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1 48 Aldredge, J., L. Giovanetto, and S. Graham. 2001. Dietary analysis of three sympatric, congeneric species of emydid turtles in Rainbow Springs State Park, Florida. Pages 37–40 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 27–31 July 2001, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
2 66 Allen, E. R. 1939. Notes on the feeding and egg-laying habits of the Pseudemys. Proceedings of the Florida Academy of Sciences 3:105–108.
3 581 Aresco, M. J. 2001. Population status, community composition, and drought-related movements of turtles in a north Florida lake. Page 42 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 27–31 July 2001, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
4 728 Bancroft, G. T., J. S. Godley, D. T. Gross, N. N. Rojas, D. A. Sutphen and R. W. McDiarmid. 1983. Large-scale operations management test of use of the white amur for control of problem aquatic plants. The herpetofauna of Lake Conway: species accounts. Final report. Miscellaneous Paper A-83-5, U.S. Army Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, CE, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA. 304pp.
5 8189 Bartlett, R. D., and P. Bartlett. 2003. Reptile keeper's guides: aquatic turtles: sliders, cooters, painted, and map turtles. Barron's Educational Series, Hauppauge, New York, USA. 48pp.
6 879 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.
7 889 Beissinger, S. R. 1990. Alternative foods of a diet specialist, the snail kite. Auk 107:327–333.
8 8592 Bickham, J. W., J. B. Iverson, J. F. Parham, H. Philippen, A. G. J. Rhodins, H. B. Shaffer, P. Q. Spinks, and P. P. van Dijk. 2007. An annotated list of modern turtle terminal taxa with comments on areas of taxonomic instability and recent change. Chelonian Research Monographs 4:173–199.
9 1018 Bjorndal, K. A., A. B. Bolten, C. J. Lagueux, and D. R. Jackson. 1997. Dietary overlap in three sympatric freshwater turtles (Pseudemys) in Florida. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2:430–433.
10 1030 Blaney, R. M. 1971. An annotated checklist and biogeographic analysis of the insular herpetofauna of the Apalachicola Region, Florida. Herpetologica 27:406–430.
11 1035 Blatchley, W. S. 1902. A nature wooing at Ormond by the Sea. Nature Publishing Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 245pp.
12 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.
13 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.
14 1063 Bogert, C. M., and R. B. Cowles. 1947. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 58. Moisture loss in relation to habitat selection in some Florida reptiles. American Museum Novitates No. 1358. 34pp.
15 1392 Carr, A. 1994. Triple clutchers. Pages 220–224 in M. H. Carr, editor. A naturalist in Florida: a celebration of Eden. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, Connecticut, USA.
16 1405 Carr, A. F., Jr. 1938. A new subspecies of Pseudemys floridana, with notes on the floridana complex. Copeia 1938:105–109.
17 1408 Carr, A. F., Jr. 1940. A contribution to the herpetology of Florida. University of Florida Publications, Biological Sciences 3:1–118.
18 9386 Chapin, K. J., and P. A. Meylan. 2011. Turtle populations at a heavily used recreational site: Itchetucknee Springs State Park, Columbia County, Florida. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 6:51−60.
19 1545 Clausen, C. J., A.. D. Cohen, C. Emiliani, J. A. Holman, and J. J. Stipp. 1979. Little Salt Spring, Florida: a unique underwater site. Science 203:609–614.
20 8317 Collins, N. M., and P. A. Meylan. 2007. Demography of the turtle genus Pseudemys at Rainbow Run, Marion Co., Floridaa. Florida Scientist 70(Supplement 1):34–35 (abstract).
21 1613 Cople, P. E., and M. A. Pilgrim. 1993. The effects of satellite nests on predation in artificial nests of Pseudemys floridanus peninsularis. Florida Scientist 56(Supplement 1):32 (abstract).
22 1662 Crenshaw, J. W., Jr. 1955. The ecological geography of the Pseudemys floridana complex in the southeastern United States. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 211pp.
