Reference List

This list includes references used to derive specimen records as well as those with scientific name Rhinella marina listed in key words.

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38033 Journal Article Abercrombie, H.E., M. Ferrera, P. Schultz, S. Watkins, E. Eversole, D.B. Estabrooks, and N.Ferrera. 2022. Geographic Distribution: Rhinella Horribilis. Herpetological Review 53(1):74.
28674 Journal Article Acevedo, A.A., M. Lampo, and R. Cipriani. 2016. The cane or marine toad, Rhinella marina (Anura, Bufonidae): two genetically and morphologically distinct species. Zootaxa 4103(6):574-586. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4103.6.7.
37830 Journal Article Aiyer, A., R. Shine, R. Somaweera, T. Bell, and G. Ward-Fear. 2022. Shifts in the foraging tactics of crocodiles following invasion by toxic prey. Scientific Reports. Scientific Reports 12(1):1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03629-6.
19106 Journal Article Allen, E.R., and W.T. Neill. 1958. Giant toads from the tropics. Florida Wildlife 12:30-32, 42.
12137 Journal Article Anonymous. 1995. Poisonous amphibians. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 30(9):197.
12117 Other Cut-and-paste reference not available due to unhandled reference type. Please contact support to request the addition of the 'Other' type.
12169 Other Cut-and-paste reference not available due to unhandled reference type. Please contact support to request the addition of the 'Other' type.
14878 News Anonymous. 2005. Bufo Toads Thrive as Threats to Pets. Gainesville Sun. August 30. www.gainesville.com.
32816 Thesis or Dissertation Arner, A.J. 2012. The Curious Case of the Cane Toad (Rhinella marina): An Assessment of Exploratory Behavior and Foraging Success of an Invasive Vertebrate in a Novel Environment. Unpublished M.S. thesis. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
698 Book Ashton, R.E., and P.S. Ashton. 1988. Handbook of Reptiles and Amphibians of Florida. Part Three: The Amphibians. Volume 3. Windward Publishing, Inc Miami, FL.
13386 Journal Article Axtell, R.W., and A.O. Wasserman. 1953. Interesting Herpetologcial Records from Southern Texas and Northern Mexico. Herpetologica 9(1):1-6.
32817 Journal Article Bacon, J.P., C.E. Fort, B. Todhunter, M. Mathis, and D.J. Fort. 2013. Effects of Multiple Chemical, Physical, and Biological Stressors on the Incidence and Types of Abnormalities Observed in Bermuda's Cane Toads (Rhinella marina). Journal of Experimental Zoology B - Molecular and Developmental Evolution 320B:218-237. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jez.b.22496.
18640 Other Cut-and-paste reference not available due to unhandled reference type. Please contact support to request the addition of the 'Other' type.
13416 Journal Article Bartlett, R.D. 1994. Florida's Alien Herps. Reptile and Amphibian magazine 27:56-73, 102-109.
13209 Book Bartlett, R.D., and P.P. Bartlett. 1999. A Field Guide to Florida Reptiles and Amphibians. Gulf Publishing Company, Houston.
33118 Journal Article Beaty L., and S. Beaty. 2012. Rhinella marina (Cane Toad). Crocodile predation. Herpetological Review 43(3):471. https://ssarherps.org/herpetological-review-pdfs/.
32818 Journal Article Beckmann, C., and R. Shine. 2010. The power of myth: the (non) impact of invasive cane toads (Bufo marinus) on domestic chickens (Gallus gallus). Animal Production Science 50:847-851. https://www.publish.csiro.au/AN/AN10084.
32821 Journal Article Beckmann, C., and R. Shine. 2011. Toad’s tongue for breakfast: exploitation of a novel prey type, the invasive cane toad, by scavenging raptors in tropical Australia. Biological Invasions 13(6):1447-1455. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-010-9903-8.
32819 Journal Article Beckmann, C., and R. Shine. 2012. How many of Australia’s ground-nesting birds are likely to be at risk from the invasive Cane Toad (Rhinella marina)? Emu 112:83-89. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1071/MU11028.
32820 Journal Article Beckmann, C., M.R. Crossland, and R. Shine. 2011. Responses of Australian wading birds to a novel toxic prey type, the invasive cane toad Rhinella marina. Biological Invasions 13:2925-2934. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-011-9974-1.
699 Book Behler, J.L., and F.W. King. 1979. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians. Alfred A Knopf, NY.
