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- October 12th, 2018, 5:45 pm
- Forum: Invertebrate Forum
- Topic: In search of the extinct
- Replies: 0
- Views: 24420
In search of the extinct
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...
- October 4th, 2018, 1:21 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Range extensions in Marin?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 34773
Re: Range extensions in Marin?
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...
- October 3rd, 2018, 5:46 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Rana pipiens vs Rana sphenocephala
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11876
- October 2nd, 2018, 5:23 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Range extensions in Marin?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 34773
Re: Range extensions in Marin?
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.
- October 2nd, 2018, 5:03 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Rana pipiens vs Rana sphenocephala
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11876
Rana pipiens vs Rana sphenocephala
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...
- September 30th, 2018, 8:43 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Range extensions in Marin?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 34773
Re: Range extensions in Marin?
Sometimes people release fire-bellied newts which could easily confused for red-bellied.
- September 27th, 2018, 2:32 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Melanistic Snake Identification Needed
- Replies: 17
- Views: 23022
- September 27th, 2018, 2:27 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Melanistic Snake Identification Needed
- Replies: 17
- Views: 23022
Re: Melanistic Snake Identification Needed
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 ...
- September 26th, 2018, 6:18 pm
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: Vector range map for Rana kauffeldi
- Replies: 1
- Views: 18799
Vector range map for Rana kauffeldi
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...
- September 8th, 2018, 6:54 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Should we invalidate Pseudacris sierra?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11524
Re: Should we invalidate Pseudacris sierra?
So I guess Hubbs changing to Trila Regilla books is out...
- September 8th, 2018, 6:36 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Need a CC0 or equivalent Southern Leopard Frog
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8992
Need a CC0 or equivalent Southern Leopard Frog
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...
- August 17th, 2018, 3:41 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Should we invalidate Pseudacris sierra?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11524
Should we invalidate Pseudacris sierra?
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 i...
- July 22nd, 2018, 7:35 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Socal Skink ID Request
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10017
Re: Socal Skink ID Request
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_...
- June 27th, 2017, 7:37 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Documenting my Life List
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14016
Re: Documenting my Life List
you gotta take a photo or it don't count Brian seems to have missed the gold standard - you gotta pickle it for it to count. 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 ...
- June 21st, 2017, 12:26 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Documenting my Life List
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14016
Re: Documenting my Life List
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.
- June 21st, 2017, 12:07 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Documenting my Life List
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14016
Documenting my Life List
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...
- June 20th, 2017, 4:57 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Great Basin whiptail ID confirmation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3840
Re: Great Basin whiptail ID confirmation
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...
- June 20th, 2017, 3:56 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Great Basin whiptail ID confirmation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3840
- June 20th, 2017, 3:55 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Pyramid Lake Whiptails
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2778
Re: Pyramid Lake Whiptails
Thank you - updated my record http://www.naherp.com/viewrecord.php?r_id=281022
- June 20th, 2017, 12:15 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Great Basin whiptail ID confirmation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3840
Great Basin whiptail ID confirmation
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
Can I get the subspecies ID verified on that record? Pyramid Lake on I5 in California
Thanks
- June 19th, 2017, 11:05 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Please verify my NAFHA AZ records
- Replies: 0
- Views: 12307
Please verify my NAFHA AZ records
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,...
- June 19th, 2017, 2:54 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: HerpMapper vs NAHERP vs iNaturalist
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14285
Re: HerpMapper vs NAHERP vs iNaturalist
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...
- June 19th, 2017, 2:42 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Pyramid Lake Whiptails
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2778
Pyramid Lake Whiptails
Pyramid Lake on I5 in the grapevine, anyone know the subspecies of A. tigris that occurs there?
- May 21st, 2017, 9:25 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Contra Costa County Species List and Database Gaps
- Replies: 29
- Views: 13168
Re: Contra Costa County Species List and Database Gaps
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...
- July 27th, 2015, 1:36 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: SRB History / taxonomy
- Replies: 38
- Views: 14953
Re: SRB History / taxonomy
See above
- July 27th, 2015, 1:26 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: SRB History / taxonomy
- Replies: 38
- Views: 14953
Re: SRB History / taxonomy
Response on subject of a "rare" US herp - off topic to this thread :
http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/vie ... 20&t=22355
http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/vie ... 20&t=22355
- July 23rd, 2015, 11:08 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: SRB History / taxonomy
- Replies: 38
- Views: 14953
Re: SRB History / taxonomy
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 ...
- July 23rd, 2015, 5:44 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: SRB History / taxonomy
- Replies: 38
- Views: 14953
Re: SRB History / taxonomy
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...
- July 22nd, 2015, 9:08 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Gartersnake (cyrtopsis) behavior - Rhabdophis impersonation
- Replies: 41
- Views: 16806
Re: Gartersnake (cyrtopsis) behavior - Rhabdophis impersonat
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...
- July 21st, 2015, 3:28 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Which Sceloporus?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2618
Re: Which Sceloporus?
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.
- July 18th, 2015, 2:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Unidentified tree frog
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4690
Re: Unidentified tree frog
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...
- July 18th, 2015, 12:29 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Unidentified tree frog
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4690
Re: Unidentified tree frog
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.
- July 18th, 2015, 11:49 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Unidentified tree frog
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4690
Re: Unidentified tree frog
Upload the pictures to photobucket and you can copy the bbcode from photobucket,
- July 17th, 2015, 11:57 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Which Sceloporus?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2618
Re: Which Sceloporus?
