Home - Taxonomy - Geography - Biodiversity - Literature - Purchase RepFocus Recent updates Related bibliographies: North America USA Reptiles Lizards Anguidae Crotaphytidae Phrynosomatidae Scincidae Teiidae Snakes Colubridae Leptotyphlopidae Viperidae Turtles Chelydridae Emydidae Kinosternidae Trionychidae Bibliography of the reptiles of Kansas  [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. Anonymous. 1973. Rare, endangered and extirpated species in Kansas. 2. Amphibians and reptiles. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 76(3): 185-192. Anonymous. 2003. Results of the 2003 KHS spring field trip to Wilson County. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 6: 2-5. Anonymous. 2005. Herpetofaunal counts. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 15: 7-11. Anonymous. 2005. Results of the 2005 KHS spring field trip to Shawnee County. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 14: 2-6. Abbott, S.S. 2008. Cowley County herpetofaunal count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 27: 9. Abbott, S.S. 2009. Cowley county herpetofaunal count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 31: 6. Bass, N. 2015. Herpetological (frog and turtle) inventories along the Missouri River in Kansas. Collinsorum 4(1): 4-9. Bohlen, C.H. 1977. Coexistence and competition in three sympatric Kansas lizard species. Dissertation Abstracts International (B) 37(9): 4297. Branson, E.B. 1904. Snakes of Kansas. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 2: 353-430. Brennan, L.A. 1934. A check list of the amphibians and reptiles of Ellis County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 37: 189-191. Brennan, L.A. 1938. A study of the habitat of the reptiles and amphibians of Ellis County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 40: 341-347. Breukelman, J.; Clarke, R.F. 1951. A revised list of amphibia and reptiles of Chase and Lyon counties, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 54: 542-545. Breukelman, J.; Downs, A. 1937. A list of Amphibia and reptiles of Chase and Lyon Counties, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 39: 267-268. Brumwell, M.J. 1951. An ecological survey of the Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation. American Midland Naturalist 45(1): 187-231. Burt, C.E. 1927. An annotated list of the amphibians and reptiles of Riley County, Kansas. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan 189: 1-9. Burt, C.E. 1928. A key to the species of lizards definitely reported from Kansas. Bristow Enterprise Press, Nebraska. 2 pp. Burt, C.E. 1928. The lizards of Kansas. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 26(1): 1-81. Burt, C.E. 1933. Some distributional and ecological records of Kansas reptiles. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 36: 186-208. Busby, W.H.; Collins, J.T.; Suleiman, G. 2005. The snakes, lizards, turtles and amphibians of Fort Riley and vicinity. Second revised edition. Kansas Biological Survey, place of publication unknown. 76 pp. Busby, W.H.; Parmelee, J.R. 1996. Historical changes in a herpetofaunal assemblage in the Flint Hills of Kansas. American Midland Naturalist 135(1): 81-91. Busby, W.H.; Pisani, G.R. 2007. Welda spring field trip. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 22: 12. Clarke, R.F. 1953. Additional turtle records for Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 56: 438-439. Clarke, R.F. 1956. Distributional notes on some amphibians and reptiles of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 59: 213-219. Clarke, R.F. 1958. An ecological study of reptiles and amphibians of Osage County, Kansas. Emporia State Res. Stud. 7: 1-52. Clarke, R.F.; Breukelman, J.; Andrews, T.F. 1958. An annotated check list of the vertebrates of Lyon County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 61: 165-194. Collins, J.T. (ed.) 2010. Kansas herpetofaunal counts. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 35: 6-9. Collins, J.T. 1974. Amphibians and reptiles in Kansas. University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Public Education Series 1: 1-283. Collins, J.T. 1984. The lizards of Oz. Kansas Wildlife 41(2): 12-16. Collins, J.T. 1993. Amphibians and reptiles in Kansas. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence. 397 pp. Collins, J.T. 1993. Amphibians and Reptiles of Kansas. 3rd ed. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. 354 pp. Collins, J.T. 2002. New records of amphibians, turtles, and reptiles in Kansas for 2001. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 1: 10-11. Collins, J.T. 2003. New records of amphibians, turtles and reptiles in Kansas for 2002. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 5: 13-16. Collins, J.T. 2004. New records of amphibians, turtles, and reptiles in Kansas for 2003. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 9: 8-11. Collins, J.T. 2005. New records of amphibians, turtles and reptiles in Kansas for 2004. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 13: 13-16. Collins, J.T. 2006. New records of amphibians, turtles and reptiles in Kansas for 2005. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 17: 14-16. Collins, J.T. 2007. A checklist of the amphibians, turtles, and reptiles of the Flint Hills Tallgrass Prairie Reserve in Butler and Greenwood Counties, Kansas. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 22: 9-10. Collins, J.T. 2007. New records of amphibians, turtles, and reptiles in Kansas for 2006. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 21: 11-13. Collins, J.T.; Collins, S.L.; Taggart, T.W. 2010. Amphibians, reptiles, and turtles in Kansas. Eagle Mountain Publishing, LC, Eagle Mountain, Utah. 312 pp. Collins, J.T.; Collins, S.L.; Taggart, T.W. 2011. Amphibians, reptiles and turtles of the Cimarron National Grassland, Kansas. 2nd rev. ed. Forest Service, Elkhart. 67 pp. Collins, J.T.; Gress, B.; Wiens, G.J.; Collins, S.L. 1991. Kansas wildlife. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence. 127 pp. Collins, S.L.; Taggart, T.W.; Collins, J.T. 2009. Cherokee county herpetofaunal count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 31: 6. Cragin, F.W. 1885. Recent additions to the list of Kansas reptiles and batrachians, with further notes on species previously reported. Bull. Washb. Coll. 1: 100-103. Cragin, F.W. 1894. Herpetological notes from Kansas and Texas. Colorado College Studies 5: 37-39. Diener, R.A. 1956. New records of snakes in southwestern Kansas. Southwestern Naturalist 1: 27-29. Ellis, M.; Miller, L.L.; Taggart, T.W.; Collins, J.T. 2004. Results of the KHS 2004 Fall field trip. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 12: 15-16. 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. Fitch, H.S. 1956. Temperature responses in free-living amphibians and reptiles of northeastern Kansas. University of Kansas Publications of the Museum of Natural Hist 8(7): 417-476. Fitch, H.S. 1958. Home ranges, territories, and seasonal movements of vertebrates of the natural history reservation. University of Kansas Publications of the Museum of Natural History 11: 63-226. Fitch, H.S. 1965. The University of Kansas Natural History Reservation in 1965. University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Miscellaneous Publications 42: 1-60. Fitch, H.S. 1967. Ecological studies of lizards on the University of Kansas natural history reservation. pp. 30-44. In: Milstead, W.W. (ed.). Lizard ecology - a symposium. University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri. 300 pp. Fitch, H.S. 1982. Resources of a snake community in prairie-woodland habitat of northeastern Kansas. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wildlife Research Report 13: 83-97. Fitch, H.S. 1993. Relative abundance of snakes in Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 96(1-2): 213-224. Fitch, H.S. 1998. A Kansas snake community: composition and changes over 50 years. Krieger, Malabar. 165 pp. Fitch, H.S. 2003. Reproduction in snakes of the Fitch Natural History Reservation in northeastern Kansas. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 6: 21-24. Fitch, H.S. 2005. Amphibian and reptile responses on a Kansas natural area. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 15: 13-16. Fitch, H.S. 2005. Ecological succession on a natural area in northeastern Kansas from 1948 to 2006. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 1(1): 1-5. Fitch, H.S. 2006. Collapse of a fauna: reptiles and turtles of the University of Kansas Natural History Reservation. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 17: 10-13. Fitch, H.S.; Echelle, A.F. 2006. Abundance and biomass of twelve species of snakes native to northeastern Kansas. Herpetological Review 37(2): 161-165. Fitch, H.S.; Sharp, S.; Sharp, K. 2003. Snakes of the University of Kansas biotic succession area. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 8: 20-21. Fleharty, E.D.; Ittner, D.R. 1967. Additional locality records for some Kansas herptiles. Southwestern Naturalist 12: 199-200. Fleharty, E.D.; Johnson, J.D. 1975. Distributional records of herptiles from the Chautauqua Hills of southeastern Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 77(1): 65-67. Fogell, D.D. 2008. Marshall County herpetofaunal count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 27: 9. Fogell, D.D. 2008. Riley County herpetofaunal count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 27: 9. Fogell, D.D. 2008. Wabaunsee County herpetofaunal count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 27: 10. Gier, H.T. 1967. Vertebrates of the Flint Hills. