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Description
Larry Ditto and I seined about a dozen amphibians we did not recognize from a small stock tank on a private ranch in Kenedy Co. We tried to photograph them on land, but they were slippery and hard to hold. We got a few shots on wet grass, then released them back into the tank. We tentatively identified them as Rio Grande Lesser Sirens after looking through some field guides.
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Nobody has officially published anything describing the Sirens in South Texas as S. texana. One paper calls them S. lacertina but that doesn't make much sense either so until a formal description is published we are stuck with S. intermedia.
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I would probably ID this as Siren texana, but it won't let me.
Yes, I tried that originally, and had the same experience. Perhaps some admin person can figure it out.
Nobody has officially published anything describing the Sirens in South Texas as S. texana. One paper calls them S. lacertina but that doesn't make much sense either so until a formal description is published we are stuck with S. intermedia.
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