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Anonymous. 1986. List of rare and endangered species. In: Majupuria, T.C. (ed.). Wildlife wealth of India. Tecpress Service, L.P., Bangkok. 656 pp. Pp. 569-576.

Anonymous. 2002. A directory of resource persons, organizations and periodicals. pp. 317-336. In: Sharma, B.D. (ed.). Indian poisonous snakes: an ecological and clinical study. Anmol Publications, New Delhi. 341 pp.

Acharjyo, L.N. 1998. Role of zoos in the conservation of reptiles in India. Cobra (Chennai) 33: 15-22.

Aengals, R.; Sathish Kumar, V.M.; Palot, M.J.; Ganesh, S.R. 2018. A Checklist of Reptiles of India. Version 3.0. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. 35 pp.

Agarwal, I.; Goyal, S.P.; Qureshi, Q. 2015. Lizards of the Thar Desert - resource partitioning and community composition. Journal of Arid Environments 118: 58-64.

Agrawal, H.P. 1976. Fauna of Kanha National Park - Reptilia. Newsletter of the Zoological Survey of India 2(6): 247-249.

Agrawal, H.P. 1977. Fauna of Pench National Park - Reptilia. Newsletter of the Zoological Survey of India 3(3): 115-116.

Ahmed, M.F.; Das, A.; Dutta, S.K. 2009. Amphibians and reptiles of Northeast India. A photographic guide. Aaranyak, Guwahati, Assam. 170 pp.

Alfred, J.R.B. 2003. Zoological Survey of India and its impact on the study of field zoology in India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 100(2-3): 553-558.

Andrews, H. 1993. Olive Ridleys threatened in India: letters needed. Marine Turtle Newsletter 61: 5-6.

Angel, F. 1947. Liste des reptiles et amphibiens de l'Inde envoyes au Museum par M. le Dr. K. Lindberg. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris) (Ser. 2) 19(1): 57-59.

Annandale, N. 1906. Contributions to Oriental herpetology. IV. Notes on the Indian tortoises. Calcutta, J. As. Soc. Beng. 2: 203-206.

Annandale, N. 1912. Notes on the distribution of some Indian and Burmese lizards. Records of the Indian Museum 7(1): 90-91.

Annandale, N. 1912. Some recent advances in our knowledge of the freshwater fauna of India. Calcutta J. As. Soc. Beng. 8: 39-53.

Annandale, N. 1912. The aquatic Chelonia of the Mahanadi and its tributaries. Records of the Indian Museum 7: 261-266.

Annandale, N. 1912. The Indian mud-turtles (Trionychidae). Records of the Indian Museum 7: 151-178.

Annandale, N. 1913. Some new and interesting batrachians and lizards from India, Ceylon and Borneo. Records of the Indian Museum 9(20): 301-307.

Annandale, N. 1913. The tortoises of Chota Nagpur. Records of the Indian Museum 9: 63-78.

Annandale, N. 1915. Notes on some Indian Chelonia. Records of the Indian Museum 11: 189-195.

Annandale, N. 1924. Animal life of the Ganges. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29: 633-642.

Armstrong, M.N. 2015. Ecology of high altitude reptiles: population and resource utilization. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken. 180 pp.

Baldauf, R.J. 1949. Record of reptiles and amphibians from Assam. Copeia 1949: 289-290.

Banerjee, R.N.; Siddiqui, Z.A. 1978. Epidemiological study of snake-bite in India. Toxicon Supplement 1978(1): 439-446.

Baruah, C.; Sharma, D.K. 2009. Software for exploring the turtle and tortoise diversity of Northeast India. Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter 13: 9-10.

Baruah, C.; Sharma, D.K. 2010. Checklist of turtle fauna so far recorded from northeast India. NeBIO 1(1): 10-13.

Beddome, R.H. 1962. Some reptiles of South India. (Reprint). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 59: 430-446.

Bedi, R. 1984. Indian wildlife. Brijbasi, New Delhi. 312 pp.

Bhaskar, S. 1979. Preliminary report on Sea Turtles in the Gulf of Kutch. Marine Turtle Newsletter 11: 3-4.

Bhaskar, S. 1981. Preliminary report on the status and distribution of Sea Turtles in Indian waters. Indian Forester 107(11): 707-711.

Bhupathy, S.; Choudhury, B.C.; Hanfee, F.; Kalyar; Khan, S.M.M.H.; Platt, S.G.; Rashid, S.M.A. 2000. Turtle trade in south Asia: regional summary (Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar). Chelonian Research Monographs 2: 101-105.

