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1 177 Anderson, M. E. 1998. The Allen's Creek wildlife monitoring project at Lakeview Road and Hercules Avenue. Pages 113–114 in S. H. Darling and H. H. Harper, editors. Integrating water resources and growth into the 21st century. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Southeast Lakes Management Conference, 15–18 April 1998, Orlando, Florida, USA.
2 8432 Anonymous. 2007. FWC update: FWC consolidates rules for nonnative species. Florida Wildlife 60(4):65.
3 8495 Anonymous. 2007. Newsbriefs: suspect sliders stopped. Iguana 14:198.
4 581 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.
5 582 Aresco, M. J. 2001. Population structure, abundance, and community composition of turtles at Lake Jackson: implications for management and lake food webs. Pages 105–106 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Florida Lake Management Society Twelfth Annual Conference, 21–24 May 2001, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
6 5447 Aresco, M. J. 2002. Surviving drought: Lake Jackson's turtles. Florida Wildlife 56(2):26–28.
7 6910 Aresco, M. J. 2003. Highway mortality of turtles and other herpetofauna at Lake Jackson, Florida, USA, and the efficacy of a temporary fence/culvert system to reduce roadkills. Pages 433–449 in C. L. Irwin, P. Garrett, and K. P. McDermott, editors. 2003 Proceedings of the International Conference on Ecology and Transportation, Center for Transportation and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
8 7017 Aresco, M. J. 2004. Reproductive ecology of Pseudemys floridana and Trachemys scripta (Testudines: Emydidae) in northwestern Florida. Journal of Herpetology 38:249–256.
9 7280 Aresco, M. J. 2005. The effect of sex-specific terrestrial movements and roads on the sex ratio of freshwater turtles. Biological Conservation 123:37–44.
10 7408 Aresco, M. J. 2005. Trophic position and environmental correlates of the abundances of three turtle species in north Florida lake. Abstract in Joint Meeting of the 21st Annual Meeting of the American Elasmobranch Society, 85th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 63rd Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, and the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; 6–11 July 2005, Tampa, Florida, USA.
11 7944 Aresco, M. J., and D. R. Jackson. 2006. Geographic distribution: Trachemys scripta elegans (red-eared slider). Herpetological Review 37:239–240.
12 7603 Aresco, M. J., and F. C. James. 2005. Ecological relationships of turtles in northern Florida lakes: a study of omnivory and the structure of a lake food web. Final report. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahasee, Florida, USA. 66pp.
13 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.
14 7996 Austin, J. D., S. C. Lougheed, P. E. Moler, and P. T. Boag. 2003. Phylogenetics, zoogeography, and the role of dispersal and vicariance in the evolution of the Rana catesbeiana (Anura: Ranidae) species group. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 80:601–624.
15 673 Auth, D. L. 1969. Behavioral ecology of basking in the yellow-bellied turtle, Chrysemys scripta scripta (Schoepff). M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 90pp.
16 674 Auth, D. L. 1975. Behavioral ecology of basking in the yellow-bellied turtle, Chrysemys scripta scripta (Schoepff). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 20:1–45.
17 685 Avise, J. C., B. W. Bowen, T. Lamb, A. B. Meylan, and E. Bermingham. 1992. Mitochondrial DNA evolution at a turtle's pace: evidence for low genetic variability and reduced microevolutionary rate in the Testudines. Molecular Biology and Evolution 9:457–473.
18 8306 Bader, B. 1976. A turtle paradise. St. Louis Herpetological Society Newsletter 3(7 and 8):7–9.
19 728 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.
20 7461 Barger, M. A. 2005. A new species of Neoechinorhynchus (Acanthocephala: Neoechinorhynchidae) from turtles in Florida, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology 72:6–9.
21 801 Bartlett, D. 1998. Notes from the field. Mapping the Southeast. Reptiles Magazine 6(3):20–22.
22 830 Bartlett, R. D. 1994. Florida's alien herps. Reptile & Amphibian Magazine (March–April):56–73, 103–109.
23 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.
