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1 9710 Adkins Giese, C. L., D. N. Greenwald, and T. Curry. 2012. Petition to list 53 amphibians and reptiles in the United States as threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. Center for Biological Diversity. 454pp.
2 9663 Aldridge, R. D., S. R. Goldberg, S. S. Wisniewski, A. P. Bufalino, and C. B. Dillman. 2009. The reproductive cycle and estrus in the colubrid snakes of temperate North America. Contemporary Herpetology 2009(4):1–31.
3 7015 Aresco, M. J., and M. S. Gunzburger. 2004. Effects of large-scale sediment removal on herpetofauna in Florida wetlands. Journal of Herpetology 38:275–279.
4 684 Auth, D. L., and C. Scott. 1996. Geographic distribution: Diadophis punctatus acricus (Key ringneck snake). Herpetological Review 27:33.
5 740 Barbour, T. 1919. Herpetological notes regarding Diadophis punctatus. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club 7:7–10.
6 6509 Barichivich, W. J., and C. K. Dodd, Jr. 2002. The effectiveness of wildlife barriers and underpasses on U.S. Highway 441 across Paynes Prairie State Preserve, Alachua County, Florida. Phase II post-construction. Final Report, Florida Caribbean Science Center, Gainesville, Florida, USA. Florida Department of Transportation Contract No. BB-854. 36pp.
7 7024 Bartlett, D. 2004. Notes from the field. Mr. B's neighborhood: why travel the world when herps abound at home? Reptiles Magazine 12(8):22, 24–27.
8 8441 Bartlett, D. 2007. Seeking the ring-necked snake. Reptiles Magazine 5(9):74–79.
9 879 Beck, W. H., Jr. 1948. An ecological study of the cold-blooded vertebrates of a north Florida lake. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 123pp.
10 1029 Blanchard, F. N. 1942. The ring-neck snakes, genus Diadophis. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Science 7:1–144.
11 1035 Blatchley, W. S. 1902. A nature wooing at Ormond by the Sea. Nature Publishing Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 245pp.
12 1090 Boundy, J. 1994. County records for Florida amphibians and reptiles. Herpetological Review 25:78–79.
13 1091 Boundy, J. 1995. Maximum lengths of North American snakes. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 30:109–122.
14 1139 Brandt, L. A., K. L. Montgomery, A. W. Saunders, and F. J. Mazzotti. 1993. Gopherus polyphemus (gopher tortoise). Burrows. Herpetological Review 24:149.
15 1179 Brooks, G. R., Jr. 1963. Population ecology of the ground skink, Lygosoma laterale (Say). Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 102pp.
16 1181 Brooks, G. R., Jr. 1967. Population ecology of the ground skink, Lygosoma laterale (Say). Ecological Monographs 37:71–87.
17 1382 Carr, A. 1994. Armadillo dilemma. Pages 205–209 in M. H. Carr, editor. A naturalist in Florida: a celebration of Eden. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, Connecticut, USA.
18 1408 Carr, A. F., Jr. 1940. A contribution to the herpetology of Florida. University of Florida Publications, Biological Sciences 3:1–118.
19 6837 Collins, S. L., J. T. Collins, and T. W. Taggart. 2002. Geographic distribution: Diadophis punctatus (ringneck snake). Journal of Kansas Herpetology No. 3:13.
20 1635 Cox, J. A., and R. S. Kautz. 2000. Habitat conservation needs of rare and imperiled wildlife in Florida. Office of Environmental Services, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 156pp.
21 1711 Dalrymple, G. H., T. M. Steiner, R. J. Nodell, and F. S. Bernardino, Jr. 1991. Seasonal activity of the snakes of Long Pine Key, Everglades National Park. Copeia 1991:294–302.
22 6962 Dodd, C. K., Jr., W. J. Barichivich, and L. L. Smith. 2004. Effectiveness of a barrier wall and culverts in reducing wildlife mortality on a heavily traveled highway in Florida. Biological Conservation 118:619–631.
23 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.
24 2142 Dyrkacz, S. 1981. Recent instances of albinism in North American amphibians and reptiles. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Herpetological Circular No. 11. 31pp.
25 6533 Enge, K. M., and K. N. Wood. 2002. A pedestrian road survey of an upland snake community in Florida. Southeastern Naturalist 1:365–380.