Biswas, S. 1974. Taxonomy, ecology and distribution of Indian Amphibia and Reptilia. Annual Review of Zoology 1: 175-178.

Biswas, S. 1990. Contributions of the Zoological Survey of India to the conservation of reptiles in India. Zoologiana 5: 17-21.

Blanford, W.T. 1901. The distribution of vertebrate animals in India, Ceylon, and Burma. Phil. Trans. 194: 335-436.

Boopendranath, M.R.; Dawson, P.; Pravin, P.; Remesan, M.P.; Prakash, R.R.; Vijayan, V.; Mathai, P.G.; Pillai, N.S.; Varghese, M.D.; Ramarao, S.V.S. 2006. Design and development of the TED for Indian fisheries. pp. 244-261. In: Shanker, K.; Choudhury, B.C. (eds.). Marine turtles of the Indian subcontinent. Universities Press, Hyderabad. 415 pp.

Bossuyt, F.; Meegaskumbura, M.; Beenaerts, N.; Gower, D.J.; Pethiyagoda, R.; Roelants, K.; Mannaert, A.; Wilkinson, M.; Bahir, M.M.; Manamendra-Arachchi, K.; Ng, P.K.L.; Schneider, C.J.; Oommen, V.; Milinkovitch, M.C. 2004. Local endemism within the western Ghats-Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot. Science (Washington, D.C.) 306(5695): 479-481.

Boulenger, G.A. 1913. A list of the reptiles obtained by Mr. H. Stevens in Upper Assam and the eastern Himalayas. Calcutta Rec. Ind. Mus. 1913: 337-338.

Braasch, T. 2009. Schutzbemühungen für Indiens Krokodile: Der Madras Crocodile Bank Trust. ZGAP Mitteilungen 25(1): 20-21.

Bustard, H.R. 1990. The role of management in the conservation of endangered species with special reference to Indian crocodilians. pp. 463-484. In: Daniel, J.C. & Serrao, J.S. (eds.). Conservation in Developing Countries: Problems and Prospects. Proceedings of the Centenary Seminar of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay Natural History Society / Oxford University Press, Bombay, Delhi etc. 656 pp.

Bustard, H.R. 2014. Conservation of sea turtles with special reference to India. Testudo 8(1): 3-18.

Bustard, R. 1975. Crocodile conservation in India. Tigerpaper (Bangkok) 2(4): 17.

Cameron, T.H. 1923. Notes on turtles. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29: 299-300.

Campbell, W. 1954. A lesson from a crocodile. The Field (London) 203(5292): 1074.

Cantor, T.E. 1839. Spicilegium serpentium indicorum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1839: 31-34, 49-55.

Cardew, A.G. 1897. A rough key to the identification of Indian Ophidia. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 10: 585-596.

Cautley, P.T.; Hodgson, B.H. 1980. Reptiles and mammals of Indian sub-continent. Cosmo Publications, New Delhi. 213 pp. (Reprinted from: Asiatic Researches, 1836).

Chabanaud, P. 1922. Reptiles et batraciens. pp. 1-14. In: Resultats scientifiques. Mission Guy Rabault dans les provinces centrales de l'Inde et dans la region occidentale de l'Himalaya 1914.

Champion, F.W. 1935. Notes on the Indian monitors in the United Provinces. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37: 740-741.

Chatterjee, B.K. 1951. Animals of India. Journal Bengal Nat. Hist. Soc. 25: 6-25.

Chaudhuri, B.L. 1912. Aquatic tortoises of the middle Ganges and Brahmaputra. Records of the Indian Museum 7: 212-214.

Choudhury, A. 1992. Trade in wildlife - a threat to wildlife conservation in India. Proceedings of the Zoological Society (Calcutta) 45 (Supplement A): 161-167.

Choudhury, B.C. 1990. Indian crocodile conservation situation report: action plan for the 1990's. pp. 337-345. In: Crocodile Specialist Group. Crocodiles. Proceedings of the 10th Working Meeting of the Crocodile Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission of IUCN - the World Conservation Union Convened at Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A., 23rd to 27th April 1990. Vol. 2. IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Gland. 345 pp.

Choudhury, B.C.; Bhupathy, S.; Hanfee, F. 2000. Status information on the tortoises and freshwater turtles of India. Chelonian Research Monographs 2: 86-94.

