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1 138 Allen, E. R., and D. Swindell. 1948. Cottonmouth moccasin of Florida. Herpetologica 4(Supplement 1):1–15.
2 139 Allen, E. R., and D. Swindell. 1988. Some like it hot! The cottonmouth moccasin of Florida. Reprinted in League of Florida Herpetological Societies Newsletter (December):11–20.
3 97 Allen, E. R., and W. T. Neill. 1950. The cottonmouth moccasin. Florida Wildlife 4(3):8–9, 16.
4 153 Allen, R. 1969. Why save the alligator. Presented to Conservation 70s Inc. Environmental Legislative Workshop, Panel No. 4, Wildlife Resources, Homosassa Springs, Florida, USA. 5pp. [Printed by International Crocodilian Society, Silver Springs, Florida, USA.]
5 431 Anonymous. 1991. Roadkill. Florida Department of Natural Resources, Office of Land Use Planning and Biological Services, Resource Management Notes 3(1):2.
6 9134 Anonymous. 2009. Study of isolated snakes could help shed light on venom composition. Florida Wildlife 62(6):25.
7 6405 Bartlett, D. 2002. Notes from the field. The rains came: Payne's Prairie is a study in the extremes of nature. Reptiles Magazine 10(5):22–27.
8 953 Bennetts, R. E., M. W. Collopy, and S. R. Beissinger. 1988. Nesting ecology of snail kites in Water Conservation Area 3A. Department of Wildlife and Range Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Technical Report No. 31. 174pp.
9 1022 Blair, W. F. 1935. An ecological investigation of the marsh rabbit of the region of Gainesville, Florida. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 67pp.
10 1023 Blair, W. F. 1936. The Florida marsh rabbit. Journal of Mammalogy 17:197–207.
11 1259 Butler, J. 1993. The fate of Hatchling Number 116. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Resource Management, Resource Management Notes 5(4):5.
12 1260 Butler, J. 1993. The fate of Hatchling Number 116. Tortoise Burrow, Bulletin of The Gopher Tortoise Council 13(2):6.
13 1271 Butler, J. A., and S. Sowell. 1995. Survivorship and predation of hatchling and yearling gopher tortoises. Page 27 (abstract) in Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 8–13 August 1995, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA.
14 1272 Butler, J. A., and S. Sowell. 1996. Survivorship and predation of hatchling and yearling gopher tortoises, Gopherus polyphemus. Journal of Herpetology 30:455–458.
15 1390 Carr, A. 1994. The Gulf-island cottonmouths. Pages 225–229 in M. H. Carr, editor. A naturalist in Florida: a celebration of Eden. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, Connecticut, USA.
16 1402 Carr, A. F., Jr. 1937. The Gulf island cottonmouths. Proceedings of the Florida Academy of Sciences 1:86–90.
17 1408 Carr, A. F., Jr. 1940. A contribution to the herpetology of Florida. University of Florida Publications, Biological Sciences 3:1–118.
18 1416 Carr, A. F., Jr. 1964. Ulendo: travels of a naturalist in and out of Africa. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, USA. 303pp.
19 1444 Carter, W. H. 1980. Creatures and chronicles from Cross Creek. Atlantic, Tabor City, North Carolina, USA. 296pp.
20 1592 Cook, D. G. 1982. Cottonmouth activity patterns in northwest Florida. Page 63 (abstract) in Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles and the 30th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, 1–6 August 1982, North Carolina State Museum of Natural History, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
21 1593 Cook, D. G. 1983. Activity patterns of the cottonmouth water moccasin, Agkistrodon piscivorus Lacepede, on a northwest Florida headwater stream. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 88pp.
22 7263 Dalrymple, G. H. 1996. Snake community composition and use of the main park road in the Pahayokee region of Everglades National Park during high water conditions in 1995. Pages 71–76 in Proceedings of the conference on ecological assessment of the 1994–1995 water conditions in the southern Everglades, 22–23 August 1996, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA.
23 2218 Ellis, L. 1984. Cottonmouth research. Florida Wildlife 38(1):28–30.
24 2511 Frederick, P. C., and M. W. Collopy. 1988. Reproductive ecology of wading birds in relation to water conditions in the Florida Everglades. Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Technical Report No. 30, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 259pp.
25 6801 Frederick, P. C., and M. W. Collopy. 1989. The role of predation in determining reproductive success of colonially nesting wading birds in the Florida Everglades. Condor 91:860–867.
26 2625 Gloyd, H. K., and R. Conant. 1990. Snakes of the Agkistrodon complex: a monographic review. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. 614pp.
27 2934 Hayes, A. A. 2000. A little piece of string. Herp Herald, Newsletter of the Gainesville Herpetological Society 17(1):5–6, 12.
28 2965 Heinrich, G., and K. R. Studenroth, Jr. 1996. Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti (Florida cottonmouth). Diet. Herpetological Review 27:22.
29 6965 Himes, J. G. 2004. The non-fish, vertebrate diet of sympatric populations of the cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus) and northern watersnake (Nerodia sipedon). Herpetological Review 35:123–128.
30 3156 Hughes, W. 1969. Danger afield. Florida Wildlife 23(5):18–19.
31 3435 Kardong, K. V. 1975. Prey capture in the cottonmouth snake (Agkistrodon piscivorus). Journal of Herpetology 9:169–175.
