Home - Taxonomy - Geography - Biodiversity - Literature - Purchase RepFocus Recent updates Related bibliographies: North America USA Reptiles Crocodilians Alligatoridae Lizards Anguidae Crotaphytidae Dactyloidae Eublepharidae Phrynosomatidae Scincidae Teiidae Snakes Colubridae Elapidae [terrestrial spp.] Leptotyphlopidae Viperidae Turtles Cheloniidae Chelydridae Dermochelyidae Emydidae Kinosternidae Testudinidae Trionychidae Bibliography of the reptiles of Texas  [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. 1974. Recent county records and range extensions from south central Texas. Herpetological Review 5(1): 21. Anonymous. 1975. New county records and range extensions for Texas amphibians and reptiles. Herpetological Review 6(3): 79. Anonymous. 1977. New rules proposed for collecting in Texas. Herpetology 9(2): 18-19. Adams, C.K.; Saenz, D. 2011. Use of artificial wildlife ponds by reptiles in eastern Texas. Herpetological Bulletin 115: 4-11. Adams, C.S.; Hibbitts, T.J.; Campbell, T.A. 2016. New amphibian and reptile county records from the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas, USA. Herpetological Review 47(3): 430-431. Amaral, A. do 1927. The anti-snakebite campaign in Texas and in the subtropical United States. Bulletin of the Antivenin Institute of America 1(3): 77-85. Axtell, R.W. 1959. Amphibians and reptiles of the Black Gap Wild Life management area, Brewster County, Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 4: 88-109. Axtell, R.W.; Wasserman, A.O. 1953. Interesting herpetological records from southern Texas and northern Mexico. Herpetologica 9(1): 1-6. Bartlett, R.D. 1994. Herping in Texas: the Big Bend. Tropical Fish Hobbyist 42(11): 112, 114, 116-118, 120, 122-126. Bartlett, R.D. 1996. Herping Texas: Brownsville to Falcon Dam. Tropical Fish Hobbyist 44(5): 164-166, 168-170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 180. Beasom, S.L. 1974. Selectivity of predator control techniques in South Texas. Journal of Wildlife Management 38(4): 837-844. Blair, K.B.; Chiszar, D.; Smith, H.M. 1997. New records for Texas amphibians and reptiles. Herpetological Review 28(2): 99. Blair, K.B.; Smith, H.M.; Chiszar, D. 1994. Thirty-five new herpetological county records for Texas. Herpetological Review 25(1): 36-37. Bonn, E.W.; McCarley, W.H. 1953. The amphibians and reptiles of the Lake Texoma area. Texas Journal of Science 5: 465-471. Boundy, J. 1994. County records for Texas amphibians and reptiles. Herpetological Review 25(3): 129. Bradley, R.D.; Jolley, T.W.; Peppers, L.L.; Roberts, H.R.; Johnson, E.; Pace, L.; Angulo, S.; Riskind, D.; Baker, R.J. 1998. Checklist of the recent vertebrate fauna of the Lubbock Lake Landmark State Historical Park: 1995-1997. Occasional Papers Museum of Texas Tech University 184: 1-7. Brown, A.E. 1903. Texas reptiles and their faunal relations. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 55: 543-558. Brown, B.C. 1950. An annotated check list of the reptiles and amphibians of Texas. Baylor University Press, Waco, Texas. 259 pp. Brown, D.J.; Dixon, J.R.; Forstner, M.R.J. 2012. Visual summary of herpetofaunal diversity in Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 57(4): 465-467. Brown, D.J.; Duarte, A.; Mali, I.; Jones, M.C.; Forstner, M.R.J. 2014. Potential impacts of a high severity wildfire on abundance, movement, and diversity of herpetofaunain the Lost Pines Ecoregion of Texas. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 9(1): 192-205. Brown, D.J.; Farallo, V.R.; Dixon, J.R.; Baccus, J.T.; Simpson, T.R.; Forstner, M.R.J. 2011. Freshwater turtle conservation in Texas: harvest effects and efficacy of the current management regime. Journal of Wildlife Management 75(3): 486-494. Bryson, R.W.; Mueller, J.M. 2002. New county records of amphibians and reptiles from Texas. 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New county records for amphibians and reptiles of east Texas. Herpetological Review 22(1): 27-28. Coleman, J.L.; Pruett, J.A. 2008. New county records of reptiles and amphibians from East Texas. Herpetological Review 39(2): 246-247. Collins, J.T.; Collins, S.L.; Irwin, K.J. 2006. A survey of the amphibians, turtles, and reptiles of the eastern portion of the Kiowa National Grassland of New Mexico and the Rita Blanca National Grassland of adjacent Oklahoma and Texas. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 18: 10-20. Conant, R. 1977. The Florida water snake (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae) established at Brownsville, Texas, with comments on other herpetological introductions in the area. Journal of Herpetology 11(2): 217-220. Cope, E.D. 1880. On the zoological position of Texas. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 17: 1-51. Cope, E.D. 1889. Catalogue of Batrachia and Reptilia brought by William Taylor from San Diego, Texas. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 11: 395-398. Cope, E.D. 1892. 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