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1 7132 Alexy, K. J., K. J. Brunjes, J. W. Gassett, and K. V. Miller. 2003. Continuous remote monitoring of gopher tortoise burrow use. Wildlife Society Bulletin 31:12407–1243.
2 122 Allen, E. R., and W. T. Neill. 1953. The race-runner lizard. Florida Wildlife 6(12):46–47.
3 185 Anderson, R. A., and H. M. Tiebout, III. 1993. The effects of timber management practices on the lizards of xeric pineland habitats: an investigation of the Florida sand pine scrub. Final Report to The Nature Conservancy, Washington, D.C.
4 418 Anonymous. 1991. Lizards long gone. Florida Department of Natural Resources, Office of Land Use Planning and Biological Services, Resource Management Notes 32(3):6.
5 6910 Aresco, M. J. 2003. Highway mortality of turtles and other herpetofauna at Lake Jackson, Florida, USA, and the efficacy of a temporary fence/culvert system to reduce roadkills. Pages 433–449 in C. L. Irwin, P. Garrett, and K. P. McDermott, editors. 2003 Proceedings of the International Conference on Ecology and Transportation, Center for Transportation and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
6 9552 Ashton, K. G., and A. C. S. Knipps. 2011. Effects of fire history on amphibian and reptile assemblages in rosemary scrub. Journal of Herpetology 45:497−503.
7 639 Auffenberg, W. 1956. Additional records of Pleistocene lizards from Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 19:157–167.
8 836 Bartlett, R. D. 1995. A stroll on the Lake Wales Ridge. Tropical Fish Hobbyist 43(8):110, 112, 114, 116–118, 120, 126, 128, 131.
9 838 Bartlett, R. D. 1995. The teiids of the southeastern U.S. Tropical Fish Hobbyist 43(7):112, 114–119, 121–122, 124–126.
10 862 Bartram, W. 1791. Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws; containing, an account of the soil and natural productions of those regions, together with observations on the manners of the Indians. James & Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 522pp. Bartram, W. 1947. The travels of William Bartram [edited by Mark van Doren]. Dover, New York, New York, USA. 414pp.
11 1030 Blaney, R. M. 1971. An annotated checklist and biogeographic analysis of the insular herpetofauna of the Apalachicola Region, Florida. Herpetologica 27:406–430.
12 1035 Blatchley, W. S. 1902. A nature wooing at Ormond by the Sea. Nature Publishing Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 245pp.
13 1036 Blatchley, W. S. 1931. My nature nook or notes on the natural history of the vicinity of Dunedin, Florida. Nature Publishing Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 302pp.
14 1037 Blatchley, W. S. 1932. In days agone: notes on the fauna and flora of subtropical Florida in the days when most of its area was a primeval wilderness. Nature Publishing Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 338pp.
15 1130 Branch, L. C., D. G. Hokit, and B. M. Stith. 1996. Habitat assessment in a landscape context: analysis of the factors affecting the distribution and abundance of the Florida scrub lizard. Final Report presented for the Species at Risk Initiative, National Biological Service Research Work Order 156 of the Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
16 7134 Bursey, C. R., and S. R. Telford, Jr. 2003. Comparative parasitology of squamate reptiles endemic to scrub and sandhills communities of north-central Florida, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology 70:172–181.
17 1408 Carr, A. F., Jr. 1940. A contribution to the herpetology of Florida. University of Florida Publications, Biological Sciences 3:1–118.
18 1530 Christman, S. P., C. A. Young, S. Gonzalez, K. Hill, G. Navratil, and P. Delis. 2000. New records of amphibians and reptiles from Hardee County, Florida. Herpetological Review 31:116–117.
19 1536 Clark, D. R., Jr. 1995. Dicofol and DDT residues in lizard carcasses and bird eggs from Texas, Florida, and California. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 54:817–824.
20 7343 Delis, P. R., and E. P. Sutton. 2005. Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (six-lined racerunner). Behavior. Herpetological Review 36:173.
21 1782 Demmer, R. J. 1979. Nesting of Cnemidophorus sexlineatus in central Florida. Abstract in the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 29 July–4 August 1979, University of Maine at Orono, Orono, Maine, USA.
22 1783 Demmer, R. J. 1980. The burrowing habits of Cnemidophorus sexlineatus. Abstract in the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 15–20 June 1980, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
23 2002 Dodd, C. K., Jr. 1992. Fluorescent powder is only partially successful in tracking movements of the six-lined racerunner (Cnemidophorus sexlineatus). Florida Field Naturalist 20:8–14.
24 2009 Dodd, C. K., Jr. 1993. The effects of toeclipping on sprint performance of the lizard Cnemidophorus sexlineatus. Journal of Herpetology 27:209–213.
