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Morafka's Desert Tortoise
Gopherus morafkai Murphy, Berry, Edwards, Leviton, Lathrop & Riedle
- 6/28/2011
Murphy, Berry, Edwards, Leviton, Lathrop & Riedle (2011. The dazed and confused identity of Agassiz’s land tortoise, Gopherus agassizii (Testudines, Testudinidae) with the description of a new species, and its consequences for conservation. ZooKeys 113: 39–71.
Found east and south of the Colorado River in Arizona and Mexico.
A color image of the new species may be viewed at
http://www.cnah.org/detail.asp?id=1421
Forest Sharptail Snake
Contia longicaudae Feldman & Hoyer, 2010
- 5/20/2010
Feldman & Hoyer. 2010. A new species of snake in the genus Contia (Squamata: Colubridae) from California and Oregon. Copeia 2010(2): 254-267.
Known only from California and Oregon.
A color image of this new snake may be viewed at
http://www.cnah.org/detail.asp?id=1407
Southern Pigmy Salamander
Desmognathus organi Crespi, Browne & Rissler, 2010
- 8/19/2010
Crespi, Erica J., Robert A. Browne & Leslie J. Rissler. 2010. Taxonomic revision of Desmognathus wrighti (Caudata: Plethodontidae). Herpetologica 66(3): 283-295.
Type locality: Whitetop Mountain, Virginia.
A color image of this new salamander may be viewed at
http://www.cnah.org/detail.asp?id=1409
Pearl River Map Turtle
Graptemys pearlensis Ennen, Lovich, Kreiser, Selman & Qualls, 2010
- 6/30/2010
Joshua R. Ennen, Jeffrey E. Lovich, Brian R. Kreiser, W. Selman & Carl P. Qualls. 2010. Genetic and Morphological Variation Between Populations of the Pascagoula Map Turtle (Graptemys gibbonsi) in the Pearl and Pascagoula Rivers with Description of a New Species (Chelonian Conservation and Biology 9(1): 98-113).
Restricted to the Pearl and Pascagoula rivers of Mississippi and eastern Louisiana. A jewel of a turtle.
A color image of this new chelonian may be viewed at
http://www.cnah.org/detail.asp?id=1408
Cajun Chorus Frog
Pseudacris fouquettei Lemmon, Lemmon, Collins & Cannatella - 1/9/2008
2008. Emily M. Lemmon, Alan R. Lemmon, Joseph T. Collins, and David C. Cannatella. A New North American Chorus Frog Species (Pseudacris: Hylidae: Amphibia) from the South-Central United States. Zootaxa 1675: 1-30.
Known from western Mississippi, all of Louisiana and Arkansas, eastern Texas and Oklahoma, and extreme southern Missouri (Ripley County). It ranges to within a few miles of the Kansas border in eastern Oklahoma.
A color image of this new frog may be viewed at
http://www.cnah.org/detail.asp?id=1374
Patchnose Salamander
Urspelerpes brucei Camp, Peterman, Milanovich, Lamb, Maerz & Wake, 2009
- 8/21/2009
2009. Camp, C. D., W. E. Peterman, J. R. Milanovich, T. Lamb, J. C. Maerz & D. B. Wake. A new genus and species of lungless salamander (family Plethodontidae) from the Appalachian highlands of the south-eastern United States. Journal of Zoology 279: 86-94.
Named for the esteemed herpetologist, Richard C. Bruce, Professor Emeritus of Western Carolina University and retired director of the Highlands Biological Station in North Carolina.
Known only from northern Georgia.
To view images of this remarkable new taxon, go to
http://www.cnah.org/detail.asp?id=1404
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