32 3698 Leavitt, B. B. 1957. Water moccasin preys on pied-billed grebe. Wilson Bulletin 69:112–113.
33 7766 Lillywhite, H. B., and F. Zaiden, III. 2003. Mutualism between birds and snakes at Seahorse Key. Integrative and Comparative Biology 43:1002 (abstract).
34 8989 Lillywhite, H. B., and R. J. R. McCleary. 2008. Trophic ecology of insular cottonmouth snakes: review and perspective. South American Journal of Herpetology 3:175–185.
35 8945 Lillywhite, H. B., C. M. Sheehy III, and F. Zaidan III. 2008. Pitviper scavenging at the intertidal zone: an evolutionary scenario for invasion of the sea. BioScience 58:947–955.
36 6535 Lillywhite, H. B., C. M. Sheehy, III, and M. D. McCue. 2002. Scavenging behaviors of cottonmouth snakes at island bird rookeries. Herpetological Review 33:259–261.
37 7434 Lillywhite, H. B., F. Zaidan, III, and C. M. Sheehy, III. 2005. Marine scavenging by insular cottonmouth snakes: evolutionary scenario for invasion of the sea. Abstract in Joint Meeting of the 21st Annual Meeting of the American Elasmobranch Society, 85th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 63rd Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, and the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; 6–11 July 2005, Tampa, Florida, USA.
38 10338 Lillywhite, H. B., J. B. Pfaller, and C. M. Sheehy III. 2015. Feeding preferences and responses to prey in insular neonatal Florida cottonmouth snakes. Journal of Zoology ?
39 3783 Limbaugh, J. 1989. Off the road, into the field. Gainesville Herpetological Society Newsletter 6(1):16–19.
40 3987 May, P. G., and T. M. Farrell. 1998. Florida's flatwoods cottonmouths: observations of feeding behavior. Reptile & Amphibian Magazine (September–October):18–24.
41 4172 Means, D. B. 1999. Venomous snakes of Florida. Florida Wildlife 53(5):13–20.
42 8851 Means, D. B. 2008. Stalking the plumed serpent and other adventures in herpetology. Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, USA. 238pp.
43 4247 Meshaka, W. E., Jr. 2001. The Cuban treefrog in Florida: life history of a successful colonizing species. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 191pp.
44 4506 Murphy, J. M. 1987. Alligator shooting in Florida (1899). Pages 353–364 in F. Oppel and T. Meisel, editors. Tales of Old Florida. Castle, Secaucus, New Jersey, USA.
45 4512 Murril[l], W. A. 1927. Hunting cottonmouth moccasins. Outdoor Life 60(6):84.
46 4610 Neill, W. T. 1955. Deadly cottonmouth or harmless water snake? Florida Wildlife 9(2):22–23, 44.
47 4784 Packard, W. 1910. Florida trails as seen from Jacksonville to Key West and from November to April inclusive by Winthrop Packard ... illustrated from photographs by the author and others. Small, Maynard and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 300pp.
48 4795 Palis, J. G. 1993. Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti (Florida cottonmouth). Prey. Herpetological Review 24:59–60.
49 5253 Safford, W. E. 1919. Natural history of Paradise Key and the near-by Everglades of Florida. Pages 377–434 in Smithsonian Report for 1917. [Publication No. 2508, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.]
50 10818 Sandfoss, M. R., C. M. Sheehy III, and H. B. Lillywhite. 2018. Collapse of a unique insular bird–snake relationship. Journal of Zoology 304:276–283.
51 7448 Sheehy, C. M., III, F. Zaidan, III, and H. B. Lillywhite. 2005. Spatial ecology and resource use by Florida cottonmouth snakes: variation on a single island. Abstract in Joint Meeting of the 21st Annual Meeting of the American Elasmobranch Society, 85th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 63rd Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, and the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; 6–11 July 2005, Tampa, Florida, USA.
52 5693 Stubbs, T. 1974. A moccasin may be more than a shoe. Florida Naturalist 47(1):17–20.
53 5694 Stubbs, T. 1979. Moccasin. Florida Naturalist 52(4):2–4.
54 5700 Studenroth, K. R. 1991. Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti (Florida cottonmouth). Feeding behavior. Herpetological Review 22:60.
55 10242 Tetzlaff, S. J., D. L. Tetzlaff, M. Schoenbeck, and N. Clark. 2014. Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti (Florida cottonmouth). Diet and phenotype. Herpetological Revie 45:511–512.
56 5945 Van Duyn, G. 1936. Snakes are where you find them. Field & Stream 41(6):32–33, 67–69.
57 6099 Wharton, C. H. 1958. The ecology of the cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus Lacepede, of Sea Horse Key, Florida. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 225pp.
58 6100 Wharton, C. H. 1960. Birth and behavior of a brood of cottonmouths, Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus with notes on tail-luring. Herpetologica 16:125–129.
59 6102 Wharton, C. H. 1969. The cottonmouth moccasin on Sea Horse Key, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 14:227–272.
60 8993 Young, B. A., A. Aguiar, and H. Lillywhite. 2008. Foraging cues used by insular Florida cottonmouths, Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti. South American Journal of Herpetology 3:135–144.

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