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 70: 51-59. Gloyd, H.K. 1928. The amphibians and reptiles of Franklin County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 31: 115-141. Gloyd, H.K. 1929. Two additions to the herpetological fauna of Riley County, Kansas. Science (New York) 69(1776): 44. Gloyd, H.K. 1932. The herpetological fauna of the Pigeon Lake region, Miami County, Kansas. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters 15: 389. Grant, C. 1937. Herpetological notes from Central Kansas. American Midland Naturalist 18(3): 370-372. Gubanyi, J.E. 2000. A breeding colony of western green lacertas (Lacerta bilineata) confirmed in southwestern Topeka (Kansas). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 103(3-4): 191-192. Gubanyi, J.E. 2002. Osage County herp count I. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 4: 15. Gubanyi, J.E. 2008. Shawnee County herpetofaunal count 1. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 27: 9. Gubanyi, J.E. 2009. Atchison county herpetofaunal count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 31: 6. Gubanyi, J.E. 2009. Atchison/Jefferson county herpetofaunal count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 31: 6. Hall, H.H.; Smith, H.M. 1947. Selected records of reptiles and amphibians from southeastern Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 49(4): 447-454. Harmon, J. 1985. Turtle I.D. Kansas Wildlife 42(4): 16. Hartman, F.A. 1907. Food habits of Kansas lizards and batrachians. Trans. Kan. Acad. Sci. 20(2): 225-229. Heinrich, M.L.; Kaufman, D.W. 1985. Herpetofauna of the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area, Kansas. Prairie Naturalist 17(2): 101-112. Henderson, R.W. 1974. Resource partitioning among the snakes of the University of Kansas Natural History Reservation: a preliminary analysis. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology 1: 1-11. Houck, M. 2009. Fort Riley herpetofauna count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 31: 7. Houck, M. 2011. Fort Riley Herpetofaunal Count Final Report for 2011. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 39: 9. Houck, M. 2015. 2015 Fort Riley herpetofaunal count final report. Collinsorum 4(1): 9-10. Hubbs, B. 2013. New county records and an update for Kansas and Nebraska, USA. Herpetological Review 44(3): 481-482. Hubbs, B. 2016. New county records for Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, USA. Herpetological Review 47(1): 94-95. Irwin, K.J.; Collins, J.T. 2005. A survey for selected species of herpetofauna in the lower Marais des Cygnes River valley, Linn and Miami counties, Kansas. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 14: 12-13. Karns, D.; Ashton, R.E.; Swearingen, T. 1974. Illustrated guide to amphibians and reptiles in Kansas. An identification manual. University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Public Education Series 2: 1-15. Knight, J.L.; Fleharty, E.D.; Johnson, J.D. 1973. Noteworthy records of distribution and habits of some Kansas herptiles. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 75(3) [1972]: 273-275. Kretzer, J.E.; Cully, J.F. 2001. Effects of black-tailed prairie dogs on reptiles and amphibians in Kansas shortgrass prairie. Southwestern Naturalist 46(2): 171-177. Legler, J.M. 1960. Records of amphibians and reptiles in Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 63: 40-43. Mardis, D.R.; Scott, K. 2013. 2013 Kansas herpetofaunal counts. 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Molecular characterization of native (Italy) and introduced (USA) Podarcis sicula populations (Reptilia, Lacertidae). Italian Journal of Zoology (Modena) 68(2): 121-124. Pearce, M.; Collins, S.L.; Taggart, T.W.; Collins, J.T. 2009. Elk county herpetofaunal count. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 31: 7. Platt, D.R. 2003. Lizards and snakes (order Squamata) of Harvey County, Kansas. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 6: 13-20. Platt, D.R.; Rousell, C.H. 1963. County records of snakes from southcentral Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 66: 551. Riedle, J.D.; Hynek, A. 2002. Amphibian and reptile inventory of the Kansas Army Ammunition Plant, Labette County, Kansas. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 2: 18-20. Rundquist, E.M.; Stegall, E.; Grow, D.; Gray, P. 1978. New herpetological records from Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 81(1): 73-77. Rush, M.S.; Fleharty, E.D. 1981. New county records of amphibians and reptiles in Kansas. 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