This blind salamander was collected in a bottle trap placed in a well near Comal Springs. I previously identified it as E. rathbuni during a fit of "just give it a name" but it represents a Comal endemic, closely related to -but distinctive from- the Texas blind salamander found in San Marcos.

I found this individual walking up a stream wearing sandals. The channel turned cold and beneath the very first rock I flipped, was this salamander. It was roughly two inches long and had feathery gills consistent with salamanders of this genus. I did not handle the individual on the chance that it could be a listed species. Upon conferring with several biologists, we decided to return to the site the next day to hopefully find this salamander or another one like it. We failed to do so and subsequent attempts to find another salamander have also failed.

© John Dittli c/o Leslie Goethals Dittli. Permission to post granted.

~7100' elevation. Great Basin Rattlesnakes engaged in "combat dance". These were the 2 biggest & most faded rattlesnakes we have seen at this location.

The bigger snake with the scar on his back was the victor, the other snake slithered away when they were done. The snake with the scar on his back spent almost a week in the rocks with a much smaller rattlesnake, most likely the female. :-)

A typical Payne's Prairie eastern king snake. They were common 50 years ago, when the prairie had huge numbers of water loving snakes. Over a thousand snakes (mostly banded water snakes and Florida green water snakes) were often run over and killed on a given night in the summertime on the two major highways that cross the basin, and eventually the snake populations crashed. Now, there are far fewer water snakes and perhaps no king snakes at all.

Three shots include: (1) a younger larvae, (2) a larvae at metamorphosis, and (3) a metamorphosed adult. Metamorphosed adults are relatively uncommon in the population. The cave is managed by the Nature Conservancy and these images were taken during a survey of the salamander population. The species is so far recognized as a single site endemic.

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Bolitoglossa ramosi (Brame & Wake, 1972)
Salamandra Manchada
Mocorongo - Antioquia
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I found this snake back in 2008. If I only knew then how awesome this find was. My memory of location was foggy but I think I have it narrowed down pretty good. I am 100% certain of location within 15 miles or so and 75% to location within a mile or so.

This is the first known specimen of ridgenose rattlesnake from the Peloncillo Mtns. This snake was given to me by NM Game and Fish, as I was studying obscurus on a grant from them at the time. This was a gravid female that delivered six offspring some months after capture.