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Herpetological Review 41(4), 2010 519
RAMPHOTYPHLOPS BRAMINUS (Brahminy Blind Snake). MÉXICO: HIDALGO: MuniciPalitY of taSQuillo: Tzindeje (20. 56394°N, 99.31800°W; WGS84), elev. 1617 m. 12 July 2008. Luis Alberto Trejo Corona. Verified by Adrian Leyte Manrique. Colección de Anfibios y Reptiles del Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (CIB-2346). First record for Hidalgo, extending its known range ca. 125 km airline NW from the nearest record in Distrito Federal (Mancilla-Moreno and Ramírez-Bautista 1998. Herpetol. Rev. 29:54). The snake was found during the day among fallen logs and sand in thornscrub. We received support from Diversidad Biológica del Estado de Hidalgo and FOMIX-CONACYT- HIDALGO 43761, 95828, and funding for fieldwork by S52552-Q. Submitted by URIEL HERNÁNDEZ SALINAS (e-mail: [email protected]) and AURELIO RAMÍREZ BAU-TISTA, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB), Univer-sidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, A.P. 1-69 Plaza Juárez, C.P. 42001, Pachuca, Hidalgo, México (e-mail: [email protected]).
SISTRURUS MILIARIUS (Pygmy Rattlesnake). USA: GEORGIA: BartoW co.: SR 293, 0.3 mi W of Todd Rd. NW (34.24231ºN, 85.01112ºW; WGS84; Coord Precision: 50; Georef Source: Google Earth ver. 4.0.2091). 10 August 2010. Grover J. Brown. Verified by Kenneth L. Krysko. UF 154935. New county record (Jensen et al. 2008. Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia. University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia. 575 pp.). Submitted by GROVER J. BROWN, University of Georgia, Odum School of Ecology, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA; e-mail: [email protected]
STORERIA OCCIPITOMACULATA (Red-bellied Snake). USA: GEORGIA: BullocH co.: 0.5 km S of East Main Street along Willie McTail Trail in Statesboro (32.26604°N, 81.46927°W; datum not available). 26 June 2010. Submitted by Daniel May and Lance McBrayer. Verified by Ray Chandler. Georgia South-ern University Herpetology Collection. GSU 9731, 9732. New county record (Jensen et al. 2008. Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia. University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia 404 pp.). Originally captured on 01 February 2010 and released; then re-captured in the same location (~10 m from creek) under rotten hardwood log covered with kudzu. The gravid female, (GSU 9731; 152 mm SVL, 195 mm TL) gave birth to five offspring in captivity (GSU 9732; mean SVL 57 mm, 75 mm TL). Each animal was photographed and released. Submitted by DANIEL MAY and LANCE McBRAYER, De-partment of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30460, USA.
STORERIA OCCIPITOMACULATA OCCIPITOMACULATA (Northern Red-bellied Snake). USA: ARKANSAS: grant co.: 1.6 km N of Leola off St. Hwy 46 (34.184684˚N, 92.582645˚W; WGS 84). 15 June 2005. H. W. Robison. Verified by R. Tumli-son. Henderson State University Herpetological Collection (HSU 1556). New county record. Helps fill a distributional hiatus in central Arkansas between Jefferson and Hot Spring counties (Trauth et al. 2004. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Arkansas.
Univ. Arkansas Press, Fayetteville. 421 pp.). Submitted by CHRIS T. McALLISTER, Science and Mathe-matics Division, Eastern Oklahoma State College, 2805 NE Lin-coln Road, Idabel, Oklahoma 74745, USA (e-mail: [email protected]); and HENRY W. ROBISON, Department of Biology, Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, Arkansas 71754, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).
SYMPHOLIS LIPPIENS (Mexican Short-tailed Snake). MEXICO: JALISCO: MuniciPalitY of Puerto vallarta: 1 km W Quimixto (20.50289°N, 105.37747°W; WGS84), elev. 91 m. 29 July 2008. Marko Antonio Guzmán Vargas. Verified by Luis Canseco Márquez. Colección Herpetológica del Museo de Zoología Alfonzo L. Herrera, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM (MZFCID 03). First record from Puerto Vallarta, which bridges a distributional gap between 16.8 miles (26.88 km) E of San Blas, Nayarit (Zweifel 1959. Am. Mus. Novit. 1949:1–9) and Guadalajara, Jalisco, the type locality for the species (Smith and Taylor 1945. U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 187:iv + 1–239). The snake was found in tropical deciduous forest. Submitted by IVÁN T. AHUMADA CARRILLO (e-mail: [email protected].) and MARKO ANTONIO GUZMÁN VARGAS, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biológicas y Agro-pecuarias, Universidad de Guadalajara, Carretera a Nogales Km. 15.5, Las Agujas, Nextipac, Zapopan, Jalisco, México; and URI OMAR GÁRCIA-VÁZQUEZ, Laboratorio de Herpetología, Museo de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A.P. 70-399, México, D.F. 04510, México.
TANTILLA OOLITICA (Rim Rock Crowned Snake). USA: FLORIDA: Monroe co.: Big Pine Key, Ixora Drive (24.6814°N, 81.3519°W; NAD 83). 18 December 2007. Michael A. Yirka, Joseph Flowers, Michael D. Martin, Kevin R. Messenger, and Nathan A. Shepard. Verified by Kenneth L. Krysko. Florida Mu-seum of Natural History (UF photograph 152546). Island record. Extends the range 26.7 km west of the closest known locality on Vaca Key (Krysko and Decker 1996. Herpetol. Rev. 27:215). Only known Lower Keys record outside of questionable Key West specimen (Telford 1966. Bull. Florida St. Mus. Biol. Ser. 10:261–304). Submitted by MICHAEL A. YIRKA, 6016 Countryview Ln, Raleigh, North Carolina 27606, USA; JOSEPH N. FLOWERS, 4325 Inwood Road, Raleigh, North Carolina 27603, USA; MI-CHAEL D. MARTIN, University of South Carolina, Depart-ment of Biological Sciences, Coker Life Sciences Room 706, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA; KEVIN R. MESSEN-GER, Marshall University, Department of Biological Sciences, One John Marshall Drive, Huntington, West Virginia 25703, USA; and NATHAN A. SHEPARD, Marshall University, De-partment of Biological Sciences, One John Marshall Drive, Hun-tington, West Virginia 25703, USA (e-mail: [email protected]).
TROPIDOCLONION LINEATUM (Lined Snake). USA: NEW MEXICO: otero Co.: 1.93 km E of Mayhill on US Hwy 82 and 0.32 km N on Cherry Lane (32.90860°N, 105.46993°W; NAD83/WGS84), elev. 2016 m. 07 July 2006. Ian W. Murray and Christo-pher Newsom. Verified by J. Tomasz Giermakowski. University
