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9(2) September 2020 1 ISSN 1540-773X The Newsletter/Journal of the Kansas Herpetological Society Volume 9, Number 2 September 2020 1974-2020 Published by the Kansas Herpetological Society ksherp.com KHS OFFICERS, 2020 COPY EDITORS CURTIS SCHMIDT President – CHRISTOPHER VISSER Sternberg Museum of Natural History Nebraska Nature Service 1025 E Street Lincoln, Nebraska 68508 TRAVIS TAGGART Sternberg Museum of Natural History 402.217.4250: [email protected] President-Elect – ANDREW GEORGE Department of Biology LIAISON REPRESENTATIVES Pittsburg State University Pittsburg, Kansas 66762 Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, & Tourism 620.235.4030: [email protected] DAREN RIEDLE 620.672.0746 Past-President – CURTIS SCHMIDT Kansas Nongame Wildlife Advisory Council Sternberg Museum of Natural History TRAVIS W. TAGGART Fort Hays State University 785.650.2445 3000 Sternberg Drive Hays, Kansas 67601 Sternberg Museum of Natural History 785.650.2447: [email protected] CURTIS J. SCHMIDT 785.650.2447 Treasurer – DEXTER R. MARDIS Wichita State University, Biol.Field Station DISTINGUISHED LIFE MEMBERS Box 26, 1845 N Fairmount ROBERT F. CLARKE Wichita, Kansas 67260 Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas 417.239.4541: [email protected] (1919–2008) Secretary – TODD VOLKMANN JOSEPH T. COLLINS Great Plains Nature Center Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas 6232 East 29th St N. Lawrence, Kansas Wichita, KS 67220 (1939–2012) 316.683.5499: [email protected] HENRY S. FITCH The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Historian – SUZANNE L. COLLINS (1909–2009) The Center for North American Herpetology 1502 Medinah Circle EUGENE D. FLEHARTY Lawrence, Kansas 66047 Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas 785.393.2392: [email protected] HOWARD K. GLOYD Editor - DAREN RIEDLE The University of Arizona, Tucson (1902–1978) Kansas Dept. of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism 512 SE 25th Ave LARRY L. MILLER Pratt, Kansas 67124 Seaman School District (USD 345), Topeka, Kansas 620.672.0746: [email protected] GEORGE R. PISANI Field Trips – TRAVIS W. TAGGART Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas Sternberg Museum of Natural History 3000 Sternberg Drive DWIGHT R. PLATT Hays, Kansas 67601-2006 Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas 785.650.2445: [email protected] HOBART M. SMITH The University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado (1912-2013) EDWARD H. TAYLOR The University of Kansas, Lawrence (1889–1978) STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS Nominating – LYNNETTE SIEVERT Department Of Biological Sciences Emporia State University Emporia, Kansas 66801 620.341.5606 Awards – DANIEL D. FOGELL Southeast Community College 8800 -O- Street Lincoln, Nebraska 68520 Front Cover: Photograph of juvenile Heterodon platirhinos (L) and H. 402.437.2870: [email protected] nasicus (R). Both specimens are from the Pratt/Kiowa County line. Photo by J. Daren Riedle, 2019. www.ksherp.com ISSN 1540-773X Collinsorum Volume 9, Number 2 — September 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS KHS BUSINESS KHS 2020 Virtual Meeting Announcement Todd Volkmann ................................................................................................... 2 KHS 46th Annual Meeting Summary Curtis J. Schmidt ................................................................................................. 3 Proceedings of the KHS 46th Annual Meeting J. Daren Riedle.................................................................................................... 6 ARTICLES Report of a Central Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens louisianensis) population in Newton County, Missouri. Teresa R. Boman, Abram Bowman, Melissah Perkins, and David A. Penning .......15 Anoline Succession Follows Habitat Succession at the Barnacle Historic State Park in Southern Florida. Walter E. Meshaka Jr.and Matthew Banks ..........................................................19 NOTES Scavenging of the Brown Snake (Storeria dekayi) by the Eastern Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix). David Kelly ........................................................................................................29 An observation of the Spiny Softhshell (Apalone spinifera) in Leavenworth County, Kansas. Matthew A. Cross, William Summers, and Neil Bass ...........................................29 KHS 2020 Field Trips You can now pay your 2020 dues On-line... Fall Hollister Wildlife Area 25-26 Sept. Visit the KHS Website ksherp.com ...now, and never miss out! Collinsorum 9(2) September 2020 1 www.ksherp.com KHS BUSINESS KHS 2020 Virtual Meeting Annoucement The Executive Council has voted in agreement • Howard Kay Gloyd/Edward Harrison that the 47th Annual Meeting of the Kansas Her- Taylor Scholarship. The KHS annually grants a