25 2098 Duellman, W. E., and A. Schwartz. 1958. Amphibians and reptiles of southern Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 3:181–324.
26 2100 Duellman, W. E., and R. G. Zweifel. 1962. A synopsis of the lizards of the sexlineatus group (genus Cnemidophorus). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 123:155–210.
27 2101 Duever, M. J., J. E. Carlson, J. F. Meeder, L. C. Duever, L. H. Gunderson, L. A. Riopelle, T. R. Alexander, R. F. Myers, and D. P. Spangler. 1979. Resource inventory and analysis of the Big Cypress National Preserve. Volume 1. Natural resources. Final Report to the U.S. National Park Service; Center for Wetlands, University of Florida, Gainesville; and National Audubon Society, Naples, Florida, USA.
28 2248 Enge, K. M. 1994. Lizards of the Florida scrub. Florida Wildlife 48(3):17–20.
29 10721 Enge, K. M. 2019. Aspidoscelis sexlineata sexlineata (Linnaeus 1766), eastern six-lined racerunner (six-lined racerunner). Pages 430–432 in K. L. Krysko, K. M. Enge, and P. E. Moler, editors. Amphibians and reptiles of Florida. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
30 2463 Fowler, H. W. 1906. Some cold-blooded vertebrates from the Florida Keys. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 58:77–113.
31 6514 Gentry, J. B., and M. H. Smith. 1968. Food habits and burrow associates of Peromyscus polionotus. Journal of Mammalogy 49:562–565.
32 2730 Greenberg, C. H. 1993. Effect of high-intensity wildfire and silvicultural treatments on biotic communities of sand pine scrub. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 185pp.
33 8864 Greenberg, C. H. 2000. Fire, habitat structure and herpetofauna in the Southeast. Pages 91–99 in W. M. Ford, K. R. Russell, and C. E. Moorman, editors. The role of fire in nongame wildlife management and community restoration: traditional uses and new directions. Proceedings of a special workshop. U.S. Forest Service General Technical Report NE-288, Northeastern Research Station, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, USA.
34 2732 Greenberg, C. H., D. G. Neary, and L. D. Harris. 1994. A comparison of herpetofaunal sampling effectiveness of pitfall, single-ended, and double-ended funnel traps used with drift fences. Journal of Herpetology 28:319–324.
35 2733 Greenberg, C. H., D. G. Neary, and L. D. Harris. 1994. Effect of high-intensity wildfire and silvicultural treatments on reptile communities in sand-pine scrub. Conservation Biology 8:1047–1057.
36 9180 Greene, H. W., E. J. Zimmerer, W. M. Palmer, and M. F. Benard. 2010. Diet specialization by the scarlet kingsnake, Lampropeltis elapsoides (Colubridae). IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 17:18–21.
37 2826 Hallinan, T. 1923. Observations made in Duval County, northern Florida, on the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus). Copeia 1923:11–20.
38 9141 Halstead, B. J., H. R. Mushinsky, and E. D. McCoy. 2009. Masticophis flagellum selects Florida scrub habitat at multiple spatial scales. Herpetologica 65:268–279.
39 7425 Halstead, B. J., R. Moore, and H. R. Mushinsky. 2005. Condition indices in Aspidoscelis sexlineata: a comparison of methods. 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.
40 8607 Halstead, N. T. 2007. Long-term effects of prescribed fire on reptile and amphibian communities in Florida sandhill. M.S. Thesis, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA. 48pp.
41 6822 Halstead, N. T., H. R. Mushinsky, and E. D. McCoy. 2003. Temporal and spatial effects of prescribed fire on reptile abundance and diversity. Abstract in Joint Meeting of the 19th Annual Meeting of the American Elasmobranch Society, 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 51st Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, and the 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; 26 June–1 July 2003, The Tropical Hotel Conference Center, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
42 7999 Halstead, N. T., H. R. Mushinsky, and E. D. McCoy. 2006. Long-term effects of prescribed fire on reptile and amphibian communities in a Florida sandhill habitat. Abstract in Joint Meeting of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the American Elasmobranch Society, 86th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 64th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, and the 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; 12–17 July 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
43 2852 Hansen, K. L., and D. E. Sweat. 1962. Spermiation in Rana p. pipiens in response to heteroplastic pituitary materials. Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 25:109–120.
44 2898 Hartmann, T. 1988. Florida herps: Cnemidophorus sexlineatus, the six-lined racerunner. League of Florida Herpetological Societies Newsletter (September):15–18.
45 2935 Hayes, K. L. 1996. Visual cliff response and pitfall trap avoidance behavior of the six-lined racerunner, Cnemidophorus sexlineatus. M.S. Thesis, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA. 32pp.