24 1012 Bjorndal, K. A. 1991. Diet mixing: nonadditive interactions of diet items in an omnivorous freshwater turtle. Ecology 72:1234–1241.
25 7233 Bouchard, S. S. 2004. Diet selection in the yellow-bellied slider turtle, Trachemys scripta: ontogenetic digestive shifts and associative effects between animal and plant diet items. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 107pp.
26 7347 Bouchard, S. S., and K. A. Bjorndal. 2005. Microbial fermentation in juvenile and adult pond slider turtles, Trachemys scripta. Journal of Herpetology 39:321–324.
27 8158 Bouchard, S. S., and K. A. Bjorndal. 2006. Nonadditive interactions between animal and plant diet items in an omnivorous freshwater turtle Trachemys scripta. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B–Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 144:77–85.
28 7912 Bouchard, S. S., and K. A. Bjorndal. 2006. Ontogenetic diet shifts and digestive constraints in the omnivorous freshwater turtle Trachemys scripta. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 79:150–158.
29 1282 Butterfield, B. P., W. E. Meshaka, Jr., and J. B. Hauge. 1994. Two turtles new to the Florida Keys. Herpetological Review 25:81.
30 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.
31 10800 Clements, S. L., S. Catania, and C. A. Searcy. 2018. Non-native species dominate herpetofaunal community patterns in both native and non-native habitat patches in urban Miami-Dade County. Anolis Newsletter VII:22–33
32 1630 Cox, G. W. 1999. Alien species in North America and Hawaii: impacts on natural ecosystems. Island Press, Washington, D.C. 387pp.
33 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.
34 1765 Delany, M. F., S. B. Linda, and C. T. Moore. 1999. Diet and condition of American alligators in 4 Florida Lakes. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 53:375–389.
35 2023 Dodd, C. K., Jr. 1998. Desmognathus auriculatus at Devil's Millhopper State Geological Site, Alachua County, Florida. Florida Scientist 61:38–45.
36 7247 Ehret, D. J., and D. Parker. 2005. Geographic distribution: Trachemys scripta elegans (red-eared slider). Herpetological Review 36:78.
37 6935 Emer, S. 2004. Growth of an introduced population of Trachemys scripta elegans at Fox Pond, Eckerd College, Pinellas County, Florida. Herpetological Review 35:34–35.
38 2236 Enge, K. M. 1991. Herptile exploitation. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Nongame Wildlife Section Annual Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 55pp.
39 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.
40 8577 Enge, K. M., E. M. Donlan, C. P. Smith, D. G. Cook, P. E. Moler, and K. L. Krysko. 2007. Geographic distribution: Trachemys scripa elegans (red-eared slider). Herpetological Review 38:480–481.
41 2286 Ernst, C. H. 1990. Systematics, taxonomy, variation, and geographic distribution of the slider turtle. Pages 57–67 in J. W. Gibbons, editor. Life history and ecology of the slider turtle. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
42 2331 Ewert, M. A., and D. R. Jackson. 1994. Nesting ecology of the alligator snapping turtle (Macroclemys temminckii) along the lower Apalachicola River, Florida. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Nongame Wildlife Program Final Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 45pp.
43 2406 Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. 1986. 1985–86 annual report. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 28pp.
44 2510 Frazier, M. K., and R. Franz. 1978. Paleoecology of the late Pleistocene, Orange Lake IIA local fauna, Marion County, Florida. ASB Bulletin 25:74 (abstract).
45 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.
46 6436 Hamilton, A. M., A. H. Freedman, and R. Franz. 2002. Effects of deer feeders, habitat and sensory cues on predation rates on artificial turtle nests. American Midland Naturalist 147:123–134.
47 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.
48 3098 Holman, J. A. 1958. Notes on reptiles and amphibians from Florida caves. Herpetologica 14:179–180.
49 9690 Holman, J. A. 2005. Herpetofauna of Grant's Cave, Florida: living animals and skeletal remains. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 40:107–109.
50 3158 Hulbert, R. C., and G. S. Morgan. 1989. Stratigraphy, paleoecology, and vertebrate fauna of the Leisley Shell Pit local fauna, early Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) of southwestern Florida. Paper of the Florida Paleontologist No. 2. 19pp.
