SREL Reprint #1989

Confirmation of range extension for the pine woods snake (Rhadinaea flavilata)

Howard H. Whiteman, Tony M. Mills, David E. Scott, and J. Whitfield Gibbons

Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Drawer E, Aiken, South Carolina 29802, USA

Introduction: The range of Rhadinaea flavilata, the pine woods snake, is restricted primarily to disjunct areas along the coasts of North Carolina to eastern Louisiana, including most of Florida (Conant and Collins 1991; Myers 1967). One anomaly in this distribution, from Aiken County, South Carolina, extended the range 150 km from the coastline and 145 km from the closest previous record (Young 1988, as shown in Conant and Collins 1991). This observation was based on a single specimen collected in 1987. Here we confirm that range extension with the addition of nine new individuals of Rhadinaea flavilata captured between 1987-1994.

SREL Reprint #1989

Whiteman, H.H., T.M. Mills, D.E. Scott, and J.W. Gibbons. 1995. Confirmation of range extension for the pine woods snake (Rhadinaea flavilata). Herpetological Review 26:158.

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