13176 Journal Article Belleville, B. 1994. Critter Patrol. Florida Magazine 41(22):8-12,15.
15668 Book Beltz, E. 2005. Frogs. Inside Their Remarkable World. Firefly Books.
14950 Report Benson, A.J., P.L. Fuller, and C.C. Jacono. 2001. Summary Report of Nonindigenous Aquatic Species in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4. US Geological Survey Florida Caribbean Science Center.
38006 Journal Article Bessa-Silva, A., M. Vallinoto, I. Sampaio, O. Flores-Villela, E. N. Smith, and F. Sequeira. 2020. The roles of vicariance and dispersal in the differentiation of two species of the Rhinella marina species complex. Molecular p 145(106723):1-12. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790319302519.
15611 Journal Article Bever, G.S. 2005. Variation in the Ilium of North America Bufo (Lissamphibia: Anura) and its Implications for Species-level Identification of Fragmentary Anuran Fossils. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):548-560.
12063 Journal Article Blair, A.P. 1947. Defensive use of parotoid secretion by Bufo marinus. Copeia 1947(2):137.
32823 Journal Article Boland, C.R.J. 2004. Introduced cane toads Bufo marinus are active nest predators and competitors of rainbow bee-eaters Merops ornatus: observational and experimental evidence. Biological Conservation 120(1):53-62. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320704000382.
32870 Journal Article Brown, G.P., B.L. Phillips, and R. Shine. 2011. The ecological impact of invasive cane toads on tropical snakes: Field data do not support laboratory‐based predictions. Ecology 92(2):422-431. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/10-0536.1.
16101 Journal Article Brown, G.P., B.L. Phillips, J.K. Webb, and R. Shine. 2006. Toads on the Road: Use of Roads as Dispersal Corridors by Cane Toads (Bufo marinus) at an Invasion Front in Tropical Australia. Biological Conservation 133(2006):88-94.
17847 Journal Article Brown, G.P., C. Shilton, B.L. Phillips, and R. Shine. 2007. Invasion stress, and spinal arthritis in cane Toads. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(5):17698-17700.
32827 Journal Article Cabrera-Guzmán, E., M.R. Crossland, D. Pearson, J.K. Webb, and R. Shine. 2015. Predation on invasive cane toads (Rhinella marina) by native Australian rodents. Journal of Pest Science 88(1):143-153. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10340-014-0586-2.
32734 Journal Article Caller, G., and C. Brown. 2013. Evolutionary responses to invasion: Cane Toad sympatric fish show enhanced avoidance learning. PLoS ONE 8(1):e54909. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0054909.
704 Book Cardoza, J.E., G.S. Jones, T.W. French, and D.B. Halliwell. 1993. Exotic and translocated vertebrates of Massachusetts. Fauna of Massachusetts Series No. 6. 2nd edition. Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, Westborough, MA.
32196 Web Page Caribherp. 2000. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Puerto Rican Bank. http://carib.bio.psu.edu/caribherp/lists/PR-LIST.htm. Accessed on 04/05/2000.
32910 Journal Article Caudell, J.N., B. James, and P. Lawie. 2000. Boiga irregularis (brown tree snake): predation. Herpetological Review 31(4):245. https://ssarherps.org/herpetological-review-pdfs/.
24369 Database Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health. 2019. EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system. The University of Georgia, Tifton, GA. https://www.eddmaps.org/tools/query/. Accessed on 01/27/2019.
12062 Journal Article Chan, J.G., and L.L. Young. 1985. Life history notes: Bufo marinus (Marine Toad) anomaly. Herpetological Review 16(1):23-24.
17848 Journal Article Chaparro, J.C., J.B. Pramuk, and A.G. Gluesenkamp. 2007. A New Species of Arboreal Rhinella (Anura: Bufonidae) from Cloud Forest of Southeastern Peru. Herpetologica 63(2):203-212.
25108 Journal Article Christy, M.T., J.A. Savidge, and G.H. Rodda. 2007. Multiple pathways for invasion of anurans on a Pacific Island. Diversity and Distributions 13:598-607.
33051 Journal Article Cintra, R. 1988. Bufo marinus (Marine Toad). Predation. Herpetological Review 19(4):82. https://ssarherps.org/herpetological-review-pdfs/.
