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Herpetological Review 45(3), 2014

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GYMNOPHIONA — CAECILIANS

CAECILIA SUBNIGRICANS (Magdalena Valley Caecilian). CO-LOMBIA: DEPARTAMENTO DE NORTE DE SANTANDER: El Ce-jal creek, about 32.3 km NW of municipality of Toledo (7.16547°N, 72.22698°W; datum WGS 84), 800 m elev. 12 March 2011. A. Ace-vedo, R. Franco, and K. Silva. Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Uni-versity of Pamplona, Pamplona, Colombia (MCNUP-170). Veri-fied by J. D. Lynch. Species known from Venezuela (east of the Maracaibo Lake basin, Barinas and Táchira states; Barrio Amorós 2004. Rev. Ecol. Lat. Am. 9[3]:1–48), and from Colombia (Valle del Cauca, Nariño, Risaralda, Tolima, Bolivar, Magdalena, Cordoba, and Sucre states; Lynch 1999. Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. 23:317–337; Acosta-Galvis 2000. Biota Colombiana 1[3]:289–319). First department record, and first from eastern flank of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia, border with Venezuela; extends the known distribution approximately 350 km SE from the Colombi-an Caribbean region in Sucre state and approximately 450 km NE from the Colombian Central Cordillera in Tolima state. For Ven-ezuela, this new record is about 105 km to the SW of the nearest locality in Tachira State (Uribante river). The new record partially fills the distributional gap between Colombia and Venezuela.

ALDEMAR A. ACEVEDO (e-mail: [email protected]), ROSMERY FRANCO, and KAREN SILVA, Km 1 vía Bucaramanga, Universidad de Pam-plona, Edificio Camilo Daza, Laboratorio de Ecología y Biogeografía CD-209, Pamplona, Norte de Santander, Colombia.

CAUDATA — SALAMANDERS

AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM (Eastern Tiger Salamander). USA: OHIO: seneCa Co.: Adult male found AOR on the E side of Coun-ty Rd. 57 (County Rd. 57 is along the boundary between Sene-ca Co. and Hancock Co.), 10.6 km NNW of Carey (41.04354°N, 83.42046°W; WGS 84). 07 April 2014. S. Graham and C. Kelehear. Verified by David Laurencio. AUM AHAP-D 789 (digital photo voucher). New county record (Davis et al. 2013. Amphibians of Ohio. Ohio Biol. Survey Bul. 17:1–899).

SEAN P. GRAHAM, Department of Biology, University of Findlay, 1000 N. Main St., Findlay, Ohio 45840, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); CRYS-TAL KELEHEAR, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Cam-perdown, New South Wales, Australia (e-mail: [email protected]).

CRYPTOBRANCHUS ALLEGANIENSIS ALLEGANIENSIS (East-ern Hellbender). USA: TENNESSEE: JaCkson Co.: Cordell Hull Res-ervoir at Cumberland River Mile 342 (36.329025°N, 85.766187°W; NAD 1983). 17 May 2014. John M. McCord, Wesley J. Fox. Verified by A. Floyd Scott. Austin Peay State University Museum of Zool-ogy (APSU 19495, 19496, color photos). New county record (Red-mond and Scott 1996. Atlas of Amphibians in Tennessee. Misc. Publ. No. 12, The Center for Excellence in Field Biology, Austin

Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee. 94 pp. Internet ver-sion [http://apbrwww5.apsu.edu/amatlas/title.htm] accessed 22 May 2014; latest update 19 May 2014). Two adults measuring 38 cm and 43 cm, respectively, were incidentally captured on a trotline anchored to the riverbed and baited with chicken breast, chicken liver, and live minnows for catfish. Capture site was a deep (12–17 m) section of the main river channel along a steep rock bluff with mud substrate. Specimens were measured, pho-tographed, and immediately released at the capture site.

JOHN M. McCORD, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, Cookeville, Tennessee 38501, USA; e-mail: [email protected].

EURYCEA GUTTOLINEATA (Three-lined Salamander). USA: GEORGIA: Floyd Co.: Unnamed spring adjacent to Morrison Campground (34.2758°N, 93.4175°W; WGS 84). 7 June 2000. N. Burkhead, R. Lewis, and C. Skelton. Verified by John Jensen. Georgia Museum of Natural History (GMNH 50654–50656). New county record (Jensen et al. 2008. Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia. University of Georgia Press, Athens. 575 pp). Three adults were electroshocked out of thick beds of watercress dur-ing a fish survey. In this part of the state, the ranges of E. guttolin-eata and E. longicauda interdigitate and are not well-established, increasing the importance of this documented occurrence.

TODD PIERSON, Environmental Health Science, University of Geor-gia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); ADAM G. CLAUSE, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); TROY J. KIERAN, Environmental Health Science, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); NIKOLE CASTLE-BERRY, Georgia Museum of Natural History, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

MERTENSIELLA CAUCASICA (Caucasian Salamander). GEOR-GIA: IMERETI REGION: bagdaTi disTriCT: Mount Didmaghali (= Didmaghala) (41.841943°N, 42.806339°E), 1800 and 2000 m elev. 24–25 June 2012. D. Bekoshvili. Two adult salamanders were found in mixed forest of beech and conifer near an area with mixed woodlands and subalpine habitat. This is a new local-ity in Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park and for Imereti Region. GURIA REGION: Ozurgeti District: Mount Gomismta (= Gomi) (41.841708°N, 42.137594°E), 1480 m elev. 17 May 2012. D. Beko-shvili. One adult salamander found in the broad-leaved beech-dominated forest. This new locality is situated at the extreme northern limit of the species distribution (Kuzmin 2012. The Amphibians of the Former Soviet Union. Second ed., revised. Moscow. 370 pp.). Ongoing development of tourism in this area threatens to destroy habitats of these salamanders listed in the IUCN Red List (Conservation status – Vulnerable, IUCN 3.1). All specimens were verified by N. B. Ananjeva.

DAVID BEKOSHVILI, Laboratory of Vertebrate Animals Zoology, Insti-tute of Zoology, Ilia State University, Cholokashvili ave., 3/5, 0162 Tbilisi,

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Georgia (e-mail: [email protected]); IGOR V. DORONIN, Department of Her-petology, Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Peters-burg 199034, Russia (e-mail: [email protected]).

NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS (Eastern Newt). USA: INDIANA: sullivan Co.: Minnehaha Fish and Wildlife Area (39.097353°N, 87.327778°W; NAD 83). 21 May 2014. Sarabeth Klueh-Mundy and Jason Mirtl. Verified by Chris Phillips. Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS 2014b). New county record for In-diana (Minton 2001. Amphibians and Reptiles of Indiana. 2nd ed., revised. Indiana Academy of Science. vii + 404 pp.).

SARABETH KLUEH-MUNDY (mail: [email protected]), and JASON MIRTL, Wildlife Diversity Section, Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Fish and Wildlife, 5596 East State Road 46, Blooming-ton, Indiana 47401, USA.

NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS (Eastern Newt). USA: TENNESSEE: lawrenCe Co.: 106 Hunter Road, Summertown (35.38856°N, 87.39657°W; WGS 84). 16 June 2013. Kayla Clark and Nicole Foster. Verified by A. Floyd Scott. Austin Peay State Uni-versity (APSU 19487). New county record (Scott. and Redmond 2008 [latest update: 18 February 2014]. Atlas of Amphibians in Tennessee. The Center for Field Biology, Austin Peay State Uni-versity, Clarksville, Tennessee. Available at http://apsu.edu/am-atlas/, accessed 20 April 2014).

KAYLA CLARK (e-mail: [email protected]), and NICOLE FOSTER, Department of Biology, Columbia State Community College, Co-lumbia, Tennessee 38401, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

ANURA — FROGS

CRAUGASTOR AUGUSTI (Barking Frog). MÉXICO: AGUASCALI-ENTES: muniCiPaliTy oF el llano: Cerro Juan Grande (21.931731°N, 101.918010°W; WGS84), 2265 m elev. 18 May 2013. Rubén A. Car-bajal Márquez, Gustavo E. Quintero-Díaz. Verified by Bradford Hollingsworth. SDSNH HerpPC 05220. First municipality record, which bridges about a 71-km gap between northwestern popu-lations in the Sierra Fría, Aguascalientes and southeastern popu-lation 76 airline km N of Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco (Vázquez-Díaz and Quintero-Díaz 2005. Anfibios y Reptiles de Aguascalientes, 2nd ed. CONABIO y CIEMA, México. 318 pp.; HerpNET 2013). The frog was found within a rock crevice in a ravine covered by xerophytic vegetation and oak forest.

RUBÉN ALONSO CARBAJAL-MÁRQUEZ, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, Instituto Politécnico Nacional No.195 Col. Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, C.P. 23096, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México (e-mail: [email protected]); GUSTAVO E. QUINTERO-DÍAZ (e-mail: [email protected]), CHRISTIAN MARTIN GARCÍA-BALDERAS, ANA GISEL PÉREZ-DELGADILLO, and RARAMURI REYES-ARDIT, Uni-versidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Centro de Ciencias Básicas, Depar-tamento de Biología, Avenida Universidad No. 940, Aguascalientes, Aguas-calientes 20131, México.

CRAUGASTOR AUGUSTI (Barking Frog). MÉXICO: JALISCO: muniCiPaliTy oF oJuelos de JalisCo: ca. 1.8 km (airline) W from Las Negritas, Asientos, Aguascalientes (21.986518°N, 101.896406°W; WGS84), 2173 m elev. 15 June 2013. Rubén A. Carbajal Márquez, Christian M. García Balderas, Ana Gisel Perez Delgadillo. Verified by Bradford Hollingsworth. SDSNH HerpPC 05221. First munici-pality record, extending the range ca. 6.5 airline km NNE from the closest locality at Cerro Juan Grande, El Llano, Aguascali-entes, México (SDSNH HerpPC 05220; Carbajal-Márquez et al.

2014. Herpetol. Rev. 45[3]:457). The frog was found within a rock crevice on a hill slope covered with xerophytic vegetation.

RUBÉN ALONSO CARBAJAL-MÁRQUEZ, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, Instituto Politécnico Nacional No.195, Col. Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, C.P. 23096, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México (e-mail: [email protected]); GUSTAVO E. QUINTERO-DÍAZ (e-mail: [email protected]), CHRISTIAN MARTIN GARCÍA-BALDERAS, ANA GISEL PÉREZ-DELGADILLO, and RARAMURI REYES-ARDIT, Uni-versidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Centro de Ciencias Básicas, Depar-tamento de Biología, Avenida Universidad No. 940, Aguascalientes, Aguas-calientes 20131, México.

