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1 80 Allen, E. R. 1951. Here's how to get along with reptiles. Florida Wildlife 4(9):6–8, 20–22.
2 82 Allen, E. R. 1953. Here's how to get along with reptiles. Florida Wildlife 7(5):11, 37, 40.
3 6693 Anonymous. 1990. Owner cited for allowing lizard to escape. Reprinted in League of Florida Herpetological Societies Newsletter (July):24.
4 6692 Anonymous. 1999. Cops defend shooting of monitor lizard Deland. League of Florida Herpetological Societies Newsletter (July):26.
5 554 Anonymous. 2001. Lizards of south Florida: native species—quick reference sheet. Fact Sheet WEC-QRS-022, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 2pp.
6 9788 Anonymous. 2010. Field identification of select native and nonnative reptiles. Everglades Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area. 34pp.
7 612 Ashton, R. E., Jr., and P. S. Ashton. 1985. Handbook of reptiles and amphibians of Florida. Part two: lizards, turtles and crocodilians. Windward, Miami, Florida, USA. 191pp.
8 6852 Bartlett, D. 2003. Notes from the field. Altered state: Florida's alien anoles find a place in a herper's heart. Reptiles Magazine 11(12):26, 28, 30–31.
9 7657 Bartlett, D. 2006. American geckos (including aliens). Reptiles Magazine 14(2):40–49.
10 830 Bartlett, R. D. 1994. Florida's alien herps. Reptile & Amphibian Magazine (March–April):56–73, 103–109.
11 6887 Bartlett, R. D., and P. Bartlett. 2001. Reptile keeper's guides: Jackson's and veiled chameleons. Barron's Educational Series, Hauppauge, New York, USA. 46pp.
12 853 Bartlett, R. D., and P. P. Bartlett. 1995. Iguanas. Barron's Educational Series, Hauppauge, New York, USA. 88pp.
13 855 Bartlett, R. D., and P. P. Bartlett. 1997. Anoles, basilisks, and water dragons. Barron's Educational Series, Hauppauge, New York, USA. 96pp.
14 857 Bartlett, R. D., and P. P. Bartlett. 1999. A field guide to Florida reptiles and amphibians. Gulf, Houston, Texas, USA. 280pp.
15 8446 Bartlett, R. D., and P. P. Bartlett. 2006. Guide and reference to the crocodilians, turtles, and lizards of eastern and central North America (north of Mexico). University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 344p.
16 9842 Bartlett, R. D., and P. P. Bartlett. 2011. Florida's turtles, lizards, and crocodilians: a guide to their identification and habits. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 352pp.
17 6687 Beltz, E. 1992. Herp news from around the world: maybe it was an emissions monitor. Vivarium 4(2):6.
18 8750 Bhullar, B. S., and K. T. Smith. 2008. Helodermatid lizard from the Miocene of Florida, the evolution of the dentary in Helodermatidae, and comments on dentary morphology in Varanoidea. Journal of Herpetology 42:286–302.
19 1248 Burt, C. E. 1937. The lizards of the southeastern United States. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 40:349–366.
20 1313 Campbell, G. R. 1988. The nature of things on Sanibel: a discussion of the animal & plant life of Sanibel Island, with a sidelong glance at some of their relatives elsewhere. Revised edition. Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, USA. 174pp.
21 1408 Carr, A. F., Jr. 1940. A contribution to the herpetology of Florida. University of Florida Publications, Biological Sciences 3:1–118.
22 7524 Clark, K., A. Hendricks, and D. Burge. 2005. Molecular identification and analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in lizards in the southeastern United States. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71:2616–2625.
23 6496 Cochrane, B. J., J. K. Brown, R. P. Wain, B. G. Yangco, and D. TeStrake. 1989. Genetic studies in the genus Basidiobolus. I. Isozyme variation among isolates of human and natural populations. Mycologia 81:504–513.
24 8723 Crother, B. I., chair. 2008. Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding. Sixth edition. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Herpetological Circular No. 37. 84pp.
25 1677 Crowder, J. P. 1974. The exotic vertebrates of south Florida. South Florida Environmental Project Ecological Report No. DI-SFEP-74-30. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife PB-235 214, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 45pp.
26 6469 Diffendorfer, J. E., P. M. Richards, G. H. Dalrymple, and D. L. DeAngelis. 2001. Applying linear programming to estimate fluxes in ecosystems or food webs: an example from the herpetological assemblage of the freshwater Everglades. Ecological Modelling 144:99–120.
27 2236 Enge, K. M. 1991. Herptile exploitation. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Nongame Wildlife Section Annual Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 55pp.
28 2242 Enge, K. M. 1993. Herptile use and trade in Florida. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Nongame Wildlife Program Final Performance Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 102pp.
29 7682 Engeman, R. M., D. Hansen, and H. T. Smith. 2005. Chamaeleo gracilis (graceful chameleon). Reproduction in Florida. Herpetological Review 36:445–446.
30 2306 Estes, R. 1963. Early Miocene salamanders and lizards from Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 26:234–256.
31 2346 Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Florida. 1939. Florida: a guide to the southernmost state. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, USA. 600pp.
32 7786 Fradkin, A. 2004. Snake consumption among early inhabitants of the River of Grass, South Florida, USA. Archaeofauna 13:57–69.