23 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.
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 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 2236 Enge, K. M. 1991. Herptile exploitation. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Nongame Wildlife Section Annual Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 55pp.
27 2244 Enge, K. M. 1994. Florida's commercial trade in native turtles. Abstract in a symposium on the status and conservation of Florida turtles, 2–3 April 1994, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
28 2460 Foster, M. L., and S. R. Humphrey. 1992. Effectiveness of wildlife crossings in reducing animal/auto collisions on Interstate 75, Big Cypress Swamp, Florida. Prepared for Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 124pp.
29 10479 Fradkin, A. 2017. Snake consumption among early inhabitants of the River of Grass, South Florida, USA. Archaeofauna 13?.
30 2482 Franz, R. 1986. Pseudemys floridana peninsularis (peninsula cooter). Egg predation. Herpetological Review 17:64–65.
31 2494 Franz, R., J. Bauer, and T. Morris. 1994. Review of biologically significant caves and their faunas in Florida and south Georgia. Brimleyana 20:1–109.
32 2597 Gibbons, J. W. 1990. The slider turtle. Pages 3–18 in J. W. Gibbons, editor. Life history and ecology of the slider turtle. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
33 8521 Giovanetto, L. 2007. Habitat use in a population of Pseudemys concinna suwanniensis. Are juveniles exhibiting niche compression? 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.
34 2606 Giovanetto, L. A. 1992. Population ecology and relative abundance of sympatric freshwater turtles in the headwaters of two spring-fed rivers in western peninsular Florida. Dissertation, Florida Institute of Technology, Orlando, Florida, USA. 106pp.
35 8011 Giovanetto, L. A. 2006. Habitat use and resource partitioning in two species of sympatric, congeneric turtles. 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.
36 2608 Giovanetto, L. A., and J. G. Morris. 1992. Intergradation between Florida and peninsula cooter in northwestern peninsular Florida with a possible range extension for the Florida cooter. Page 51 (abstract) in Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, August 1992, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA.
37 2660 Goff, C. C., and D. S. Goff. 1932. Egg laying and incubation of Pseudemys floridana. Copeia 1932:92–94.
38 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.
39 2928 Hay, O. P. 1917. Vertebrata mostly from Stratum No. 3 at Vero, Florida; together with descriptions of a new species. Annual Report Florida Geological Survey 9:43–68.
40 3095 Hollister, J. M. 1951. Turtles found in Florida. Florida Naturalist 24:93–95.
41 3113 Holman, J. A. 1996. The large Pleistocene (Sangamonian) herpetofauna of the Williston IIIA Site, north-central Florida. Herpetological Natural History 4:35–47.
42 3117 Holman, J. A., and C. Clausen. 1984. Fossil vertebrates associated with Paleo-Indian artifact at Little Salt Spring, Florida. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4:146–154.
43 8653 Hrycyshyn, G. E. 2007. Survival probabilities and density of four sympatric species of freshwater turtles in Florida. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 61pp.
44 7219 Huestis, D. L., and P. A. Meylan. 2004. The turtles of Rainbow Run (Marion County, Florida): observations on the genus Pseudemys. Southeastern Naturalist 3:595–612.
45 3212 Iverson, J. B. 1982. Biomass in turtle populations: a neglected subject. Oecologia (Berlin) 55:69–76.
46 3258 Jackson, D. R. 1988. Reproductive strategies of sympatric freshwater emydid turtles in northern peninsular Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 33:113–158.
47 3268 Jackson, D. R. 1995. Systematics of the Pseudemys concinna–floridana complex (Testudines: Emydidae): an alternative interpretation. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 1:329–333.