CRAUGASTOR OCCIDENTALIS (Taylor’s Barking Frog). MÉXI-CO: AGUASCALIENTES: muniCiPaliTy oF Calvillo: Sierra El Lau-rel, 4.3 km SE of Jaltiche de Arriba (21.738502°N, 102.772345°W; WGS84), 1913 m elev. 17 May 2011. Gustavo E. Quintero Díaz and Carolina Chávez Floriano. Verified by Luis Canseco Márquez. UAA-CV 0356. First record for Aguascalientes, extending the dis-tributional range of the species ca. 57.2 airline km NE from the closest known locality in the Sierra Morones, 7.74 km WSW of Juchipila, Zacatecas (Arenas-Monroy et al. 2012. Herpetol. Rev. 43:298). The frog was found on the banks of a stream in riparian forest surrounded by oak forest. Its occurrence in Aguascalientes was expected based on habitat similarities with the nearest pre-viously reported sites, all of which are probably influenced by the presence of Juchipila Canyon, a dispersal corridor whose water-shed system has allowed tropical biota to disperse upward into highland areas (Baker et al. 1967. Amer. Midl. Nat. 77:223–226).

GUSTAVO ERNESTO QUINTERO-DÍAZ, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Centro de Ciencias Básicas, Departamento de Biología, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes. México. 20131 (e-mail: [email protected]); CAROLINA CHÁVEZ-FLORIANO, Conservación de la Biodi-versidad del Centro de México A. C. Andador Torre de Marfil No. 100, Fracc-ionamiento Las Torres, C.P. 20229, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México; RUBÉN ALONSO CARBAJAL-MÁRQUEZ, Centro de Investigaciones Bi-ológicas del Noroeste, Mar Bermejo #195 Col. Playa Palo de Santa Rita, C.P. 23090, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México.

ELEUTHERODACTYLUS CYSTIGNATHOIDES (Rio Grande Chirping Frog). USA: TEXAS: Comal Co.: intersection of Ash-more St. and Guada Coma Dr. in New Braunfels (29.70002°N, 98.11390°W; WGS84). 10 October 2013. J. Eric Lee. Verified by Travis LaDuc. TNHC 89687. New county record (Dixon 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas: with Keys, Taxonomic Synop-ses, Bibliography, and Distribution Maps, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas. 447 pp.). Several frogs were heard chorusing, with a single adult being captured by hand. Frogs were located in residential brush piles and gardens ~ 90–100 m from the Guadalupe River.

J. ERIC LEE, Balcones Wildlife Management, New Braunfels, Texas 78130, USA; e-mail: [email protected].

ELEUTHERODACTYLUS CYSTIGNATHOIDES (Rio Grande Chirping Frog). USA: TEXAS: guadaluPe Co.: Sidenberger Property, 3.01 km SSE of jct Hwy 90 and Eden Rd. (29.540868°N, 97.867830°W; WGS 84). 30 July 2013. Drew T. Harvey. Verified by Travis J. LaDuc, Texas Natural History Collections (TNHC 85870). A single speci-men was observed under lights and captured by hand, represent-ing the first recorded occurrence of this species in Guadalupe Co. (Dixon 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas: with Keys, Taxo-nomic Synopses, Bibliography, and Distribution Maps. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas. 447 pp.).



Multiple individuals were also heard calling along the moist sloping ridge into a pecan bottom running along the Guadalupe River. We suspect this is a range expansion of the Rio Grande Chirping Frog given there were no south Texas plants, exotic to this region, in the area where the specimen was found.

DREW T. HARVEY (e-mail: [email protected]), DOMINIC L. DE-SANTIS, ROMEY L. SWANSON, and THOMAS R. SIMPSON, Department of Biology, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666, USA.

ELEUTHERODACTYLUS PLANIROSTRIS (Greenhouse Frog). USA: FLORIDA: gilCHrisT Co.: Trenton, 250 m NNE from the intersection of SE 25th Ave and SE 100th St (29.594233°N, 82.763778°W; WGS 84). 02 February 2010. Cody G. Godwin. Veri-fied by Kenneth L. Krysko. Florida Museum of Natural History (UF 157499). New county record (Krysko et al. 2011. Atlas of Am-phibians and Reptiles in Florida. Final Report, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida. 524 pp.) Found in a hole in a live oak (Quercus virginiana) ca. 3.6 m above ground.

This small anuran (typically 16–32 mm SVL) is native to Cuba. It is one of the earliest recorded non-native species in Florida and is a common resident in the state (Conant and Col-lins 1998. A Field Guide to Reptiles & Amphibians, Eastern and Central North America. 3rd ed., expanded. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, Massachusetts. 616 pp.). Eggs are typically laid in moist leaf litter and soils. An aquatic larval phase is skipped and the egg develops directly into a juvenile frog. This allows them to be stowaways in ornamental plants.

CODY D. GODWIN, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32606, USA; e-mail: [email protected].

ELEUTHERODACTYLUS PLANIROSTRIS (Greenhouse Frog). USA: MISSISSIPPI: JaCkson Co.: University of Southern Mississip-pi’s Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL), 759 E Beach Drive, Ocean Springs (30.39428°N, 88.79693°W; WGS 84). 14 May 2014. Jennifer Y. Lamb and Matthew W. H. Chatfield. Verified by Robert L. Jones. Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (MMNS 19383, 23.3 mm SVL; MMNS 19384, 18.0 mm). New county record (Me-shaka Jr. 2005. In M. Lannoo [ed.], Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species, pp. 499–500. Univ. California Press, Berkeley; R. L. Jones, pers. comm.).

Closest known locality is ca. 17 miles W in Gulfport, Harri-son Co., Mississippi (MMNS 9274–9276). The USGS Nonindig-enous Aquatic Species Database has an unconfirmed record for E. planirostris from Jackson Co., but the locality is unspecified (Somma 2014. Eleutherodactylus planirostris. USGS Nonindig-enous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, Florida. http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.aspx?speciesID=61, Revision date: 1 Nov. 2011).

Two individuals were found and collected at GCRL from be-neath an assortment of cover objects at night after heavy rains. The larger of the vouchers is a gravid female, but we did not hear calling males on the premises. These specimens were collected under Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks Permit 0422131.

JENNIFER Y. LAMB, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); MATTHEW W. H. CHATFIELD, Tulane-Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

HUMERANA HUMERALIS (Bhamo Frog). BANGLADESH: RANGPUR DISTRICT: New Adarsha Para, Rangpur City (25.738652°N, 89.25375°E, WGS 84; 32 m elev.). 14 October 2013. Hassan-Al-Razi. Adult near small waterbody. Museum of Zool-ogy, Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (JnU/ZooM/Amp/2013/0003). Verified by Kaushik Deuti. Previously recorded from Kabongpuria, Khagrachari, Baghaichari, Rangamati, and Reme Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary, NE Bangladesh (Kabir et al. 2009. Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh. Vol. 25. Amphibians and Reptiles. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dha-ka. 204 pp.). Record represents range extension of 405 km N of Khagrachari, 454 km N of Rangamati District, and 298 km NE of Reme Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary. Habitat was Cynodon dactylon and Enhydra fluetuans plantations.

HASSAN-AL-RAZI (e-mail: [email protected]), MOHAMMAD ABDUL BAKI (e-mail: [email protected]), and SHAYER MAHMOOD IB-NEY ALAM, Department of Zoology, Jagannath University, Dhaka 1100, Bangladesh (e-mail: [email protected]).

LITHOBATES (= RANA) AREOLATUS (CRAWFISH FROG). USA: TEXAS: DelTa Co.: Highway 198 (33.45199°N, 95.61932°W; WGS84). 24 March 2010, AOR at 2023 h. C. Roelke and J. Streich-er. Verified by Carl Franklin. The University of Texas at Arlington Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center Collection (UTA A 60580). New county record (Dixon 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas with Keys, Taxonomic Synopses, Bibliography, and Distribution Maps. 3rd ed., Texas A&M University Press, Col-lege Station, Texas. 447 pp.).

COREY E. ROELKE, University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Biology, Box 19498, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); JEFFREY W. STREICHER, University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, P.O. Box 210088, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

NANORANA GAMMII (Gammii Frog). INDIA: SIKKIM: Fambong Lho Wildlife Sanctuary (27.2807°N, 88.50283°E, WGS 84; 1600 m elev.). 27 June 2012. Lily Alley. Verified by Annemarie Ohler. Arya Vidyapeeth College Museum (AVCM A1020–1021). Two adult males in fast-flowing stream, on moist boulder at 1915 h. Air temperature 18°C, relative humidity 99%. An additional speci-men (AVCM A1022) from same stream (27.37048°N, 88.57445°E; 1600 m elev.) on drizzling night, 5 July 2012. Air temperature 17°C, relative humidity 80%. First record for Sikkim State, and ca. 40 km range extension NE from nearest known record (Darjeel-ing; Boulenger 1920. Rec. Indian Mus. 20:1–226).

LILY ALLEY, Government College Rhenock, Rhenock, 737 133, Sikkim, India (e-mail: [email protected]); SAIBAL SENGUPTA (e-mail: [email protected]), JAYADITYA PURKAYASTHA, Department of Zoology, Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati 781 016, Assam, India (e-mail: [email protected]).

PSEUDACRIS FERIARUM (Upland Chorus Frog). USA: GEOR-GIA: lamar Co.: Private residence on Grape Creek Road in Mil-ner (33.109666°N, 84.221003°W; WGS 84). 17 February 2014. M. J. Bender. Verified by Gregory D. Hartman. Gordon State College (GSC-065). New county record (Jensen et al. 2008. Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia. University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia. 575 pp., J. Jensen, pers. comm.). Species has been docu-mented in two adjoining counties. Found calling in ephemeral stream approximately one week after ice storm and hard freeze.

Specimen collected under a Georgia Department of Natural Resources Scientific Collections Permit (29-WJH-13-126).



MICHAEL J. BENDER, Gordon State College, 419 College Drive, Barnesville, Georgia 30204, USA; e-mail: [email protected].

PSEUDACRIS ORNATA (Ornate Chorus Frog). USA: FLORIDA: laFayeTTe Co.: Lafayette Forest Wildlife and Environmental Area (29.84207ºN, 82.99175ºW; WGS84). 19 February 2014. Anna L. Farmer. Verified by Kenneth L. Krysko. Florida Museum of Natu-ral History (UF 172551). New county record (Krysko et al. 2011. Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles in Florida. Final report, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Flori-da. 524 pp.). Collected two tadpoles while dipnetting a depres-sion marsh in mesic flatwoods habitat. Partially fills a ca. 100-km gap between records in Taylor Co. and records east of the Suwan-nee River.

ANNA L. FARMER, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commis-sion, 1105 S.W. Williston Road, Gainesville, Florida 32601, USA; e-mail: [email protected].

