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Posted by Clint Boyer on November 24, 2002 at 19:50:03:
In Reply to: Very interesting....> posted by Terry Cox on November 24, 2002 at 18:44:12:
:I guess it'll be easier to call the Great Plains rat, E. emoryi, now, with a distinct species inbetween it and the corn, E. guttata. I wouldn't say it was a new snake discovered by Mr. Burbrink, however, since herpers have been discussing, collecting, and breeding this form, that we've called the Kisatchie Corn, for a number of years, LOL. TC.
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::New Species Of Snake Discovered In The U.S.
::Press Release, 11/23/02, The Center for North American Herpetology
::www.cnah.org
::A new species of snake, Slowinski's Corn Snake, has been discovered in north-central Louisiana and eastern Texas by Dr. Frank T. Burbrink, a professor at the College of Staten Island-CUNY. The new species has been formally named Elaphe slowinskii, in memory of the late Dr. Joseph B. Slowinski, who was curator of herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, and a close friend and colleague of Dr. Burbrink's. Dr. Slowinski was bitten by a venomous Krait in Burma on September 11, 2001, and died the next day.
::Published in a print version (Volume 25, Number 3) of the forthcoming December 1, 2002, issue of "Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution," the new species is most closely related to the Eastern Corn Snake (Elaphe guttata), found east of the Mississippi River in the southeastern U.S., and to the Great Plains Rat Snake (Elaphe emoryi), found on the Great Plains from Texas north to Utah and Nebraska.
::An electronic color image by noted wildlife photographer Suzanne L. Collins of an adult Slowinski's Corn Snake from Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, can be viewed at
::http://www.cnah.org/detail.asp?id=1235
::Print media wishing a larger (and higher dpi) version of the same image for gratis use can email The Center for North American Herpetology at jcollins@ku.edu
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