26 2289 Ernst, C. H., and R. W. Barbour. 1989. Snakes of eastern North America. George Mason University Press, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. 282pp.
27 9447 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2011. Key ringneck snake biological status review report. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 13pp.
28 10135 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2013. A species action plan for the Key ringneck snake. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 19pp.
29 10442 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2016. Florida’s imperiled species management plan. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. ?pp.
30 8520 Fontanella, F. 2007. Phylogeography and population demography of the trans-continental ringneck snake Diadophis punctatus. Abstract in Joint Meeting of the 23nd Annual Meeting of the American Elasmobranch Society, 87th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 65th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, and the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; 11–16 July 2007, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
31 9329 Fontanella, F. M., and M. E. Siddall. 2010. Isolation and characterization of 14 polymorphic microsatellite loci in the ringneck snake Diadophis punctatus (Colubridae: Dipsadinae). Conservation Genetics 11:1193−1195.
32 8630 Fontanella, F. M., C. R. Feldman, M. E. Siddall, and F. T. Burbrink. 2008. Phylogeography of Diadophis punctatus: extensive lineage diversity and repeated patterns of historical demography in a trans-continental snake. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46:1049–1070.
33 6478 Forys, E. A., C. R. Allen, and D. P. Wojcik. 2002. Influence of the proximity and amount of human development and roads on the occurrence of the red imported fire ant in the lower Florida Keys. Biological Conservation 108:27–33.
34 2670 Goin, C. J. 1944. The lower vertebrate fauna of the water hyacinth community in northern Florida. Proceedings of the Florida Academy of Sciences 6:143–154.
35 2707 Gordon, R. E. 1953. A population of Holbrook's salamander, Eurycea longicauda guttolineata (Holbrook). Tulane Studies in Zoology 1:55–60.
36 2720 Graham, F., Jr. 1982. What matters most: the many worlds of Archie and Marjorie Carr. Audubon Magazine 84(2):90–98, 100–105.
37 3065 Hipes, D., D. R. Jackson, K. NeSmith, D. Printiss, and K. Brandt. 2001. Field guide to the rare animals of Florida. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
38 3111 Holman, J. A. 1981. A review of North American Pleistocene snakes. Publications of the Museum Michigan State University, Paleontological Series 1:261–306.
39 3113 Holman, J. A. 1996. The large Pleistocene (Sangamonian) herpetofauna of the Williston IIIA Site, north-central Florida. Herpetological Natural History 4:35–47.
40 3115 Holman, J. A. 2000. Fossil snakes of North America: origin, evolution, distribution, paleoecology. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. 357pp.
41 3137 Howard, P. 1991. Road cruising #2. Gainesville Herpetological Society Newsletter 8(2):12–13.
42 9290 Krysko, K. L., and M. D. Halvorsen. 2010. Osteopilus septentrionalis (Cuban treefrog). Prey. Herpetological Review 41:339–340.
43 6483 Layne, J. N., and T. M. Steiner. 1996. Eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon corais couperi): summary of research conducted on Archbold Biological Station. Report to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. 64pp.
44 3694 Lazell, J. D., Jr. 1985. Geographic distribution: Diadophis punctatus acricus (Key ringneck snake). Herpetological Review 16:115.
45 3725 Lee, D. S. 1969. Floridian herpetofauna associated with cabbage palms. Herpetologica 25:70–71.
46 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.
47 3812 Loftin, R. W. 1970. Loggerhead shrike preys on ring-necked snake. Florida Naturalist 43:123.
48 10405 Mays, J. D., and K. M. Enge. 2016. Survey of state-listed reptile species in the Lower Keys. Final Report, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Gainesville, Florida, USA. ?pp.
49 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.
50 10414 Meshaka, W. E., Jr., and J. N. Layne. 2015. The herpetology of southern Florida. Monograph 5. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 10:1−353.
51 6947 Meshaka, W. E., Jr., B. P. Butterfield, and J. B. Hauge. 2004. The exotic amphibians and reptiles of Florida. Krieger, Melbourne, Florida, USA. 166pp.
52 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.
53 10747 Moler, P. E. 2019. Diadophis punctatus (Linnaeus 1766), ring-necked snake (ringneck snake). Pages 509–511 in K. L. Krysko, K. M. Enge, and P. E. Moler, editors. Amphibians and reptiles of Florida. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
54 4478 Muller, J. W. 1989. Matrix of habitats and distribution by county of rare/endangered species in Florida. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 91pp.
