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- June 1st, 2015, 7:22 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A froggy night north of Houston
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2773
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, 3:20 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: BioBlitz 2013
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6611
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, 2:47 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Snake ID (Enhydris)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2624
Re: Bornean Snake ID (Enhydris)
It looks like Homalophis doriae, formerly Enhydris doriae.
Jeff
Jeff
- May 13th, 2015, 6:38 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: We've lost another great herpetologist
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3856
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, 7:39 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: My FIRST in situ photographs - POST YOURS
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12740
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, 5:50 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Western Pond Turtle endangered?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3653
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-2015-04-10/pdf/2015-07837.pdf Jeff
- April 3rd, 2015, 1:14 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Four Corners lizard ID
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1834
Re: Four Corners lizard ID
Second on Telegans
- April 1st, 2015, 7:58 pm
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: New Thailand Guide
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4080
New Thailand Guide
This just in... 314 pages, $40 paperback....
Jeff
Jeff
- March 16th, 2015, 3:34 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snakes and Agamids from South-east Asia - ID help
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2113
Re: Snakes and Agamids from South-east Asia - ID help
First lizard looks like Gonocephalus grandis
- March 16th, 2015, 3:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snakes and Agamids from South-east Asia - ID help
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2113
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, 7:00 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Translocation of snakes
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9373
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, 8:16 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The First 2 Months
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3900
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, 7:54 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Lunch break
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1799
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: 19697
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: 336240
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 wo...
- January 23rd, 2015, 2:42 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: 2015 Officer List
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2187
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: 5049
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: 2277
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: 2277
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: 3775
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: 6993
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: 6993
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: 2033
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 a...
- November 21st, 2014, 4:37 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Herp collecting surveys
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10040
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: 18972
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, 5:37 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: November Species List
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2981
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, 6:47 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Sometimes it pays to stop and watch a Uta.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3495
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, 6:09 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Aspidoscelis septemvittata?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2034
Re: Aspidoscelis septemvittata?
Oh, yes, the thighs. I'm with the young tesselata ID.
Jeff
Jeff
- October 24th, 2014, 3:29 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: New Game-What is it?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3337
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, 3:29 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: New Game-What is it?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1955
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, 5:43 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Possible Hybird Wandering Gartersnake
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7635
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, 2:59 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Texas ID ?'s
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3574
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, 5:59 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Ontario Herping & Nature Images 2013-14
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10638
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, 12:49 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Ontario Herping & Nature Images 2013-14
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10638
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, 7:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Completed goals of 2014
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5226
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, 8:53 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: October Species list
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1836
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
- October 5th, 2014, 8:05 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Utah 2014-Wrapping it up
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3244
Re: Utah 2014-Wrapping it up
Rye What a fantastic portfolio. I made several visits to Utah in the 1970s and 1980s, and your pictures inspired long lost memories. Your first photo of the painted turtle with the snowy mountains in the background reminded me of my first spring as a FS employee in the White Mountains of Arizona. I ...
- October 5th, 2014, 3:05 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Red-bellies in the South Bay area!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3653
Re: Red-bellies in the South Bay area!
Stevens Creek was not a place that I frequented (maybe twice), though I had some friends that spent time up there during the 1970s. In those days Stevens Creek was too far to bother by bike, so my associates (including Owen and El Garia) operated the three watersheds to the southeast. We spent a lot...
- October 4th, 2014, 11:17 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Red-bellies in the South Bay area!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3653
Red-bellies in the South Bay area!
After 20+ years of living around the Santa Clara Valley/Santa Cruz Mountains, I seem to have missed one species.... Red-bellied Newts (Taricha rivularis) - native breeding population in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Here are the title and a link... S. Reilly et al. Discovery of a new, disjunct populatio...
- October 3rd, 2014, 9:13 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Completed goals of 2014
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5226
Re: Completed goals of 2014
The canthus rostralis is the angled slope anterior to the eye between the top and side of the snout - something both of those salamanders have. Both can have a dark, longitudinal mark on the canthus, and spring salamanders may have a pale line. The markings in both species tend to change with age, a...