46 6515 Hayne, D. W. 1936. Burrowing habits of Peromyscus polionotus. Journal of Mammalogy 17:420–421.
47 3079 Hoffman, R. L. 1949. A geographic variation in Cnemidophorus. Herpetologica 5:149.
48 3085 Hokit, D. G., B. M. Stith, and L. C. Branch. 1999. Effects of landscape structure in Florida scrub: a population perspective. Ecological Applications 91:124–134.
49 6961 Johannsen, K. L., J. W. Gassett, K. A. Dasher, and K. V. Miller. 1999. Remote monitoring of herpetofauna in armadillo and gopher tortoise burrows in the Florida panhandle. Page 105 (abstract) in J. S. Kush, compiler. Longleaf pine: a forward look. Proceedings of the Second Longleaf Alliance Conference, 17–19 November 1998, Charleston, South Carolina. Longleaf Alliance Report No. 4.
50 3468 Kent, D. M., M. A. Langston, and D. W. Hanf. 1997. Observations of vertebrates associated with gopher burrows in Orange County, Florida. Florida Scientist 60:197–201.
51 8403 Kinlaw, A. E. 2006. Burrows of semi-fossorial vertebrates in upland communities of Central Florida: their architecture, dispersion, and ecological consequences. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 194pp.
52 3796 Lips, K. R. 1991. Vertebrates associated with tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) burrows in four habitats in south-central Florida. Journal of Herpetology 25:477–481.
53 3801 Litt, A. R., L. Provencher, G. W. Tanner, and R. Franz. 2001. Herpetofaunal responses to restoration treatments of longleaf pine sandhills in Florida. Restoration Ecology 9:462–474.
54 3808 Loennberg, E. 1894. Notes on reptiles and batrachians collected in Florida in 1892 and 1893. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 17:317–339.
55 10510 Mays, J. D., K. M. Enge, A. Emerick, and E. P. Hill. 2017. New island records in the Florida Keys, Monroe County, Florida, USA. Herpetological Review 48:145−146.
56 9902 McCoy, E. D., E. J. Britt, A. Catenazzi, and H. R. Mushinsky. 2013. Fire and herpetofaunal diversity in the Florida scrub ecosystem. Natural Areas Journal 33:316–326.
57 9945 McCoy, E. D., J. M. Styga, C. E. Rizkalla, and H. R. Mushinsky. 2012. Time since fire affects ectoparasite prevalence on lizards in the Florida scrub ecosystem. Fire Ecology 8(3):32–40.
58 4058 Meshaka, W. E., Jr., and J. N. Layne. 2002. Herpetofauna of a long-unburned sandhill habitat in south-central Florida. Florida Scientist 65:35–50.
59 10414 Meshaka, W. E., Jr., and J. N. Layne. 2015. The herpetology of southern Florida. Monograph 5. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 10:1−353.
60 4292 Meylan, P. A., W. A. Auffenberg, and R. C. Hurlbert. 2001. Reptilia 2: lizards, snakes, and crocodilians. Pages 137–151 in R. C. Hurlbert, editor. The fossil vertebrates of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
61 4517 Mushinsky, H. R. 1984. On the relationship between fire and the autecology of Cnemidophorus sexlineatus. Page 163 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Combined Meeting of the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 32nd Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, and 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 28 July–3 August 1984, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA.
62 4518 Mushinsky, H. R. 1985. Fire and the Florida sandhill herpetofaunal community: with special attention to responses of Cnemidophorus sexlineatus. Herpetologica 41:333–342.
63 4535 Mushinsky, H. R., and E. D. McCoy. 1995. Vertebrate species composition of selected scrub islands on the Lake Wales Ridge of central Florida. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission Nongame Wildlife Program Project Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 325pp.
64 7808 Pike, D. A., and A. Grosse. 2006. Daily activity of immature gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) with notes on commensal species. Florida Scientist 69:92–98.
65 5024 Punzo, F. 1990. Feeding ecology of the six-lined racerunner (Cnemidophorus sexlineatus) in southern Florida. Herpetological Review 21:33–35.
66 5025 Punzo, F. 1990. Studies on the prey items of Cnemidophorus sexlineatus. Page 84 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League and the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; 5–9 August 1990, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
67 6755 Reeder, T. W., C. J. Cole, and H. C. Dessauer. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships of whiptail lizards of the genus Cnemidophorus (Squamata: Teiidae): a test of monophyly, reevaluation of karyotypic evolution, and review of hybrid origins. American Museum Novitates No. 3365. 61pp.