48 3277 Jackson, D. R., and D. C. Deitz. 1978. Effects of severe drought on the herpetofauna (and ichthyofauna) of a Florida marsh. Abstract in Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 26th Annual Meeting of The Herpetologists' League, and 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 31 May–2 June 1978, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
49 3281 Jackson, D. R., and J. B. Jensen. 1996. Pseudemys floridana is alive and well and living in Florida (and elsewhere). Page 62 (abstract) in Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 24–29 July 1996, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
50 3566 Kramer, M. 1989. Individual discrimination in juveniles of two turtles, Pseudemys nelsoni and Pseudemys floridana (Chelonia, Emydidae). Biological Behavior 14:148–156.
51 3568 Kramer, M. 1995. Home range of the Florida red-bellied turtle (Pseudemys nelsoni) in a Florida spring run. Copeia 1995:883–890.
52 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.
53 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.
54 3935 Marchand, L. J. 1942. A contribution to the knowledge of the natural history of certain freshwater turtles. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 113pp.
55 3937 Marchand, L. J. 1945. The individual range of some Florida turtles. Copeia 1945:75–77.
56 10414 Meshaka, W. E., Jr., and J. N. Layne. 2015. The herpetology of southern Florida. Monograph 5. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 10:1−353.
57 4255 Meshaka, W. E., Jr., and M. Deyrup. 1999. Pseudemys floridana peninsularis (peninsula cooter) and P. nelsoni (Florida redbelly turtle. Mutualism. Herpetological Review 30:95.
58 4289 Meylan, P. A. 1995. Pleistocene amphibians and reptiles from the Leisley Shell Pits, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37 Part I:273–297.
59 8256 Meylan, P. A. 2006. Introduction. Pages 28–36 in P. A. Meylan, editor. Biology and conservation of Florida turtles. Chelonian Research Monographs No. 3.
60 4293 Meylan, P. A., C. A. Stevens, M. E. Barnwell, and E. D. Dohm. 1992. Observations on the turtle community of Rainbow Run, Marion Co., Florida. Florida Scientist 55:219–228.
61 4291 Meylan, P. A., W. A. Auffenberg, and R. C. Hurlbert. 2001. Reptilia 1: turtles and tortoises. Pages 118–136 in R. C. Hurlbert, editor. The fossil vertebrates of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
62 4394 Moler, P. E., and J. E. Berish. 1995. Impact of commercial exploitation on softshell turtle populations. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission Final Report Study No. 7542, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 18pp.
63 4408 Moody, H. L. 1957. A fisheries study of Lake Panasoffkee, Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 20:21–88.
64 9631 Munscher, E., J. B. Hauge, J. MacDonald, E. Havens, and E. A. Kuhns. 2011. Population, survivorship, biomass, sex Ratios, and density of the freshwater aquatic turtle population at Wekiwa Springs State Park. Pages 42−43 (abstract) in 9th Annual Symposium on the Conservation and Biology of Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles, Joint Annual Meeting of the Turtle Survival Alliance and IUCN Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group, 14−17 August 2011, Orlando, Florida, USA.
65 4633 Neill, W. T., and E. R. Allen. 1954. Algae on turtles: some additional considerations. Ecology 35:581–584.
66 4635 Neill, W. T., H. J. Gut, and P. Brodkorb. 1956. Animal remains from four preceramic sites in Florida. American Antiquity 21:383–395.
67 4659 Netting, M. G. 1929. A note on the egg-laying of Pseudemys floridana (Le Conte). Copeia 1929:24–25.
68 5000 Pritchard, P. C. H., and W. F. Greenhood. 1968. The sun and the turtle. International Turtle & Tortoise Society Journal 2(1):20–25, 34.
69 7662 Roof, J., and J. Wooding. n.d. Evaluation of the S.R. 46 wildlife crossing in Lake County, Florida. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Wildlife Research Laboratory, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 8pp.
70 7252 Runyan, A. L., and P. A. Meylan. 2005. PIT tag retention in Trachemys and Pseudemys. Herpetological Review 36:45–47.
