#reptilia
Trachemys scripta elegans “Red-eared Pond Slider” Emydidae
Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle, WA
May 9, 2016
Robert Niese
Red-eared Sliders are a distinct subspecies of Pond Slider popular in the pet industry. Originally native to the southern US, these animals have been introduced to nearly every state including Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam. As such, they are on the IUCN’s list of the 100 most invasive species in the world. They have not yet been reported in Montana, Alaska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, or North Dakota. If you see a Red-eared Slider in one of these states, contact your state’s Fish and Wildlife department immediately. Here in the PNW, these turtles out-compete native Western Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta bellii) and the threatened Western Pond Turtle (Actinemys marmorata).
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Mitchell’s short-tailed snake - Parasuta nigriceps
Parasuta nigriceps (Elapidae) is an Australian snake found in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia territories. As the species name suggests, one of the distinctive features of this snake is the black head from nose to neck with the dark coloration extending into a dark vertebral stripe. Although they are elapids, all Parasuta species are harmless, unaggressive snakes.
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Photo credits: [Top: ©George Cruiser | Locality: Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 2009] - [Middle: ©Brendan Schembri | Locality: Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 2014] - [Bottom: ©Martin Whiting/The Lizard Lab | Locality: Australia, 2014]
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Wild Madagascar – Adventure to Nosy Mangabe Reserve Speciale – Part One 25/09/16 – 28/09/16
The journey was a long winded one, a full twenty-four hours was lost via shuttle bus (which took nearly 6 hours) and then had to wait till 2am for the Melissa Express boat, a gut wrenching and stomach turning twelve hours of constant rocking and broken sleep that is accompanied by the sound of nearly sixty people being sick into plastic buckets that are provided for this specific reason…
Madagascar 2016 – A comprehensive list of species I have seen.
Hello everyone, Only recently, I returned (slightly earlier than planned) from my latest adventure to the ancient and most biologically diverse islands on the planet, the island of Madagascar. For the past few months I have been traveling the eastern and central regions of this most magical of places, sleeping rough in a tent the middle of the rainforest to hiking through some of the most…
Diurnal Hike at Mitsinjo (Analamazoatra) Forest Station – Video.
My first actual day (Excluding the travel day) into my trip to Madagascar whilst doing work at the Amphibian Survival Assurance Center of Andasibe (ASACA), a part of Association Mitsinjo.
Red-spotted Bright-eyed Frog (Boophis rappiodes) offspring. © 2015 – Joshua Ralph – All Rights Reserved An interview with Joshua Ralph, Batrachologist and Conservationist with MantellaMan Conservation, an Amphibian Survival Alliance Partner. Amphibians the world over are facing probably the world’s most serious extinction crisis. What are your thoughts on the future prospects…
Malagasy Nature Photographs – Bakozetra locality, Torotorofotsy Wetlands Reserve.
Hi Everyone, Within this photograph blog entry, I will be in the Torotorofotsy Wetlands Reserve, located north of the town of Andasibe. Continuing the day that I encountered one of Madagascar’s most iconic species of frog, the Golden Mantella (Mantella aurantiaca), my guide Fanoo and I decided to travel slightly further north to a different part of the Torotorofotsy. Bakozetra is like I said,…
Preserved Specimens in Natural History Museum, London.