68 10814 Reichling, S. B. 2008. Reptiles and amphibians of the southern pine woods. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 320pp.
69 9373 Schrey, A. W., K. G. Ashton, S. Heath, E. D. McCoy, and H. R. Mushinsky. 2011. Fire alters patterns of genetic diversity among 3 lizard species in Florida scrub habitat. Journal of Heredity 102:399−408.
70 5423 Sekerak, C. M., and J. K. Hinchee. 2001. The evolution of Ocala National Forest's current sand pine scrub management program. Pages 21–24 in D. P. Zattau, editor. Proceedings of the Florida Scrub Symposium 2001, 5–7 June 2001, Orlando, Florida. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
71 8589 Smith, C. A., and K. L. Krysko. 2007. Distributional comments on the teiid lizards (Squamata: Teiidae) of Florida with a key to the species. Caribbean Journal of Science 43:260–265.
72 6505 Smith, M. H. 1966. The evolutionary significance of certain behavioral, physiological, and morphological adaptations of the old-field mouse, Peromyscus polionotus. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 187pp.
73 10428 Steen, D. A., L. L. Smith, G. Morris, L. M. Conner, A. R. Litt, S. Pokswinski, and C. Guyer. 2013. Response of Aspidoscelis sexlineata (six-lined racerunner) to habitat restoration in fire-suppressed Pinus palustris (longleaf pine) sandhills. Restoration Ecology 21:457−463.
74 5608 Stevenson, D., and D. Crowe. 1992. Geographic distribution: Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (six-lined racerunner). Herpetological Review 23:89.
75 5774 Telford, S. R., Jr. 1992. Factors affecting the distribution of Neoseps reynoldsi, the sand skink, in Ocala National Forest. Unpublished U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Contract Report, Ocala National Forest, Silver Springs, Florida. 35pp.
76 7920 Telford, S. R., Jr., and C. R. Bursey. 2003. Comparative parasitology of squamate reptiles endemic to scrub and sandhills communities of north-central Florida, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology 70:172–181.
77 5806 Tiebout, H. M., III, and R. A. Anderson. 1993. Impacts of commercial logging on terrestrial lizards of the Florida sand pine scrub. Pages 301–302 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Combined Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, the Herpetologists' League, 17th Annual Larval Fish Conference, and the American Elasmobranch Society, 27 May–2 June 1993, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.
78 5873 Trauth, S. E. 1979. Geographic variation in an systematics of the lizard Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (Lacertilia: Teiidae) in the United States. Page 56 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League and the 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 12–16 August 1979, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
79 5874 Trauth, S. E. 1980. Geographic variation and systematics of the lizard Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (Linnaeus). Dissertation, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA. 212pp.
80 5875 Trauth, S. E., and C. T. McAllister. 1996. Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (Linnaeus). Six-lined racerunner. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 628.1–12.
81 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.
82 10434 White, K. N., B. B. Rothermel, and M. T. White. 2017. Aspidoscelis sexlineata sexlineata (six-lined racerunner). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 48:185−186.
83 6117 Whiting, M. J., J. C. Godwin, and M. K. Coldren. 1991. Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (six-lined racerunner) and Cophosaurus texanus (Texas earless lizard). Spider predation. Herpetological Review 22:58.
84 6188 Wilson, L. D., and L. Porras. 1983. The ecological impact of man on the south Florida herpetofauna. University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, Special Publication No. 9, Lawrence, Kansas, USA. 89pp.
85 6249 Witz, B. W. 1991. The effect of prey size on handling time in Cnemidophorus sexlineatus. Page 109 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles and the 39th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, 6–11 August 1991, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
86 6250 Witz, B. W. 1993. Nutrient absorption efficiencies and prey energetics of the six-lined racerunner, Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (Sauria: Teiidae). Page 326 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Combined Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, the Herpetologists' League, 17th Annual Larval Fish Conference, and the American Elasmobranch Society, 27 May–2 June 1993, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.
87 6251 Witz, B. W. 1994. The foraging behavior and physiological ecology of Cnemidophorus sexlineatus L. (Squamata: Teiidae) in a Florida sandhill habitat. Dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA. 142pp.
88 6252 Witz, B. W. 1996. The functional response of Cnemidophorus sexlineatus: laboratory versus field measurements. Journal of Herpetology 30:498–506.
89 7569 Witz, B. W. 2001. Aspects of the thermal biology of the six-lined racerunner, Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (Squamata: Teiidae) in west-central Florida. Journal of Thermal Biology 26:529–535.
90 6256 Witz, B. W., D. S. Wilson, and M. D. Palmer. 1991. Distribution of Gopherus polyphemus and its vertebrate symbionts in three burrow categories. American Midland Naturalist 126:152–158.

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