- October 2nd, 2014, 5:31 pm
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: New Open Journal (and website) on Meso-American herps
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3093
Re: New Open Journal (and website) on Meso-American herps
Chris
Thanks for posting this. It seemed that the old Sociedad de Herpetologicos Mexicanos site had died.
Jeff
Thanks for posting this. It seemed that the old Sociedad de Herpetologicos Mexicanos site had died.
Jeff
- October 2nd, 2014, 3:39 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Completed goals of 2014
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5226
Re: Completed goals of 2014
and I am one hundred percent sure that the red salamander is not a spring salamander I was with a herpetologist when I found it and she was the one who ided it I'm also a herpetologist, and I've seen larvae of both Have a look at these photos http://www.paherps.com/herps/salamanders/spring_salamand...
- October 1st, 2014, 5:08 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Completed goals of 2014
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5226
Re: Completed goals of 2014
Trip to Iowa: Goals achieved: Eastern Massassauga, Smooth Greensnake Goals missed: Fox Snake, Blanding's Turtle Down here: No Rainbow Snake yet, but it's still summer I had a very ambitious goal list for 2014 and I made a lot of progress Are you done for the year? Also, your Red Salamander looks a l...
- September 21st, 2014, 1:45 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo 2014
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6795
Re: Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo 2014
Tom
The mystery Dasypeltis looks like the orange form of D. atra, which occurs in the region from which you reported it.
Jeff
The mystery Dasypeltis looks like the orange form of D. atra, which occurs in the region from which you reported it.
Jeff
- September 9th, 2014, 6:58 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: AZ and NM, 12 days including the NAFHA meeting
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8317
Re: AZ and NM, 12 days including the NAFHA meeting
Andy Wow, fantastic assortment for a single trip. I've seen all of the species that you've shown, but only after numerous trips and living there during the 1970s-1980s. I enjoyed seeing places that I have not been to in 35 years. My great envy is the Spotted Skunk! I've seen badgers, fishers, hognos...
- September 8th, 2014, 4:15 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: South Africa 2013, part 2
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5938
Re: South Africa 2013, part 2
Kevin What a very informative and entertaining shift from China! I spent a good half-hour absorbing it. The sausage that ChrisH noted first looked like the biggest Megatyphlops schlegelii ever recorded. Jeff [As an aside your sandveld skink Nucras caesicaudata is a Rainbow Skink (Trachylepis margari...
- September 2nd, 2014, 6:24 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Weller's Doom
- Replies: 24
- Views: 15131
Re: Weller's Doom
I scanned a copy today for BS Brown, and can send the same via personal e-mail to PM.do you have the full citation to the Walker paper describing P. welleri?
Jeff
- September 2nd, 2014, 5:28 pm
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: There are books, and then there's Herp Canon
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9696
Re: There are books, and then there's Herp Canon
Sherbrooke has at least two horned lizard books. Correct. The newer one, 2003, has 160 pages, and is exceptional in detail and coverage.... http://books.google.com/books?id=sWe-cPzyviAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Sherbrooke+Horned+Lizards&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gF8GVJ6MCsvloATsgoDIBg&ved...
- September 2nd, 2014, 6:57 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Weller's Doom
- Replies: 24
- Views: 15131
Re: Weller's Doom
I have a copy of the original "Proceedings of the Junior Society of Natural History" in which Plethodon welleri was formally described by Charles Walker (dated July 31, 1931). It also contains a brief Memorium about Weller that provides no additional information from what has has been pres...
- August 29th, 2014, 6:46 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Weller's Doom
- Replies: 24
- Views: 15131
Re: Weller's Doom
If you fall to your death, you probably found the same spot. In Adler's "Contributions to the History of Herpetology Volume 2" it is stated that "...Weller's body was found lodged among boulders of rain-swollen Stonestack Creek." Supposedly, this would be at an elevation high eno...