Choudhury, B.C.; Chowdhury, S. 1986. Lessons from crocodile reintroduction projects in India. Indian Forester 112(10): 881-890.

Choudhury, B.C.; Sharma, S.C.; Mukherjee, S.K. 2000. The Sea Turtle conservation agenda of India. pp. 100-106. In: Pilcher, N. & Ismail, G. (eds.). Sea turtles of the Indo-Pacific: research management and conservation. Proceedings of the Second ASEAN Symposium and Workshop on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. ASEAN Academic Press, London. 361 pp.

Constable, J.D. 1949. Reptiles from the Indian Peninsula in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard 103: 59-160.

Copeland, S.J. 1949. Taxonomic notes on the genus Ablepharus (Sauria; Scincidae). II. The races of Ablepharus burnetti Oudemans. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 73(5-6) [1948]: 362-371.

Daniel, J.C. 1983. The book of Indian reptiles. Bombay Natural History Society, India. 141 pp.

Daniel, J.C. 2002. The book of Indian Reptiles. Oxford University Press, Bombay. 141 pp.

Daniels, R.J.R. 1995. Notes on the status of monitor lizards & crocodiles in India. Cobra (Madras) 21: 6-11.

Daniels, R.J.R.; Ishwar, N.M. 1994. Rarity and the herpetofauna of the southern Eastern Ghats India. Cobra (Madras) 16: 2-14.

Das, I. 1987. Status and distribution of estuarine turtles in India. Indian Council of Agricultural Research Marine Fisheries Information Service Technical and Extension Series 72: 21-22.

Das, I. 1988. Turtles of north-eastern India. Hamadryad 13(1): 28-32.

Das, I. 1990. Distributional records for chelonians from northeastern India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 87(1): 91-97.

Das, I. 1997. Checklist of the reptiles of India with English common names. Hamadryad 22(1): 32-45.

Das, I. 1997. Identifying areas of high herpetological diversity in the Western Ghats, southwestern India. pp. 414-416. In: van Abbema, J. (ed.). Proceedings: conservation, restoration, and management of tortoises and turtles - an international conference 11-16 July 1993, State University of New York, Purchase, New York, USA. New York Turtle and Tortoise Society & WCS Turtle Recovery Program, New York. 494 pp.

Das, I. 1998. The serpent's tongue: a contribution to the ethnoherpetology of India and adjacent countries. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main. 121 pp.

Das, I. 2002. A photographic guide to snakes and other reptiles of India. New Holland, London, etc. 144 pp.

Das, I. 2003. Growth of knowledge on the reptiles of India, with an introduction to systematics, taxonomy and nomenclature. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 100(2-3): 446-501.

Das, I. 2008. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of India. 2nd ed. New Holland Publishers, London. 144 pp.

Das, I. 2009. The discovery of Indian turtles, with notes on publications, type localities and type repositories. ENVIS Bulletin Wildlife and Protected Areas 12(1): 1.

Das, I.; Das, A. 2017. A Naturalist's Guide to the Reptiles of India. John Beaufoy Books, Oxford. 176 pp.

Dasgupta, G.; Biswas, R.K.; Raha, S. 2009. Checklist of the Blind Snakes (Typhlopidae), pythons and boas (Boidae) of India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 109(1): 13-30.

Dash, M.C.; Kar, C.S. 1990. The turtle paradise: Gahirmatha: (an ecological analysis and conservation strategy). Interprint, New Delhi 1990: I-Xvi, 17-295.

Dass, B.; Saxena, S.N. 1983. Poisonous snakes of India and their salient features. Litteratura Serpentium 3(1): 4-17.

Davis, T.A.; Bedi, R.; Oza, G.M. 1978. Sea-turtle faces extinction in India. Environmental Conservation 5(3): 211-212.

Dayal, S. 2015. Encyclopaedia of Reptiles [of India] (2-Volume Set). Campus Books International, New Delhi. 805 pp.

Deepak, V.; Vasudevan, K. 2009. Endemic turtles of India. ENVIS Bulletin Wildlife and Protected Areas 12(1): 3.

Deoras, P.J. 1965. Snakes of India. 1st ed. National Book Trust, India. 148 pp.

Deoras, P.J. 1970. Snakes of India. 2nd rev. ed. National Book Trust, New Delhi. 136 pp.