PSEUDACRIS STRECKERI (Strecker’s Chorus Frog). USA: TEX-AS: STePHens Co.: Adjacent to County Road 104 (32.6588283°N, 98.5904916°W; WGS84). 30 March 2014. C. Roelke. M. Moseley, E. Wostl, U. Smart, and M. Fontenot. Verified by Carl Franklin. The University of Texas at Arlington Amphibian and Reptile Di-versity Research Center Collection (UTA A 62595). New county record (Dixon 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas with Keys, Taxonomic Synopses, Bibliography, and Distribution Maps. 3rd ed., Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas. 447 pp.).

COREY E. ROELKE (e-mail: [email protected]), MATTHEW MOSELEY, ELIJAH WOSTL, and UTPAL SMART, University of Texas at Arlington, De-partment of Biology, Box 19498, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA; MALLORY L. FONTENOT, 1315 West Abram Street, Arlington, Texas 76013, USA.

SCINAX TRILINEATUS. BRAZIL: AMAPÁ: MuniciPality OF MacaPá: Experimental Field of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corpo-ration (0.384722°N, 51.033889°W; datum WGS84). 16 June 2011. C. E. Costa-Campos. Collection of the Universidade Federal do Amapá, Macapá, Brazil (CDLABZOO 00256, male SVL 18.9 mm, calling at 2035 h in a temporal pond. Verified by M. S. Hoog-moed. Scinax trilineatus was known from the savannas of El Manteco in Bolívar state, eastern Venezuela, southern Guyana, and Suriname, and from Brazil in the area surrounding Belém, Pará state (Hoogmoed and La Marca 2004. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, ver. 2013.2 [30 December 2013]. Electronic database accessible at http:// www.iucnredlist.org; Señaris and MacCulloch 2005. In Hollowell and Reynolds [eds.], Checklist of the Terrestrial Vertebrates of the Guiana Shield, pp. 9–23. Bull. Biol. Soc. Washington; Cole et al. 2013. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing-ton 125 [4]:317–578). First state record; fills a large distributional gap of 585 km from Suriname and 350 km NE from Belém, Pará state (M. Hoogmoed, pers. comm.).

Specimen collected under license ICMBio/SISBIO #18243-1.CARLOS E. COSTA-CAMPOS, Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departa-

mento de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Amapá, Campus Marco Zero, CEP 68903-419, Macapá, AP, Brazil; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicobiologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Centro de Biociências, Lagoa Nova, CEP 59072-970, Natal, RN, Brazil (e-mail: [email protected]); ELIZA M. VX. FREIRE, Laboratório de Herpetologia, Departamento de Botânica, Ecologia e Zoologia, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Uni-versitário Lagoa Nova, CEP 59072-970, Natal, RN, Brazil (e-mail: [email protected]).

TESTUDINES — TURTLES

APALONE MUTICA (Smooth Softshell). USA: MISSOURI: Perry Co.: Brazeau Township, near bank of Mississippi River, 10 m E of BNSF railroad and 0.5 km NW of Cottonwood Island (37.6117°N, 89.5169°W; WGS84). 2 July 2013. Andrew P. Braun and John West. Verified by Dustin S. Siegel. University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC 2392P). New county record (Edmond and Daniel 2014 [latest update: 18 February 2014]. Missouri Herpetological Atlas Project. Available at http://atlas.moherp.org/; accessed 4 June 2014). Male specimen, captured in fyke net.

ANDREW P. BRAUN (e-mail: [email protected]), and JOHN WEST, Big Rivers & Wetlands Field Station, Missouri Department of Conser-vation, Jackson, Missouri 63755, USA.

APALONE SPINIFERA (Spiny Softshell). USA: TENNESSEE: lewis Co.: Dan Maddox Lake near the KOA, Howenwald (35.435486°N, 87.469549°W; WSG 84). 25 July 2013. Sommer Smith and Nicole Foster. Verified by A. Floyd Scott. Austin Peay State University (APSU 19489). New county record (Scott. and Redmond 2008 [latest update: 9 January 2014]. Atlas of Reptiles in Tennes-see. The Center for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee. Available at http://apsu.edu/reptatlas/, accessed 20 April 2014).

SOMMER SMITH (e-mail: [email protected]), and NICOLE FOSTER, Department of Biology, Columbia State Community College, Co-lumbia, Tennessee 38401, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

CHELYDRA SERPENTINA (Snapping Turtle). USA: GEORGIA: emanuel Co.: Adrian (32.51183°N, 82.59066°W; WGS 84). 9 March 2014. Chris Murphy, Will Booker, Bridget Altman. Verified by Nikole Castleberry. Georgia Museum of Natural History (GMNH 50675 photo voucher). New county record (Jensen et al. 2008. Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia. University of Georgia Press, Athens. 575 pp.). Chelydra serpentina had been previously ob-served in Emanuel Co. but was unvouchered. This individual was found in an inflow stream to a man-made pond near the road.

CHRIS MURPHY, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30609, USA; e-mail: [email protected].

CHRYSEMYS PICTA BELLI (Western Painted Turtle). USA: IDA-HO: madison Co.: Henry’s Fork of the Snake River, near Rexburg (43.866337°N, 111.865172°W; WGS 84). 13 September 2010. Ca-leb L. Loughran. Verified by David M. Darda. CWU Herpetology Collection 14-001, photo voucher. New county record (Groves et. al. 1997. Atlas of Idaho’s Wildlife. Idaho Fish and Game, Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Program, Boise, Idaho. 411 pp.). Likely unrecorded distribution of introduced populations in southeast-ern Idaho (Barela and Olson 2014. Northwest. Nat. 95:1–12).

CALEB L. LOUGHRAN (e-mail: [email protected]), and ROBERT E. WEAVER (e-mail: [email protected]), Department of Biological Sciences, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington 98926, USA.

GRAPTEMYS ERNSTI (Escambia River Map Turtle). USA: FLOR-IDA: orange Co.: Wekiwa Springs State Park, approximately 150 m downstream at the edge of the Wekiwa Springs lagoon and the start of the Wekiwa Springs run (28.714071°N, 81.458624°W, WGS84; elev. 6 m). 6 June 2014. Joanne Bolemon and Eric C. Munscher. Verified by Kenneth L. Krysko. Florida Museum of Natural History (UF 173444). New county record (Krysko et al.



2011. Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles in Florida. Final Report, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahas-see, Florida. 524 pp.).

Adult male observed basking on a log around 1000 h. The abundance of algae on the carapace (75% of surface area) sug-gests this is not a recently released captive. This is the first re-ported occurrence of G. ernsti in the St. Johns River Basin. This species is native to Florida in the extreme western panhandle over 300 miles distant. Even though this particular species is not sold as frequently in the pet trade as the Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) and the False Map Turtle (Graptemys pseudogeographica pseudogeographica) it is possible that this animal was a released pet. Wekiwa Springs State Park provides suitable habitat for this species. Graptemys ernsti could poten-tially thrive in such a diverse and turtle-rich ecosystem.

ERIC C. MUNSCHER, Department of Natural Resources, SWCA Envi-ronmental Consultants, Houston, Pennsylvania 15017, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); JOANNE BOLEMON, Casselberry, Florida 32707, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

GRAPTEMYS GEOGRAPHICA (Northern Map Turtle). USA: TEN-NESSEE: Hardin Co.: Horse Creek (35.116669°N, 88.157236°W; WGS84). 1 May 2014. Brian P. Butterfield, Lisa M. Raine, and M. Rachel Hobgood. Verified by A. F. Scott. Austin Peay State Uni-versity (APSU 19490 photographic voucher). New county record (Scott and Redmond 2008 [latest update: 10 March 2014]. Atlas of Reptiles in Tennessee. Center for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee. Available at http://apsu.edu/reptatlas/), accessed 5 May 2014.

BRIAN P. BUTTERFIELD (e-mail: [email protected]), and LISA M. RAINE, M. RACHEL HOBGOOD, Department of Biological, Physical, and Human Sciences, Freed-Hardeman University, Henderson, Tennessee 38340, USA.

KINOSTERNON INTEGRUM (Mexican Mud Turtle). MÉXICO: OAXACA: MuniciPality OF ixtlán de JuáRez: border road near Uni-versidad de la Sierra Juárez–Ixtlán (17.316798°N, 96.483373°W; WGS84), 1938 m elev. 3 August 2008. Victor Aguirre Hidalgo and Miriam Illescas Aparicio. Verified by Víctor Hugo Reynoso. Colec-ción Herpetofaunística, Universidad de la Sierra Juárez - Ixtlán (ICAH 141). First record for the municipality and Sierra de Juarez in Oaxaca, extending the know range of this species 45.9 km SW from the nearest known locality at Zoquiapan Boca de los Ríos, Oaxaca (Canseco-Márquez and Gutiérrez Mayen 2010. Anfibios y Reptiles del Valle Tehuacán-Cuicatlán. CONABIO, Cuicatlán, A.C., Benemérita, Univ. Autón. de Puebla, México, D.F. xvi + 302 pp.). This locality also extends the known elevation of the spe-cies by 208 m (Canseco-Márquez and Gutiérrez 2010, op. cit.). The turtle was DOR in an area originally covered by riparian veg-etation.

VICTOR AGUIRRE-HIDALGO (e-mail: [email protected]), and MIRIAM ILLESCAS-APARICIO, Instituto de Estudios Ambientales, Universidad de la Sierra Juárez, Avenida Universidad S/N, Ixtlán de Juárez, Oaxaca, México, CP 68725 Oaxaca; ADRIANA J. GONZÁLEZ-HERNÁN-DEZ, Colección Nacional de Anfibios y Reptiles. Instituto de Biología. De-partamento de Zoología, UNAM, México D.F. 04510, México.

KINOSTERNON SUBRUBRUM (Eastern Mud Turtle). USA: TEN-NESSEE: CHesTer Co.: Henderson, Freed-Hardeman University (35.434725°N, 88.634°W; WGS84). 15 April 2014. Brian Butterfield, Rachel Hobgood, Eric Hughes, and Joshua Kee. Verified by A. F. Scott. Austin Peay State University (APSU 19486 color photos).

New county record (Scott and Redmond 2008 [latest update: 10 March 2014]. Atlas of Reptiles in Tennessee. Center for Field Bi-ology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee. Avail-able at http://apsu.edu/reptatlas/, accessed 17 April 2014. Adult female captured in a baited hoop net.

BRIAN P. BUTTERFIELD (e-mail: [email protected]), M. RACHEL HOBGOOD, ERIC A. HUGHES, JOSHUA P. KEE, and LEE J. BARTON, De-partment of Biological, Physical, and Human Sciences, Freed-Hardeman University, Henderson, Tennessee 38340, USA.