55 4554 Myers, C. W. 1965. Biology of the ringneck snake, Diadophis punctatus, in Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 10:43–90.
56 4600 Neill, W. T. 1951. Notes on the natural history of certain North American snakes. Ross Allen's Reptile Institute, Publication of the Research Division 1:47–60, Silver Springs, Florida, USA.
57 4705 Norris, D. 1976. Corkscrew. Florida Naturalist 49(1):8–9.
58 4853 Paul, J. R. 1967. Intergradation among ring-necked snakes in southeastern United States. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 83:98–102.
59 4898 Peterson, H. W. 1956. A record of viviparity in a normally oviparous snake. Herpetologica 12:152.
60 10814 Reichling, S. B. 2008. Reptiles and amphibians of the southern pine woods. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 320pp.
61 5197 Rossi, J. V. 1990. Notes on the husbandry of small eastern North American snakes. League of Florida Herpetological Societies Newsletter (June):25–27.
62 5198 Rossi, J. V. 1990. Notes on the husbandry of small North American snakes. Gainesville Herpetological Society Newsletter 7(4):10–13.
63 5203 Rossi, J. V., and R. Rossi. 1994. Diadophis punctatus punctatus (southern ringneck snake). Anti-ophiophagous behavior. Herpetological Review 25:123.
64 9692 Rossi, J., and R. Rossi. 2003. "Hoop snake" found--old wive's tale may have basis in fact: autophagous behavior in a southern ring-necked snake, Diadophis punctatus punctatus. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 37:85–86.
65 8394 Smith, H. T., W. E. Meshaka, Jr., E. Golden, and E. M. Cowan. 2007. The appearance of the exotic green iguana as road-kills in a restored urban Florida state park: the importance of an 11-year dataset. Journal of Kansas Herpetology No. 22:14–16.
66 5518 Smoker, M. 2001. Hiking for herps. Reptile & Amphibian Hobbyist 6(12):54–58.
67 9179 Stevenson, D. J., M. R. Bolt, D. J. Smith, K. M. Enge, N. L. Hyslop, T. M. Norton, and K. J. Dyer. 2010. Prey records for the eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon couperi). Southeastern Naturalist 9:1–18.
68 7469 Taggart, T. W. 2004. Geographic distribution: Diadophis punctatus (ringneck snake). Journal of Kansas Herpetology No. 9:7.
69 9280 Telford, S. R., Jr. 2010. Three new hepatozoon species (Apicomplexa: Hepatozoidae) infecting the Florida kingsnake, Lampropeltis getula floridana. Journal of Parasitology 96:162–-169.
70 5777 Telford, S. R., Jr., E. J. Wozniak, and J. F. Butler. 2001. Haemogregarine specificity in two communities of Florida snakes, with descriptions of six new species of Hepatozoon (Apicomplexa: Hepatozoidae) and a possible species of Haemogregarina (Apecomplexa: Haemogregarinidae). Journal of Parasitology 87:890–905.
71 10263 Tetzlaff, S. J. 2014. Diadophis punctatus (ring-necked snake). Diet. Herpetological Review 45:710.
72 7866 U.S. Department of Commerce. 1996. Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary: final managment plan/environmental impact statement. Volume II, development of the management plan: environmental impact statement. Sanctuaries and Reserves Division, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. 236pp.
73 8130 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1994. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; animal candidate review for listing as endangered or threatened species. Federal Register, Part IV.
74 10566 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2015. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; 90-day findings on 31 petitions. Federal Register 80:37568−37579.
75 6054 Weaver, W. G. 1978. Big Pine Key ringneck snake, Diadophis punctatus acricus (Paulson). Pages 41–42 in R. W. McDiarmid, editor. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Volume 3. Amphibians and reptiles. University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
76 6058 Weaver, W. G., and S. P. Christman. 1992. Big Pine Key ringneck snake, Diadophis punctatus acricus Paulson. Pages 146–149 in P. E. Moler, editor. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Volume III. Amphibians and reptiles. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
77 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.
78 6340 Wray, K., and R. Owen. 1999. New records for amphibians and reptiles from Nassau County, Florida. Herpetological Review 30:237–238.

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