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GRYLIO ( ). USA: TEXAS: ORANGE CO: South of Submitted by CARLOS D. CAMP and R. ALEX PYRON, Interstate of Highway 10 on the Tony Houseman State Park and Department of Biology, Piedmont College, PO Box 10, Demorest, Wildlife Management Area (30°06'44.2"N, 93°42'44.8"W). 15 July Georgia 30535, USA. 2003. TCWC 86524. Collected by KJ Lodrigue, Jr., Derrick Wolter, and Willis Sylvest. Verified by James R. Dixon. New county record. RANA SYLVATICA (Wood Frog). USA: KENTUCKY: CAMPBELL (Dixon 2000. and Reptiles of Texas, Second edition, CO: Melbourne, NE intersection Rt. 8 and Anderson Rd. 26 June Texas A&M Univ. Press, College Station. 421 pp.) Fills gap in 2002. John Ferner, Brian King, and Eric Chapman. Thomas More distribution between Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, and Jefferson College Herpetology Collection (TMC A201). Verified by Jeffrey County, Texas. Specimen collected in submerged aquatic G. Davis. New county record based on Conant and Collins (1991, vegetation. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central Submitted by KJ LODRIGE, JR., Texas Parks and Wildlife North America. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston, Massachusetts, 450 Department, 10 Parks and Wildlife Drive, Port Arthur, Texas 77640, PP.). USA, and DERRICK WOLTER, Texas Parks and Wildlife Submitted by JOHN W. FERNER, ERIC CHAPMAN, Department, 1201 Childers Road, Orange, Texas 77630, USA. BRIAN KING, and PAUL KRUSLING, Department of Biology, Thomas More College, Crestview Hills, Kentucky 41017, USA. RANA MAGNAOCULARIS (Bug-eyed Leopard Frog). MEXICO: CHIHUAHUA: Batopilas (27°1'34.1"N, 107°45'44.5"W), 435 m TESTUDINES elev. 8-12 July 2002. Julio A. Lemos-Espinal. Herpetological Collection of Unidad de Biologia, Tecnologia y Prototipos CHELYDRA SERPENTINA (Snapping Turtle). USA: NEW (UBIPRO 9294-9312, 9314-16, 9336-37, 9339, 9440). Arroyo MEXICO: TORRANCE CO: DOR north side of Interstate 40, near El Camuchil (same coordinates, elevation and collector as the Osita Draw, 5.7 km W Clines Corners, ca. 2100 m elev. preceding). 5 July 2002. UBIPRO 9244-5, 9427-34. Verified by (35°00'16"N, 105°43'52"W). 1 June 2003. Tom Giermakowski and Alan deQueiroz. First record for Chihuahua, extending the known Aaron Lamb. Verified by Charles Painter. University of New range eastward ca. 85 km from Rio Chuchijaqui, 7 mi E Alamos, Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB 66531). New Sonora (Hale 1989. Tucson Herpetol. Soc. Newsl. 2:98). county record (Degenhardt et al. 1996. Amphibians and Reptiles Submitted by JULIO A. LEMOS-ESPINAL, under CONABIO of New Mexico. Univ. of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, xix + Projects U003, X004 and AE003, Laboratorio de Ecologia, 431 pp.). Documents presence at a relatively high altitude water UBIPRO, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Ixtacala, UNAM, body outside of both the Pecos and Rio Grande drainages (to the Apartado Postal 314, Avenida de los Barrios s/n, Los Reyes east and west, respectively). It is unlikely this specimen was a Iztacala, Tlalnepantla, Estado de Mexico, 54090 Mexico (e-mail: released individual given the locality and proximity to water [email protected]), DAVID CHISZAR and HOBART sources. M. SMITH, University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, Colorado Submitted by TOM GIERMAKOWSKI (e-mail: 80309-0334, USA (e—mail: [email protected]). [email protected]) and AARON LAMB (e—mail: [email protected]), Museum of Southwestern Biology. RANA PALUSTRIS (Pickerel Frog). USA: INDIANA: JENNINGS MSCO3 2020, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New CO: Crosley and Wildlife Area, CR 300 S, 9.0 km E of Hwy Mexico 87131-0001, USA. 3. 15 March 2002. Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida (UF 134736-737). Stesha Pasachnik Verified by John CHELYDRA SERPENTINA SERPENTINA (Eastern Snapping Iverson. New county record (Minton 2001. Amphibians and Turtle). USA: TEXAS: MARION CO: 9.7 km NW Jefferson off FM Reptiles of Indiana. Indiana Acad. Sci., Indianapolis, 406 pp.). 728, on Berea 3. 12 June 2003. D. I. Moore. Arkansas State Submitted by STESHA A. PASACHNIK, Earlham College, University Museum of Zoology, Herpetological Collection Richmond, Indiana 47374, USA; e—mail: [email protected]. (ASUMZ 27919). Verified by Stanley E. Trauth. New county record completely filling hiatus in northeastern Texas of the Arkansas- RANA SYLVATICA (Wood Frog). USA: GEORGIA: UPSON CO: Louisiana-Texas junction (Allen and McAllister. 2001. Herpetol. Woodland pool near confluence of Turkey Creek and Flint River Rev. 32:191; Dixon 2000. Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas. Texas at Sprewell Bluff, 11.3 km W of Thomaston. Carlos Camp and A&M Univ. Press, College Station. 421 pp.). Also reported Alex Pyron. collected 23 February 2003 and raised to previously from adjacent Caddo Parish, Louisiana (Dundee and metamorphosis. Verified by E. McGhee. Two newly Rossman 1989. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Louisiana. LSU metamorphosed deposited in Georgia Museum of Natural Press, Baton Rouge. 300 pp.). History (GMNH 49216-17). Site is surrounded by steep bluffs Submitted by DAWN I. MOORE and CHRIS T. associated with Flint River with mesic hardwoods of oak (Quercus McALLISTER, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University- spp.) and beech (Fagus grandifolia) on lower slopes. Upper slopes Texarkana, Texarkana, Texas 75505, USA; e-mail: and ridge-tops with xeric mixed forest of post oak (Quercus [email protected]. stellata) and long-leaf pine (Pinus palustris). Site is on lower Piedmont < 30 km N of Fall Line. Represents 145 km southerly TRACHEMYS GAIGEAE (Big Bend Slider). USA: New Mexico: extension of range in Georgia (Rubio et al. 2003. Herpetol. Rev. DONA ANA CO. Rio Grande, ca. 13 km SE of Hatch (T19S, R2W, 34:78-80) and southernmost record for (Davis and Folkerts SE1/4 Sec 27). 11 May 2003. Michael (Mischa) Larisch and Laura 1986. Brimleyana 12:29-50). J. Larisch. Digital photograph (UTEP 18838). Verified by Douglas

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