MALACLEMYS TERRAPIN (Diamond-backed Terrapin). USA: LOUISIANA: CalCasieu ParisH: Tidally-influenced, brackish marsh near Turner Bay (30.064848°N, 93.306107°W; WGS84), 4.25 km S of the Calcasieu Point boat launch. 30 April 2014. Will Selman and Chance Baccigalopi. Verified by Peter Lindeman. Florida Muse-um of Natural History Herpetology Department photographic archive (UF 173242). New parish record (Dundee and Rossman 1989. The Reptiles and Amphibians of Louisiana. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 300 pp.; Selman et al., in press, Chelon. Conserv. Biol.; HerpNet2 Database search, www.herpnet2.org, accessed 14 May 2014). This record extends the range of M. terrapin in the Calcasieu River estuary approxi-mately 21 km N of existing records from east side of Sabine Na-tional Wildlife Refuge (Selman et al., op. cit.). Individual captured in an unbaited fyke net.

WILL SELMAN (e-mail: [email protected]) and CHANCE BACCI-GALOPI, Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, 5476 Grand Chenier Hwy, Grand Chenier, Louisiana 70643, USA.

PSEUDEMYS CONCINNA (River Cooter). USA: TENNES-SEE: CHesTer Co.: Henderson, Freed-Hardeman University (35.434725°N, 88.634°W; WGS84). 8 May 2014. Brian Butterfield, Rachel Hobgood, Eric Hughes, and Joshua Kee. Verified by A. F. Scott. Austin Peay State University (APSU 19491 color photos). New county record (Scott and Redmond 2008 [latest update: 10 March 2014]. Atlas of Reptiles in Tennessee. Center for Field Bi-ology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee. Avail-able at http://apsu.edu/reptatlas/, accessed 8 May 2014.). Juve-nile captured in a baited hoop net.

BRIAN P. BUTTERFIELD (e-mail: [email protected]), JOSHUA P. KEE, M. RACHEL HOBGOOD, and ERIC A. HUGHES, Department of Bio-logical, Physical, and Human Sciences, Freed-Hardeman University, Hen-derson, Tennessee 38340, USA.

STERNOTHERUS ODORATUS (Eastern Musk Turtle). USA: AR-KANSAS: CalHoun Co.: Locust Bayou off St. Hwy 278 at Locust Bayou (33.557668°N, 92.67574°W; WGS 84). 8 April 2014. Veri-fied by S. E. Trauth. Arkansas State University Museum of Zo-ology, Herpetological Collection (ASUMZ 33106). New county record filling a gap among previous records for adjacent Dallas, Ouachita, and Union counties (Trauth et al. (2004. Amphibians and Reptiles of Arkansas. Univ. Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, Ar-kansas. 421 pp.)

CHRIS T. McALLISTER, Science and Mathematics Division, Eastern Oklahoma State College, Idabel, Oklahoma 74745, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); HENRY W. ROBISON, 9717 Wild Mountain Drive, Sherwood, Arkansas 72120, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

STERNOTHERUS ODORATUS (Eastern Musk Turtle). USA: TEXAS: monTgomery Co.: Peach Creek, 3.5 km S of Splendora (30.20743°N, 95.18189°W, WGS84; elev. 21 m). 26 May 2013.



William L. Farr. Verified by Carl J. Franklin. UTADC 8059–8061. The first county record, partially filling a distributional gap in the greater Houston area of southeast Texas (Dixon 2013. Am-phibians and Reptiles of Texas with Keys, Taxonomic Synopses, Bibliography, and Distribution Maps. 3rd ed., Texas A&M Uni-versity Press, College Station, Texas. 447 pp.) and apparently the first record from the San Jacinto River drainage (Iverson 1992. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. Green Nature Books, Homestead, Florida. 363 pp.).

The turtle, an adult male ca. 10 cm in straight carapace length, was observed at 1307 h in clear water ca. 5–10 cm deep where it was caught, examined, photographed, and released. A leach, ca. 25 mm in length, was attached at the seam of the 9th and 10th marginals on the left underside of the carapace. Also of note, Dixon 2013 (op. cit.) does not indicate a record for neigh-boring Harris Co., Texas; however, the specimen illustrated in that same volume is identified as being from Harris Co. I recall observing and collecting S. odoratus in roadside ditches, creeks, and ponds in Harris Co. with some regularity in the 1970s; these were distinguished from the sympatric Kinosternon subrubrum (Eastern Mud Turtle) by the reduced plastron size, lacking two conspicuous hinges.

WILLIAM L. FARR, Houston, Texas 77096, USA; e-mail: [email protected].

TERRAPENE CAROLINA TRIUNGUIS (Three-toed Box Turtle). USA: ARKANSAS: Cleveland Co.: off St. Hwy. 189, 14.5 km SE of Kingsland (33.772296°N, 92.173963°W; WGS 84). 23 April 2014. H. W. Robison. Verified by S. E. Trauth. Arkansas State University Museum of Zoology, Herpetological Collection (ASUMZ 33152, photovoucher). New county record filling a gap among previ-ous records for adjacent Lincoln (Connior 2013. Herpetol. Rev. 43:444), and Bradley, Calhoun, Dallas, Grant, and Jefferson coun-ties (Trauth et al. (2004. Amphibians and Reptiles of Arkansas. Univ. Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, Arkansas. 421 pp.).

CHRIS T. McALLISTER, Science and Mathematics Division, Eastern Oklahoma State College, Idabel, Oklahoma 74745, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); HENRY W. ROBISON, 9717 Wild Mountain Drive, Sherwood, Arkansas 72120, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA (Pond Slider). USA: MISSOURI: sTe. genevieve Co.: Weingarten. Found on roadside at intersection of Glassey Lane and Highway 32 (37.8620°N, 90.2695°W; WGS84). 27 April 2014. Andrew P. Braun and Andrew T. Bueltmann. Veri-fied by Dustin S. Siegel. University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC 2601P). New county record (Edmond and Daniel 2014 [latest update: 18 February 2014]. Missouri Herpetological Atlas Proj-ect. Available at http://atlas.moherp.org/; accessed 4 June 2014). Roadkilled female specimen.

ANDREW P. BRAUN (e-mail: [email protected]), and AN-DREW T. BUELTMANN, Big Rivers & Wetlands Field Station, Missouri De-partment of Conservation, Jackson, Missouri 63755, USA.

TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGANS (Red-eared Slider). USA: NEW MEXICO: lea Co.: Conoco Lake, along an unnamed road ca. 4.0 road miles SE of Maljamar, (32.80973°N, 103.75061°W, NAD 83; elev. 1201 m). 3 July 2013. Austin L. Fitzgerald and Charles W. Painter. Verified by Tom Giermakowski. Museum of Southwest-ern Biology, University of New Mexico (MSB 95060 and 95074). New county record (Degenhardt et al. 1996. Amphibians and Reptiles of New Mexico. Univ. New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico. xix + 431 pp.). Two adult females (204 mm and 195

mm SCL) were captured using hoop traps baited with sardines. Both individuals were preserved at time of capture. This local-ity is a small pond separated from the nearest known locality of native Red-eared Sliders by at least 50 km of arid habitat. These specimens may represent intentionally released individuals.

AUSTIN L. FITZGERALD (e-mail: [email protected]) and CHARLES W. PAINTER, University of New Mexico, Museum of Southwest-ern Biology, MSC03 2020, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

SQUAMATA — LIZARDS

CYTOPODION SCABRUM (Rough-tailed Bowfoot Gecko). USA: ARIZONA: mariCoPa Co.: 7200 E. University Drive, Mesa (33.423530°N, 111.675416°W, WGS84; elev. 403 m). Four speci-mens collected between 3 April (UAZ 57586, UAZ 57587) and 7 April 2014 (UAZ 57588, UAZ 57589). Verified by Aaron Bauer. New record for the state (Brennan and Holycross 2009. Amphibians and Reptiles in Arizona. Arizona Game and Fish Department, Phoenix, Arizona. 150 pp.).

Several individuals of Cyrtopodion had been sighted and two sets of hatched eggs found, however both were initially mistaken for Hemidactylus turcicus. It was not until a lizard was captured and examined closely that it was recognized as something differ-ent. A nighttime survey of the building exteriors on 12 April 2014 revealed an established population (N = 47) with nearly all size classes (10–53 mm SVL) represented. The geckos were generally located clinging to walls from a few cm above ground to over 5 m up. They seemed to avoid well-lit areas and a few specimens were located on curbs and on large rocks in the landscaping.

Though it is unclear how this species came to be established here, there are two obvious potential pathways for introduction. The pet trade is the primary source for the introduction of ex-otic reptiles and amphibians in the United States (Kraus 2009. Alien Reptiles and Amphibians: A Scientific Compendium and Analysis. Springer Science and Business Media B.V., Dordrecht, Netherlands. 563 pp.). But this seems the least likely of the two scenarios imagined. Another far more probable avenue for this species’ introduction is as a stowaway in cargo. The collection lo-cality is adjacent to a large industrial complex (Salt River Project) that receives shipments of heavy equipment such as generators from a variety of localities. Kraus (op. cit.) cites stowing away in cargo as the second most common way that exotic reptile spe-cies are introduced in the United States.

Photos taken in mid-April 2014 of C. scabrum from the US Air Force Auxiliary Field in Gila Bend, Maricopa Co., Arizona were forwarded to me by Richard K. Whittle, Biologist, 56th Range Management Office, Phoenix, Arizona. Mr. Whittle stated that he had seen geckos on auxiliary buildings since 2010 but is uncer-tain if they were this species. The general similarity in appear-ance and behavior of C. scabrum to Hemidactylus turcicus, an abundant, secretive, and widespread exotic, makes it easy to overlook. Cyrtopodion scabrum differs from H. turcicus in many ways, the most obvious of these being the absence of toe pads. Cyrtopodion scabrum may be much more widespread in the United States than previous reports indicate. Its nocturnal activ-ity, apparent avoidance of lighted areas, and habit of sheltering in secluded refugia during daylight hours make it easy to over-look. Geckos encountered on buildings should be subjected to close examination to determine species.

Cyrtopodion scabrum is native to the Middle East including Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. Considering all the



time the USA has been spending in this part of the world in re-cent decades it is not surprising a species commonly associated with anthropogenic structures such as urbanized areas and ship-ping yards has made its way to the United States. This species is established in Galveston, Texas, USA (Selcer and Bloom 1984. Southwest. Nat. 29:499–500).

RANDALL D. BABB, Arizona Game and Fish Department, Region VI Office, 7200 E. University Dr., Mesa, Arizona 85207, USA; e-mail: [email protected].

