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Literary Publications

This bibliography contains citations of books, articles and scientific papers. The catalog is relatively limited compared to the thousands of literary materials dealing with crocodilians. A new Bibliography of Literature will premiere here in the near future.  

 

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Alphabetical by author. Taxonomically by family.

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GENERAL:

ALDERTON, DAVID A. (1991) Crocodiles & Alligators of the World; Blanford Reprint 1999: 190 pp

ANONYMOUS (1995) Cites Identification Guide – Crocodilians: Guide to the Identification of Crocodilian Species Controlled Under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna & Flora; Minister of Supply and Services Canada: 148 pp

ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS & AQUARIUMS [VARIOUS] (2006) Crocodilian Biology & Captive Management; American Zoo & Aquarium Association: 500+ pp

AXELSSON, M., HOLM, S. & NILSSON, S. (1989) Flow Dynamics of the Crocodilian Heart; in Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol. 256: 875-879: 6 pp

BEHLER, JOHN L. & BEHLER, DEBORAH A. (1998) Alligators & Crocodiles; Voyageur Press: 72 pp

BOTHWELL, DICK (1962) The Great Outdoors Book of Alligators and Other Crocodilia; Great Outdoors Publishing Company. Reprint 1981: pp 1-88

BROWN, D. R., SCHUMACHER, I. M., NOGUEIRA, M. F., RICHEY, L. J., ZACHER, L. A., SCHOEB, T. R., VLIET, K. A., BENNETT, R. A., JACOBSON, E. R., & BROWN, M. B. (2001) Detection of Antibodies to a Pathogenic Mycoplasma in American Alligators (Alligator mississippiensis), Broad-Nosed Caimans (Caiman latirostris), and Siamese Crocodiles (Crocodylus siamensis); American Society for Microbiology: 8 pp

CALDICOTT, DAVID G. E., BSC (HONS), MBBS (LOND), CROSER, DAVID, FRANZCR, MANOLIS, CHARLIE, BSC (HONS), WEBB, GRAHAME, PHD, & BRITTON, ADAM PHD (200?) Crocodile Attack in Australia: An Analysis of Its Incidence and Review of the Pathology and Management of Crocodilian Attacks in General: Wilderness and Environmental Medicine: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 143–159

http://www.wemjournal.org/wmsonline/?request=get-document&issn=1080-6032&volume=016&issue=03&page=0143#s2

 

CALDWELL, JOHN (2003) World Trade in Crocodilian Skins, 1999-2001; United Nations Environment Programme – World Conservation Monitoring Centre: 30 pp

CALDWELL, JOHN (2004) World Trade in Crocodilian Skins, 2000-2002; United Nations Environment Programme – World Conservation Monitoring Centre: 38 pp

CAMPBELL, GEORGE R. & WINTERBOTHAM, ANN L. (1985) Jaws Too! The Natural History of Crocodilians with Emphasis on Sanibel Island’s Alligators; Sutherland Publishing: I-VIII + 1-267 pp

HERKISS, MICHAEL S., FLING, HOLLY E., MAZZOTTI, FRANK J., & RICE, KENNETH G. (2004) Counting and Capturing Crocodilians; University of Florida Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences: 14 pp

COOPER, STEPHEN (2004) The Crocodilian Collection; in Reptiles Magazine, May 2004: pp 44-63

DAVIS, B. M., PEUCKER, S. K. J., & MAYER, R. J. (2000) Crocodiles: Restraining & Meat Quality; Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation: 30 pp

DEEMING, D.C. (2004) Reptilian Incubation: Environment, Evolution and Behaviour; Nottingham University Press

DENNARD, DEBORAH (2003) Alligators and Crocodiles; NorthWord Press, 47 pp

DENSMORE, LLEWELLYN D. (1998) Crocodilians! Texas Tech University.

http://jupiter.phys.ttu.edu/corner/1998/sept98.pdf

DIETER, CHRISTOPHER T. (2000) The Ultimate Guide to Crocodilians in Captivity; Armadillo Publishing Corp.: 105 pp  

DIETER, CHRISTOPHER T. (2007) The Ultimate Guide to Crocodilians in Captivity (Revised Edition) The Crocodile Experience

DUSZYNSKI, DONALD W., UPTON, STEVE J. & COUCH, LEE (1999) Coccidia (Eimeria and Isospora) of Crocodilians; University of New Mexico: 3 pp

FELDMAN, GENE CARL & VIOLA, TODD CARLO (1995) Crocodile Population Data & Freshwater Flow; Jason Project.

http://www.jasonproject.org/jason7/curriculum/crocodile.html

FITZGERALD, PATRICK J. (2000) Croc and Gator Attacks; Rosen Book Works Inc.: 48 pp

