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Fe River, 0.3 km downstream from River Rise (29.8716389°N,82.5897917°W; datum WGS84). 13 June 2007. Gerald R. Johnston.UF 152605. Verified by Kenneth L. Krysko. New county record.Adult male (carapace length 160 mm, plastron length 148 mm,mass 680 g) captured by hand while snorkeling. A second specimen,UF 152604, was collected in Santa Fe River on 12 October2007. This non-native turtle was previously observed in the SantaFe River in 1987 (K. Enge, pers. comm.), 1991 (R. Ashton, pers.comm.), and 2006 (GRJ), but no voucher specimen was collected.Alachua County is the southernmost distribution where T. s. scriptanaturally occurs (Thomas 2006. In P. A. Meylan [ed.]. Biologyand Conservation of Florida Turtles. Chelonian Research Monog.3:296–312). Morphological intermediates between native T. s.scripta and non-native T. s. elegans have been recorded from theFlorida panhandle in Leon County (Aresco and Jackson 2006.Herpetol. Rev. 37:239–240), as well as the Santa Fe River (AL,YVK, and GRJ, pers. obs.), suggesting that T. s. elegans might benegatively affecting the existence of the native population.Submitted by ANTHONY LAU (e-mail: alau0924@ufl.edu) andYURII V. KORNILEV (e-mail: yukornilev@gmail.com), Departmentof Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida,Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA; and GERALD R. JOHNSTON,Department of Natural Sciences, Santa Fe Community College,Gainesville, Florida 32606, USA (e-mail:jerry.johnston@sfcc.edu).TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGANS (Red-eared Slider). USA:ILLINOIS: HANCOCK CO.: 600 North County Rd. (40.17833°N,091.46452°W) 14 May 2007. Specimen collected by James T.Lamer. INHS 20750. Verified by Chris Phillips, Illinois NaturalHistory Survey. Specimen is a first county record and located atthe Illinois Natural History Survey in Champaign/Urbana, Illinois(Phillips et al. 1999. Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles ofIllinois. Illinois Nat. Hist. Surv. Manual 8, Champaign, Illinois.xii + 282 pp.). Turtle was found dead on road between two smalldrainage ditches.Submitted by JAMES T. LAMER, Western Illinois University,1 University Circle, Macomb, Illinois 61455, USA; CHADR. DOLAN, and JOHN K. TUCKER, Illinois Natural HistorySurvey, 8450 Montclair Ave, Brighton, Illinois 62012, USA.TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGANS (Red-eared Slider). USA:OHIO: CLARK CO.: Springfield Township. Pond at Old Reid Park(39.949005°N, 83.7551133°W). 30 May 2006. Brian Menker.Verified by John W. Ferner. Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC HerpPhotodocumentation Collection HP 256). New county record(Wynn and Moody 2006. Ohio Turtle, Lizard, and Snake Atlas.Ohio Biol. Surv. Misc. Contr. No. 10, Columbus).Submitted by BRIAN T. MENKER, C. J. Brown Dam and Reservoir,2630 Croft Road, Springfield, Ohio 45503, USA (e-mail:Brian.T.Menker@lrl02.usace.army.mil); and JEFFREY G.DAVIS, Cincinnati Museum Center – Fredrick and Amye GeierResearch and Collections Center, 1301 Western Avenue, Cincinnati,Ohio 45203-1130, USA (e-mail: anura@fuse.net).TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA SCRIPTA (Yellow-bellied Slider).CANADA: BRITISH COLUMBIA: VANCOUVER ISLAND. Victoria,Beacon Hill Park, Fountain Pond (48.4130556°N, 23.3655556°W),(RBCM Herpetology 1955). 02 July 2005. Verified by C. Copley,Royal BC Museum. A second female with dark facial markingsidentified in Beacon Hill Park, Goodacre Lake (48.415°N,123.3641667°W), 13August 2005. A smaller third specimen withbright facial markings found in Goodacre Lake (48.415°N,123.3641667°W), 22 April 2006. This is a first record of T. scriptascripta in British Columbia (Matsuda et al. 2006. Amphibians andReptiles of British Columbia. Royal BC Museum Handbook.Victoria, British Columbia. 266 pp.). Range extension of over 3245km northwest of Alabama (western-most state with native T. s.scripta), and 2220 km northwest of the western-most native rangeof T. s. elegans (range extension estimated Ernst 1990. In Gibbons[ed.], Life History and Ecology of the Slider Turtle, pp. 57–67. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC).Submitted by GAVIN F. HANKE, Royal British Columbia Museum,675 Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 9W2Canada; e-mail: ghanke@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca.SQUAMATA – LIZARDSAMPHISBAENA MENSAE (Cobra-de-duas-cabeças; Worm Lizard).BRAZIL: MATO GROSSO: Municipality of Rondonópolis(16.4713056°S, 54.6371111°W, elev. ca. 304 m). 02 July 2007. E.Silva de Brito and R. A. Kawashita-Ribeiro. Verified by M. A. deCarvalho. Coleção Zoológica de Vertebrados da UniversidadeFederal do Mato Grosso, Cuiabá, Brazil (UFMT 6303–6309). Previouslyknown from Brazil in Goiás State, municipality of Minaçú,Serra da Mesa, 14.0333333°S, 48.3166667°W (Castro-Mello 2000.Pap. Avul. Zool. 41[16]:243–246, type locality) and Distrito Federal,Brasilia (16.0°S, 47.9333333°W), nearly 250 km S of typelocality (Campos-Nogueira 2001. Herpetol. Rev. 32:285–287).First state record, extends the known distribution about 730 km Wfrom the type locality.Submitted by TAMI MOTT, Departamento de Zoologia,Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso,Av. Fernando Corrêa da Costa, s/n, Bairro Coxipó, 78060-900,Cuiabá, MT, Brazil (e-mail: tamimott@yahoo.com);ELIZANGELA SILVA DE BRITO, Programa de Pós-Graduaçãoem Ecologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Universidade Federalde Mato Grosso, Av. Fernando Corrêa da Costa, s/n, BairroCoxipó, 78060-900, Cuiabá, MT, Brazil (e-mail:elizlinz@hotmail.com); and RICARDO ALEXANDREKAWASHITA-RIBEIRO, Coleção Zoológica de Vertebrados,Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Av. Fernando Corrêa daCosta, s/n, Bairro Coxipó, 78060-900, Cuiabá, MT, Brazil (e-mail:serpentesbr@gmail.com).ANOLIS ( = NOROPS) SAGREI (Brown Anole). USA: GEOR-GIA: CHARLTON CO.: St Mary’s River boat ramp along GeorgiaHighway 94. 09 March 2008. Giff Beaton. Georgia Museum ofNatural History (GMNH 50087). Verified by John B. Jensen. Firstcounty record for this exotic anole (Jensen et al. 2008. Amphibiansand Reptiles of Georgia. University of Georgia Press. 575pp.). The individual was observed and photographed as it foragedalong a rocky rip-rap.Submitted by GIFF BEATON, 320 Willow Glen Drive,Marietta, Georgia 30068, USA; e-mail:giffbeaton@mindspring.com.Herpetological Review 39(2), 2008 237