51 3174 Hutchison, A. M. 1992. A reproducing population of Trachemys scripta elegans in southern Pinellas County, Florida. Herpetological Review 23:74–75.
52 3175 Hutchison, A. M. 1992. A reproducing population of Trachemys scripta elegans in southern Pinellas County. Florida Scientist 55(Supplement 1):12 (abstract).
53 3212 Iverson, J. B. 1982. Biomass in turtle populations: a neglected subject. Oecologia (Berlin) 55:69–76.
54 3257 Jackson, D. R. 1988. A re-examination of fossil turtles of the genus Trachemys (Testudines: Emydidae). Herpetologica 44:317–325.
55 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.
56 3275 Jackson, D. R. 2002. Survey of an important distributional gap in the Florida range of the river cooter and other freshwater turtles. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Final Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 27pp.
57 9701 Jackson, D. R., and G. C. Guyot. 2012. Geographic distribution: Pseudemys nelsoni (Florida red-bellied cooter). Herpetological Review 43:443.
58 10649 Johnston, G. R. 2019. Trachemys scripta scripta (Schoepff 1792), yellow-bellied slider (yellowbelly slider); Trachemys scripta elegans (Wied-Neuwied 1838), red-eared slider. Pages 273–276 in K. L. Krysko, K. M. Enge, and P. E. Moler, editors. Amphibians and reptiles of Florida. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
59 6788 Johnston, G. R., and J. C. Johnston. 2003. Geographic distribution: Trachemys scripta elegans (red-eared slider). Herpetological Review 34:164.
60 6789 Johnston, G. R., and J. C. Johnston. 2003. Geographic distribution: Trachemys scripta scripta (yellow-bellied slider). Herpetological Review 34:164–165.
61 6846 Johnston, G. R., and J. C. Johnston. 2003. Trachemys scripta elegans (red-eared slider). Diet. Herpetological Review 34:242–243.
62 10358 Johnston, G. R., J. C. Mitchell, and E. Suarez. 2015. Chelonochory in a northern Florida river. Florida Scientist 78:57−62.
63 10357 Johnston, G. R., J. C. Mitchell, E. Suarez, T. Morris, G. A. Shemitz, P. L. Butt, and R. L. Knight. 2016. The Santa Fe River in northern Florida: effect of habitat heterogeneity on turtle populations. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 54:69−103.
64 3500 King, F. W., and T. Krakauer. 1966. The exotic herpetofauna of southeast Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 29:144–154.
65 7549 Klenk, K., and N. Komar. 2003. Poor replication of West Nile virus (New York 1999 strain) in three reptilian and one amphibian species. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 69:260–262.
66 7458 Krysko, K. L., and C. M. Sheehy, III. 2005. Ecological status of the ocellated gecko, Sphaerodactylus argus argus Gosse 1850, in Florida, with additional herpetological notes from the Florida Keys. Caribbean Journal of Science 41:169–172.
67 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.
68 8978 Lau, A., and G. R. Johnston. 2009. Geographic distribution: Trachemys scripta elegans (red-eared slider). Herpetological Review 40:111.
69 7770 Lee, D. S. 2005. Reptiles and amphibians introduced to the Bahamas; a potential conservation crisis. Bahamas Journal of Science 12(2):2–6.
70 9356 Lee, D. S. 2010. The shameful shell game continues. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 45:185−186.
71 9669 Lee, D. S. 2012. The future of map turtles: will the mutts take over? Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 47:57–62.
72 6908 Lever, C. 2003. Naturalized reptiles and amphibians of the world. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, USA. 318pp.
73 10524 Ljustina, O., and S. Barrett. 2018. Using canals in southern Florida to measure impacts of urbanization on herpetofaunal community composition. Southeastern Naturalist 17:202–210.
74 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.
75 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.
76 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.
77 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.
78 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.
79 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.
80 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.
81 4323 Milton, S. L. 1994. The physiology of hypoxia and anoxia tolerance in three species of turtle: the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta), green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), and freshwater Trachemys scripta. Dissertation, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA. 209pp.
