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Reptiles & Amphibians

 

The Royal BC Museum’s Herpetology collection includes dried eggshells, eggs, embryos, tadpoles, and newly hatched animals and adults preserved as wet specimens in alcohol. A few turtles are prepared as skeletons. About 34 amphibian and 31 reptile taxa are represented in this collection.

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Illustration
Name
Identifier
Date
Place
Thamnophis sirtalis
0446
1936/08/25
Sooke Lake

Thamnophis sirtalis
0447
1916/06/01
Hardy Bay

Thamnophis sirtalis
0448
1913/01/01
Cranbrook

Crotalus oreganus oreganus
0451
1913/06/10
Okanagan Valley; Vaseux Lake

Crotalus oreganus oreganus
0452
1913/06/10
Okanagan Valley; Vaseux Lake

Crotalus oreganus oreganus
0453
1888/08/01
Ashcroft

Chrysemys picta bellii
0454
1933/10/19
Monte Lake

Chrysemys picta bellii
0455
1933/10/19
Monte Lake

Chrysemys picta bellii
0456
1935/02/24
Patterson Lake

Chrysemys picta bellii
0457
1935/06/20
Pender Harbour; Garden Bay Lake

Chrysemys picta bellii
0458
1939/09/20
Okanagan Valley; Westbank

Pituophis catenifer deserticola
0459
1939/09/10
Okanagan; Kamloops; Rose Hill

Dermochelys coriacea
0460
1931/08/16
Bajo Reef

Dicamptodon tenebrosus
0463
1940/06/01
Mowitch Lake; Mt. Rainier

Aneides vagrans
0464
1941/05/24
Barkley Sound; Maggie Lake