Thank you, I'll just do undulatus in the database then.
- July 17th, 2015, 11:49 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Which Whiptail ??
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3319
Re: Which Whiptail ??
Here is a zoom
Does that help?
Does that help?
Egg Mass
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...
- July 17th, 2015, 2:19 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Which Whiptail ??
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3319
Which Whiptail ??
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.
- July 17th, 2015, 2:07 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Which Sceloporus?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2618
Which Sceloporus?
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c38/FunkyResFHF/IMG_0919_reduced_zpstflmzwmt.jpg http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c38/FunkyResFHF/IMG_0922_cropped_reduced_zpsfffm1yi4.jpg Locality: El Paso County, Colorado I suspect it is Eastern Fence. I think only other possibility is Desert Spiny but I think ...
- July 16th, 2015, 12:42 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Thamnophis Elegans speculation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2665
Re: Thamnophis Elegans speculation
Unless there is geographic isolation, I don't think reproductive isolation happens overnight. I think as two different lineages diverge from a common ancestor, gene flow can still occur between them for some time. When the two populations remain compatible enough that nature does not select against ...
- July 16th, 2015, 3:47 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Thamnophis Elegans speculation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2665
Thamnophis Elegans speculation
First speculation, and quite possibly incorrect - First I speculate that coasties and mountain garters are the same thing, just different color variations. The mountain garters here in Shasta County seem to be just like the coast garters I grew up with in SFBA except for the coloration. But there ar...
- July 16th, 2015, 12:56 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Pet Peeves
- Replies: 54
- Views: 27366
Re: Pet Peeves
Sorry I kind of dropped out for awhile.
I'm kind of back, maybe, we'll see.
I'm kind of back, maybe, we'll see.
- July 15th, 2015, 8:41 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: ID confirmation needed (Sceloporus vs Uta)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1904
ID confirmation needed (Sceloporus vs Uta)
http://www.naherp.com/viewrecord.php?r_id=232646
At the time, Sceloporus was the only genus on my mind, I don't get to herp a lot where there are Uta.
Now I suspect it is Uta but before I change the ID can I get a confirmation from someone with experience with Uta?
At the time, Sceloporus was the only genus on my mind, I don't get to herp a lot where there are Uta.
Now I suspect it is Uta but before I change the ID can I get a confirmation from someone with experience with Uta?
- May 12th, 2013, 8:17 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: L fisheri relative in Mexico ??
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1883
L fisheri relative in Mexico ??
Repost from the main forum: Saw this on wikipedia but no reference - The fisheri/chiricahuensis complex has a close relationship with an unnamed leopard frog species called only "Rana species 2" known from San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Anyone know what it is talking about? No hablo español, pid...
- May 11th, 2013, 4:27 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Mexican relative of L fisheri ??
- Replies: 2
- Views: 963
Mexican relative of L fisheri ??
Saw this on wikipedia but no reference -
Anyone know what it is talking about?The fisheri/chiricahuensis complex has a close relationship with an unnamed leopard frog species called only "Rana species 2" known from San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
- May 5th, 2013, 1:57 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Unsuccessful in the field (Now Successful!)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3803
Re: Unsuccessful in the field
I'm in Shasta County, CA - you'd think by now I'd have both an Oregon Gartersnake and a Shasta Alligator lizard in the database. I've found the latter but never able to get a voucher. I've not yet found the former even though I'm 100% sure I've herped where they should be on optimal days. It just go...
- May 5th, 2013, 1:50 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Unsuccessful in the field (Now Successful!)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3803
Re: Unsuccessful in the field
#truthjimoo742 wrote:I don't have much to add other than please don't let one day (or one week) of not finding anything get you down. It is part of the deal. PLENTY of times I've gone into habitat I know has loads of herps and in seemingly good conditions and found nothing.
- April 3rd, 2013, 2:59 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Sagebrush Lizard or Western Fence?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4717
Re: Sagebrush Lizard or Western Fence?
5000 feet solidifies sagebrush, in my mind anyway.
Sure, fence are found that high and even higher, but I've found as I get that high - sagebrush quickly become more numerous. For me it seems to be somewhere around 3,000 feet where fence becomes scarce and sagebrush becomes common.
Sure, fence are found that high and even higher, but I've found as I get that high - sagebrush quickly become more numerous. For me it seems to be somewhere around 3,000 feet where fence becomes scarce and sagebrush becomes common.
- April 2nd, 2013, 5:18 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Sagebrush Lizard or Western Fence?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4717
Re: Sagebrush Lizard or Western Fence?
I've never found a specimen I thought was a hybrid, but I wonder how often if ever the two do hybridize where both are found. My guess is F1 is all there would ever be if any.
- April 2nd, 2013, 5:15 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Sagebrush Lizard or Western Fence?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4717
Re: Sagebrush Lizard or Western Fence?
Hard one - the scales look too keeled to be sagebrush but the rear legs sure look sagebrush. I'm gonna guess sagebrush. What was the elevation?
- March 31st, 2013, 10:48 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Letter Draft to CDFG
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5152
Re: Letter Draft to CDFG
I think scientific collection is more than someone like me needs, who will not and should not actually ever collect any SSC specimens nor is involved in a specific scientific study. A "citizen science data permit" that is lower level would be awesome.