New County Records of Reptiles and Amphibians from State Managed Properties in East-Central Illinois, USA

摘要

As part of an ongoing study examining the ecological integrity of seasonal wetlands in the state of Illinois, we sampled 117 wetlands for the presence of amphibians and reptiles on state managed properties in east-central Illinois. Since the publication of Phillips et al. (1999), multiple articles documenting new county records from our study region have appeared in Herpeto-logical Review (Foster and Mullin 2007; Petzing et al. 1998, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2008). These publications presented a large number of new county records for this once poorly sampled region. With the extensive sampling required by this new study, we were able to document some less commonly encountered species in the region. Herein we report 17 specimens that represent new county records in the state of Illinois. All vouchered specimens are housed at the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) amphibian and reptile collection while unvouchered specimens are repre-sented by a digital image in the Non-INHS Unvouchered Illinois Herps Database (Unvouch). County records were confirmed using the Illinois Herpetological Database at the INHS, which contains records of Illinois amphibians and reptiles from 30 museums collections as well as a collection of digital images of unvouchered specimens and observations from herpetologists and state biologists, and by examining volumes of Herpetological Review published since Phillips et al. (1999). Coordinates are presented in decimal degrees using map datum WGS84. Scien-tific and common names follow Crother (2012).