DASIA OLIVACEA (Olive Tree Skink). THAILAND: SONGKHLA PROVINCE: HaT yai disTriCT: Ton Nga Chang Wildlife Sanctuary, Headquarters (6.9456°N, 100.2395°E, WGS 84; ca. 160 m elev.). At daytime, adult (lacking yellow bands on dorsum) observed on tree trunk; juvenile observed on ground. Tanet Siangsuwan. 31 July 2013. Khon Kaen University Vertebrate Collection (KKUD 2014.1a–b, 2014.2a–b). Verified by Sunchai Makchai. First pro-vincial record for Songkhla Province; fills distributional gap be-tween Pattani, and Satun provinces. Previously known from the west (Kanchanaburi), northeast (Nakhon Ratchasima), south-east (Chanthaburi, Srakaeo), and south (Nakhon Sri Thamma-rat, Narathiwat, Pattani, Phangnga, Phuket, Satun, Surat Thani, Trang, Yala) of Thailand (Chuaynkern and Chuaynkern 2012. J. Wildl. Thailand 19:75–162).

We thank Khon Kaen University Vertebrate Collection for cat-aloging the record in the Digital Photograph Collection (KKUD). Our special thanks to KKU Herpetological Research Group for supporting this work.

NITHINA KAEWTONGKUM (e-mail: [email protected]), PRAPAIPORN THONGPROH, PECHRKAWIN NURNGSOMSRI, YOD-CHAIY CHUAYNKERN, CHANTIP CHUAYNKERN, Department of Biol-ogy, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, Muaeng, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand; PRATEEP DUENGKAE, Department of Forest Biology, Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University, Jatujak, Bangkok 10900, Thailand; TANET SIANGSUWAN, Hat Yai Nature and Wildlife Education Center, P.O. Box 9, Hat Yai, Songkhla 90114, Thailand.

ELGARIA KINGII (Madrean Alligator Lizard). MÉXICO: ZACATE-CAS: muniCiPaliTy oF HuanusCo: ca. 6 airline km E of El Caracol (21.703370°N, 102.794476°W; WGS84), 2120 m elev. 24 August 2013. Rubén A. Carbajal Márquez, Gustavo E. Quintero Díaz, and Ana Gisel Pérez Delgadillo. Verified by Bradford Hollingsworth. SDSNH HerpPC 05223–05224. First municipality record and sec-ond known locality for Zacatecas. The closest reported locality is ca. 6.5 airline km NE at Arroyo Ibañez, Sierra El Laurel, Calvillo, Aguascalientes, and the other Zacatecas locality is 76 airline km SW at 3 mi. NW Teul de González Ortega (Webb 1970. Cat. Amer. Amphib. Rep. 97:1–4; Quintero-Díaz et al. 1999. Herpetol. Rev. 30:233). The lizard was found in a crevice of a rock wall located within an ecotone between oak forest and tropical deciduous forest.

RUBÉN ALONSO CARBAJAL-MÁRQUEZ, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, Instituto Politécnico Nacional No.195 Col. Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, C.P. 23096, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México (e-mail: [email protected]); GUSTAVO E. QUINTERO-DÍAZ, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Centro de Ciencias Básicas, Departamento de Biología, Avenida Universidad No. 940, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes 20131, México.

EMOIA RUFICAUDA (Red-tailed Swamp Skink). PHILIP-PINES: MINDANAO ISLAND: SOUTH COTABATO PROVINCE: muniCiPaliTy oF lake sebu: Barangay Lake Seloton (6.255775°N,

124.733772°E, WGS 84; ca. 400 m elev.). 22 September 2013. Jen-iel Buday. Photographic voucher, Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, National University of Singapore (ZRC [IMG] 2.219a–b). Verified by Rafe M. Brown. Observed on riverbank of Seven Falls. First provincial record. Endemic to Mindanao Island, pre-viously recorded from provinces of Agusan del Norte, Sarangani, Sultan Kudarat, and Zamboanga del Sur (Gaulke and Alcala 2009. Salamandra 45:57–60). Record extends distribution by ca. 31 km NE from nearest locality at Maitum, Sarangani.

EMERSON Y. SY, Philippine Center for Terrestrial and Aquatic Re-search, 1198 Benavidez St., Unit 1202, Tondo, Manila, Philippines (e-mail: [email protected]); JENIEL BUDAY, Wild Bird Photographers of South Cotabato, Koronadal City, South Cotabato, Philippines.

GERRHONOTUS INFERNALIS (Texas Alligator Lizard). USA: TEXAS: Terrell Co.: Independence Creek Preserve TNC on a road traversing a steep limestone hillside (30.49722°N, 101.78901°W, WGS 84; elev. 2380 m). 13 April 2014. Michael T. Sager. Verified by John Karges and Travis LaDuc. University of Texas at Arling-ton Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center (Digital Image Collection Number UTADC 8125, photographic voucher). New county record. Previous records exist for Brewster Co. to the west, and Crockett Co. and Val Verde Co. to the east. This record fills the gap bridging these counties.

This animal was found during the Texas Herpetological So-ciety’s spring field meeting. The individual was collected active on the surface on a cool, damp, early morning after a night of light but steady rain. Found along a rocky north-facing hillside with open juniper woodlands with some shrubs and grass cover among barren rock ledges and boulders, this juvenile is evidence of a breeding/viable population.

MICHAEL T. SAGER, Department of Biological Sciences, MS 43131, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-3131, USA; e-mail: [email protected].

HELODERMA SUSPECTUM CINCTUM (Banded Gila Monster). USA: NEVADA: Clark Co.: Lucy Gray Mountains (35.6384°N, 115.3074°W; WGS 84). 24 May 2010. David B. Prival. Verified by C. Mahrdt. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County voucher photograph (LACM-PC 1604). New record for the species in Ne-vada; extends range westward ca. 13 km from records in the Mc-Cullough Mountains (18 May 2012: 35.7520°N, 115.1499°W; WGS 84; 24 May 2012:35.7586°N, 115.1489°W; WGS 84).

The Lucy Gray Mountains are ca. 32 km E of a known record of Heloderma in California (UNLV R665, Lovich and Beaman 2007. Bull. So. California Acad. Sci. 106[2]:39–58) and ca. 40 km from a sight record (no vouchers available) from the New York Mountains (Stebbins and Cohen 2012. Field Guide to Amphib-ians and Reptiles of California, University of California Press, Berkeley, California. 538 pp.). The close proximity of these re-cords to known locations of Heloderma in California suggests a dispersal route from the Colorado River area into southeastern California (as suggested by Lovich and Beaman, op. cit.), possibly through mountain passes that may serve as corridors between areas of suitable habitat.

KENT R. BEAMAN, Section of Herpetology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); JASON L. JONES, Ne-vada Department of Wildlife, 4747 Vegas Dr., Las Vegas, Nevada 89108, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); JEFFREY E. LOVICH, U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, 2255 N. Gemini Dr., MS-9394, Flagstaff, Arizona 86001, USA (e-mail: [email protected]);



C. M. GIENGER, Department of Biology and Center of Excellence for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee 37044, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); POLLY M. CONRAD, Department of Biology, Utah State University, 5305 Old Main Hill - BNR 101, Logan, Utah 84322, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

HEMIDACTYLUS FRENATUS (Common House Gecko). MÉXI-CO: TABASCO: muniCiPaliTy oF maCusPana: Holcim-Apasco Field Station (17.65156°N, 92.438858°W; WGS84), 40 m elev. 9 June 2014. Pierre Charruau, Rafael A. Lara-Resendiz, and Aníbal H. Díaz de la Vega-Pérez. Verified by F. Méndez-de la Cruz. CNAR-RF 62-64. First municipality record, extending the range ca. 65 airline km SE from Villahermosa, Municipality of Centro, Ta-basco (Schmidt-Ballardo and Mendoza-Quijano 1996. Herpetol. Rev. 27:40; Farr 2011. Southwest. Nat. 56: 256–273). The gecko was found on the wall of a cabin in tropical rain forest.

ANÍBAL H. DÍAZ DE LA VEGA-PÉREZ (e-mail: [email protected]), RAFAEL A. LARA-RESENDIZ (e-mail: [email protected]), and PIERRE CHARRUAU (e-mail: [email protected]), Laboratorio de Herpetología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, AP 70515, CP 04510, Distrito Federal, México.

HEMIDACTYLUS TURCICUS (Mediterranean Gecko). USA: CALIFORNIA: san bernardino Co.: Redlands, State Street, between Center Street (34.03429°N, 117.11466ºW; WGS 84) and Eureka Street (34.03397°N, 117.11176°W; WGS 84), and on Brookside Av-enue (34.03276°N, 117.11242°W; WGS 84). 18 August 2013. Kent R. Beaman and Michael D. Wilcox. Verified by Clark Mahrdt. Nine individuals representing adults (N = 4) and juveniles (N = 5) were deposited in the herpetological collections at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM 148427–148435). Repre-sents the third record for San Bernardino Co. (Beaman et al. 2005. Herpetol. Rev. 36:79), extending the range of the species ca. 356 km WSW from the nearest vouchered locality at Needles, San Ber-nardino Co., California (LACM 155124). The species was also ob-served at several other locations in Redlands.

MICHAEL D. WILCOX, AMEC Environment and Infrastructure, Inc., 3120 Chicago Avenue, Suite 110, Riverside, California 90507, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); KENT R. BEAMAN, Section of Herpetology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90007, USA and Department of Biology, La Sierra University, River-side, California 92515, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

LYGOSOMA ALBOPUNCTATA (White-spotted Supple Skink). BANGLADESH: SYLHET DIVISION: HabiganJ disTriCT: Satchari National Park (24.143653°N, 91.438686°E, WGS 84; 80 m elev.). 25 April 2014. Adult. Hassan-Al-Razi. Yard of Student Dormitory, Satchari National Park. Verified by Stephen Mahony. Museum of Zoology, Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (JnU/ZooM/Rep/2014/0001). First record for Sylhet Division. Nearest con-firmed populations from Berakuti (Nilphamari), Singra National Park (Dinajpur), and Rayer Bazar fish market (Dhaka District) (Sarker 2014. Russ. J. Herpetol. 21:1–4). The new record 135 km E from Nilphamari, 130 km E of Dinajpur, and 130 km NE of Dhaka District. Habitat dry, open soil, without plantations, near human-modified habitat.

HASSAN-AL-RAZI, Department of Zoology Jagannath University, Dha-ka 1100, Bangladesh (e-mail: [email protected]); MOHAMMAD AB-DUL BAKI, Department of Zoology, Jagannath University, Dhaka 1100, Ban-gladesh (e-mail: [email protected]); SHAYER MAHMOOD IBNEY ALAM, Department of Zoology, Jagannath University, Dhaka 1100, Bangladesh (e-mail: [email protected]); and MEHRAB CHOWDHURY, Depart-

ment of Zoology, Jagannath University, Dhaka 1100, Bangladesh (e-mail: [email protected]).