32960 Journal Article Clements, S.L., S.V.L. Catania, and C.A. Searcy. 2019. Non-native species dominate herpetofaunal community patterns in both native and non-native habitat patches in urban Miami-Dade County. Biological Invasions 21(5):1775-1788. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-019-01934-w.
26827 Journal Article Cochran, D.M. 1934. Herpetological collections from the West Indies made by Dr. Paul Bartsch under the Walter Rathbone Bacon Scholarship, 1928-1930. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 92(7):1-2, 48.
700 Book Conant, R., and J.T. Collins. 1991. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America. Volume 12. Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston.
32851 Journal Article Covacevich, J. and M. Archer. 1975. The distribution of the Cane Toad, Bufo marinus, in Australia and its effects on indigenous vertebrates. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17(2):305-310.
32908 Journal Article Crossland, M., G. Brown, and R. Shine. 2011. The enduring toxicity of road-killed cane toads (Rhinella marina). Biological Invasions 13(9):2135-2145. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10530-011-0031-x.pdf.
32831 Journal Article Crossland, M.R. 2001. Ability of predatory native Australian fishes to learn to avoid toxic larvae of the introduced toad Bufo marinus. Journal of Fish Biology 59:319-329. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2001.tb00132.x.
32834 Journal Article Crossland, M.R., and C. Azevedo-Ramos. 1999. Effects of Bufo (Anura: Bufonidae) Toxins on Tadpoles from Native and Exotic Bufo Habitats. Herpetologica 55(2):192-199. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3893079.
32878 Journal Article Crossland, M.R., and R.A. Alford. 1998. Evaluation of the toxicity of eggs, hatchlings and tadpoles of the introduced toad Bufo marinus (Anura: Bufonidae) to native Australian aquatic predators. Australian Journal of Ecology 23:129-137. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1442-9993.1998.tb00711.x.
32874 Journal Article Crossland, M.R., G.P. Brown, M. Anstis, C.M. Shilton, and R. Shine. 2008. Mass mortality of native anuran tadpoles in tropical Australia due to the invasive cane toad (Bufo marinus). Biological Conservation 141(9):2387-2394. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320708002590.
32873 Journal Article Crossland, M.R., M.N. Hearnden, L. Pizzatto, R.A. Alford, and R. Shine. 2011. Why be a cannibal? The benefits to cane toad, Rhinella marina (=Bufo marinus), tadpoles of consuming conspecific eggs. Animal Behaviour 82(4):775-782. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347211002892.
32872 Journal Article Crossland, M.R., R.A. Alford, and R. Shine. 2009. Impact of the invasive cane toad (Bufo marinus) on an Australian frog (Opisthodon ornatus) depends on minor variation in reproductive timing. Oecologia 158(4):625-632. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-008-1167-y.
13922 Report Crowder, J.P. 1974. The Exotic Vertebrates of South Florida. South Florida Environmental Project Ecological Report. U S Department of the Interior, Atlanta.
15722 Book Crump, M. 2000. In Search of the Golden Frog. University of Chicago Press.
15627 Journal Article Davenport, J., J. Hills, A. Glasspool, and J. Ward. 2001. Threats to the Critically Endangered Endemic Bermudian Skink Eumeces longirostris. Oryx 35(4):332-339.
13902 Book Dixon, J.R. 2000. Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas Second Edition. Texas A & M University Press, College Station.
41928 News Dolan, P. and A. Iraola. 2023. Naples man catches invasive cane toads by the dozens. WINK News. Fort Meyers, Florida. https://winknews.com/2023/06/23/cane-toads-invasive-species-caught-naples/. Created on 06/23/2023. Accessed on 07/03/2023.
32875 Journal Article Doody, J.S., B. Green, R. Sims, D. Rhind, P. West, and D. Steer. 2006. Indirect impacts of invasive cane toads (Bufo marinus) on nest predation in pig-nosed turtles (Carettochelys insculpta). Wildlife Research 33(5):349-354. http://www.publish.csiro.au/wr/wr05042.
32867 Journal Article Doody, J.S., C.M. Castellano, D. Rhind, B. Green. 2013. Indirect facilitation of a native mesopredator by an invasive species: are cane toads re-shaping tropical riparian communities? Biological Invasions 15(3):559-568. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-012-0308-8.
32812 Journal Article Drake, M., V. Amadi, U. Zieger, R. Johnson, H. Hariharan. 2013. Prevalence of Salmonella spp. in Cane Toads (Bufo marinus) from Grenada, West Indies, and their Antimicrobial Susceptibility. Zoonoses and Public Health 60:437-441. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/zph.12018.
