Test Your Knowledge! Name These Herps

[herpkingdom]

I have chosen pictures of 2 snakes, 2 lizards, 2 turtles/tortoises, and 2 frogs.
8 pictures in all!
Do you know what there are???

Bonus points given for the scientific names!!!


5 points for each correct answer and
5 bonus points for the scientific name


001 Mt. Kenyan Bush Viper (Atheris desaixi)


002 Ringed Brown Snake (Pseudonaja modesta)

003 Strawberry Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates pumilio )


004 Southern Leopard Frog (Rana sphenocephala)


005


006


007


008 Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizi)




I'll give one week, then I'll post the answers. Unless of course you guys get them all

[bensnacks]

002; Western Brown snake ,juv. (Pseudonaja nuchalis)

All the rest would be wild stabs in the dark, or take plenty of web searching.
Nice quiz!!

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[Kohm]

003 is Dendrobates pumilio. 004 is some kind of Rana sp.? 001 I'll go with the jararaca, Bothrops jararaca. 006 is some kind of swift or butterfly lizard? 008 looks like the angonoka, Geochelone yniphora. Just guessing, mostly.

[herpkingdom]

Bzzzz! Wrong! Close, but not quite.

Sorry, 002 is not a WESTERN Brown snake, but I will give you 2 1/2 points for getting Pseudonaja correct and 2 1/2 point for knowing is is some type of brown snake.

Can you get the ssp name??

Please try again.

Hints will be given at 24 hour interals.

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[herpkingdom]

To clarify, I am looking for the common name and the scientific name. 5 points will be awarded for each correct name.

So Kohm has 7 1/2 points for getting 003 is Dendrobates pumilio and 004 Rana
and bensacks has 2 1/2 points for getting 1/2 of the scientific name and 2 1/2 points for knowing002 is a type of brown snake

I will post the names as they are answered correctly.


So far:
Kohm 7.5 points
bensacks 5 points
Herpguy 7.5 points

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Is 008 a turtle or a tortoise?

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[Herpguy55]

005 is a slender glass lizard

004 is a bull frog

003 is a strawberry dart frog

001 is a bush viper

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[herpkingdom]

Herpguys get 5 points for getting the common name for the strawberry dart frog and 2 1/2 points for the bush viper. Try to guess which bus viper it is....

all of the other guesses are incorrect

As for Mr. Ponderosa, I don't think it would be fair to score points on something that obvious I see your point in the original post and have corrected it. (thanks)

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[Bry]

004 is a Southern Leopard Frog (Rana sphenocephala)
008 would be a Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii)

Bry

[impermanentrage]

Atheris desaixi or Mt Kenyan Bush Viper

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[impermanentrage]

Sorry, that was for 001.

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[Boaguy]

008 Gopher tort

John

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[bensnacks]

Right then.... The white collar suggests to me a juvenile animal
therfore if it's not a western but ,P. textilis , eastern brown.
If the animal is close to adult I would have to say it's extremely similar to a
Ringed Brown P. modesta , though the white collar doesn't fit??

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[herpkingdom]

I'm impressed Mr. bensnacks, very good P. modesta it is

Bry gets 20 points for getting the southern leopard frog and the desert tortoise.

am Impermanentrage gets 10 point gets 10 points for the Mt. Kenyan Bush Viper, another one with good knowledge of obscure venomous snakes.

So t update the poinst....
Bry 20 points
Bensnacks 10 points
impermanentrage 10 points
Kohm 7.5 points
herpguy 7.5 points

[Kohm]

006, Leiolepis species? A wild shot in the dark. That lizard looks very familar.

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[herpkingdom]

Nope. 006 is not a Leiolepis

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[impermanentrage]

005-Ophisauris sp?
006-earless lizard?

Stabs in the dark.

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[bensnacks]

I reckon I'll have a couple of wild swings at # 005,- Aprasia sp??

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[Herpguy55]

005 is a california legless lizard
006 is a lesser earless lizard
007 an eastern mud turtle

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