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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.
2 125 Allen, E. R., and W. T. Neill. 1953. The short-tailed snake. Florida Wildlife 6(11):8–9.
3 377 Anonymous. 1989. Field notes. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, The Skimmer 5(2):6.
4 192 Anonymous. n.d. Cross Florida greenbelt state recreation and conservation area management plan. Volume IV. Report on biological issues. Report for Florida Department of Natural Resources and Canal Authority of State of Florida, University Planning Team, Department Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 163pp.
5 836 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.
6 1091 Boundy, J. 1995. Maximum lengths of North American snakes. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 30:109–122.
7 1093 Bovee, E. C. 1963. Protozoan inquilines from reptiles. III. Rigidomastrix scincorum n. sp.; Cercoboda stilosomorum n. sp.; and Cryptobia geccorum n. sp. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 25:180–191.
8 6945 Brandt, K., L. Chafin, and M. Hughes. 2003. Rare, threatened, and endangered species in forests of Florida: a guide to assist with forestry activities. International Paper Company, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Division of Forestry of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, and Florida Department of Transportation. 299pp.
9 1185 Brown, A. E. 1890. On a new genus of Colubridae from Florida. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 42:199–200.
10 8383 Burbrink, F. T., and R. Lawson. 2007. How and when did Old World rat snakes disperse into the New World? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43:173–189.
11 1323 Campbell, H. W. 1977. Habitat and prey selection of the short-tailed snake, Stilosoma extenuatum Brown. Abstract in Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 19–25 June 1977, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
12 1325 Campbell, H. W. 1978. Short-tailed snake, Stilosoma extenuatum (Brown). Pages 28–30 in R. W. McDiarmid, editor. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Volume 3. Amphibians and reptiles. University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
13 1327 Campbell, H. W. 1992. Short-tailed snake, Stilosoma extenuatum Brown. Pages 150–153 in P. E. Moler, editor. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Volume III. Amphibians and reptiles. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
14 1344 Campbell, T. S. 1990. The short-tailed snake, Stilosoma extenuatum. League of Florida Herpetological Societies Newsletter (June):13–15.
15 1400 Carr, A. F., Jr. 1934. Notes on the habits of the short-tailed snake, Stilosoma extenuatum Brown. Copeia 1934:138–139.
16 1408 Carr, A. F., Jr. 1940. A contribution to the herpetology of Florida. University of Florida Publications, Biological Sciences 3:1–118.
17 9691 Conant, R. 2003. Herp collecting in Florida in 1930. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 37:117–119.
18 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.
19 1675 Crother, B. I., chair. 2000. Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Herpetological Circular No. 29. 82pp.
20 2077 Douglass, J. F. 1976. Geographic distribution: Stilosoma extenuatum (short-tailed snake). Herpetological Review 7:123.
21 2087 Dowling, H. G., and L. R. Maxson. 1990. Genetic and taxonomic relations of the short-tailed snakes, genus Stilosoma. Journal of Zoology, London 221(1):77–86.
22 10780 Dye, D. D., II, M. L. Dye, and J. Scott. 2018. Lampropeltis extentuata (short-tailed kingsnake). Diet. Herpetological Review 49:756.
23 10020 Enge, K. 2013. Notes from the field: reptile and amphibian research. FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute Field Notes No. 77:8.
24 10328 Enge, K. M. 2014. Short-tailed snake reproduction. Threatened and Non-game Management Species Annual Report, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Wildlife Research Laboratory, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 9pp.
25 10736 Enge, K. M. 2019. Lampropeltis extenuata (Brown 1890), short-tailed kingsnake (short-tailed snake). Pages 473–475 in K. L. Krysko, K. M. Enge, and P. E. Moler, editors. Amphibians and reptiles of Florida. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
26 2271 Enge, K. M., and K. N. Wood. 2001. Herpetofauna of Chinsegut Nature Center, Hernando County, Florida. Florida Scientist 64:283–305.
27 10353 Enge, K. M., G. Craft, J. T. Schmitt, and G. L. Bartolotti. 2015. Lampropeltis extenuata (short-tailed kingsnake). Defensive behavior. Herpetological Review 46:451.
28 10394 Enge, K. M., J. D. Mays, E. P. Hill, and B. B. Harris. 2016. Status assessments of the southern hog-nosed snake, Florida pinesnake, short-tailed kingsnake, and eastern diamond-backed rattlesnake in Florida. Final Report, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Wildlife Research Section, Gainesville, Florida, USA. ?pp.
