Crocodylus acutus

AMERICAN CROCODILE

ANONYMOUS (1999) Multi-Species Recovery plan for South Florida: American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: 24 pp.

ANONYMOUS (2004?) Providing a home for the American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus): A fact sheet about American crocodiles at Turkey Point. Florida Power & Light: 2 pp.

ANONYMOUS (2004?) Transfer of the Cuban population of the American crocodile Crocodylus acutus to Appendix II for the purposes of ranching. Proponent: Cuba [Ref. CoP13 Prop. 24]. Species Survival Commission/ IUCN – The World Conservation Union: 5 pp.

BEHLER, J. L. & KING, F. W. (1979)  The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians.  Knopf, New York.

CEDEÑO-VAZQUEZ, JOSÉ REGELIO, RODRIGUEZ, DAVID, CALMÉ, SOPHIE, ROSS, JAMES PERRAN, DENSMORE, LLEWELLYN D. & THORBJARNARSON, JOHN (2008) Hybridization between Crocodylus acutus and Crocodylus moreletii in the Yucatan Peninsula: I. evidence from mitochondrial DNA and morphology. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology, Vol. 309A Issue 10 pp. 661-673, Wiley-Liss, Inc. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jez.473

CONANT, R. & COLLINS, J. T. (1998) A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians Eastern and Central North America.  Third Edition, Expanded.  Houghton Mifflin Company, New York.

GIBBONS, WHIT, GREENE, JUDY & MILLS, TONY (2010) Alligators and Lizards from the Southeast. University of Georgia Press: 240 pp.

KUSHLAN, JAMES A. (1988) Conservation and management of the American crocodile. Springer New York: Environmental Management, Volume 12, Number 6 / November, 1988, pp.777-790.

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LANDER, ALFREDO & BERMUDEZ, SERGIO (2005) Current status of the American crocodile in Venezuela. Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter 24(3): 7-8: 1p.

LANG, JEFFREY W. (1979) Thermophilic Response of the American Alligator and the American Crocodile to feeding. Copeia, Vol. 1979, No. 1 (Feb. 20, 1979), pp. 48-59, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.  http://www.jstor.org/pss/1443728

LLEWELLYN, CLAIRE (2004) Starting Life: Crocodile. NorthWord Press: 25 pp.

MAZZOTTI, FRANK. J. (1999) American Crocodiles (Crocodylus acutus) in Florida. University of Florida IFAS Extension Service: 3 pp.

MAZZOTTI, FRANK J. (Rev. 2003) American Crocodiles (Crocodylus acutus) in Florida. University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS). http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/UW157

PLATT, STEVEN G., RAINWATER, THOMAS, R., & NICHOLS, STEPHEN (2004) A recent population assessment of the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) in Turneffe Atoll, Belize. Herpetological Bulletin: 7 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

RODRIGUEZ, DAVID, CEDEÑO-VAZQUEZ, JOSÉ ROGELIO, FORSTNER, MICHAEL J. & DENSMORE, LLEWELYN D. III (2008) Hybridization between Crocodylus acutus and Crocodylus moreletii in the Yucatan Peninsula: II. evidence from microsatellites. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology, Vol. 309A Issue 10 pp. 674-686 Wiley-Liss, Inc. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jez.499

SCHERER, GLENN & FLETCHER, MARTY (200?) The American Crocodile: Help Save This Endangered Species!

WEAVER, JEREMY P., RODRIGUEZ, DAVID, VENEGAS-ANAYA, MIRYAM, CEDEÑO-VAZQUEZ, JOSÉ ROGELIO, FORSTNER, MICHAEL R. J., & DENSMORE, LLEWELLYN D. III (2008) Genetic characterization of captive Cuban crocodiles (Crocodylus rhombifer) and evidence of hybridization with the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology, Vol. 309A Issue 10 pp. 649-660, Wiley-Liss, Inc. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jez.471