in Panama (snake Id please)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3400
Re: New to the forum currently in Panama (snake Id please)
I second Paul's ID as L. rubricata.
- October 1st, 2016, 7:05 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Locality Bull Snake
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5740
Re: Locality Bull Snake
By strange coincidence I traveled through that country a month ago for the first time in my life, in a general trajectory from Louisiana to Oregon. Timing from Baton Rouge had me in Hartley County just after dark, with lightning flashes to the the west. I saw one snake, several miles to the east of ...
- September 30th, 2016, 5:49 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Amphibians and Reptiles of Land Between the Lakes...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3667
Re: Amphibians and Reptiles of Land Between the Lakes...
Looks like a stack of free copies...
- September 29th, 2016, 7:56 pm
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: A great Herpetoculture resource from a noted Dutchman
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16403
Re: A great Herpetoculture resource from a noted Dutchman
I have reviewed a number of books for Herp Review, and understand that the invited reviewer must have some knowledge of the topic, and provide a vicariant summary of the work for HR readers. The reviewer may have particular views that are objective (someone of Indian descent who is picky about Bangl...