An Online Bibliography

of the

Herpetofauna of Florida

Kevin M. Enge1 and C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr.2

1 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Route 7, Box 3055, Quincy, FL 32351, USA
2 Florida Caribbean Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 7920 NW 71st Street, Gainesville, FL 32609, USA

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INTRODUCTION

The literature on the herpetofauna of Florida is, as may be expected, rather diverse and widely scattered. This is due to the large number of species of amphibians and reptiles within the state and to the many herpetologists, both professional and amateur, who have studied its many endemic species, subspecies, and unique phenotypes, and published their findings in short notes and long books. Few states can match its biotic diversity, yet increasing human population is leading to more and more habitat alteration and fragmentation, thus jeopardizing crucial habitats and the species that depend upon them. Our hope is that future research and conservation activities will be facilitated by making these references available on the World Wide Web.

To assist biologists and others who are interested in and concerned about Florida's amphibians and reptiles, we have assembled this indexed bibliography. It updates and expands a shorter, unindexed version published in 1986 by the Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. A more complete second edition was published as:

Enge, K. M., and C. K. Dodd, Jr. 1992. An indexed bibliography of the herpetofauna of Florida. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Nongame Wildlife Program, Technical Report No. 11, 231 p.

That second edition was available from the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission's Nongame Wildlife Program, but now is out of print. This online bibliography is that second edition formatted for the WWW. The majority of the 2820 citations contained herein are current through July 1990, though 247 of the citations are for additional references current as of January 1992. More recent citations will be added shortly.

This bibliography includes standard scientific references, popular articles, newsletter articles (including photocopied newspaper articles), theses and dissertations, and much of the so-called 'gray' literature dealing with contracted-for but unpublished government and privately funded research. Some unpublished manuscripts and reports were not included because they were not considered scientifically noteworthy or were not readily available from an agency. Some published references were omitted because they were trivial, children's literature, or written in a foreign language without an English summary. Also not included were abstracts of papers presented at meetings, conferences, and symposia that were not published in a scientific journal or readily available proceedings.

Bibliographic citations are in the style of the Journal of Wildlife Management and are arranged alphabetically by author(s) in the 'Citations'. The most complete name of an author usually is given in each citation, even though it may not appear in that form in the actual reference. All references are indexed by topics within taxa.

Descriptions of the 25 topics used to characterize the references are listed preceding the bibliographic citations. The citation numbers are listed under the appropriate topics in the 'Index of Scientific Names and Topics'.

For persons unfamiliar with scientific names of species, an 'Index of Common Names' is included at the end of the bibliography. This second index lists the common names (last name first) and the corresponding scientific names for all Florida species and subspecies of amphibians and reptiles, as given in 'A Checklist of Florida's Amphibians and Reptiles'. Some obsolete and local names are given, if they still are in common usage. Also given are the common and scientific names of some subspecies that do not appear in the checklist because they are not presently recognized as being valid.

We are in the process of updating this online bibliography with more recent and previously omitted references. If you know of additional references pertaining to Florida herpetofauna, please send either copies or the citations, preferably including species and topics covered, to the senior author in care of the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Nongame Wildlife Program, 620 South Meridian Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1600, USA.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We would especially like to thank J. N. Stuart, who started the project of assembling references for the first bibliography. We sincerely appreciate the citations supplied by the following individuals for 1 or both of the bibliographies: R. E. Ashton, Jr., D. L. Auth, K. D. Benfield, M. S. Blouin, T. S. Campbell, D. G. Cook, G. H. Dalrymple, J. E. Diemer, L. R. Franz, T. Hartmann, J. B. Iverson, D. R. Jackson, H. I. Kochman, J. A. Kushlan, J. N. Layne, J. C. Lee, H. B. Lillywhite, D. B. Means, P. E. Moler, H. R. Mushinsky, P. W. Raymond, R. A. Seigel, I. J. Stout, J. Travis, and A. R. Woodward.

We are grateful to G. R. Zug of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History for giving us permission to republish information from the first bibliography. D. E. Runde and B. A. Millsap were supportive of the efforts of the senior author. This second bibliography would not have been possible without the approval and financial support of the Nongame Wildlife Program of the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission.

Suggested citation: Enge, K.M., and C.K. Dodd, Jr. 1998. An Online Bibliography of the Herpetofauna of Florida. 523 p. Available: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/flbiblio/introduc.htm

This Online Bibliography is a cooperative production of the Nongame Wildlife Program of the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, the Southeastern Biological Science Center of the National Biological Service, and the Division of Herpetology of the Florida Museum of Natural History. This website is for informational purposes only and no liability is assumed in its use—Copyright © and Disclaimer.

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