FUCHS, KARLHEINZ (2006) The Crocodile Skin: Important Characteristics in Identifying Crocodilian Species (English Translation of Die Krokodilhaut); Chimaira Buchhandelsgesellschaft: 175 pp

GARLOCK, MICHAEL (2006) Killer Gators and Crocs; The Lyons Press: 216 pp

GORE, RICK (1978) A Bad Time to be a Crocodile; in National Geographic, January 1978: pp 90-115

GRENARD, STEVE & LOUTSENHIZER, WANDA (1991) Handbook of Alligators and Crocodiles; Krieger Publishing Company: 236 pp

GRIGG, GORDON C., SEEBACHER, FRANK & FRANKLIN, CRAIG E. Edt. (2001) Crocodilian Biology and Evolution; Surrey Beatty & Sons: 446 pp

GUGGISBERG, C. A. W. (1972) Crocodiles: Their Natural History, Folklore and Conservation; Stackpole Books: 195 pp

HUCHZERMYER, F. W. (2003) Crocodiles: Biology, Husbandry and Diseases; CABI Publishing: 337 pp

HUCHZERMYER, F. W. (2002) Diseases of farmed crocodiles and ostriches; in Rev. sci. tech. Off. Int. Epiz. 21(2), 265-276: 12 pp

JACKSON, KATE, BUTLER, DAVID G. & BROOKS, DANIEL R. (1995) Habitat and phylogeny influence salinity discrimination in crocodilians: implications for osmoregulatory physiology and historical biogeography; in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (1996) 58: 371-383: 13 pp

KANCHANAPANGKA, SUMOLYA, YOUNGPRAPAKORN, PANYA, PIPATPANUKUL, KAMOL, KROBPAN, SUTCHIPORN & KONGTHAWORN, NITHI (1999) Differentiation of Crocodilian Granulocytes: Using Histochemical Techniques; Sumolya Kanchanapangka: 10 pp

KIRCHHOFF, H., MOHAN, K., SCHMIDT, R., RUNGE, M., BROWN, D. R., BROWN, M. B., FOGGIN, C. M., MUVAVARIRWA, P., LEHMANN, H., & FLOSSDORF, J. (1997) Mycoplasma crocodyli, sp. Nov., a New Species from Crocodiles; in International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology: 5 pp

MCALILEY, L.R., WILLIS, D.A. RAY, P.S. WHITE & L.D. DENSMORE (2006) Are crocodiles really monophyletic?: Evidence for subdivisions from sequence and morphological data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39:16-32

http://www.as.wvu.edu/~dray/Papers/McAliley_et_al_2006_-_Mecistops.pdf

MINTON, SHERMAN A. JR. & MINTON, MADGE RUTHERFORD (1973) Giant Reptiles; Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York: 345 pp

MORAN, THERESA & MALONE, DAN (2003) Crocodilians in Captivity; Eco Publishing: pp 79

NEILL, WILFRED T. (1971) The Last of the Ruling Reptiles: Alligators, Crocodiles, and Their Kin; Columbia University Press, New York, London: 486 pp

PENNY, MALCOLM (1991) Alligators & Crocodiles; Crescent: 128 pp

PERRERO, LAURIE (2003) Alligators and Crocodiles of the World: The Disappearing Dragons; Windward Publishing: 64 pp

POOLEY, TONY (1982) Discoveries of a Crocodile Man; William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.: 213 pp

POUGH, F. HARVEY (1992) Recommendations for the Care of Amphibians and Reptiles in Academic Institutions; National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.

http://netvet.wustl.edu/species/reptiles/pough.txt

RAY, DAVID ALFRED & DENSMORE, LLEWELLYN D. (2002) The Crocodilian Mitochondrial Control region: General Structure, Conserved Sequences and Evolutionary Implications; in Journal of Experimental Zoology (MOL DEV EVOL) 294: 334-345: 12 pp

RAY, DAVID A. & DENSMORE, LLEWELLYN D. (2003) Repetitive Sequences in the Crocodilian Mitochondrial Control Region: Poly- A Sequences and Heteroplasmic Tandem Repeats: in Molecular Biology & Evolution 20(6): 1006, Oxford Journals: 8 pp

RICHARDSON, K. C., WEBB, G. J. W. & MANOLIS, S. C. (2002) Crocodiles Inside Out: A Guide to the Crocodilians and their Functional Morphology; Surrey, Beatty & Sons: 172 pp

ROBINSON, CLAIRE (1998) In the Wild: Crocodiles: Reed Educational & Professional Publishing: 24 pp

