On 6 June 2004, Pete Warny and four of my research students, Cynthia Jimenez, Xenia Freilich, Paula Kozlowski and Magdalena Petrov, went collecting in upstate New York (Sullivan Co.).  The objective was to obtain tissue samples from Coluber constrictor, Thamnophis sirtalis, Pantherophis alleghaniensis and Diadophis punctatus.  Here are some of the amphibians and reptiles we say in one day!!  A very good catch for early July in NY!!!

 

Nopophthalmus viridescens

 

Plethodon glutinosus

Eurycea longicauda

 

Ambystoma jeffersonianum

Desmognathus ochrophaeus

Pseudotriton ruber

Plethodon cinereus

Ambystoma maculatum

 

Ambystoma laterale

Diadophis punctatus

Lampropeltis triangulum

Thamnophis sirtalis