Deoras, P.J. 1971. The story of some Indian poisonous snakes. pp. 19-34. In: Bücherl, W. & Buckley, E.E. (eds.): Venomous animals and their venoms. Vol. 2. Venomous vertebrates (snakes, saurians, batrachians, fishes). Academic Press, New York. 687 pp.

Deoras, P.J. 1978. Snakes of India. 3rd ed. National Book Trust, India. 157 pp.

Deraniyagala, P.E.P. 1949. Some cross-banded geckoes of India and Ceylon. (Abstract). Proceedings Indian Sci. Congr. 32nd(3) [1946]: 114.

Deuti, K.; Raha, S.; Bag, P.; Debnath, S.; Varadaraju; Chandra, K. 2016. Skinks of eastern and north-eastern India. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. 96 pp.

Devaraj Sarkar, H.B.; Shivanandappa, T. 1989. Reproductive cycles of reptiles. pp. 225-272. In: Saidapur, S.K. (ed.). Reproductive cycles of Indian vertebrates. Allied Publishers, Ahmedabad. 466 pp.

Dharani, S. 2003. Turtle conservation by local communities in Madras. Kachhapa Newsletter 2003: 8.

Dongre, S.K.M. 2003. School education to support Sea Turtle conservation: experiences from Goa and Orissa. Kachhapa Newsletter 2003: 8.

Fayrer, J. 1872. The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the Venomous Snakes of the Indian Peninsula; with an account of the influence of their poison on life, and a series of experiments. London. 156 pp.

Ferguson, H.S. 1895. List of snakes taken in Travancore, from 1888 to 1895. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 10: 68-77.

Ferguson, H.S. 1902. Travancore snakes. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 14: 386-387.

Frazier, J. 1989. Chelonians of the Western Ghats. Hamadryad 14(2): 4-7.

Frazier, J. 2006. India's Marine Turtles: sentinels from Antediluvian to post-modern times. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 103(2-3): 401-407.

Frazier, J. 2011. Early accounts of marine turtles from India and neighbouring waters. Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter 14: 1-4.

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Frazier, J.G.; Das, I. 1994. Some notable records of Testudines from the Indian and Burmese subregions. Hamadryad 19: 47-66.

Ganesh, S.R. 2010. Richard Henry Beddome and South India's herpetofauna - a tribute on his centennial death anniversary. Cobra (Chennai) 4(2): 1-11.

Ganesh, S.R.; Chadramouli, S.R.; Sreekar, R.; Shankar, P.G. 2013. Reptiles of the Central Western Ghats, India - a reappraisal and revised checklist, with emphasis on the Agumbe Plateau. Russian Journal of Herpetology 20(3): 181-189.

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Gharpurey, C.K.G. 2006. The Snakes of India. (Facsimile reprint, first published in 1935). Asiatic Publishing House, Delhi. 165 pp.

Gharpurey, K.G. 1935. The snakes of India. Bombay. 165 pp.

Gharpurey, K.G. 1954. The snakes of India and Pakistan. 4th ed. Popular Book Depot, Bombay. 153 pp.

Ghosh, A.K. 1994. The red data book on Indian animals. Part 1: Vertebrata (Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia and Amphibia). Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. 534 pp.

Ghosh, A.K. 2002. Lesser known animal resources of India. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. 110 pp.

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Gray, J.E.; Hardwicke, R. 1830-1832. Illustrations of Indian zoology. chiefly selected from the collections of Major-General Hardwicke. Vol. 1 (Parts I-X). Treuttel, Wurtz, Treuttel Jr., & Richter, London. 1 + 2 + 12 pls. (According to Sawyer 1953 and Zhao & Adler 1993 the years of publication of the plates are as follows: 1830: pls. 72, 75, 77-78, 82-83; 1831: pls. 73-74, 76, 79-80; 1832: pl. 81).

Green-Armytage, V.B. 1911. An aid to the diagnosis of poisonous snakes. Ind. Med. Gaz. Calcutta 46: 94-96.

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Groombridge, B. 1985. India's Sea Turtles in world perspective. pp. ? In: Anonymous. Symposium on endangered marine animals and marine parks. Cochin, India. 12-16 January 1985. Papers for presentation. Vol. 2: Estuarine and marine reptiles. Marine Biological Association of India. Ernakulam, India. 161 pp.

Groombridge, B. 1988. India's Sea Turtles in world perspective. pp. 205-213. In: Silas, E.G. (ed.). Proceedings of the symposium on endangered marine animals and marine parks. Cochin, India. 12-16 January, 1985. Marine Biological Association of India, Cochin. 508 pp.

