A Significant Range Extension for the Eastern Ribbonsnake, Thamnophis sauritus, in Nova Scotia, Canada

Authors

  • John Gilhen Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3A6
  • Alice Jones 586 Crouse Settlement Road, Italy Cross, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia B4V 0P8
  • Jeffie McNeil Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute, 9 Mount Merrit Road, P.O. Box 215 Kempt, Queens County, Nova Scotia B0T 1B0
  • Arthur W. Tanner 91 Fitch Road, Conquerall Mills, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia B4V 6E3

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v126i3.1366

Keywords:

Northern Ribbonsnake, Thamnophis sauritius septentrionalis, Eastern Ribbonsnake, Thamnophis sauritus, species at risk, new localities, Minamkeak Lake, Mud (Snake) Lake, Italy Cross, Petite Rivière watershed, Nova Scotia

Abstract

In Nova Scotia the threatened Northern Ribbonsnake, Thamnophis sauritus septentrionalis, (the northern subspecies of the Eastern Ribbonsnake, T. sauritus) (Crother 2008) is known from localities in only Queens and Lunenburg counties, where it was first discovered in 1950. Many new localities, mostly in the headwaters of the Mersey River and the Medway River watersheds have been added since 2002, and Seven Mile Lake (in the West La Have River watershed) was added to the distribution in 2005. We add two localities to the distribution of the Northern Ribbonsnake in the previously unreported Petite Rivière watershed, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.

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Published

2013-01-23

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Vol. 126 No. 3 (2012)

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