Atlantic Salt Marsh Snake Form

Instructions and help about Atlantic Salt Marsh Snake

found in the salt marshes so for the last three days we've been on water snake bioblitz looking for the threatened Atlantic salt marsh snake and so in tomoka snake park it's thought to be one of the last strongholds of this endangered snake and it's very rare and very difficult to find the habitat we work in is a salt marsh and it's very very treacherous and difficult to traverse so it's hard to find these things we've only collected four of them in the last four years you're in mud up to your waist sometimes sometimes you'll get stuck and you'll have to yell so another student come over and grab you to pull you out of the muck and so we spend hours at a time looking for these well one of the big questions in regards to the Atlantic salt marsh snake is the genetics of the salt marsh snakes dr. Parkinson and his genetics lab is helping us in regards to studying and determining that the genetics of this suite of species the listed species is a subspecies the Atlantic salt marsh snake we'