Photo 1454084, (c) Gerry Salmon, all rights reserved, uploaded by Gerry Salmon

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What

Northern Cat-eyed Snake (Leptodeira septentrionalis)

Observer

gtsalmon

Date

January 2014

Place

Texas, US (Google, OSM)

Description

Juvenile specimen imaged (only) by Tawni Osborne and image sent to Gerald Keown for identification. Found in a plastic flower pot in January 2014. UTA-DC 8109. Verified by Carl J. Franklin. First record for Kleberg County, Texas. Published in Herp Review 45(3) 2014, 466 (Keown and Salmon) which also corrected an earlier specimen recorded in error for Kleberg Co. (MVZ 75963). Research determined that specimen to be from Kenedy County (11 miles S of Sarita on Hwy 77, near "Mifflin", collected 16 April 1963 by Earl Turner, deposited by Jay Savage). See comment by Dixon (in Dixon, 2013. Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas, third edition. Page 247). "An isolated museum record for Kleberg County is questionable." Dr. Dixon was correct as interview with the collector and subsequent correspondence with the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (at U.C. Berkeley) amended this specimen's data accordingly. Data on tag had been correct, except for the county.

See second image for close-up (crop).

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