petological Society will no longer be an in-person $300 scholarship named for two distinguished event due to concerns, and circumstances, Kansas herpetologists. regarding Covid-19. Christopher Visser, KHS • Alan H. Kamb Grant for Research on Kan- President will lead the meeting transformation sas Snakes. The KHS annually awards a $300 into a virtual experience that shall maintain the grant in honor and memory of Alan H. Kamb, a function, opportunities and charm of the cher- longtime supporter and member of the Kansas ished physical gathering as much as possible. Herpetological Society. The event will take place November 7th and 8th. • The Walter Meshaka Award for Excel- Details will be updated and posted on the KHS lence in Ecology. The best poster presented at website and Facebook group. the KHS Annual Meeting will receive $200 and The Annual Meeting will still feature paper and $100 will go to the runner up. poster presentations, the KHS Business Meeting, • George Toland Award for Ecological Re- and an auction that will no doubt contain the search on North American Herpetofauna. CNAH most coveted of items. The talks will be casual and the KHS annually makes a $200 award in and laid-back; where distinguished scientists honor and memory of George Toland, a longtime and 10-year-old Steve Irwins in the making are supporter and member of the Kansas Herpeto- equally encouraged and anticipated. So please, logical Society. join us from anywhere in the world to celebrate • Henry S. Fitch-Dwight R. Platt Award for herpetology and support KHS and the event excellence in Field Herpetology. The KHS annually participants. makes a $200 award to a KHS member that, in Call for papers: KHS is proud to issue a call the recent past made a significant herpetological for both paper and poster presentations and is- discovery in the field or conducted significant sues awards in excess of $2,000 at each annual herpetological field work that contributed to our meeting. This year virtual talks will be held in knowledge of these creatures. lieu of traditional presentations. Herpetologists The KHS Business Meeting and Officer Elections at all levels of expertise are encouraged and will be held at the conclusion of virtual presen- urged to give scientific paper presentations. The tations and awards ceremony. Please contact scholarship and grant submission deadlines are Dr. Lynnette Sievert at [email protected] September 25th. Visit www.ksherp.com/awards with officer nominations ASAP. Self-nomination for full details on the following awards: is encouraged. • The Suzanne L. and Joseph T. Collins Call for Auction Items: The auction format is Award for excellence in Kansas Herpetology. yet to be determined but it will be concise and This year the $1,000 award will be issued for desirable. Contact Dexter Mardis (Dmardis784@ the best paper/presentation. Any paper (within gmail.com) with any prized herpetological of- the guidelines) from 2019 or 2020 is eligible. ferings or suggestions. Keep in mind shipping To qualify for The Collins Award, a portion of costs and packaging may play a role this year. the fieldwork or observations must have oc- Please do not offer anything (whole or part) that curred in Kansas, or the systematic data must is either living or once was. have been based in part on Kansas specimens. As reptiles and amphibians have done through- Individuals eligible for The Collins Award must out history, we will continue to adapt to current be KHS members when they do the research, circumstances and persevere through adverse when the paper is published, or when the talk is conditions, being better off from the experience. given. Further, the KHS requires individuals who Please plan to join the 47th Annual Meeting, present papers to signify they are eligible for participate if possible, and enjoy the virtual The Collins Award when they submit the title of encounter. the talk to the KHS Meeting Chairperson or just prior to giving the talk at the annual meeting. -Todd Volkmann Please contact Dan Fogell (dfogell@southeast. KHS Secretary edu) to ensure that your paper is considered. Collinsorum 9(2) September 2020 2 www.ksherp.com The Kansas Herpetological Society’s ogy of Kansas’ Borders”. Experts from Kansas and 46th Annual Meeting surrounding states spoke about the herpetofauna 1-3 November, 2019 near the shared state boundaries in hopes of Fort Hays State University and Stern- enlightening the crowd about the biogeography berg Museum of Natural History of herps within these areas. This exciting sym- Hays, Kansas posium took us to the break at 3:30. Two more talks rounded out the afternoon’s session and The 46th annual meeting of the KHS kicked off took us to the KHS Business Meeting at 4:30. with an evening social at the Sternberg Museum The Business Meeting began with an intro- of Natural History. Guests were treated to a duction of the current officers and
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