PHRYNOSOMA BRACONNIERI (Short-tailed Horned Liz-ard). MÉXICO: GUERRERO: muniCiPaliTy oF olinala: Xixila (17.993334°N, 98.850278°W; WGS84), 1535 m. elev. 15 October 2011. Víctor Hugo Jiménez Arcos, Salomón Sanabria Urban, and Eric Centenero Alcalá. Verified by Luis Canseco Márquez. IBH-RF 53. First record for Guerrero, extending the known range of the species ca. 70 km SW from Tehuitzingo, Puebla (Garcia-Vazquez et al. 2005. Publ. Soc. Herpetol. Mex. 1:152–169). The lizard was found active on the ground in oak forest.

VÍCTOR H. JIMÉNEZ-ARCOS, Laboratorio de Ecología, Unidad de Bio-tecnología y Prototipos, FES Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. De los Barios S/N., Los Reyes Ixtacala, Tlalnepantla, México, C.P. 54090 (e-mail: [email protected]); ERIC CENTENERO-ALCALÁ and EDMUNDO PEREZ-RAMOS, Museo de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A.P. 70-399, México; SAMUEL A. SANTA CRUZ-PADILLA, Naturam Sequi A.C. 16 de Septiembre #43, Col. Cd. de los Niños, Naucalpan de Juárez, Edo. de Méx., México, C.P. 53450.

PLESTIODON FASCIATUS (Common Five-lined Skink). USA: MISSOURI: sTe. genevieve Co.: Weingarten, 1.15 km NE of in-tersection of Miller Switch Road and Highway 32 (37.8656°N, 90.2588°W; WGS84). 3 May 2014. Andrew P. Braun and Andrew T. Bueltmann. Verified by Dustin S. Siegel. University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC 2598P). New county record (Edmond and Dan-iel 2014 [latest update: 18 February 2014]. Missouri Herpetologi-cal Atlas Project. Available at http://atlas.moherp.org/; accessed 4 June 2014). Adult in rocky upland habitat.

ANDREW P. BRAUN (e-mail: [email protected]) and AN-DREW T. BUELTMANN, Big Rivers & Wetlands Field Station, Missouri De-partment of Conservation, Jackson, Missouri 63755, USA.

PLESTIODON FASCIATUS (Common Five-lined Skink). USA: WISCONSIN: CHiPPewa Co.: City of Chippewa Falls (44.93854°N, 91.3879°W, WGS84; elev. 256 m). 17 May 2014. Tiffany J. Wogahn. Verified by Robert C. Jadin. UTADC 8161. New county record (Christoffel et al. 2002. Turtles and Lizards of Wisconsin. Wiscon-sin Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Endangered Re-sources; 48 pp.) Closest known record is in Eau Claire Co. to the south. In Wisconsin, P. fasciatus is a Species of Special Concern and has a scattered distribution. The lizard was found in a resi-dential yard.

TIFFANY J. WOGAHN, 116 N. Grove Street, Chippewa Falls, Wiscon-sin 54729, USA; JULIE M. RAY, La MICA Biological Station, El Copé de La Pintada, Coclé Province, Republic of Panama (e-mail: [email protected]).

PLESTIODON INEXPECTATUS (Southeastern Five-lined Skink). USA: GEORGIA: lamar Co.: Private residence on Grape Creek Road in Milner (33.108610°N, 84.221679°W; WGS 84). 21 April 2014. Olivia Bender and M. J. Bender. Verified by Gregory D. Hartman. Gordon State College (GSC-066). New county record (Jensen et al. 2008. Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia. Univer-sity of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia. 575 pp.; J. Jensen, pers. comm.). Species has been documented in two adjoining coun-ties (Jensen et al. 2008).

Specimen collected under a Georgia Department of Natural Resources Scientific Collections Permit (29-WJH-14-159).




PLESTIODON TETRAGRAMMUS BREVILINEATUS (Short-lined Skink). USA: TEXAS: arCHer Co.: North–south oriented sand-stone outcrop 6 km NNE of the town of Olney (33.431389°N, 98.733889°W, WGS 84; elev. 375 m). 25 March 2013. Matthew R. Fox. Verified by Raymond E. Willis. The University of Texas at Ar-lington’s Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Center (UTADC 8112, photo voucher). New county record (Dixon 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas with Keys, Taxonomic Synopses, Bibli-ography, and Distribution Maps. 3rd ed., Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas. 447 pp.). Extends range north and east from bordering Young, Throckmorton, and Baylor counties. Adult male specimen, SVL 66 mm, weight 6.6 g, was found under a flat rock on the east-facing side of the outcrop.

MATTHEW R. FOX (e-mail: [email protected]), ROBERT W. STEWART, and CHARLES M. WATSON, Department of Biol-ogy, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas 76308, USA.

STENOLEPS RIDLEYI (Pernambuco Teiid). BRAZIL: ALAGOAS: muniCiPaliTy oF muriCi: Estação Ecológica de Murici, Mata da Bananeira (9.215888°S, 35,878915°W, WGS84; elev. 583 m). 12 De-cember 2013. J. V. Araújo-Neto and others. Coleção Herpetológica do Museu de História Natural, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil (Mufal 11686; collecting license ICMBio 33507-3). Verified by B. S. Lisboa. The species was previously recorded from Brazilian states of Pernambuco and Ceará (Vanzolini 1974. Papéis Avulsos Zoologia 18 [4] 61-90; Borges-Nojosa and Cara-maschi 2003. In Leal and Tabarelli [eds.], Ecologia e Conservação da Caatinga, pp. 489–540. UFPE, Recife; Rodrigues et al. 2007. Am. Mus. Novit. 3465:1–27). First state record. The new record extends the known geographic distribution about 100 km S from the locality of Serra dos Cavalos, Pernambuco state (Rodrigues 1990. In Waranabe [ed.], II Simpósio sobre Ecossistemas da Cos-ta Sul e Sudeste Brasileira, pp. 404–410. Academia de Ciências do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo), and represents a new southern limit of species distribution.

JOSÉ VIEIRA DE ARAÚJO-NETO (e-mail: [email protected]), INGRID CAROLLINE SOARES TIBURCIO, and SELMA TORQUATO, Setor de Zoologia, Museu de História Natural, Universidade Federal de Ala-goas, Av. Aristeu de Andrade, 452, Farol, CEP: 57021-090, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil.

TARENTOLA ANNULARIS (White-Spotted Wall Gecko). USA: CALIFORNIA: san bernardino Co.: Redlands. Juvenile collected in alley, junction with 5th Street (34.03660°N, 117.10889°W; WGS 84). 3 September 2013. Kent R. Beaman and David M. Good-ward. Verified by Clark Mahrdt. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM 148426 and LACM-PC 1678). First state record (Stebbins and McGinnis 2012. Field Guide to Amphib-ians and Reptiles of California. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. 538 pp.). Other individuals of T. annularis were observed and photographed in Redlands on 26 October 2013.

Another species of Tarentola, the Common Wall Gecko (T. mauritanica), is known to be established in California (Mahrdt 1998. Herpetol. Rev. 29:52; Mahrdt and Hollingsworth, unpubl. data).

MICHAEL D. WILCOX, AMEC Environment and Infrastructure, Inc., 3120 Chicago Avenue, Suite 110, Riverside, California 90507, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); KENT R. BEAMAN, Section of Herpetology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, California, 90007, USA and Department of Biology, La Sierra Uni-versity, Riverside, California 92515, USA (e-mail: heloderma@roadrunner.

com); DAVID M. GOODWARD, 22430 Pico Street, Grand Terrace, California 92507, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

VARANUS RASMUSSENI (Rasmussen’s Water Monitor Lizard). PHILIPPINES: SULU PROVINCE: JOLO ISLAND: muniCiPaliTy oF TaliPao: Mount Bayug (5.974600°N, 121.083983°E; WGS 84). Ro-mulo Quemado. 7 February 2014. Photographic voucher, Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, National University of Singa-pore (ZRC [IMG] 2.221a–f); Bitinan Island, Municipality of Omar (6.056700°N, 121.445650°E; WGS 84). 5 October 2013. Romulo Quemado. Photographic voucher, Raffles Museum of Biodi-versity Research, National University of Singapore (ZRC [IMG] 2.222). Verified by Luke J. Welton. First record for Jolo and Biti-nan islands, Sulu Archipelago. Member of the Varanus salvator complex, described recently from Tawi-Tawi Island, Sulu Archi-pelago, Philippines (Koch et al. 2010. Zootaxa 2446:1–54).

EMERSON Y. SY, Philippine Center for Terrestrial and Aquatic Re-search, 1198 Benavidez St., Unit 1202, Tondo, Manila, Philippines (e-mail: [email protected]); ROMULO QUEMADO, Philippine Marine Corps, Western Command Headquarters, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philip-pines.

SQUAMATA — SNAKES

ARIZONA ELEGANS ARENICOLA (Texas Glossy Snake). USA: TEXAS: Colorado Co.: Cat Spring Rd., 21 km ENE of Columbus (29.79052°N, 96.34370°W, WGS84; elev. 83 m). 31 May 2014. Wil-liam L. Farr. Verified by Carl Franklin. University of Texas Arling-ton Digital Collection (UTADC 8162–8167). First county record, with previous records for two (Austin to the NE and Fayette to the NW) of the five adjacent counties having been documented (Dixon 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas with Keys, Taxo-nomic Synopses, Bibliography, and Distribution Maps. 3rd ed., Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas. 447 pp.).

WILLIAM L. FARR, Houston, Texas 77096, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); MICHAEL R. J. FORSTNER, Texas State University, Depart-ment of Biology, 601 University Drive, San Marcos, Texas 78666, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

CARPHOPHIS AMOENUS (Common Wormsnake). USA: TENNESSEE: HiCkman Co.: 9137 Betty Belle Lane, Bon Aqua (35.9248477°N, 87.2301613°W; WSG 84). 20 April 2014. Nicole Foster and Mary Christensen. Verified by A. Floyd Scott. Austin Peay State University (APSU 19488). Found among leaf litter. New county record (Scottand Redmond 2008 [latest update: 09 January 2014]. Atlas of Reptiles in Tennessee. The Center for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee. Available at http://apsu.edu/reptatlas/, accessed 20 April 2014).

NICOLE FOSTER (e-mail: [email protected]), and MARY CHRISTENSEN, Columbia State Community College, Columbia, Tennes-see 38401, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

CARPHOPHIS VERMIS (Western Wormsnake). USA: ARKAN-SAS: AsHley Co.: Carter Cemetery, 13 km NE Crossett off AR St. Hwy 52 (33.16966°N, 91.83768°W; WSG84). 21 May 2014. R. Tum-lison. Henderson State University (HSU 1730). Verified by S. E. Trauth. First county record and only the second county in a dis-junct southeastern Arkansas population (Trauth et al. 2004. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Arkansas. University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, Arkansas. 421 pp.). Range is extended about 50 km S from nearest Arkansas record (Tumlison and Wiley 1980. Herpetol. Rev. 11:14–15). Record also appears to connect disjunct



southeastern Arkansas population with similar records in north-eastern Louisiana, from which this record extends the range about 45 km N from Morehouse Parish, Louisiana (Dundee and Rossman 1989. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Louisiana. Loui-siana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 300 pp.).