Groombridge, B. 1990. Comments on the rain forests of southwest India and their herpetofauna. pp. 220-232. In: Daniel, J.C. & Serrao, J.S. (eds.). Conservation in Developing Countries: Problems and Prospects. Proceedings of the Centenary Seminar of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay Natural History Society / Oxford University Press, Bombay, Delhi etc. 656 pp.

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Habib, B.; Shrotriya, S.; Sivakumar, K.; Mathur, V.B.; Sinha, P.R. 2011. Radio-telemetry studies in India-issues and way forward. ENVIS Bulletin Wildlife and Protected Areas 13(1): 03-018.

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Hora, S.L. 1949. Dating the period of migration of the so-called Malayan element in the fauna of Peninsular India. Proceedings nat. Inst. Sci. India 15(8): 345-351.

Hora, S.L.; Jayaram, K.C. 1949. Remarks on the distribution of snakes of Peninsular India with Malayan affinities. Proceedings Nat. Inst. Sci. India 15(8): 399-402.

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Hutton, A.F. 1949. Notes on the snakes and mammals of the High Wavy Mountains, Madura district, S. India. Part I. snakes. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 48(3): 454-460.

Inger, R.F.; Shaffer, H.B.; Koshy, M.; Bakde, R. 1987. Ecological structure of a herpetological assemblage in south India. Amphibia-Reptilia 8(3): 189-202.

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Jayaram, K.C. 1949. A note on the distribution of chelonians of Peninsular India with Malayan affinities. Proceedings nat. Inst. Sci. India 15(8): 397-402.

Jayaram, K.C. 1949. Distribution of lizards of Peninsular India with Malayan affinities. Proceedings nat. Inst. Sci. India 15(8): 403-408.

Jayaram, K.C. 1950. Some observations on the knowledge of ancient hindus regarding animal life during the early Jain and Buddhist period (circa 600 B.C.). Journal Zool. Soc. India 2: 34-38.

Jayaram, K.C. 1974. Ecology and biogeography in India. Ecology and distribution of freshwater fishes, amphibians and reptiles. Monographiae Biologicae 23: 517-584.

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Jouguet, H. 1929. On some common Indian lizards. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 23: 452-455.

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Kanberg, H. 1936. Über einige zum Teil seltene Schildkröten aus Indien, China und Ost-Africa. Aquarium (Berlin) 10: 185-189.

Kannan, P.; Rajagopalan, M. 2008. Exploitation of Sea Turtles along the south-eastern and south-western coasts of India. Hamadryad 33: 28-34.

Kanuri, R.; Kumar, M.V.R. 1999. Role of the "Friends of Snakes Society" in the conservation of snakes. Cobra (Chennai) 38: 18-20.

Karthikeyan, R.; Balasubramanian, T. 2007. Species diversity of sea snake (Hydrophiidae) distributed in the Coramantal coast (east coast of India). International Journal of Zoological Research 3(3): 107-131.

Khaire, A.; Khaire, N.; Joshi, D.N. 1990. Venomous snakes of medical importance in India (part B) - clinical. pp. 299-310. In: Gopalakrishnakone, P. & Chou, L.M. (eds.). Snakes of medical importance (Asia-Pacific region). Venom and Toxin Group, National University of Singapore & International Society on Toxinology. 676 pp.

Khaire, N. 2014. Indian Snakes - A Field Guide. Jyotsna Prakashan, Pune. 160 pp.

Khajuria, H. 1981. Studies on wildlife of Narbada Valley. 1. General introduction and summary of results. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 78(1-4): 7-20.

Khajuria, H. 1986. On habits of some central Indian lizards with morphological notes on Eublepharis hardwickii Gray. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 83(1-2): 19-23.

Khajuria, H.; Agrawal, H.P. 1981. Studies on wildlife of Narbada Valley - part 2. Reptilia. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 78(1-4): 21-36.

Koul, O.; Murphy, J.C. 1979. The ecology of Indian amphibians and reptiles - a review. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 14(1-2): 4-66.

Krishna, D.; Dave, K.C. 1959. Contributions to the systematics, distribution and ecology of the reptiles of the Rajasthan Desert, with special reference to lizards. Part II. Fossorial habits. Part III. Food and feeding habits. Proceedings Indian Sci. Congr. 46(3): 407-408.

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