17996 Book Duellman, W.E. 1999. Patterns of Distribution of Amphibians. A Global Perspecitive. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
17861 Book Chapter Duellman, W.E. 2005. Cusco Amazonico: The Lives of Amphibians and Reptiles in an Amazonian Rainforest. Pages 169, 180, 184-187, 433 in Comstock Publishing Associates, Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY.
13318 Journal Article Easteal, S. 1981. The History of Introductions of Bufo marinus (Amphibia:Anura); A Natural Experiment in Evolution. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 16(2):93-113.
1420 Report Eldredge, L.G. 1994. Perspectives in Aquatic Exotic Species Management in the Pacific Islands. Vol. I. Introductions of commercially significant aquatic organisms to the Pacific Islands. South Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia.
32849 Journal Article Eubig, P.A. 2001. Bufo species toxicosis: Big toad, big problem. Veterinary Medicine August:594-599. https://aspcapro.org/sites/default/files/j-bufotoadtoxicity.pdf.
15948 Book Chapter Ferriter, A., B. Doren, C. Goodyear, D. Thayer, J. Burch, L. Toth, M. Bodle, J. Lane, D. Schmitz, P. Pratt, S. Snow, and K. Langeland. 2006. The status of nonindigenous species in the South Florida environment. Pages 9-1 to 9-102 in 2006 South Florida environmental report. Volume 1. South Florida Water Management District. West Palm Beach, FL.
33117 Journal Article Flaherty, J.P., and J. Friers. 2013. Apalone ferox (Florida Softshell). Diet. Herpetological Review 44(3):500. https://ssarherps.org/herpetological-review-pdfs/.
18004 Book Flores-Villela, O. 1993. Herpetofauna Mexicana: Annotated List of the Species of Amphibians and Reptiles of Mexico, Recent Taxonomic Changes, and New Species. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publications.
18880 Database Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (Larry Connor). 2009. FWC Exotic database as of 10/31/09. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
18582 Database Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, (Larry Connor). 2009. FWC Exotic database as of 3-31-2009. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
15952 Web Page Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. 2007. Florida's Exotic Wildlife species detail: Giant Toad Bufo marinus. http://www.myfwc.com/critters/exotics/SpeciesNumberResults.asp?SPPNO=43.
18857 Database Florida Museum of Natural History. 2009. Ichthyology Collection database. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. http://specifyportal.flmnh.ufl.edu/fishes/.
13177 Journal Article Frank, J.H., and E.D. McCoy. 1995. Introduction to Insect Behavioral Ecology: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Non-indigenous Species in Florida. Invasive Adventive Insects and other Organisms in Florida. Florida Entomologist 78(1):1-15.
14786 Journal Article Garrett, C.M., and D.M. Boyer. 1993. Bufo marinus (Cane Toad) Predation. Herpetological Review 24(4):148.
19204 Journal Article Gilbert, G.S. 1996. Prey of the introduced Bufo marinus on American Samoa. Herpetological Review 27:67-69.
32915 Journal Article Goddard, J., C. Ward, J. Dagg, M. Mendonça, and R. G. Robbins. 2015. New records for Amblyomma rotundatum Koch (Acari: Ixodidae) from the cane toad, Rhinella marina L. in Florida, with notes on identification of the nymphs. Systematic & Applied Acarology 20(5):465-467. https://biotaxa.org/saa/issue/view/saa.20.5.
26904 Journal Article Godwin, C., G.R. Johnston, P.L. Butt, G.A. Shemitz, and A. Drennen. 2013. Rhinella marina (Cane Toad). Herpetological Review 45(2):278.
32876 Journal Article Greenlees, M.J. and R. Shine. 2011. Impacts of eggs and tadpoles of the invasive cane toad (Bufo marinus) on aquatic predators in tropical Australia. Austral Ecology 36:53-58. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2010.02116.x.
38966 Journal Article Greenlees, M.J., and R. Shine. 2019. Ontogenetic shift in toxicity of invasive cane toads facilitates learned avoidance by native predators. Aquatic Invasions 14(3):458-464. https://www.reabic.net/aquaticinvasions/2019/AI_2019_Greenlees_Shine.pdf.