RENN TUMLISON, Department of Biology, Henderson State Univer-sity, Arkadelphia, Arkansas 71999, USA; e-mail: [email protected].

CLONOPHIS KIRTLANDII (Kirtland’s Snake). USA: ILLINOIS: de kalb Co.: 1.5 mi (2.4 km) W Sandwich (41.635637°N, 88.654220°W; WGS 84). 8 October 1961. H. D. Walley. MSUM 14207. Verified by Chris Phillips. New county record (Phillips et al. 1999. Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Illinois. Illinois Natural History Survey, Urbana, Illinois. 282 pp.). The alcohol specimen was found in the Michigan State University Museum herpetol-ogy collection during an examination of material from the upper peninsula of Michigan. This Illinois state-threatened species was most recently documented from McLean Co. (Capparella et al. 2012. Trans. Illinois State Acad. Sci. 105(3–4):101–105), and this record is the northwestern-most in the state to date.

THOMAS G. ANTON, Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, The Field Museum, Roosevelt Road at Lakeshore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); THOMAS F. BEAUVAIS, P.O. Box 130137, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48113, USA; GARY CASPER, The Universi-ty of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Field Station, P.O. Box 375, Slinger, Wisconsin 53086, USA.

DIADOPHIS PUNCTATUS (Ring-necked Snake). USA: CALI-FORNIA: kern Co.: Piute Mountains., Cottonwood Creek wa-tershed, approx. 13.7 air mi. W jct. Jawbone Canyon Rd. × State Hwy 14 (35.30383°N, 118.25253°W, WGS 84; elev. 1364 m). 02 June 2010. L. E. Hunt and C. J. Evelyn. Verified by Samuel S. Sweet. University of California-Santa Barbara, Vertebrate Museum col-lection 32724. Second record for eastern slope of Sierra Nevada (Hansen and Tobler 2010. Herpetol. Rev. 41:379). Nearest re-cord is from Kern Co., Mill Creek, 1.1 mi E State Hwy 178 (CAS 236215), 42 airline km to the NW. Present specimen is an adult female encountered AOR on dirt road at 1645 h in closed-canopy Interior Live Oak woodland.

CHRISTOPHER J. EVELYN, Department of Evolutionary and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); LAWRENCE E. HUNT, Hunt & Associates Biological Consulting Services, 5290 Overpass Road, Suite 108, Santa Barbara, California 93111, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

DIADOPHIS PUNCTATUS REGALIS (Regal Ringneck Snake). MEXICO: SONORA: muniCiPio de la Colorada: Rancho La Cues-ta, Km 94 on Mexico Hwy 16, 24.9 km (by air) W of Tecoripa, 80 km (by air) ESE of Hermosillo (28.6269400°N, 110.20667°W; NAD27), 410 m elev. 6 August 2009. Juan Jaime. Verified by Erik F. Enderson. Photographic voucher can be viewed at <http://www.madrean.org/symbfauna/collections/individual/index.php?occid=198334>. First record for the municipio and central Sonora, extending the range 128 airline km WNW of Yécora, Municipio de Yécora (Rorabaugh et al. 2008. J. Arizona-Nevada Acad. Sci. 40:20–65), and lowers the elevational range in Sonora by 436 m (review of museum records in Madrean Archipelago As-sessment database, Madrean.org). The snake was diurnally ac-tive in a flat area in the bottom of a bajío (arroyo) surrounded by foothills thornscrub.

THOMAS R. VAN DEVENDER, Sky Island Alliance, P.O. Box 41165, Tucson, Arizona 85717, USA (e-mail: [email protected]);

EDUARDO GÓMEZ-LIMÓN, Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Pro-tegidas, Av. Aquiles Serdán No. 180, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83000, Mexico (e-mail: [email protected]).

DRYMARCHON MELANURUS (Central American Indigo Snake). MÉXICO: MICHOACÁN: muniCiPaliTy oF ZiraCuareTiro: 2.6 km NW San Andrés Coru (19.272587°N, 101. 572360°W; WGS 84), 1749 m elev. 25 June 2013. Aldo O. Soria- Pérez and Ernesto Raya-García. Verified by Jorge A. Marroquín-Paramo. UAZ 57570-PSV. First record for the municipality and for the Transverse Volcanic Axis region (Alvarado-Diaz et al. 2013. Amphib. Rept. Conserv. 7:128–170), filling a gap in Michoacán between the nearest con-firmed northern localities, ca. 125 km NE La Palma and 123 km NE El Sabino, and confirmed southern localities, ca. 103 km SW Apatzingán and 195 km SW Arteaga (Duellman 1961. Univ. Kan-sas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. 15:1–48). The juvenile snake was found in pine-oak forest near an avocado orchard.

ERNESTO RAYA-GARCÍA, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Francisco J. Mujica S/N Ciudad Universitaria, C.P. 58030, Morelia, Michoacán, México (e-mail: [email protected]); ROBERT A. VILLA, 811 N. 10th Ave., Tucson, Arizona 85705, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

HYPSIGLENA JANI (Chiauahuan Nightsnake). USA: OKLA-HOMA: Love Co.: (34.008025°N, 97.045644°W; WGS84). 5 April 2014. C. Roelke, W. Roelke, E. Wostl, R. Wostl, and M. Fontenot. Verified by Carl Franklin. The University of Texas at Arlington Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center Collection (UTA R 60745). New county record (Distribution of Oklahoma Amphibian and Reptiles by Recorded Sightings [DOKKARS] and the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History Database, Nor-man, Oklahoma; Both searched on 05/20/2014.).

COREY E. ROELKE (e-mail: [email protected]), ELIJAH WOSTL and RACHEL WOSTL, University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Biol-ogy, Box 19498, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA; MALLORY L. FONTENOT and WYATT T. ROELKE, 1315 West Abram Street, Arlington, Texas 76013, USA.

LAMPROPELTIS NIGRA (Eastern Black Kingsnake). USA: MIS-SOURI: sCoTT Co.: General Watkins Conservation Area, 2.34 km NNE Morley (37.064075°N, 89.604495°W; WGS84). 21 May 2011. Brian S. Edmond and Richard E. Daniel. Verified by Katy E. Klymus (confirmed using mtDNA). University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC 2038P color photograph). First documented record for this species in the state of Missouri (Daniel and Ed-mond 2014. Atlas of Missouri Amphibians and Reptiles for 2013 <http://atlas.moherp.org/pubs/atlas13.pdf> Updated 30 Janu-ary 2014.) Adult female found among riprap in fishing lake #3 spillway.

Collection on state land authorized by Missouri Depart-ment of Conservation Wildlife Collectors Permit 14853.

RICHARD E. DANIEL, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); BRIAN S. EDMOND, Computer Services, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri 65897, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

LAMPROPELTIS NIGRA (Eastern Black Kingsnake). USA: TEN-NESSEE: williamson Co.: 100 Farrier Lane, Franklin (35.93121°N, 86.876061°W; WSG 84). 12 May 2014. Brittany Cromwell and Ni-cole Foster. Verified by A. Floyd Scott. Austin Peay State Uni-versity (APSU 19492). New county record (Scottand Redmond



2008 [latest update: 10 March 2014]. Atlas of Reptiles in Tennes-see. The Center for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee. Available at http://apsu.edu/reptatlas/, accessed 14 May 2014).

BRITTANY CROMWELL (e-mail: [email protected]) and NICOLE FOSTER, Department of Biology, Columbia State Commu-nity College, Columbia, Tennessee 38401, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

LAMPROPELTIS TRIANGULUM (Milksnake). USA: TEXAS: Cal-laHan Co.: Hwy 283 ca. 16 mi. N of Coleman, only a few meters north of the Callahan-Coleman Co. line (32.14°N, 99.42°W; WGS 84). Christian L. Cox. Verified by Toby J. Hibbitts. University of Texas at Arlington Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center Collection (UTA DC 8135). New county record (Dixon 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas with Keys, Taxonomic Synopses, Bibliography, and Distribution Maps. 3rd ed., Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas. 447 pp.). Found under a rock on a roadside hill.

CHRISTIAN L. COX, The University of Virginia, Department of Biology, 485 McCormick Rd., Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); COREY E. ROELKE, The University of Texas at Arlington, De-partment of Biology, Box 19498, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

LEPTODEIRA SEPTENTRIONALIS (Cat-eyed Snake). USA: TEX-AS: kleberg Co.: ~ 120 m NE jct of TX FM 771 and Kleberg Co. Rd. 1100 (27.2978°N, 97.7576°W; WGS 84). 12 January 2014. Tawni Osborne and Charles Strubhart. Verified by Carl J. Franklin. Uni-versity of Texas Arlington Digital Collection (UTA-DC 8109). New county record (Dixon 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas with Keys, Taxonomic Synopses, Bibliography, and Distribution Maps. 3rd ed., Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas. 447 pp.)

This record confirms this species’ presence in Kleberg Co. and extends the range northward along the Texas coastal plain ~ 10 km NE of Sarita, in northern Kenedy Co., where other speci-mens are known (R. L. Powell, pers. comm.). Dixon (2013, op. cit.) noted “an isolated museum record for Kleberg County is ques-tionable.” The referenced questionable record is MVZ 75963, a fluid-preserved DOR specimen collected by E. Turner “11 miles SW of Sarita via Hwy 77” on 16 April 1963. This location was re-corded as Kleberg Co. in error, but is actually further south in Kenedy Co. (E. Turner, pers. comm., March 2014).

GK made an observation (previously undocumented) of this species crossing FM 771 ~ 5 km E of Riviera in Kleberg Co. shortly after Hurricane Celia in August 1970.

GERALD KEOWN (e-mail: [email protected]) and GERARD T. SALMON (e-mail: [email protected]), Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research, PO Box 624, Seguin, Texas 78156, USA.

MYRIOPHOLIS BOUETI (Bouet’s Worm Snake). REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON: NORTHERN PROVINCE: Kismatari (9.32°N 13.49°E, elev. 190 m), below a cotton plantation in a trap. 11 October 2013. Patrick Prudent. Verified by Jean-François Trape. MNHN 2013.1018. New country record. This Sudanian savanna snake species was previously known from Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, and Burkina Faso with an east-ern extension into Niger and western Chad (along the northeast Cameroonian border) (Trape and Mané 2006. Guide des serpents d’Afrique occidentale – savane et désert. IRD éditions, Paris. 226 pp.; Wallach et al. 2014. Snakes of the World, A Catalogue of Liv-ing and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca

Raton, London, New York. i–xxvii, 1209 pp.). The species has never been reported from Cameroon (Chirio and LeBreton 2007. Atlas des Reptiles du Cameroun. Muséum national d’Histoire na-turelle, IRD, Paris [Patrimoines Naturels 67], 688 pp.). This spec-imen is likely part of the easternmost population of this species like those from Chad, which is separated from the western pop-ulation by Nigeria from which the species has not been reported.

