return to main index

  mobile - desktop
follow us on facebook follow us on twitter follow us on YouTube link to us on LinkedIn
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research  
click here for Rodent Pro
This Space Available
3 months for $50.00
Locate a business by name: click to list your business
search the classifieds. buy an account
events by zip code list an event
Search the forums             Search in:
News & Events: Herp Photo of the Day: False Coral Snake . . . . . . . . . .  Herp Photo of the Day: Bearded Dragon . . . . . . . . . .  Greater Cincinnati Herp Society Meeting - Apr 02, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Calusa Herp Society Meeting - Apr 04, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Southwestern Herp Society Meeting - Apr 06, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Hamburg Reptile Show - Apr. 13, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  St. Louis Herpetological Society - Apr 14, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  San Diego Herp Society Meeting - Apr 16, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Suncoast Herp Society Meeting - Apr 20, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  DFW Herp Society Meeting - Apr 20, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Colorado Herp Society Meeting - Apr 20, 2024 . . . . . . . . . .  Chicago Herpetological Society Meeting - Apr 21, 2024 . . . . . . . . . . 
Join USARK - Fight for your rights!
full banner - advertise here .50¢/1000 views
Polar Rodents - US based provider of frozen rats and mice.
pool banner - $50 year

RE: C. bottae taxonomy

[ Login ] [ User Prefs ] [ Search Forums ] [ Back to Main Page ] [ Back to Taxonomy Discussion ] [ Reply To This Message ]
[ Register to Post ]

Posted by: RichardFHoyer at Sat Apr 19 00:18:28 2008  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RichardFHoyer ]  
   

KC,
Thanks for the input.

At the time, the senior author was not aware that the dwarf morph occurred throughout S. Calif. and not solely in the San Bernardino and perhaps San Jacinto Mts.

The authors thought there was a sweet of characters that with reasonable confidence, one could readily distinguish between Southern and Northern Rubber Boas. That turns out not to be true if one is comparing the boas of the southern clade from the San Bernardino Mts. (and presumably from the San Jacinto Mts. which have never been studied) with members of dwarf populations from elsewhere in S. Calif. This is especially the case for the boas from the Mt. Pinos region which are extremely close in all respects to the boas in the San Bernardino Mts. except that the mtDNA results indicates the Mt. Pinos populations belongs to the northern clade.

Although the paper stated that the Northwestern and Sierra subclades were allopatric with the break occurring in the Mt. Lassen area, that is incorrect as there is no break whatsoever in the distribution of the species from northern Kern County all the way to British Columbia and east to Montana, Wyoming ,etc.

Richard F. Hoyer


   

[ Reply To This Message ] [ Subscribe to this Thread ] [ Hide Replies ]


>> Next topic:  Venomous snakes of N. America - JasonMc, Wed May 14 18:54:29 2008
<< Previous topic:  IND Press: Frog Species & Battles - W von Papineäu, Mon Feb 11 21:56:50 2008