Eastern foxsnake (Elaphe gloydi) COSEWIC assessment and status report
Official title: COSEWIC Assessment and Update Status Report on the Eastern Foxsnake Carolinian and Great Lakes / St. Lawrence populations in Canada
Table of contents
- Assessment Summary
- Executive Summary
- COSEWIC History, Mandate, Membership and Definitions
- List of Figures
- Species Information
- Distribution
- Habitat
- Biology
- Population Sizes and Trends
- Limiting Factors and Threats
- Special Significance of the Species
- Existing Protection or Other Status Designations
- Technical Summary
- Acknowledgements, Additional Authorities Consulted, and Authorities Consulted for the Previous Status Report
- Information Sources and Biographical Summary of Report Writer
COSEWIC
Assessment and Update Status Report
on the
Eastern Foxsnake
Elaphe gloydi
Carolinian population
Great Lakes/St. Lawrence population
in Canada
Endangered
2008
COSEWIC
Committee on the Status
of Endangered Wildlife
in Canada
COSEPAC
Comité sur la situation
des espèces en péril
au Canada
COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:
COSEWIC. 2008. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the Eastern Foxsnake Elaphe gloydi, Carolinian population and Great Lakes/St. Lawrence population, in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vii + 45 pp.
(Species at Risk Status Reports)
Previous Report:
COSEWIC. 2000. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the Eastern Foxsnake Elaphe gloydi in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vi + 31 pp.
Willson, R.J., and K.A. Prior. 1999. COSEWIC status report on Eastern Foxsnake Elaphe gloydi in Canada, in COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Eastern Foxsnake Elaphe gloydi in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. 1-31 pp.
Production Note:
COSEWIC would like to acknowledge Robert Willson for writing the update status report on the Eastern Foxsnake Elaphe gloydi, Carolinian population and Great Lakes/St. Lawrence population, in Canada, prepared under contract with Environment Canada. The report was overseen and edited by Ronald Brooks, Co-chair, COSEWIC Amphibians and Reptiles Specialist Subcommittee.
For additional copies contact:
COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa ON
K1A 0H3
Tel.: 819–953–3215
Fax: 819–994–3684
E-mail: COSEWIC/COSEPAC@ec.gc.ca
http://www.cosewic.gc.ca
Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur la couleuvre fauve de l’Est (Elaphe gloydi) population carolinienne et population des Grands Lacs et du Saint-Laurent au Canada – Mise à jour.
Cover illustration:
Eastern Foxsnake -- Photo by Carrie MacKinnon.
© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2008
Catalogue No.: CW69-14/552-2008E-PDF
ISBN: 978-0-662-48916-0
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