Northern Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus)
Created: April 28th, 2010 - 02:16 PM
Last Modified: January 12th, 2013 - 12:07 AM Entered by: ENWC424 Herpetology
Record 43592
Last Modified: January 12th, 2013 - 12:07 AM Entered by: ENWC424 Herpetology
Record 43592
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Country: United States |
State: West Virginia |
County: Raleigh County |
Time: 2007-07-17 00:00:00 |
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Qty: 1 |
Age: -- |
Sex: -- |
Method: Rock flipping |
Habitat: small rocky stream |
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Notes
SVL=4.8 cm; Tail=4.2 cm
Vouchers
Specimen deposited at University of Delaware, Teaching Collection
Comments
I can add a note. These were entered by students and I have not had a chance to review them yet.
No - just the ones that don't have any explanation for the lack of a species record in the notes, and don't have an obvious issue (like the versicolor/chrysoscelis thing). Otherwise, it's impossible to tell whether the omission of species is an accident or on purpose. A number of people whose entries I marked corrected them and thanked me.
Personally, if I omit the species from a record (which I've done myself 5-6 times), I explain the omission in the notes, sometimes stating which species it could potentially be. There's not any rule on that or anything though.
Did you ask this for every record without species in the database? These were entered "as is" from the catalogue book for UD teaching collection.
What species is this?