71 5398 Seidel, M. E. 1994. Morphometric analysis and taxonomy of cooter and red-bellied turtles in the North American genus Pseudemys (Emydidae). Chelonian Conservation and Biology 1:117–130.
72 5399 Seidel, M. E. 1995. How many species of cooter turtles and where is the scientific evidence?—a reply to Jackson. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 1:333–336.
73 5401 Seidel, M. E., and C. H. Ernst. 1996. Pseudemys Gray. Cooters and red-bellied turtles. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 625.1–7.
74 5402 Seidel, M. E., and C. H. Ernst. 1998. Pseudemys peninsularis Carr. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 669.1–4.
75 6783 Smith, H. T., and R. M. Engeman. 2003. Pseudemys peninsularis (peninsula cooter). Estuarine observation and interaction with giant land crabs. Herpetological Review 34:140.
76 5503 Smith, L. L. 1999. The role of the Paynes Prairie Wildlife Coalition in the conservation of Florida turtles. Abstract in G. L. Heinrich and P. A. Meylan, coordinators. A Second Symposium on the Status and Conservation of Florida Turtles and the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Gopher Tortoise Council, 8–11 October 1999, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
77 6727 Smith, L. L., and C. K. Dodd, Jr. 2003. Wildlife mortality on U.S. Highway 441 across Paynes Prairie, Alachua County, Florida. Florida Scientist 66:128–140.
78 9847 Spinks, P. Q., R. C. Thomson, G. B. Pauly, C. E. Newman, G. Mount, and H. B. Shaffer. 2013. Misleading phylogenetic inferences based on single-exemplar sampling in the turtle genus Pseudemys. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68:269–281.
79 10426 Stacy, B. A., D. A. Wolf, and J. F. X. Wellehan Jr. 2014. Large-scale predation by river otters (Lontra canadensis) on Florida cooter (Pseudemys floridana) and Florida softshell turtles (Apalone ferox). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 50:906–910.
80 10252 Stacy, B. A., D. A. Wolf, and J. F. X. Wellehan, Jr. 2014. Large-scale predation by river otters (Lutra canadensis) on Florida cooter (Pseudemys floridana) and Florida softshell turtles (Apalone ferox). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 50:906–910.
81 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.
82 5704 Stunkard, H. W. 1924. On some trematodes from Florida turtles. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 43:97–113.
83 8287 Thomas, R. B., and K. P. Jansen. 2006. Pseudemys floridana – Florida cooter. Pages 338–347 in P. A. Meylan, editor. Biology and conservation of Florida turtles. Chelonian Research Monographs No. 3.
84 7891 Walker, G., and J. A. Baber. 2003. Wildlife use and interactions with structures contracted to minimize vehicle collisions and animal mortality along State Road 46, Lake County Florida. Final Report, Contract No. BD-162. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Recreation and Parks, Wekiva River Basin State Parks, Apopka, Florida, USA. 28pp.
85 6015 Walls, J. G. 1996. The Pseudemys mess. Reptile Hobbyist 2(1):38–41.
86 6027 Ward, J. P. 1984. Relationships of Chrysemyd turtles of North America (Testudines: Emydidae). Special Publication of the Museum of Texas Technical University No. 21. 50pp.
87 6063 Weaver, W. S., Jr., and F. L. Rose. 1967. Systematics, fossil history, and evolution of the genus Chrysemys. Tulane Studies in Zoology 14:63–73.
88 6106 White, C. P. 1986. Designed for survival—freshwater turtles. National Geographic Magazine 169:40–59.
89 6262 Witzell, W. N. 1999. Aquatic turtles (Testudines: Emydidae) in an urban south Florida man-made pond. Florida Scientist 62:172–174.
90 6530 Zug, G. R. 1963. Male genitalia in the systematics of turtles. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 39pp.
91 6642 Zweig, G., and J. W. Crenshaw. 1957. Differentiation of species by paper electrophoresis of serum proteins and Pseudemys turtles. Science 126:1065–1067.

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