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The Sooty Crayfish - Pacifastacus nigrescens Probably extinct. I'm going to look for it though in the Mt Diablo watershed while also looking for remnant Rana boylii next year. Last time I went to Mount Diablo looking for Rana boylii, only found Rana draytonii in the creeks I checked. It was a Bay Ar...

Do rivularis prefer warmer and deeper water like torosa or cooler shallow water like granulosa? Though in that case it was indeed flowing water (which is all I've ever found torosa in). Torosa can still be found in the standing water of Tilden Regional Park, and historically (80s) I found them in t...

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Interesting. Don't have a reference, but I seem to recall on a phylogenetic tree, red-bellied are closer to rough-skinned than they are to california.

Hello all - I am currently working on an article related to Rana pipiens. I was hoping end of September but realistically I am thinking beginning of November. What it is, it's a transcription of the original description in Fraktur German, the same text in modern script German (with few spelling upda...

Sometimes people release fire-bellied newts which could easily confused for red-bellied.

Found it -

http://www.naherp.com/viewrecord.php?r_id=24913

Thanks, Richard. I'm sure you're right. The tail length and shape is what concerned me most. Unfortunately, these are the best pictures available as the snake was released. Until seeing this snake, I hadn't realized how similar the two species are without the natural coloring. This leads me to ask ...

In Feinberg, Newman, et. al. (2014) they have a figure showing the historic perception of leopard frogs along Atlantic Coast on the left, and updated on the right. I needed that image for something I'm working on - but in vector. The image in the article is bitmap, and to be honest - looks like it w...

So I guess Hubbs changing to Trila Regilla books is out...

Almost posted this in image lab but it's not really a question about photography methods... I'm working on a translation of the 1782 original description of Rana pipiens - which is actually in Fraktur script German (a blackletter / gothic script) But not just a translation, also including context, s...

And by "we" I mean people who, like, have degrees and get published, not me. Hyla regilla was described by Baird and Girard in 1852, In the very same journal, Hallowell described Hyla scapularis - and the description, it seems pretty clear it is P. regilla complex to me, and I believe it is consider...

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7165/6451473113_0c6a3c16b2_z.jpg Northern Brown Skink by California Reptile & Amphibian Appreciation , on Flickr I suspect that is Skilton's Skink. Any large ones retain that pattern, or do large all look like below? https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6111/6417106633_6d30...

you gotta take a photo or it don't count Brian seems to have missed the gold standard - you gotta pickle it for it to count. That's kind of what I'm looking for, I want photo vouchers no reasonable person would challenge as a correct ID for every species / subspecies I've encountered. Some on that ...

Oh - there's a Racerunner and Eastern Fence Lizard from CO - I have pictures at home and can get geolocation so I can enter those if I didn't already.

I haven't been very good at entering records last few years in NAHERP. After my recent trip to AZ / Joshua Tree, I'm inspired to try to do a better job. I don't drive (Epilepsy) so herping outside of Redding is difficult, but I think if I make a goal to try and document every herp I've seen in the w...

Recently read a thread from about a year ago which I chose not to reply to because I didn't want to stir up the misogynistic stuff I don't have the right alleles for to find as funny. The thread (please don't respond there, let it die, make your own choice but please... http://www.fieldherpforum.com...

Just curious, why are you still using outdated subspecies? Are you suggesting that the use of subspecies themselves are outdated? I would disagree because I believe they give us a window into the speciation process. Mountain Garters and Wandering Garters have a broad integration zone in Oregon, ind...

Updated per http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/vie ... =2&t=24397

Thank you - updated my record http://www.naherp.com/viewrecord.php?r_id=281022

These debates seem to harden folks positions. I wonder rpecora, what evidence would convince you that anthropogenic climate change is real? On the other side of the coin, what would convince you monarchzman, that the climate is not changing or that its part of a natural cycle? I use to deny climate...

http://www.naherp.com/viewrecord.php?r_id=281022

Can I get the subspecies ID verified on that record? Pyramid Lake on I5 in California

Thanks

Spent a few days in AZ and would appreciate verification of my herp ID. I have not yet bothered to do subspecies level ID, if you know then please comment, I'll try add subspecies level later. First time herping AZ http://www.naherp.com/search.php?r_owner=25&r_country=1&r_state=38 8 records, most I ...

I stopped submitting records. Use to use an eTrex Legend, via serial port. PC motherboard don't have serial ports anymore. There are adapters but getting them to work in Linux (my OS) hasn't always worked. Bought a USB Garmin. It worked until I lost the cable, and it seems Garmin requires a Garmin c...

Pyramid Lake on I5 in the grapevine, anyone know the subspecies of A. tigris that occurs there?

I use to be a human-caused climate change denier. Circa 2000 or so.

