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Kansas Herpetology ISSN 1540-773X JOURNAL OF KANSAS HERPETOLOGY NUMBER 34 JU N E 2010 Published by the Kansas Herpetological Society http://www.cnah.org/khs EDITORIAL BOARD KHS OFFICERS (2010) Associate Editors President – KATHY ELLIS JOSEPH T. COLLINS 10025 SW Jordan Road Kansas Biological Survey Wakarusa, Kansas 66546 785.383.2788 TRAVIS W. TAGGART [email protected] Sternberg Museum of Natural History President-Elect – DEREK A. SCHMIDT Copy Editor 7741 SE 101st Street DANIEL G. MURROW Overbrook, Kansas 66524 Overland Park, Kansas 785.224.7549 Article Editors [email protected] EVA HORNE Kansas State University Past-President – DAN JOHNSON GEORGE R. PISANI 15506 Beverly Court Kansas Biological Survey Overland Park, Kansas 66223 LYNNETTE SIEVERT 913.897.0235 Emporia State University [email protected] WILLIAM STARK Treasurer – ERIC KEssLER Fort Hays State University 5624 Cherry Street JAMES TRIPLETT Kansas City, Missouri 64111 Pittsburg State University 816.444.4794 [email protected] LIAISON REPRESENTATIVES Secretary – MARY KATE BALdwIN Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks 5438 SW 12 Terrace Apt. 4 KEN BRUNSON Topeka, Kansas 66604 620.672-5911 785.215.7219 [email protected] Kansas Nongame Wildlife Advisory Council JOSEPH T. COLLINS Historian – SUZANNE L. COLLINS 785.393.4757 The Center for North American Herpetology 1502 Medinah Circle Kansas Chapter – Wildlife Society Lawrence, Kansas 66047 CURTIS J. SCHMIDT 785.393.2392 785.650.2447 [email protected] DISTINGUISHED LIFE MEMBERS Editor – CURTIS J. SCHMIDT Sternberg Museum of Natural History ROBERT F. CLARKE 3000 Sternberg Drive Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas Hays, Kansas 67601-2006 (1919–2008) 785.650.2447 JOSEPH T. COLLINS [email protected] Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas HENRY S. FITCH STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Field Trips - DANIEL G. MURROW (1909–2009) 8129 Perry #37 EUGENE D. FLEHARTY Overland Park, Kansas 66204 Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas 913.652.6971 [email protected] HOWARD K. GLOYD The University of Arizona, Tucson Nominating – JOSEPH T. COLLINS (1902–1978) Sternberg Museum of Natural History Hays, Kansas 67601-2006 LARRY L. MILLER 785.393.4757 Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas [email protected] GEORGE R. PISANI Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas Media & Publicity – ROBIN OLDHAM 716 Michigan Street DWIGHT R. PLATT Oswego, Kansas Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas 316.795.2293 HOBART M. SMITH [email protected] The University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Awards – DANIEL D. FOGELL EdwARD H. TAYLOR Dan Fogell The University of Kansas, Lawrence Southeast Community College (1889–1978) 8800 -O- Street Lincoln, Nebraska 68520 Front Cover: An adult Common Map Turtle (Graptemys 402.437.2870 geographica). Photograph by J. Daren Riedle, recipient of [email protected] The Collins Award in 2007 for best image. www.cnah.org/khs ISSN 1540-773X Journal of Kansas Herpetology NUMBER 34 — JU N E 2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS KHS BUSINESS Report on the 2010 Kansas Herpetological Society Spring Field Trip by Daniel Murrow .......................... 2 Images from the KHS 2010 Spring Field Trip by Suzanne L. Collins & Grace Anne Johnson .................... 3 KHS Annual Meeting Call for Papers .............................................................................................. 6 Call for KHS 2010 Herpetofaunal Counts ........................................................................................ 6 KHS Scholarship & Grant Deadlines ............................................................................................... 6 KHS 2010 Fall Field Trip to Norton County in October ....................................................................... 6 OF INTEREST In Memoriam: Ray E. Ashton, Jr., by Joseph T. Collins & George R. Pisani ........................................... 7 NOTES History and Distribution of the Western Green Lacerta, Lacerta bilineata (Reptilia: Squamata: Lacertidae) in Topeka, Kansas by Joseph T. Collins & James E. Gubanyi .................................................................................... 