29 9451 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2011. Short-tailed snake biological status review report. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 17pp.
30 9116 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2012. Chassahowitzka WMA species management strategy. Revised - 07/09/2012. Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, Terrestrial Habitat Conservation and Restoration Section, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 65pp.
31 10140 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2013. A species action plan for the short-tailed snake. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 22pp.
32 10442 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2016. Florida’s imperiled species management plan. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. ?pp.
33 8960 Godley, J. S., S. M. Gonzalez, and M. C. Gonzalez. 2008. Stilosoma extenuatum (short-tailed snake). Diet and predation. Herpetological Review 39:473–474.
34 3024 Highton, R. 1956. Systematics and variation of the endemic Florida snake genus Stilosoma. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 1:73–96.
35 3026 Highton, R. 1976. Stilosoma, S. extenuatum. Short-tailed snake. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 183.1–2.
36 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.
37 3115 Holman, J. A. 2000. Fossil snakes of North America: origin, evolution, distribution, paleoecology. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. 357pp.
38 7939 Jayne, B. C. 1982. Comparative morphology of the semispinalis-spinalis muscle of snakes and correlations with locomotion and constriction. Journal of Morphology 172:83–96.
39 8426 KBN, A Golder Associates Company. 1996. Alachua County ecological inventory project. Prepared for Alachua County Department of Growth Management, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
40 3689 Layne, J. N., J. A. Stallcup, G. E. Woolfenden, M. N. McCauley, and D. J. Worley. 1977. Fish and wildlife inventory of the seven-county region included in the Central Florida Phosphate Industry Areawide Environmental Impact Study. U.S. Department of Commerce, National Technical Information Services PB-278 456, Volume 1. 643pp.
41 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.
42 4034 McCoy, E. D., and H. R. Mushinsky. 1991. A survey of gopher tortoise populations residing on twelve state parks in Florida. Florida Department of Natural Resources Technical Report No. 1, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 78pp.
43 4109 Means, D. B. 1976. Survey of the status of amphibians and reptiles of the Ocala National Forest, Florida. Unpublished Report to the U.S. Forest Service. 43pp.
44 10414 Meshaka, W. E., Jr., and J. N. Layne. 2015. The herpetology of southern Florida. Monograph 5. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 10:1−353.
45 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.
46 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.
47 4480 Muller, J. W., G. R. Knight, S. R. Telford, Jr., and P. M. Sheridan. 1991. Biological inventory of the Cross Florida Greenbelt State Recreation and Conservation Area: survey for occurrences of rare plants and animals and exemplary natural communities. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 136pp.
48 4515 Mushinsky, H. R. 1983. Notes on the feeding behavior of the short-tailed snake, Stilosoma extenuatum. 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.
49 4516 Mushinsky, H. R. 1984. Observations on the feeding habits of the short-tailed snake, Stilosoma extenuatum in captivity. Herpetological Review 15:67–68.
50 9044 Pyron, R. A., and F. T. Burbrink. 2009. Neogene diversification and taxonomic stability in the snake tribe Lampropeltini (Serpentes: Colubridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52:524–529.
51 10814 Reichling, S. B. 2008. Reptiles and amphibians of the southern pine woods. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 320pp.
52 5202 Rossi, J. V., and R. Rossi. 1993. Notes on the captive maintenance and feeding behavior of a juvenile short-tailed snake (Stilosoma extenuatum). Herpetological Review 24:100–101.
53 7308 Steen D. A., and J. C. Brock. 2005. Upland snake species profile: short-tailed snake, Stilosoma extenuatum. Gopher Tortoise Council, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 1p.
54 7104 Trani (Griep), M. K. 2002. Maintaining species in the South. Pages 113–150 in D. N. Wear and J. G. Greis, editors. The southern forest resource assessment: summary report. U.S. Forest Service General Technical Report SRS-54, Southern Research Station, Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
55 5885 Trescott, E. 1998. The short-tailed snake (Stilosoma extenuatum). Reptiles Magazine 6(3):32–37.
56 5900 Tucker, H. 1911. Scale variations in Stilosoma extenuatum (A. E. Brown). Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia 42:549–550
57 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.
58 5946 Van Duyn, G. 1939. Extension in range of Stilosoma extenuatum. Copeia 1939:51–52.
59 6333 Woolfenden, G. E. 1962. A range extension and subspecific relations of the short-tailed snake, Stilosoma extenuatum. Copeia 1962:648–649.
60 6345 Wright, A. H. 1935. Some rare amphibians and reptiles of the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 21:340–345.

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