I no longer deny we are causing it. We are, and it is bad, very bad.

Not sure when I switched.

In my youth, I found San Francisco Alligator Lizards in Tilden Regional Park (yes positive not Southern) In my youth, I found Coast Gartersnakes in San Pablo and Pinole In my youth, I found a single California Red-sided in Pinole The Cynops record is mine, locality was Tilden where pets are often re...

Fieldnotes wrote:I say, bring them on... I'd also like to see the re-establishment of Wolves and Grizzly Bears in the high Sierra Nevada.

I think California Grizzlies were more of a resident of the Oak Savannah in the valley than the Sierra's but I might be wrong.

The LA pine would be "Hubbscommon"... :lol: But, seriously, I would call the LA Pine extremely secretive and occurring in low densities. If you can't find something it doesn't always mean its rare or imperiled. The CA Dept of Fish and Wildlife used to think Mtn Kings were rare, and I'm sure there a...

I can go to a museum and know where to find a particular old book or antique...

That I would agree with. A population / species should not be declared "rare" unless science can demonstrate a severe population crash that the population / species may not be able to recover from without remedial help (resolving the cause the crash, and if necessary, population management)

http://dfw.state.or.us/Wolves/population.asp That's the 2014 activity map of Gray Wolves in the State of Oregon. At the end of 2014 there were 77 confirmed Gray Wolves in the state, estimated that there likely were 90 to 95 actual wolves. They can't count every wolf as wolves that are not collared w...

Split off from another thread as it was off topic to that thread. The other thread : http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=22341 -=- I would only have one disagreement with what you just said Richard. The word "rare" never applies to U.S. herps ever...We do not have any rare herps ...

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Response on subject of a "rare" US herp - off topic to this thread :

http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/vie ... 20&t=22355

How communal are Rubber Boas? I have only ever had two specimens, both of which I kept, when I was in my teens. I had a male I collected in West Contra County near Richmond, CA - possibly within the city limits, I don't know, and a younger female I collected in the hills of El Cerrito. Neither were ...

If I read it right - scale counts are useless because there is too much variety. A locality may be fairly consistent but there is too much variety from locality to locality amongst populations that appear to have continuous gene flow. So in the Rubber Boa complex, scale counts are not a reliable met...

I agree with Kelly MC With respect to tail rattling, I think the evolutionary reasoning behind it has to do with the fact that a lot of predators have vision that focuses on movement. When a predator attacks the tail, the snake can then fight back with the head. Flattening the neck, Gartersnakes usu...

Well.... lets go from non specific to extremely specific. Number one on my bucket list is to find and photograph a Lampropeltis alterna in New Mexico. There has been one, and only one found to my knowledge (I could be wrong). I spent a few days in the neighborhood and would like to spend a lot more...

With regard to the Rainbow Snake - Creek near here in Redding, I documented Rana boylii. Several specimens, adult and very young. I notified the BLM because it was on BLM land. The BLM biologist responded that twice they had surveyed that creek and only found Pseudacris. However, the parts of the cr...

It was down in the grasslands, in an area that is a wetland preserve for birds. Western Painted Turtles, Red-Eared Sliders, American Bullfrogs, and the whiptail I asked for ID on were also present at the locale.

Fisheating Creek in Glades County, Florida - I think most here know what I would hope to find. I've never been, but based on everything I've read, and from the people I've spoken with who have been, you aren't going to find what you're looking for. I'd change it the Lake Wales ridge of Florida not ...

Don't have 10 but... Yellowstone during the right season to possibly find reproducing spadefoot toads Klamath area of Southern Oregon to photograph the T. elegans intergrades Creek in Shasta County too specific to mention to photograph Tailed Frogs Fisheating Creek in Glades County, Florida - I thin...

That would be great because I have hundreds of tadpoles. I volunteer in a protected 70 acre plot in the middle of a very suburban area and while we do have bullfrogs, eastern box turtles, snappers, painted turtles and a few garter snakes, there are no tree frogs or peepers. I would love to re-intro...

The picture is coming through now, I can't identify species but it looks at least North American to me, I would guess Pseudacris for the genus.

Upload the pictures to photobucket and you can copy the bbcode from photobucket,

Thank you, I'll just do undulatus in the database then.

Here is a zoom



Does that help?

I'm not even sure they are amphibian. This slow moving stream appeared to be without fish, but there were wandering gartersnakes nearby, they eat something. I heard a few plops that sounded Rana in nature, and Columbia Spotted Frogs were visually seen in other streams and ponds. Yellowstone NP Are t...

El Paso County, Colorado

About the size of a typical Western Skink.

I suspect Plateau Striped Whiptail but cant rule out Six-lined Racerunner.

Thanks for help.