New County Records of Amphibians and Reptiles from South Dakota, USA from 2017

摘要

Over the past two years, more than 150 new distributional records of amphibians and reptiles have been reported from South Dakota (Davis et al. 2016, 2017a, b; Austin et al. 2017; Davis and Zimmer 2017; Farkas and Davis 2017; Davis 2018). These records have provided verifiable voucher specimens in an under-sampled state, helping to fill distributional gaps in the known range and expand the recognized distribution of some species within South Dakota, as well as providing important vouchered material for future studies. Despite this increase in our understanding of species distributions, there are species and regions that remain poorly sampled in South Dakota.