33049 Journal Article Groffen, J., J. Van der Ploeg, S.P. Telan, and M. van Weerd. 2018. Rhinella marina (Cane Toad). Predation by a crocodile. Herpetological Review 49(3):520-521. https://ssarherps.org/publications/herpetological-review/.
17849 Journal Article Hagman, M., and R. Shine. 2008. Deceptive Digits: The Functional Significance of Toe Waving by Cannibalistic Cane Toads, Chaunus marinus. Animal Behaviour 75(1):123-131.
33963 News Hall-Scharf, B. 2019. The invasive Cane Toad found in Brooksville. Hernando Sun. Hernando, FL. https://www.hernandosun.com/index.php/article/invasive-cane-toad-found-brooksville. Created on 11/30/2019. Accessed on 12/02/2019.
13316 News Harris, R. 2002. Big toad jumps in numbers. The Press Journal. Vero Beach, FL. 10 (12):A3.
33119 Journal Article Hartigan, A., D.N. Phelan, and J. Slapeta. 2010. Museum material reveals a frog parasite emergence after the invasion of the cane toad in Australia. Parasites and Vectors 3:50. https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1756-3305-3-50.
17850 Journal Article Himes, J.G. 2007. Geographic distribution. Bufo marinus (Marine Toad). USA: Florida: Bay Co. Herpetological Review 38(4):473.
32912 Journal Article Holbrook, A.L. 2015. Rhinella marina (Cane Toad). Incidental translocation. Herpetological Review 46(2):237. https://ssarherps.org/herpetological-review-pdfs/.
25944 Database iNaturalist. 2024. http://www.inaturalist.org/. Accessed on 08/13/2024.
32804 Report Johnson, S.A., and M.E. McGarrity. 2010. Florida Invader: Cane Toad, WEC300. UF/IFAS Extension Service, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/uw345.
32852 Journal Article Jolly, C.J., R. Shine, and M.J. Greenlees. 2015. The impact of invasive cane toads on native wildlife in southern Australia. Ecology and Evolution 5(18):3879-3894. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.1657.
32861 Journal Article Jolly, C.J., R. Shine, and M.J. Greenlees. 2016. The impacts of a toxic invasive prey species (the cane toad, Rhinella marina) on a vulnerable predator (the lace monitor, Varanus varius). Biological Invasions 18(5):1499-1509. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-016-1097-2.
32914 Journal Article Kelehear, C., C.M. Hudson, J.W. Mertins, and R. Shine. 2017. First report of exotic ticks (Amblyomma rotundatum) parasitizing invasive cane toads (Rhinella marina) on the Island of Hawai‘i. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 8(2):330-333. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X16302801?via%3Dihub.
659 Journal Article King, W., and T. Krakauer. 1966. The exotic herpetofauna of Southeast Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 29(2):144-154.
14783 Journal Article Krakauer, T. 1968. The Ecology of the Neotropical Toad, Bufo marinus, in South Florida. Herpetologica 24(3):214-221.
650 Journal Article Krakauer, T. 1970. The invasion of the toads. The Florida Naturalist 1970(Jan):12-14.
13949 Journal Article Krysko, K.L., K.M. Enge, J.H. Townsend, E.M. Langan, S.A. Johnson, and T.S. Campbell. 2005. New County Records of Amphibians and Reptiles from Florida. Herpetological Review 36(1):85-87.
17859 Journal Article Laurance, S.G., and W.F. Laurance. 2007. Chanus marinus (Cane Toad) Predation. Herpetological Review 38(3):320-321.
13419 Report Layne, J.N., J.A. Stallcup, G.E. Woolfenden, M.N. McCauley, and D.J. Worley. 1977. Fish and Wildlife Inventory of the Seven County Region Included in the Central Florida Phosphate Industry Areawide Environmental Impact Study. US Department of Commerce, National Technical Information Service.
15655 Book Lee, J.C. 1996. The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Yucatan Peninsula. Cornell University Press.
33110 Journal Article Lee, J.C. 2001. Evolution of a Secondary Sexual Dimorphism in the Toad, Bufo marinus. Copeia 2001(4):928-935. https://bioone.org/journals/Copeia/volume-2001/issue-4/0045-8511(2001)001[0928:EOASSD]2.0.CO;2/Evolution-of-a-Secondary-Sexual-Dimorphism-in-the-Toad-span/10.1643/0045-8511(2001)001[0928:EOASSD]2.0.CO;2.full.
