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Bibliography of the reptiles of
Colorado  [USA]

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Banta, B.H. 1964. A preliminary account of the herpetofauna of the Wet Mountains, Custer and Fremont Counties, Colorado. Journal Colorado-Wyoming Acad. Sci. 5(5): 49-50.

Banta, B.H. 1968. The recent herpetofauna of the northern Wet Mountains, south-central Colorado. Journal of Herpetology 1: 120.

Banta, B.H.; Brechbuhler, W.S. 1965. The recent herpetofauna of a transect of the northern Wet Mountains, Custer and Fremont Counties, Colorado. Journal Colorado-Wyoming Acad. Sci. 5: 57.

Banta, B.H.; Kimmel, P. 1965. A preliminary report upon the herpetofauna of Phantom Canyon, Pikes Peak Ranges, Teller and Fremont Counties, Colorado. Journal Colorado-Wyoming Acad. Sci. 5: 56.

Banta, B.H.; Torbit, C.A. 1965. The herpetofauna of a four mile transect of prairie in El Paso County, Colorado, obtained in 1963 and 1964. Journal Colorado-Wyoming Acad. Sci. 5: 53.

Barry, L.T. 1933. Notes on Colorado reptiles. Copeia 1933: 99-100.

Blair, A.P. 1951. Note on the herpetology of the Elk Mountains, Colorado. Copeia 1951: 239-240.

Burnett, W.L. 1926. Notes on Colorado herpetology. Occ. Paprs. Mus. Zool. Ento. State Agric. Coll. Fort Collins Colo. 1: 1-3.

Burt, C.E. 1932. Elimination of Eumeces fasciatus from the Colorado faunal list. Copeia 1932: 104.

Cockerell, T.D.A. 1910. Reptiles and amphibians of the University of Colorado expedition of 1909. Boulder Univ. Colo. Stud. 7: 130-131.

Douglas, C.L. 1966. Amphibians and reptiles of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. University of Kansas Publications of the Museum of Natural History 15: 711-744.

Dundee, H.A. 1996. Some reallocations of type localities of reptiles and amphibians described from the Major Stephen H. Long expedition to the Rocky Mountains, with comments on some of the statements made in the account written by Edwin James. Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany 30(2): 75-89.

Ellis, M.M.; Henderson, J. 1913. The Amphibia and Reptilia of Colorado. 1. Univ. Colo. Stud. 10: 39-129.

Ellis, M.M.; Henderson, J. 1915. Amphibia and Reptilia of Colorado. Part II. Boulder Univ. Colorado Bull. 15: 253-263.

Finch, D.M. 1992. Threatened, endangered, and vulnerable species of terrestrial vertebrates in the Rocky Mountain region. U.S. Forest Service General Technical Report RM 215: 1-38.

Hammerson, G.A. 1982. An ecogeographic analysis of the herpetofauna of Colorado. Dissertation Abstracts International B Sciences and Engineering 42(11): 4291.

Hammerson, G.A. 1984. More corrections of erroneous amphibian and reptile records from Colorado. Herpetological Review 15(1): 21-22.

Hammerson, G.A. 1999. Amphibians and reptiles in Colorado. 2nd ed. University Press of Colorado, Niwot. 484 pp.

Hanna, D.D.; Graham, T.B. 2003. Reptiles and amphibians of the pinon-juniper woodlands. pp. 151-165. In: Floyd, M.L. (ed.). Ancient pinon-juniper woodlands: a natural history of Mesa Verde country. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. 389 pp.

Horstman, G.P. 1997. A logical, systematic analysis of a 177-year-old herpetological controversy: the Stephen H. Long Expedition (1820) amphisbaenid encounter. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 33(1): 1-5.

Jones, L.L.C.; Lovich, R.E. (eds.). 2009. Lizards of the American southwest. A photographic field guide. Rio Nuevo Publishers, Tucson, Arizona. 568 pp.

Jones-Burdick, W.H. 1939. Guide to the snakes of Colorado. Univ. Colorado Mus. Leaflet 1: Unpaginated.

Jones-Burdick, W.H. 1949. Guide to the snakes of Colorado (revised). Univ. Colorado Mus. Leaflet 5: 1-23.

Jones-Burdick, W.H. 1963. Guide to the snakes of Colorado. Leafl. Univ. Colo. Mus. 5: 1-23.

Lambert, S.; Reid, W.H. 1981. Biogeography of the Colorado herpetofauna. American Midland Naturalist 106(1): 145-156.

Livo, L.J. 1988. Distributional records of amphibians and reptiles from Colorado. Herpetological Review 19(3): 61.

Livo, L.J.; Hammerson, G.A.; Smith, H.M. 1998. Summary of amphibians and reptiles introduced into Colorado. Northwestern Naturalist 79(1): 1-11.

Maslin, T.P. 1947. Guide to the lizards of Colorado. Univ. Colorado Mus. 3: 1-14.

Maslin, T.P. 1950. Herpetological notes and records from Colorado. Herpetologica 6: 89-95.

Maslin, T.P. 1959. An annotated check list of the amphibians and reptiles of Colorado. University of Colorado Studies (Series in Biology) 6: 1-98.

Maslin, T.P. 1964. Amphibians and reptiles of the Boulder area. Leafl. Univ. Colo. Mus. 13: 75-80.

McCoy, C.J. 1962. Noteworthy amphibians and reptiles from Colorado. Herpetologica 18: 60-62.

Raphael, M.G. 1987. Nongame wildlife research in subalpine forests of the central Rocky Mountains. U.S. Forest Service General Technical Report RM 149: 113-122.

Rodeck, H.G. 1948. The turtles of Colorado. Journal Colorado-Wyoming Acad. Sci. 8(6): 64.

Rodeck, H.G. 1950. Guide to the turtles of Colorado. Univ. Colorado Mus. Leaflet 7: 1-9.

Secoy, D.M.; Brown, W.M. 1968. New county records in the Herpetofauna of Colorado. Southwestern Naturalist 13: 105-106.

Smith, H.M.; Maslin, T.P.; Brown, R.L. 1965. Summary of the distribution of the herpetofauna of Colorado. A supplement to an annotated check-list of amphibians and reptiles of Colorado. University of Colorado Studies (Biology) 15: 1-52.

Stock, A.D. 1962. Amphibians and reptiles of the Cureflanti area of Colorado. (In: Ecological studies of the cora and fauna of the Curecanti Reservoir Basins, western Colorado). Anthrop. Pap. Univ. Utah 59: 191-194.

Stock, A.D. 1963. Amphibians and reptiles of the Cureflanti area of Colorado. Anthrop. Pap. Univ. Utah 59: 191-194.

Swenson, L.E.; Rodeck, H.G. 1948. Notes on Colorado herpetology. Journal Colorado-Wyoming Acad. Sci. 3(6): 53-54.

Torbit, C.A. 1964. A preliminary report on the herpetofauna of a section of prairie in El Paso County, Colorado. Journal Colorado-Wyoming Acad. Sci. 5(5): 51.

Yarrow, H.C. 1876. Report upon the collections of batrachians and reptiles made in portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, during the years 1871, 1872, 1873 and 1874. U.S. Geogr. Geol. Explor. Surv. West 100th Meridian 5: 509-584.

Young, M.T. 2011. The guide to Colorado reptiles and amphibians. Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, Colorado. 176 pp.