An Updated, Indexed Bibliography of the Herpetofauna of Florida Technical Report No. 19 Kevin M. Enge July 2002 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission 620 South Meridian Street Tallahassee, FL 32399-1600 Cover photographs and design by Kevin Enge Front cover (clockwise from upper right): Pine Barrens Treefrog (Hyla andersonii) Ornate Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin macrospilota) Barking Treefrog (Hyla gratiosa) Short-tailed Snake (Stilosoma extenuatum) Apalachicola Lowlands Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula) Scarlet Kingsnake (Lampropeltis triangulum elapsoides) American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) Eastern Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum) Rough Green Snake (Opheodrys aestivus) Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) Back cover (clockwise from upper right): Southern Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix) Florida Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti) Dusky Pigmy Rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius barbouri) Eastern Coral Snake (Micrurus fulvius fulvius) Timber (= Canebrake) Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) Background image: Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) An Updated, Indexed Bibliography of the Herpetofauna of Florida Technical Report No. 19 Kevin M. Enge Database Designer: Gary L. Sprandel July 2002 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission 620 South Meridian St. Tallahassee, FL 32399-1600 ii FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION TECHNICAL REPORT Suggested citation: Enge, K. M. 2002. An updated, indexed bibliography of the herpetofauna of Florida. Technical Report No. 19. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. INDEXED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HERPETOFAUNA OF FLORIDA—Enge iii TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments . .iv Introduction . .1 Descriptions of Topics . .2 Citations . .4 Index of Scientific Names and Topics . .340 Index of Common Names . .404 iv FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION TECHNICAL REPORT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank Ken Dodd for his support and collaboration on previous versions of this bibliography. Ken Dodd and Dick Bartlett were gracious enough to allow me to peruse their personal libraries. I also appreciate assistance from Chuck Hurt, Cavell Kyser, and Paul Moler. Gary Sprandel was integral in developing the electronic database and converting it to this printed document. Gary’s expertise, dedication, and enthusiasm made this project much easier and prevented me from abandoning it years ago (he also provided citations for the minimal recompense of atomic fireballs). Some citations were obtained from the following online bibliographies, databases, or websites: Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research, Bibliomania, EDIS (Florida Cooperative Extension Service), Florida Lake Management Society, Marine Turtle Newsletter, National Marine Fisheries Service, NISC Wildlife Worldwide, Tall Timbers Research Station, and WebLUIS. The bibliography would not have been possible without the approval and financial support of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. INDEXED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HERPETOFAUNA OF FLORIDA—Enge 1 INTRODUCTION This is an expanded and updated version of An Indexed Bibliography of the Herpetofauna of Florida that was published in 1992 by the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. In order to be included in this bibliography, a citation has to mention a native or introduced amphibian or reptile species that occurs in Florida, and the citation must specifically refer to Florida. This new bibliography contains approximately 3,600 more citations than the previous version, partly because I added abstracts from published proceedings of symposia, conferences, and meetings. As in the previous version, I included standard scientific references, popular articles, newsletter articles (including photocopied or reprinted newspaper articles), pamphlets, brochures, books, theses, and dissertations. I also included unpublished reports or papers (i.e., “gray” literature) that summarized research findings, if I thought they were scientifically noteworthy and obtainable from a government agency, corporation, or high-profile individual. I omitted published references that were trivial, children’s literature, herpetofaunal checklists, or written in a foreign language without an English summary. I also omitted most references to exotic species that had escaped from captivity, unless the species had become established or was found in a noteworthy locality, such as a state park. Citations are in the current style of the Journal of Wildlife Management,except I included the number of pages for books, reports, theses, and dissertations. Citations are arranged alphabetically by author(s) and chronologically for the same author(s). Citations by the same author are not arranged chronologically or sequentially if different initials were used for the first name (e.g., R. for Richard or D. for Dick), or if the middle initial was sometimes omitted from a reference. In some cases, I provided an author’s complete initials instead of the initials that appeared in the reference, so please refer to the reference before citing a citation from this bibliography. This is a particular problem for references authored by R. D. Bartlett (D. Bartlett) and E. R. Allen (R. Allen). Citations are sequentially numbered, and these numbers appear in a subsequent section that provides information on the topics covered for each species. In the “Index of Scientific Names and Topics” section, subspecies or unique populations are not differentiated, and the species are arranged alphabetically by scientific name according to the 1999 revision of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Checklist of Florida’s Amphibians and Reptiles by Paul Moler. Some obsolete and recently proposed scientific names are listed, and synonymous names used in this bibliography are provided (e.g., Abastor = Farancia). When the species mentioned in a reference were not identified or were too numerous to list individually, I lumped species into the following taxa: anurans (frogs and toads), salamanders, turtles and tortoises, sea turtles, lizards, and snakes. When a reference referred to all taxa within a taxonomic class, I used the name of the class (Amphibia or Reptilia). A reference that is listed under “Anurans” will not also appear under the more general listing of “Amphibia.” Amphibia or Reptilia was also used if the reference was not examined and the taxa covered could not be deduced from the title. A “Descriptions of Topics” section precedes the list of citations and provides information on the 23 topics used to characterize the content of references. In addition to the 23 topics pertaining to taxa, there is a “Herpetologists” category that provides citations with biographical information on 4 well-known herpetologists. At the end of the bibliography, an “Index of Common Names” provides the scientific name associated with each common name and the page number where the species can be found in the “Index of Scientific Names and Topics.” The common names used correspond to those in the aforementioned Commission’s revised checklist, but additional frequently used names have been included. A published bibliography can never be considered comprehensive or current. Fortunately, a searchable, continuously updated version of this bibliography can be found online on the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Web site. The author would appreciate receiving notification of errors or missing citations in the printed or online bibliography. 2 FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION TECHNICAL REPORT DESCRIPTIONS OF TOPICS Area Inventory Includes checklists, survey results, and species composition for particular geographical areas, ecological communities, or habitats. Associations with Other Organisms Includes associations with other species of animals or plants, such as symbiosis, commensalism, mutualism, parasitism, predation, and competition. Behavior Includes instinctive, agonistic, courtship, territorial, and social behavior and responses to environmental factors. Also includes communication, basking, aestivation, hibernation, burrowing, activity patterns, circadian rhythms, and thermal biology. Does not include feeding behavior, movements, and orientation. Conservation and Management Includes conservation and management plans, recommendations, policies, research, and techniques. Also includes species population status, legislation, and association or conflicts with humans (e.g., alligator attacks). Description and Morphology Includes external physical appearance and dimensions, biometrics, size records, scalation, dentition, color/pattern characteristics and anomalies, and phenotypes. Diseases and Contaminants Includes all topics related to an animal’s health, such as parasites, disease organisms, disorders, environmental contaminants, bioaccumulation of toxic residues, and the effects of pesticides, toxins, pollution, and pH changes. Distribution Includes geographic distribution, locality data, county records, zoogeography, and density patterns of species. Effects of Habitat Modification Includes the effects of fire, forestry practices, urbanization (i.e., habitat destruction and encroachment, highway mortality, artificial lighting), dredging, radiation, thermal discharge, hurricanes, and man-induced changes in water levels and hydroperiods on populations of species. Evolution and Genetics Includes evolutionary adaptation, speciation, variation, phylogeny, natural selection, inheritance,