Specimen ID | 237009 |
Group | Reptiles-Snakes |
Genus | Acrochordus |
Species | javanicus |
Common Name | Javan Filesnake |
State | FL |
County | Miami-Dade |
Locality | Dade County |
Mapping Accuracy | Centroid |
Centroid Type | |
HUC8 Name | Southern Florida |
HUC8 Number | 03090200 |
HUC10 Number | 0309020615 |
Map | |
Collection Year | 1970 |
Year Accuracy | Estimated |
Potential Pathway | released pet |
Status | collected |
Reference 1 |
Ref. Number: | 18582 |
Author: | Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, (Larry Connor). |
Date: | 2009 |
Title: | FWC Exotic database as of 3-31-2009. |
Publisher: | Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. |
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Comments | Not Reported Breeding. Specimens were occasionally captured or observed in a rock pit northwest of Miami from the late 1970s until ca. 1990 (J. A. Wasilewski, Natural Selections, Homestead, personal communication); 1 seen floating dead in ca. 1998 (B. Vath, personal communication); population was presumably reproducing but may now be extirpated. Not reported breeding; see http://www.myfwc.com/WILDLIFEHABITATS/Nonnative_JavanFilesnake.htm |
Record Type | Literature |
Earliest Record | state |
Freshwater/Marine | Freshwater |