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1 9788 Anonymous. 2010. Field identification of select native and nonnative reptiles. Everglades Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area. 34pp.
2 9786 Anonymous. 2012. Tegus in Florida. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 1p.
3 10723 Enge, K. M. 2019. Salvator merianae Dumeril and Bibron 1839, Argentine giant tegu (Argentine black and white tegu). Pages 434–436 in K. L. Krysko, K. M. Enge, and P. E. Moler, editors. Amphibians and reptiles of Florida. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
4 9810 Enge, K. M., A. Jernigan, R. Johnson, J. E. Diemer Berish, P. E. Moler, T. M. Thomas, and R. A. Kiltie. 2012. What the world needs is a better gopher tortoise trap. Herpetological Review 43:574–578.
5 8191 Enge, K. M., B. W. Kaiser, and R. B. Dickerson. 2006. Another large exotic lizard in Florida, the Argentine black and white tegu. Abstract in Proceedings of the 28th Annual Gopher Tortoise Council Meeting, 26–29 October 2006, Valdosta, Georgia, USA.
6 9174 Enge, K. M., C. Hubbuch, and D. Hoffer. 2010. Geographic distribution: Agama agama africana (African rainbow lizard). Herpetological Review 41:106.
7 9371 Engeman, R., E. Jacobson, M. L. Avery, and W. E. Meshaka, Jr. 2011. The aggressive invasion of exotic reptiles in Florida with a focus on prominent species: a review. Current Zoology 57:599–612.
8 9784 Giardina, D., and T. Pernas. 2012. ECISMA uncovers first wild tegu nest in Miami-Dade. ECISMA Newsletter 3(1):4.
9 9783 Giardina, D.J. 2011. The trouble with tegus. ECISMA Newsletter 2(1):5.
10 9127 Hardin, S. 2007. Managing non-native wildlife in Florida: state perspective, policy and practice. Pages 43–52 in G. W. Wilmer, W. C. Pitt, and K. A. Fagerstone, editors. Managing vertebrate invasive species: proceedings of an international symposium. USDA/APHIS/WS, National Wildlife Research Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
11 9854 Kaiser, B. K., K. J. Osorio, K. M. Enge, and R. M. Engeman. 2013. Tupinambis merianae (Argentine giant tegu); Pantherophis guttatus (red cornsnake). Non-predatory killing. Herpetological Review 44:329.
12 10193 Kaiser, B. W., K. J. Osorio, R. M. Engeman, S. F. Dickman, and R. L. Ross. 2011. Methods for detecting new invasions and assessing gopher tortoise burrow visitation rates by the Argentine giant tegu (Tupinambis merianae). Abstract in 33rd Annual Meeting of the Gopher Tortoise Council, 14–16 October 2011, Orlando, Florida, USA.
13 10312 Keacher, K. L., J. S. Humphrey, W. E. Bruce, C. O. Kuhn, and M. L. Avery. 2015. Winter activity of captive black and white tegus (Tupinambis merianae). Page 23 (abstract) in The 38th Annual Herpetology Conference, 27–28 March 2015, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
14 10396 Klug P. E., R. N. Reed, F. J. Mazzotti, M. A. McEachern, J.J . Vinci, K. K. Craven, and A. A. Yackel Adams. 2015. The influence of disturbed habitat on the spatial ecology of Argentine black and white tegu (Tupinambis merianae), a recent invader in the Everglades ecosystem (Florida, USA).
15 10520 Klug, P. E., R. N. Reed, F. J. Mazzotti, M. A. McEachern, J. L. Vinci, K. K. Craven, and A. A. Y. Adams. 2015. The influence of disturbed habitat on the spatial ecology of Argentine black and white tegu (Tupinambis merianae), a recent invader in the Everglades ecosystem (Florida, USA). Biological Invasions 17:1785–1797.
16 10341 Mazzotti, F. J., M. McEachern, M. Rochford, R. N. Reed, J. Ketterlin Eckles, J. Vinci, J. Edwards, and J. Wasilewski. 2015. Tupinambis merianae as nest predators of crocodilians and turtles in Florida, USA. Biological Invasions ?.
17 10345 McEachern, M. A., A. A. Yackel Adams, P. E. Klug, L. A. Fitzgerald, and R. N. Reed. 2015. Brumation of introduced black and white tegus, Tupinambis merianae (Squamata: Teiidae), in southern Florida. Southeastern Naturalist 14:319–328.
18 9477 Meshaka, W. E., Jr. 2011. A runaway train in the making: the exotic amphibians, reptiles, turtles, and crocodilians of Florida. Monograph 1. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 6:1−101.
19 9787 Pernas, T., and D. Giardina. 2012. The eco-impact of tegus could be significant. ECISMA Newsletter 3(1):1, 3.
20 9961 Pernas, T., D. J. Giardina, A. McKinley, A. Parns, and F. J. Mazzotti. 2012. First observations of nesting by the Argentine black and white tegu, Tupinambis merianae, in South Florida. Southeastern Naturalist 11:765–770.
21 9197 Rodgers, L., M. Bodle, and F. Laroche. 2010. Chapter 9: the status of nonindigenous species in the South Florida Environment. Pages 9-1–58 in 2010 South Florida Environmental Report.
22 8589 Smith, C. A., and K. L. Krysko. 2007. Distributional comments on the teiid lizards (Squamata: Teiidae) of Florida with a key to the species. Caribbean Journal of Science 43:260–265.
23 10512 Wood, J. P. 2016. Insights into the introduction histories and population genetic dynamics of the Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus) and Argentine black and white tegu (Salvator merianae) in Florida. Dissertation, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. 142pp.

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