82 9836 Munscher, E. C., D. Rogers, and E. A. Havens. 2013. Geographic distribution: Trachemys scripta elegans (red-eared slider). Herpetological Review 44:107.
83 9837 Munscher, E. C., J. McDonald, J. B. Hauge, and D. Rogers. 2013. Geographic distribution: Trachemys scripta elegans (red-eared slider). Herpetological Review 44:107.
84 9231 Nayak, G., H. M. Prentice, and S. L. Milton. 2010. Role of neuroglobin in regulating reactive oxygen species in the brain of the anoxia-tolerant turtle Trachemys scripta. Journal of Neurochemistry 110:603–612.
85 7252 Runyan, A. L., and P. A. Meylan. 2005. PIT tag retention in Trachemys and Pseudemys. Herpetological Review 36:45–47.
86 6430 Seidel, M. E. 2002. Taxonomic observations on extant species and subspecies of slider turtles, genus Trachemys. Journal of Herpetology 36:285–292.
87 5403 Seidel, M. E., and D. R. Jackson. 1990. Evolution and fossil relationships of slider turtles. Pages 68–73 in J. W. Gibbons, editor. Life history and ecology of the slider turtle. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
88 5404 Seidel, M. E., J. N. Stuart, and W. G. Degenhardt. 1999. Variation and species status of slider turtles (Emydidae: Trachemys) in the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico. Herpetologica 55:470–487.
89 7981 Sklar, F. H., C. Coronado, G. Crozier, M. Darwish, B. Garrett, D. Gawlik, A. Huffman, M. Korvela, J. Leeds, C. J. Madden, C. McVoy, I. Mendelssohn, S. Miao, S. Newman, S. Senarath, K. Tarboton, and Y. Wu. 2003. Chapter 6: ecological effects of hydrology on the Everglades Protection Area. Pages 6-1–6-70 in 2003 Everglades Consolidated Report. South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
90 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.
91 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.
92 9545 Steen, D. A., K. C. Jones, J. B. Jensen, B. K. Rincon, J. C. Godwin, and S. P. Graham. 2011. New amphibian and reptile county records for the Florida Panhandle. Herpetological Review 42:576−577.
93 5786 Thomas, R. B. 1999. The potential threats to the native turtles of Florida posed by the exotic red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans). 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.
94 8284 Thomas, R. B. 2006. Trachemys scripta – slider of yellow-bellied slider. Pages 296–312 in P. A. Meylan, editor. Biology and conservation of Florida turtles. Chelonian Research Monographs No. 3.
95 8977 Thomas, T. M., and G. R. Johnston. 2009. Geographic distribution: Trachemys scripta elegans (red-eared slider). Herpetological Review 40:111.
96 6416 Townsend, J. H., K. L. Krysko, A. T. Reppas, and C. M. Sheehy, III. 2002. Noteworthy records for introduced reptiles and amphibians from Florida, USA. Herpetological Review 33:75.
97 6528 Walker, D., and J. C. Avise. 1998. Principles of phylogeography as illustrated by freshwater and terrestrial turtles in the southeastern United States. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 29:23–58.
98 10327 Walsh, T. J., and G. L. Heinrich. 2015. Red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) predation of turtles in central Florida. Florida Field Naturalist 43:79–85.
99 6062 Weaver, W. S., Jr., and J. S. Robertson. 1967. A re-evaluation of fossil turtles of the Chrysemys scripta group. Tulane Studies in Geology 5:53–66.
100 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.
101 6204 Wisenbaker, M. 2000. Sanctuary in the sand. Florida Wildlife 54(1):7–9.
102 6262 Witzell, W. N. 1999. Aquatic turtles (Testudines: Emydidae) in an urban south Florida man-made pond. Florida Scientist 62:172–174.
103 6340 Wray, K., and R. Owen. 1999. New records for amphibians and reptiles from Nassau County, Florida. Herpetological Review 30:237–238.
104 6530 Zug, G. R. 1963. Male genitalia in the systematics of turtles. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 39pp.
105 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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