ROSS, JAMES PERRAN, Edt. (2005) Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan, Second Edition; IUCN SSC Crocodile Specialist Group:  http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/Act-plan/plan1998a.htm

ROSS, CHARLES A. & GARNETT, STEPHEN Edt. (1989) Crocodiles and Alligators, Facts on File, New York, Oxford: 240 pp

RUE, LEONARD LEE III (1994) Alligators & Crocodiles: A Portrait of the Animal World; Magna Books: 80 pp

SLOAN, CHRISTOPHER (2002) SuperCroc and the Origin of Crocodiles; National Geographic Society: 56 pp

STEEL, RODNEY (1990) Crocodiles; Christopher Helm Pub.: 198 pp

TRUEIT, TRUDI STRAIN (2003) Alligators and Crocodiles: Children’s Press: 47 pp

TRUTNAU, LUDWIG (1994) Krokodile; Westarp Wissenschaften, Madgeburg: 270 pp  

TRUTNAU, LUDWIG & SOMMERLAD, RALF (2006)Crocodilians -Their Natural History and Captive Husbandry (GERMAN: Krokodile - Biologie und Haltung); Edition Chimaira: 570 pp  

WEXO, JOHN BONNETT (2003) Alligators & Crocodiles; Wildlife Education, Ltd.: 24 pp

YOUNGPRAPAKORN, PANYA, OUSAVAPLAGCHAI, LEK & KANCHANAPANGKA, SUMOLYA (1994) A Color Atlas of Diseases of the Crocodile; Style Creative House Co.: 76 pp

ZAPPALORTI, ROBERT T. (1976) The Amateur Zoologist’s Guide to Turtles and Crocodilians; Stackpole Books: 208 pp  

 

SPECIES:

 

AMERICAN ALLIGATOR

(ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS):   

ANONYMOUS (2006) Living with Alligators; Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission: Brochure

ARMAND, JENNIFER B. & JAMES, ROSEMARY (1994) Louisiana's Amazing White Alligators; Louisiana Environmentalist Magazine Online.

http://www.leeric.lsu.edu/le/cover/lead014.htm


B
ARE, COLLEEN STANLEY
(1989) Never Kiss an Alligator; Puffin Books: 28 pp BRISBIN, I. LEHR JR. (1982) Applied Ecological Studies of the American Alligator at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory:  An Overview of Program Goals and Design [Abstract]; University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. http://www.uga.edu/srel/Reprint/0821.htm

CHIASSON, ROBERT B. (1962) Laboratory Anatomy of the Alligator; Wm. C. Brown Company: 56 pp

DELANEY, MICHAEL F. & ABERCROMBIE, C. L. (1986) American Alligator Food Habits in Northcentral Florida: in Journal of Wildlife Management 50(2) 348-353: 1 p

DELANEY, MICHAEL F., LINDA, STEPHEN B. & MOORE, CLINTON T. (1999) Diet and Condition of American Alligators in 4 Florida Lakes; in Proc. Annu. Conf. Southeast assoc. Fish & Wildl. Agencies 53: 375-389, 1p

GARRICK, LESLIE D., LANG, JEFFREY W. & HERZOG, HARRY A., JR. (1978) Social Signals of Adult American Alligators; Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 160: Article 3. 37 pp

GLASGOW, VAUGHN L. (1991) A Social History of the American Alligator: The Earth Trembles with His Thunder; St. Martin’s Press, New York: 260 pp

GUILETTE, LUIS J, JR.; WOODWARD, ALLAN R.; YOU-XIANG, QUI; COX, M. CATHY; MATTER, JOHN, M.; & GROSS, TIMOTHY S. (1995) Formation and Regression of the Corpus Luteum of the American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis); in Journal of Morphology 224:97-110: 14 pp

JENNINGS, MICHAEL L., MOORE, CLINTON T. & DAVID, DENNIS M. (1989) Florida’s Nuisance Alligator Control Program; in Proc. 4th Eastern Wildl. Damage Control Conf. Madison, WI, pp. 29-36: 1p

JENNINGS, MICHAEL L., PERCIVAL, H. FRANKLIN, & WOODWARD, ALLAN R. (1988) Evaluation of Alligator Hatchling and Egg Removal from Three Florida Lakes; in Proc. Annu. Conf. Southeast Assoc. Fish and Wildl. Agencies 42: 283-294: 1p

LANE, THOMAS J., D. V. M. & KING, F. WAYNE (1989) Alligator Production in Florida; [Reprinted 1996] University of Florida, Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences: 3 pp

LANE, THOMAS J. & RUPPERT, KATHLEEN C. (1987) Alternative Opportunities for Small Farms: Alligator Production Review: [Reprinted 1994] University of Florida, Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences: 3 pp

LANGLEY, RICKY L. (2005) Alligator Attacks on Humans in the United States; in Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services: 6 pp

LEAK, F. W., LANE, T. J., JOHNSON, D. D. & LAMKEY, J. W. (2003) Increasing the Profitability of Florida Alligator Carcasses; University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS).

