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