IVAN INEICH, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, ISYEB (Institut Systématique Biodiversité, Évolution) UMR 7205 CNRS/EPHE/MNHN/UPMC, 57 rue Cuvier (CP 30), 75231 Paris cedex, France ([email protected]); PATRICK PRUDENT, CIRAD/IRAD, B.P. 1146, Garoua, Cameroun.

PANTHEROPHIS EMORYI (Great Plains Ratsnake). USA: COL-ORADO: moFFaT Co.: 0.5 km S Ladore Ranger Station, Dinosaur National Monument (40.723168°N, 108.887675°W, WGS 84; elev. 1640 m). 6 June 2014. Timothy Warfel, Ian Jessup, Ryan Urbanek, Joshua Warfel, and Keian Velasquez. Verified by Lauren Livo. UCM Ancillary Collection (178-1 and 178-2, photo vouchers). New county record (Hammerson 1999. Amphibians and Reptiles in Colorado, 2nd ed. University Press of Colorado & Colorado Di-vision of Wildlife, Niwot, Colorado. 484 pp.). An adult male Pan-therophis emoryi was observed constricting a small rodent at the base of a rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus sp.) next to the Green River. This record extends the known range of this species ap-proximately 25 km NE in the Green River drainage from a record in Uintah Co., Utah (Bury 1983. Herpetol. Rev. 14[4]:123).

TIMOTHY WARFEL, 8326 W. Woodard Dr, Lakewood, Colorado 80227, USA; e-mail: [email protected].

PITUOPHIS MELANOLEUCUS MELANOLEUCUS (Northern Pinesnake). USA: TENNESSEE: Carroll Co.: Boyd’s Landing Road at gate to Carroll County Recreation Lake (36.9354°N, 88.4612°W; NAD 84). 8 May 2014. John Maxwell, Jr. Verified by Chris Gienger. David H. Snyder Museum of Zoology, Austin Peay State Universi-ty (APSU 19493). Adult male (total length ca. 153 cm) found DOR in mix of standing hardwoods. New county record (Scottand Redmond 2008 [latest update: 19 May 2014]. Atlas of Reptiles in Tennessee. The Center of Excellence for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee. Available at http://apsu.edu/reptatlas/,accessed 28 May 2014).

Voucher specimen collected under Tennessee Wildlife Re-sources Agency Scientific Collection Permit # 3690.

JOHN MAXWELL, JR., Bethel University, 325 Cherry Avenue, McKen-zie, Tennessee 38201, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); A. FLOYD SCOTT, Department of Biology and Center of Excellence for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

REGINA ALLENI (Striped Crayfish Snake). USA: FLORIDA: baker Co.: Olustee, National Forest Rd 241(30.243512°N, 82.457107°W, WGS84; elev. 47 m). 6 June 2014. Noah J. Mueller and Shaun M. Duke. Verified by Kevin M. Enge. Florida Museum of Natural History (photographic voucher UF-Herpetology 173429). New county record (Krysko et al. 2011. Atlas of Amphibians and Rep-tiles in Florida. Final Report, Project Agreement 08013, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Flori-da. 524 pp.).

This snake was observed crossing a gravel road at dusk near Ocean Pond in Osceola National Forest. Our record represents the first from Baker Co. The next nearest known verified voucher from Florida is > 50 km in Alachua Co. (UF-Herpetology 1308). Although Regina alleni has been found in southern Georgia



(Jensen et al. 2008. Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia. Univer-sity of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia. 575 pp.), this find helps establish the range of R. alleni in north peninsular Florida.

NOAH J. MUELLER, Department of Geography, 3141 Turlington Hall, P.O. Box 117315, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); KENNETH L. KRYSKO, Division of Herpetology, Florida Museum of Natural History, 1659 Museum Road, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

SIBON ANTHRACOPS (Cope’s Snail Sucker). COSTA RICA: PUNTARENAS: Cabo Blanco Absolute Reserve, Sector Cabuya: (9.581778°N, 85.095186°W; WGS84). 3 m elev. 10 November 2013. Víctor Acosta, Carlos Garita, Karla Conejo, José Ramírez, Beat-riz Naranjo, and Andrés Jiménez. Verified by Gerardo Chaves, Adrián García and Alejandro Solórzano. UCR 22020. First re-cord outside the projected range of the species on the southern Nicoya Peninsula (Solórzano 2004. Serpientes de Costa Rica: Dis-tribución, Taxonomía e Historia Natural. INBio, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica. 792 pp.). The snake was foraging in low tropical dry forest vegetation, ca. 1.5 m above the ground next to the designated trail, Sendero Danés.

The voucher was collected under resolution No. 007-2013-SINAC.

VÍCTOR ACOSTA-CHAVES (e-mail: [email protected]), CARLOS GARITA (e-mail: [email protected]), KARLA CONEJO-BARBOZA (e-mail: [email protected]), JOSE D. RAMÍREZ-FERNÁNDEZ (e-mail: [email protected]), and BEATRIZ NARANJO (e-mail: [email protected]), Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Sede Rodrigo Facio, San Pedro, Costa Rica; ANDRÉS JIMÉNEZ, Administrator in Reserva Absoluta Cabo Blanco, Área de Conservación Tempisque, Cóbano, Puntarenas, Costa Rica (e-mail: [email protected]).

SISTRURUS CATENATUS (Eastern Massasauga). USA: MICHI-GAN: benZie Co.: east edge of Deadstream Swamp on Indian Hill Road, 0.6 km N of US 31 west of Honor, Homestead Twp (T26N R14W, Sec 8; 44.670719°N, 86.038778°W, WGS84; elev. 181 m). 24 April 1976. Thomas F. Beauvais. Verified by Chris Phillips. Illinois Natural History Survey digital photo voucher 2012i. Photo sourced from Traverse City Record Eagle 24 April 1976. New county record (Casper and Anton 2008. An Amphibian and Reptile Inventory of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Natural Resource Tech-nical Report NPS/GLKN/NRTR–2008/147. 47 pp.; Holman 2012. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michigan. Wayne State Universi-ty Press, Detroit, Michigan. 291 pp.) Extends range 56 km N from closest voucher specimen (UMMZ 1474105, Manistee Co.). Photo location is 8.04 km W of locality where an un-numbered teaching specimen (INHS color photo voucher 2012j) was collected and deposited at Benzie Central High School.

THOMAS F. BEAUVAIS, PO Box 130137, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48113, USA; e-mail: [email protected].

TANTILLA PLANICEPS (Western Black-headed Snake). USA: CALIFORNIA: san luis obisPo Co.: Caliente Mtns., Morales Can-yon watershed, approx. 11.6 air mi. SSE Soda Lake (35.08189°N, 119.80571°W, WGS84; elev. 1305 m). 24 April 2011. C. J. Evelyn and L. C. Henry. Verified by Samuel S. Sweet. University of Cali-fornia-Santa Barbara, Vertebrate Museum collection 32732. New county record (museum records [UCSB, Cal Poly SLO, Herpnet.org]. Range maps (Californiaherps.com) drawn to include San Luis Obispo Co. are not based on museum or sight records (G. Nafis, pers. comm.). Nearest record is from Santa Barbara Co., Miranda Pine Mountain Road, 2.5 mi NW of Miranda Pine Mtn.

(CAS 190348), 14 airline km to the E/SE. Adult female encoun-tered under a juniper stump in open juniper woodland. Another individual was also seen at the surface but avoided capture.

CHRISTOPHER J. EVELYN, Department of Evolutionary and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); LAURIE C. HENRY, Oceanview Middle School, 4200 Olds Road, Oxnard, California 93033, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

TROPIDODIPSAS FASCIATA (Banded Snail-sucker). GUATE-MALA: EL PETÉN: Laguna del Tigre National Park, Estación Bi-ológica Las Guacamayas, Río Sacluc (17.233557°N, 90.283492°W; WGS84), 54 m elev. 30 May 2013. Rowland Griffin. Verified by Eric N. Smith. UVGF 0001. This represents the first record of T. fasciata in Guatemala (Wilson and Johnson 2010. In Wilson et al. [eds.], Conservation of Mesoamerican Amphibians and Rep-tiles, pp. 31–235, Eagle Mt. Publishing, Eagle Mt., Utah), and a range extension of ca. 170 km from 1.2 km E Ixbonil, Campeche Mexico (Lee 1996. The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Yucatán Peninsula. Comstock Publ. Assoc., Ithaca, New York. xii + 500 pp.; AMNH R-149561). The male snake was found in a swampy area interspersed by thorn scrub on the eastern bank of the Sacluc River. Our research was conducted under license from CONAP Resolución No.109-2013.

ROWLAND GRIFFIN, Project Chicchan, c/o Estación Biológica Las Guacamayas, Avenida 15 de Marzo, Flores, Petén, Guatemala (e-mail: [email protected]); GARY POWELL, Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust, 655A Christchurch Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1 4AP, UK (e-mail: [email protected]).

VIRGINIA VALERIAE (Smooth Earthsnake). USA: GEORGIA: CoweTa Co.: Private residence on Bartlett Drive in Sharpsburg (33.397476°N, 84.666830°W; WGS 84). 19 March 2013. Nathan Baker. Verified by Gregory D. Hartman. Gordon State College (GSC-064). New county record (Jensen et al. 2008. Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia. University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia. 575 pp.; J. Jensen, pers. comm.). Species has been docu-mented in four adjoining counties (Jensen et al. 2008, op. cit.). Found in leaf litter in residential area.

Specimen collected under a Georgia Department of Natural Resources Scientific Collections Permit (29-WBH-12-122).


ERRATA Various county records reported by Duffus et al. (2014. Her-

petol. Rev. 45: 88, 92, 94, 97) for Apalone spinifera, Diadophis punctatus, Hemidactylus turcicus, Lithobates sphenocephalus, and Storeria dekayi, and by Bender et al. (2014. Herpetol. Rev. 45: 86, 93) for Agkistrodon contortrix, Notophthalmus viridescens, and Scincella lateralis in Georgia were not new records but in-stead represent additional records from the reported counties. Records of Graptemys geographica and Pseudemys concinna flor-idana were reported erroneously in Duffus et al. (2014. Herpetol. Rev. 45:90) and do not represent county records or range exten-sions for either species.

MICHAEL J. BENDER (e-mail: [email protected]), GREGO-RY D. HARTMAN (e-mail: [email protected]), and AMANDA L. J. DUFFUS (e-mail: [email protected]), Gordon State College, Barnesville, Georgia 30204, USA.

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