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/AN137

LOCKWOOD, C.C. (2002) The Alligator Book; Louisiana State University Press, Louisiana: 130 pp

MASSER, MICHAEL P. (1993) Alligator Production: An Introduction; Southern Regional Aquaculture Center: 4 pp

MCCARTHY, KEVIN M. (1998) Alligator Tales; Pineapple Press, Florida: 171 pp

MCILHENNY, E. A. (1935) The Alligator’s Life History; Reprint by Ten Speed Press 1987: 117 pp

MERCHANT, MARK E., PALLANSCH, MELANIE, PAULMAN, ROBIN L., WELLS, JAY B., NALCA, AYSEGUL & PTAK, ROGER (2005) Antiviral activity of serum from the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis); in Antiviral Research 66:35-38: 4 pp

MERCHANT, MARK E., ROCHE, M. CHERIE, THIBODEAUX, DAMON, & ELSEY, RUTH M (2005) Identification of alternative pathway serum complement activity in the blood of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis); in Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology, Part B 141: 281-288: 8 pp

MERCHANT, MARK, THIBODEAUX, DAMON, LOUBSER, KARA & ELSEY, RUTH M. (2004) Amoebacidal Effects of Serum from the American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis); in J. Parasitol 90(6): pp 1480-1483: 4 pp

MERCHANT, MARK, VERRET, BRANNON & ELSEY, RUTH M (2005) Role of divalent metal ions in serum complement activity of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis); in Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology, Part B 141: 289-293: 5 pp

MILNES, MATTHEW R., WOODWARD, ALLAN R., ROONEY, ANDREW A. & GUILETTE, LUIS, J. (2002) Plasma steroid concentrations in relation to size and age in juvenile alligators from two Florida lakes; in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A 131, 923-930: 8 pp

PLATZACK, BJORN, WANG, YUQI, CROSSLEY, DANE, LANCE, VALENTINE, HICKS, JAMES W., & CONLON, J. MICHAEL (2005) Characterization and cardiovascular actions of endothelin-1 and endothelin-3 from the American alligator; American Physiological Society: 10 pp

RAY, DAVID, A., HEDGES, DALE J., HERKE, SCOTT W., FOWLKES, JUSTIN D., BARNES, ERIN W., LAVIE, DANIEL K., GOODWIN, LINDSEY M., DENSMORE, LLEWELLYN D., BATZER, MARK A. (2005) Chompy: An infestation of MITE-like repetitive elements in the crocodilian genome; in Gene 362:1-10: 10 pp

REESE, ALBERT M. (1915) The Alligator and Its Allies; Knickerbocker Press, New York; 358 pp, PDF File reproduction and revision by Arment Biological Press, Pennsylvania 2000: 2.4 MB

RICE, AMANDA NICOLE (2004) Diet and Condition of American Alligators in Three Central Florida Lakes; University of Florida: 100 pp

RICE, KEN & MAZZOTTI, FRANK. J.  (2003) American Alligator Distribution, Size, and Hole Occupancy and American Crocodile Juvenile Growth & Survival; U. S. Geographic Survey South Florida Information Access.

http://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/gator_croc/#sow

RICE, KENNETH G., PERCIVAL, H. FRANKLIN, WOODWARD, ALLAN R. & JENNINGS, MICHAEL L. (1999) Effects of Egg and Hatchling Harvest on American Alligators in Florida; in Journal of Wildlife Management 63(4): 1193-1200, 1 p

RICHEY, LAUREN J., DVM; CARBONNEAU, DWAYNE M., MS; SCHOEB, TRENTON R., DVM, PhD.; TAYLOR, SHARON K., DVM, PhD.; WOODWARD, ALLAN R., MS; & CLEMMONS, ROGER, DVM, PhD. (2001) Potential Toxicity of Cyanobacteria to American Alligators (Alligator mississippiensis); Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission: 21 pp

ROE, JOHN, H., HOPKINS, WILLIAMA, BAIONNO, JENNIFER A., STAUB, BRANDON P., ROWE CHRISTOPHER L., & JACKSON, BRIAN P. (2003) Maternal Transfer of Selenium in Alligator mississippiensis Nesting Downstream from a Coal-burning Power Plant [Abstract]; University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Laboratory.  http://www.uga.edu/srel/Reprint/2780.htm

ROSS, JAMES