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ISSN 1540-773X JOURNAL OF KANSAS HERPETOLOGY NUMBER 32 DECEMBER 2009 Published by the Kansas Herpetological Society http://www.cnah.org/khs EDITORIAL BOARD KHS OFFICERS (2009) Associate Editor President – DAN JOHNSON JOSEPH T. COLLINS 15506 Beverly Court Kansas Biological Survey Overland Park, Kansas 66223 913.897.0235 Copy Editor [email protected] DANIEL G. MURROW Overland Park, Kansas President-Elect – KATHY ELLIS 10025 SW Jordan Road Article Editors Wakarusa, Kansas 66546 EVA HORNE 785.383.2788 Kansas State University [email protected] GEORGE R. PISANI Kansas Biological Survey Past-President – DAN CARPENTER LYNNETTE SIEVERT 13321 Flatland Trail Emporia State University Derby, Kansas 67037 WILLIAM STARK 316.776.1221 Fort Hays State University [email protected] JAMES TRIPLETT Pittsburg State University Treasurer – ERIC KEssLER 5624 Cherry Street Kansas City, Missouri 64111 LIAISON REPRESENTATIVES 816.444.4794 Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks [email protected] KEN BRUNSON 620.672-5911 Secretary – MARY KATE BALdwIN 5438 SW 12 Terrace Apt. 4 Kansas Nongame Wildlife Advisory Council Topeka, Kansas 66604 JOSEPH T. COLLINS 785.215.7219 785.393.4757 [email protected] Kansas Chapter – Wildlife Society Historian – SUZANNE L. COLLINS CURTIS J. SCHMIDT The Center for North American Herpetology 785.650.2447 1502 Medinah Circle Lawrence, Kansas 66047 DISTINGUISHED LIFE MEMBERS 785.393.2392 [email protected] ROBERT F. CLARKE Editor – TRAVIS W. TaGGART Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas Sternberg Museum of Natural History (1919–2008) 3000 Sternberg Drive JOSEPH T. COLLINS Hays, Kansas 67601-2006 Museum of Natural History, The University of Kansas 785.650.2445 Lawrence, Kansas [email protected] HENRY S. FITCH The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS (1909–2009) Field Trips - DANIEL G. MURROW EUGENE D. FLEHARTY 8129 Perry #37 Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas Overland Park, Kansas 66204 913.652.6971 HowaRD K. GLOYD [email protected] The University of Arizona, Tucson (1902–1978) Nominating – JOSEPH T. COLLINS Sternberg Museum of Natural History LARRY L. MILLER Hays, Kansas 67601-2006 Southwestern College, Winfield, Kansas 785.393.4757 GEORGE R. PIsanI [email protected] Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas Media & Publicity – ROBIN OLDHAM DWIGHT R. PLATT 716 Michigan Street Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas Oswego, 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 Smooth Earth Snake (Virginia 402.437.2870 valeriae) from Jefferson County, Kansas. Photograph by [email protected] Suzanne L. Collins, Lawrence, Kansas. www.cnah.org/khs/ ISSN 1540-773X Journal of Kansas Herpetology NUMBER 32 — DECEMBER 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS KHS BUSINESS Report on the Kansas Herpetological Society 36th Annual Meeting ..................................................... 2 Images from the Kansas Herpetological Society 36th Annual Meeting ................................................ 4 Pay Your 2010 Dues .................................................................................................................... 7 KHS 2010 Spring Field Trip .......................................................................................................... 7 Report on the KHS Fall Field Trip to Lincoln County, Kansas .............................................................. 8 Kansas Herpetological Society Executive Council Meeting ................................................................10 IN MEMORIAM Henry S. Fitch: The Twilight of an Incredible Career, by George R. Pisani ................................................................................................................11 ARTICLES The Dispersal of the Greenhouse Frog, Eleutherodactylus planirostris (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae), in Louisiana, with Preliminary Observations on Several Potential Exotic Colonizing Species, by Walter E. Meshaka, Jr., Jeff Boundy & Avery A. Williams ..........................................................13 Estimating Snout to Vent Length from Data Acquired from the Shed Skins of the Northern Brown Snake, Storeria dekayi dekayi, by Brian S. Gray ....................................................................................................................17 Virginia valeriae and Storeria dekayi in a Northeast Kansas Grassland Community: Ecology and Conservation Implications, by George R. Pisani ................................................................................................................20 Journal of Kansas Herpetology Number 32 (December 2009) 1 www.cnah.org/khs/ KHS BUSINESS REPORT ON