32826 Journal Article Letnic, M., J.K. Webb, and R. Shine. 2008. Invasive cane toads (Bufo marinus) cause mass mortality of freshwater crocodiles (Crocodylus johnstoni) in tropical Australia. Biological Conservation 141(7):1773-1782. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320708001511.
32916 Journal Article Lettoof, D.C., M.J. Greenlees, M. Stockwell, and R. Shine. 2013. Do invasive cane toads affect the parasite burdens of native Australian frogs? International Journal of Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 2:155-164. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213224413000138?via%3Dihub.
13317 Book Lever, C. 2001. The Cane Toad. The History and Ecology of a Successful Colonist. Westbury Academic and Scientific Publishing, Otley, West Yorkshire, England.
15653 Book Lever, C. 2003. Naturalized reptiles and amphibians of the world. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K.
15671 Other Cut-and-paste reference not available due to unhandled reference type. Please contact support to request the addition of the 'Other' type.
32850 Journal Article Llewelyn, J., J.K. Webb, L. Schwarzkopf, R. Alford, and R. Shine. 2010. Behavioural responses of carnivorous marsupials (Planigale maculata) to toxic invasive cane toads (Bufo marinus). Austral Ecology 35:560-567. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.02067.x.
15291 Journal Article Lobdell, R.N. 1936. Field and Laboratory Studies upon Insect Pests of South Florida with Particular Reference to Methods of Control. Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1936 1936:123-125.
15293 Report Lobdell, R.N. 1937. Insect Pests and their Control. State Project 87. University of Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Annual Report. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
1652 Book McCann, J.A., L.N. Arkin, and J.D. Williams. 1996. Nonindigenous Aquatic and Selected Terrestrial Species of Florida. Status, Pathways, Dates of Introduction, Range Distributions, and Significant Ecological and Economic Effects. Florida Caribbean Science Center, U S Geological Survey, Gainesville, FL. http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/mctitle.html.
13513 Book McCoid, M.J., and C. Kleberg. 1995. Non-native Reptiles and Amphibians. IN: E. T. LaRoe, G. S. Farris, C. E. Puckett, P. D. Doran, and M. J. Mac (editors). Our Living Resources: A Report to the Nation on the Distribution, Abundance, and Health of U.S. Ecosystems. U S Department of Interior, Natonal Biological Service, Washington, D C.
15654 Book McCranie, J.R., and L.D. Wilson. 2002. The Amphibians of Honduras. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Salt Lake City, UT.
17862 Book McCranie, J.R., J.H. Townsend, and L.D. Wilson. 2006. The amphibians and reptiles of the Honduran Mosquitia. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, FL.
18434 Book Mckeown, S. 1978. Hawaiian Reptiles and Amphibians. Oriental Publishing Company, Honolulu, HI.
12105 Book McKeown, S. 1996. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians in the Hawaiian Islands. Diamond Head Publishing, Inc, Los Osos, CA.
13415 Journal Article Meshaka Jr., W.E., W.F. Loftus, and T. Steiner. 2000. The Herpetofauna of Everglades National Park. Florida Scientist 63(2):84-103.
24040 Journal Article Meshaka, W.E. Jr., B. Ferster, M.L. Meshaka, and M.L. Meshaka. 2008. Exotic species dominance in the herpetofaunal community of a new residential development in southern Florida: implications for faunal turnover rates. Florida Scientist 71(1):65-75.
18015 Journal Article Meshaka, W.E., Jr. 1993. Hurricane Andrew and the Colonization of Five Invading Species in South Florida. Florida Scientist 56(4):193-201.
18029 Journal Article Meshaka, W.E., Jr. 1997. The herpetofauna of Buck Island Ranch: An altered Wetland in South-central Florida. Florida Scientist 60(1):1-7.
18017 Journal Article Meshaka, W.E., Jr. 1999. The Herpetofauna of the Doc Thomas House in South Miami, Florida. Florida Field Naturalist 27(3):121-123.
24038 Journal Article Meshaka, W.E., Jr., and R. Powell. 2010. Diets of the native southern toad (Anaxyrus terrestris) and the exotic cane toad (Rhinella marina) from a single site in South-Central Florida. Florida Scientist 73(2):175-179.
14087 Book Meshaka, W.E., Jr., B.P. Butterfield, and J.B. Hauge. 2004. The Exotic Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. Krieger Publishing Co, Malabar, Florida.
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