33 10479 Fradkin, A. 2017. Snake consumption among early inhabitants of the River of Grass, South Florida, USA. Archaeofauna 13?.
34 2499 Franz, R., C. K. Dodd, Jr., and A. M. Bard. 1992. The non-marine herpetofauna of Egmont Key, Hillsborough County, Florida. Florida Scientist 55:179–183.
35 9783 Giardina, D.J. 2011. The trouble with tegus. ECISMA Newsletter 2(1):5.
36 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.
37 3068 Hirsch, K. F. 1996. Parataxonomic classification of fossil chelonian and gecko eggs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16:752–762.
38 8860 Jacobson, E. 2007. Infectious diseases and pathology of reptiles: color atlas and text. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. 736pp.
39 6522 Katz, C. 1997. The nature of Florida's neighborhoods: including bats, scrub jays, lizards, and wildflowers. Atlantic Press, Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA. 64pp.
40 9694 Krykso, K. L., and A. P. Borgia. 2012. The gold dust day gecko, Phelsuma laticauda (Boettger 1880) (Squamata: Gekkonidae), in the Florida Keys. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 19:126–127.
41 9187 Krysko, K. L., K. M. Enge, E. M. Donlan, E. A. Golden, J. P. Burgess, and K. W. Larson. 2010. The non-marine herpetofauna of Key Biscayne, Florida. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 5:132–142.
42 9558 Krysko, K. L., L. A. Somma, M. R. Rochford, C. R. Gillette, K. M. Enge, and D. Cueva. 2012. Taxonomic corrections of certain verified non-indigenous reptiles from Florida reported by Krysko et al. (2011). Zootaxa 3199:66–68.
43 6501 Loope, L. L., F. G. Howarth, F. Kraus, and T. K. Pratt. 2001. Newly emergent and future threats of alien species to Pacific birds and ecosystems. Pages 291–304 in J. M. Scott, S. Conant, and C. van Riper, III, editors. Evolution, ecology, conservation, and management of Hawaiian birds: a vanishing avifauna. Studies in Avian Biology No. 22, A Publication of the Cooper Ornithological Society, Allen Press, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
44 3836 Losos, J. B., J. C. Marks, and T. W. Schoener. 1993. Habitat use and ecological interactions of an introduced and a native species of Anolis lizard on Grand Cayman, with a review of the outcomes of anole introductions. Oecologia (Heidelberg) 95:525–532.
45 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.
46 4329 Minno, M. C., and T. C. Emmel. 1992. Larval protective coloration in swallowtails from the Florida Keys (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Tropical Lepidoptera 3(1):47–49.
47 6495 Nelson, R. T., D. TeStrake, and B. J. Cochrane. 1998. The distribution of Basidiobolus and Conidiobolus in soil and litter at sites near Tampa, Florida. Mycologia 90:761–766.
48 4657 Nesbitt, S. A., W. M. Hetrick, and L. E. Williams, Jr. 1974. Foods of white ibis from seven collection sites in Florida. Proceedings of the Southeastern Association of Game and Fish Commissioners 28:517–532.
49 6492 Okafor, J. I., D. Testrake, H. R. Mushinsky, and B. G. Yangco. 1984. Basidiobolus sp. and its association with reptiles and amphibians in southern Florida. Sabouraudia 22:47–51.
50 4739 O'Keefe, M. T. 1973. Spread of the aliens (No. 2). Florida Sportsman 4(5):46–51.
51 7593 Owens, A. K., K. L. Krysko, and G. L. Heinrich. 2005. Gopherus polyphemus (gopher tortoise). Predation. Herpetological Review 36:57–58.
52 4852 Patton, T. H., and S. D. Webb. 1970. Fossil vertebrate deposits in Florida. Florida State Museum, The Plaster Jacket No. 14:1–18.
53 9787 Pernas, T., and D. Giardina. 2012. The eco-impact of tegus could be significant. ECISMA Newsletter 3(1):1, 3.
54 5019 Prusak, Z. 1992. Monitor lizard invades Wekiwa. Florida Department of Natural Resources, Office of Land Use Planning and Biological Services, Resource Management Notes 4(2):9.
55 5296 Saul, D. 1967. A field trip in northeastern Florida. Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 3:54–59.
56 5424 Sekerak, C. M., and F. J. Mazzotti. 2001. Lizards of south Florida Part I: native species. Fact Sheet WEC-129, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 4pp.
57 5490 Smith, H. M. 1946. Handbook of Lizards. Lizards of the United States and Canada. Comstock, Ithaca, New York, USA. 557pp.
58 5765 Telford, S. R., Jr. 1961. Studies on the incidence of intestinal protozoan inquilines in snakes and lizards of the south-eastern United States. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 102pp.
59 6894 Townsend, J. H., K. L. Krysko, and K. M. Enge. 2003. Introduced iguanas in southern Florida: a history of more than 35 years. Iguana 10:111–118.
60 5895 Truitt, J. O., and L. D. Ober. 1971. A guide to the lizards of south Florida (Lake Okeechobee to the Florida Keys). Hurricane House, Miami, Florida, USA. 37pp.
61 5959 Vanzolini, P. E. 1952. Fossil snake, and lizards of Florida. Tulane Studies in Zoology 10:131–216.

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