THE KANSAS HERPETOLOGICAL SOCIETY 36th ANNUAL MEETING The Kansas Herpetological Society held its 36th Annual In concluding the Saturday night KHS Awards Ceremony, Meeting in Smith Hall at MidAmerica Nazarene University, Joseph T. Collins, by the authority of the KHS Executive Olathe, Kansas, on 7–8 November 2009. Over 135 participants Council, introduced and invested his longtime friend, Larry L. attended six scientific paper sessions to listen to 28 talks on Miller of Wakarusa, Kansas, as the tenth KHS Distinguished amphibians, reptiles, and turtles by scientists and students Life Member. For his nearly 70 herpetological publications from across the nation. spanning 1976 to 2009, for his service to KHS over three During its business meeting, the KHS elected a new slate decades as the Society’s unofficial photographer, and for of officers. Derek Schmidt (Overbrook, Kansas) was voted his successful campaign to have the Ornate Box Turtle president-elect for 2010, Eric Kessler (Blue Valley North declared a state symbol by the Kansas Legislature in 1986, High School) was voted treasurer, and Mary Kate Baldwin Larry received a commemorative plaque to the enthusiastic (Topeka Collegiate School) was voted secretary. Kathy Ellis applause of the audience. (Wakarusa) currently is president-elect and takes office as After welcomes by Dan Johnson (KHS President), and Dr. president on 1 January 2010. Dan Johnson (Overland Park) Ed Robinson (President of MidAmerica Nazarene University), served as president during 2009, hosted the meeting this Joe Collins introduced the Society’s keynote speaker at the year, and will serve on the KHS Executive Council in 2010 two-day event, Dr. R. Alexander Pyron (Stony Brook Univer- as past-president. sity, New York). Alex spoke about the Common Kingnsnake At the start of the Saturday night KHS auction, Dan Fogell complex and his talk was very well received and generated (KHS Awards Committee Chairperson) announced that J. Kent much interest about these creatures, one species of which Daniel of Pittsburg State University was this year’s recipi- is found in Kansas. ent of the Howard K. Gloyd-Edward H. Taylor Scholarship. Other speakers for the scientific paper sessions on Saturday The scholarship of $300.00 honors the memory of two great morning included (in order of presentation): Jeff Witters on herpetologists (and KHS Distinguished Life Members) with Radio-tracking Turtles of the Genus Terrapene in Northeastern strong ties to Kansas. Gloyd was born in Ottawa, Kansas, Kansas: the First Summer, George R. Pisani on Use of Visual and attended both Kansas State University and the University Cues by Snakes as both Predator and Prey, Daniel Fogell of Kansas, and Taylor graduated from Garnett (Kansas) High on Re-discovery of Some Rare Nebraska Herpetofauna, School and was a faculty member for decades at the University Eva A. Horne on Herpetological Research at Kansas State of Kansas. Next, Fogell presented the Alan H. Kamb Grant for University, Walter E. Meshaka, Jr. & Pablo Delis on Summer Research on Kansas Snakes to Dr. Mindy Walker of Rockhurst Racers, Some Are Not: Seasonal Activity Patterns of Snakes University. The $300.00 grant honors the memory of longtime at Letterkenny Army Depot in South-Central Pennsylvania, KHS member Al Kamb of Lawrence. and Raul E. Diaz, Jr. on How to Make a Snake: Evolution of Next on the KHS Awards Ceremony agenda was the Limb Loss, Elongation, and Craniofacial Adjustment. recognition of a KHS Honorable-Mention in the photography Speakers for the scientific paper sessions on Saturday competition for The Collins Award. As determined by KHS afternoon included Ashley Inslee & William Stark on Macro- Awards Committee, Dan Krull was judged as Honorable- habitat and Microhabitat Associations of the Texas Horned Mention and received a check for $100.00 and a commemo- Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) on Matagorda Island, Texas, rative certificate from KHS President Dan Johnson. Bruce Rothschild & Hans-Peter Schultze on Turtle Pathology The KHS Saturday night award ceremony continued with Through Time, Rebecca Christoffel, Daria Hyde & Yu Man Paul Rodriguez, University of Nebraska, Omaha, becom- Lee on Eastern Massasauga Outreach Initiative in Michigan: ing the twelfth recipient of The Suzanne L. and Joseph T. The First Five Years, Richard Kazmaier & Mark Lange on Collins Award for Excellence in Kansas Herpetology. Paul Variation in Demography of Yellow Mud Turtles in the Texas was selected for this honor by the KHS Awards Committee, Panhandle, Emilie Blevins on Eastern Collared Lizards in the which judged his image of a Copperhead to be the best of a Flint Hills of Kansas, Robert Powell, Seth
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