"Guide to the Reptiles of the Eastern Palearctic" by Nikolai N. Szczerbak. 2003. [book review]
Bibliographic record
Abstract
voucher specimens can now be found.Another Black Montana record, the Spotted Chorus Frog, Pseudacris clarkii, is here relegated to the "exotic species" list, as based on misidentification of green-spotted variants of the widespread and abundant Boreal Chorus Frog, Pseudacris maculata.This is certainly the correct interpretation as similarly patterned individuals are present in adjacent populations of Boreal Chorus Frogs in Alberta and Saskatchewan (FRC, personal observations).A bibliographic index of amphibian/reptile guides for Montana and surrounding states and provinces has surprisingly omitted The British Columbia Museum Handbooks to amphibians by Carl first published in 1943, and by Green and Campbell in 1984 and to reptiles by Carl first published in 1944 and by Gregory and Campbell in 1984.Perhaps they are regarded as superseded by the more recent publications listed for American authors which include British Columbia.Canadian provincial guides to Alberta and Saskatchewan, however, are included.A bibliography includes 543 entries.A detailed form for reporting incidental observations and a map of Montana counties conclude the book.The thoroughness of preparation and evaluation of records make this volume a notable contribution to the growing effort to produce detailed state atlases.When the records are as carefully evaluated as they are here, they have broad use, not just for conservationists and zoogeographers, but for keen field naturalists who want a base-line of information in order to evaluate their own past and future observations for potential significance.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.048 | 0.035 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".