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1 282 Anonymous. 1977. Alligator program. Florida Wildlife 31(4):47–48.
2 1372 Carney, S. W. 1979. Growth of crocodile hatchlings in south Florida canals of varying salinities. Florida Scientist 42(Supplement 1):28 (abstract).
3 2116 Dunson, W. A. 1970. Some aspects of electrolyte and water balance in three estuarine reptiles, the diamondback terrapin, American and "salt water" crocodiles. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 32:161–174.
4 2120 Dunson, W. A. 1980. Osmoregulation of crocodiles in Everglades National Park. U.S. National Park Service South Florida Research Center Report T-599, Homestead, Florida, USA. 29pp.
5 2123 Dunson, W. A. 1982. Salinity relations of crocodiles in Florida Bay. Copeia 1982:374–385.
6 2128 Dunson, W. A., and F. J. Mazzotti. 1989. Salinity as a limiting factor in the distribution of reptiles in Florida Bay: a theory for the estuarine origin of marine snakes and turtles. Bulletin of Marine Science 44:229–244.
7 2221 Ellis, T. M. 1981. Tolerance of sea water by the American crocodile, Crocodylus acutus. Journal of Herpetology 15:187–192.
8 2320 Evans, D. H., and M. T. Ellis. 1977. Sodium balance in the hatchling American crocodile, Crocodylus acutus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 58A:159–162.
9 3084 Hogarth, P. J. 1999. The biology of mangroves. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, USA. 228pp.
10 3998 Mazzotti, F. J. 1982. Effects of temperature and salinity of growth rates of hatching crocodiles and alligators: implications for their distributions in southern Florida. Page 88 (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.
11 4000 Mazzotti, F. J. 1983. Behavioral osmoregulation in the American crocodile, Crocodylus acutus. Abstract in Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 19–24 June 1983, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
12 4001 Mazzotti, F. J. 1983. The ecology of Crocodylus acutus in Florida: a thesis in ecology. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA. 161pp.
13 4002 Mazzotti, F. J. 1984. Integrating behavior, physiology, and ecology in American alligators and crocodiles. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 65:156 (abstract).
14 4011 Mazzotti, F. J., and W. A. Dunson. 1984. Adaptations of Crocodylus acutus and Alligator for life in saline water. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 79A:641–646.
15 4006 Mazzotti, F. J., B. Bohnsack, M. P. McMahon, and J. R. Wilcox. 1986. Field and laboratory observations on the effects of high temperature and salinity on hatchling Crocodylus acutus. Herpetologica 42:191–196.
16 9202 Merchant, M., S. Mead, C. McAdon, J. McFatter, and J. Wasilewski. 2010. Identification and characterization of dipeptidyl peptidase IV enzyme activity in the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus). Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology ?online
17 5336 Schomer, N. S., and R. D. Drew. 1982. An ecological characterization of the lower Everglades, Florida Bay and the Florida Keys. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Biological Services Program FWS/OBS-82/58.1. 246pp.
18 9569 Wheatley, P. V., H. Peckham, S. D. Newsome, and P. L. Koch. 2012. Estimating marine resource use by the American crocodile Crocodylus acutus in southern Florida, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series 447:211–229.

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