8 Pale Milk Snake (Lampropeltis triangulum multistriata) Consuming a Great Plains Skink (Plestiodon obsoletus) by Keith Geluso, Greg D. Wright & Angelina E. Graham ...............................................................10 Another Potential Victim of Mortality by In-ground Swimming Pools: the Ringneck Snake (Diadophis punctatus) by Tanya L. Bloyd & Malcolm L. McCallum ..................................................................................10 ARTICLES The Herpetofauna of Letterkenny Army Depot, South-Central Pennsylvania: A Starting Point to the Long-Term Monitoring and Management of Amphibians and Reptiles, by Pablo R. Delis, Craig Kindlin & Richard L. Stewart ...................................................................11 Journal of Kansas Herpetology Number 34 (June 2010) 1 www.cnah.org/khs KHS BUSINESS RESULTS OF THE KHS 2010 SPRING FIELD TRIP A near-record 170 KHS members and their friends, fami- lies, and colleagues gathered at the Gobbler’s Knob Camp- ELK COUNTY ground at Fall River State Park in Greenwood County in Species Number southeastern Kansas to spend the weekend of 23–25 April 2010 turning rocks, lifting logs, and searching the streams Amphibians for snakes, lizards, turtles, and assorted amphibians in American Toad .................................................................11 Greenwood and Elk counties. And they were stunningly Blanchard’s Cricket Frog .................................................12 successful, as the following list attests: Boreal Chorus Frog ...........................................................1 Bullfrog ..............................................................................5 GREENWOOD COUNTY Species Number Southern Leopard Frog ...................................................15 Great Plains Narrowmouth Toad .....................................47 Amphibians Reptiles American Toad .............................................................±100 Blanchard’s Cricket Frog .................................................41 Eastern Collared Lizard ...................................................10 Boreal Chorus Frog .......................................................±50 Five-lined Skink .................................................................7 Gray Treefrog complex ....................................................15 Great Plains Skink ...........................................................39 Plains Leopard Frog ......................................................±73 Ground Skink ...................................................................22 Bullfrog ..............................................................................6 Six-lined Racerunner .......................................................46 Southern Leopard Frog .................................................±70 Western Slender Glass Lizard ...........................................9 Great Plains Narrowmouth Toad .......................................1 Eastern Racer....................................................................9 Prairie Kingsnake ..............................................................1 Reptiles Speckled Kingsnake ........................................................18 Milk Snake .........................................................................4 Eastern Collared Lizard ...................................................17 Coachwhip .........................................................................4 Five-lined Skink .................................................................1 Great Plains Rat Snake .....................................................4 Great Plains Skink ...........................................................45 Gopher Snake (aka Bullsnake)..........................................1 Northern Prairie Skink .......................................................4 Western Rat Snake ...........................................................7 Ground Skink .....................................................................1 Ground Snake .................................................................16 Western Slender Glass Lizard ...........................................3 Flathead Snake ...............................................................77 Eastern Racer....................................................................8 Western Worm Snake .......................................................5 Prairie Kingsnake ..............................................................1 Ringneck Snake ............................................................266 Speckled Kingsnake ..........................................................7 Plainbelly Water Snake ...................................................10 Milk Snake .........................................................................1 Diamondback Water Snake ...............................................1 Gopher Snake (aka Bullsnake)..........................................2 Western Ribbon Snake ....................................................17 Western Rat Snake ...........................................................2 Common Garter Snake....................................................11 Ground Snake ...................................................................2 Lined Snake.....................................................................10 Flathead Snake ...............................................................96
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