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1	Allen, E. R. 1948. The truth about turtles. Florida Wildlife 1(9):6–7, 17.
2	Allen, E. R., and W. T. Neill. 1953. The Florida soft-shelled turtle. Florida Wildlife 7(3):4–5.
3	Allen, R. 1969. Why save the alligator. Presented to Conservation 70s Inc. Environmental Legislative Workshop, Panel No. 4, Wildlife Resources, Homosassa Springs, Florida, USA. 5pp. [Printed by International Crocodilian Society, Silver Springs, Florida, USA.]
4	Allen, E. R. 1980. Large Florida softshell turtles, Trionyx ferox measurements and weights as taken July 10, 1979. Indigo, News Bulletin of the Florida Herpetological Society 1:104–106.
5	Allen, E. R. 1982. Trionyx ferox (Florida softshell). Size. Herpetological Review 13:49.
6	Anonymous. 2000. Turtle harvesting banned for season. Reprinted in League of Florida Herpetological Societies Newsletter (June):22.
7	Aresco, M. J. 2001. Population status, community composition, and drought-related movements of turtles in a north Florida lake. Page 42 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Joint Annual Meetings of the Herpetologists' League and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 27–31 July 2001, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
8	Aresco, M. J. 2001. Population structure, abundance, and community composition of turtles at Lake Jackson: implications for management and lake food webs. Pages 105–106 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Florida Lake Management Society Twelfth Annual Conference, 21–24 May 2001, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
9	Aresco, M. J., M. Gunzburger, and J. Travis. 2002. Geographic distribution: Apalone ferox (Florida softshell). Herpetological Review 33:320.
10	Aresco, M. J. 2002. Surviving drought: Lake Jackson's turtles. Florida Wildlife 56(2):26–28.
11	Ashton, K. G., and J. E. Carlson. 2003. Apalone ferox (Florida softshell turtle). Movement behavior. Herpetological Review 34:138.
12	Atkins, S., and J. MacMahon. 1967. The Zabski site, Merritt Island, Florida. Florida Anthropologist 20:133–145.
13	Bancroft, G. T., J. S. Godley, D. T. Gross, N. N. Rojas, D. A. Sutphen and R. W. McDiarmid. 1983. Large-scale operations management test of use of the white amur for control of problem aquatic plants. The herpetofauna of Lake Conway: species accounts. Final report. Miscellaneous Paper A-83-5, U.S. Army Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, CE, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA. 304pp.
14	Barbour, T. 1944. The Florida ditches. The Atlantic 174(2):99–102.
15	Bartlett, P., and D. Bartlett. 1999. The American softshell turtles: graceful denizens of rivers and lakes. Reptiles Magazine 7(6):10–14, 16.
16	Bartram, W. 1791. Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws; containing, an account of the soil and natural productions of those regions, together with observations on the manners of the Indians. James & Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 522pp. Bartram, W. 1947. The travels of William Bartram [edited by Mark van Doren]. Dover, New York, New York, USA. 414pp.
17	Bartram, J., and W. Bartram. 1957. John and William Bartram's America: selections from the writings of the Philadelphia naturalists. [Edited with an introduction by H. G. Cruickshank.] Devin-Adair Company, New York, New York, USA. 418pp.
18	Beissinger, S. R. 1990. Alternative foods of a diet specialist, the snail kite. Auk 107:327–333.
19	Blatchley, W. S. 1932. In days agone: notes on the fauna and flora of subtropical Florida in the days when most of its area was a primeval wilderness. Nature Publishing Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 338pp.
20	Brown, R. C. 1988. Florida's fossils: guide to location, identification and enjoyment. Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, USA. 208pp.
21	Buck, S. V. 1997. Florida's herp trade: a collector's paradise...and a land exploited. Reptile & Amphibian Magazine (January–February):72–81.
22	Carr, A. 1994. Triple clutchers. Pages 220–224 in M. H. Carr, editor. A naturalist in Florida: a celebration of Eden. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, Connecticut, USA.
23	Carter, W. H. 1981. Nature's masterpiece at Homosassa: where the saltgrass joins the sawgrass. Atlantic, Tabor City, North Carolina, USA. 288pp.
24	Conrad, T. A. 1835. Notices of the geology of West Florida. Croom's letter on the soft shell turtle (Trionyx ferox). Advocate of Science and Annals of Natural History 1(March):375.
25	Cox, J. 1989. Creatures of the deep. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, The Skimmer 5(4):1, 7.
26	Crenshaw, J. W., Jr., and M. N. Hopkins, Jr. 1955. The relationships of the soft-shelled turtles Trionyx ferox ferox and Trionyx ferox aspera. Copeia 1955:13–23.
27	Dalrymple, G. H. 1977. Intraspecific variation in the cranial feeding mechanism of turtles of the genus Trionyx (Reptilia, Testudines, Trionychidae). Journal of Herpetology 11:255–285.
28	Dampier, L. 1999. American softshells. Part 1: Hawaiian, Florida & smooth softies. Reptile & Amphibian Hobbyist 4(9):24–26, 28–30.
29	de Castelnau, C. 1948. Essay on Middle Florida, 1837–1838 [Essai sur la Floride du Milieu; translated by A. R. Seymour]. Florida Historical Quarterly 26:199–255.
30	Delany, M. F., S. B. Linda, and C. T. Moore. 1999. Diet and condition of American alligators in 4 Florida Lakes. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 53:375–389.
31	Dominey, W. J. 1983. Mobbing in colonially nesting fishes, especially the bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus. Copeia 1983:1086–1088.
32	Duellman, W. E., and A. Schwartz. 1958. Amphibians and reptiles of southern Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 3:181–324.
33	Dunaway, D. 1983. Catch a cooter, any way you can. Florida Sportsman 14(7):78–80.
34	Dunson, W. A., and F. J. Mazzotti. 1989. Salinity as a limiting factor in the distribution of reptiles in Florida Bay: a theory for the estuarine origin of marine snakes and turtles. Bulletin of Marine Science 44:229–244.
35	Enge, K. M. 1991. Herptile exploitation. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Nongame Wildlife Section Annual Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 55pp.
36	Enge, K. M. 1993. Herptile use and trade in Florida. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Nongame Wildlife Program Final Performance Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 102pp.
37	Enge, K. M. 1994. Florida's commercial trade in native turtles. Abstract in a symposium on the status and conservation of Florida turtles, 2–3 April 1994, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
38	Enge, K. M. 2000. Florida's program to collect information on the trade in native herpetofauna. Page 145 (abstract) in Joint Meeting of the 80th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 16th Annual Meeting of the American Elasmobranch Society, Neotropical Ichthyological Association, 48th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, Canadian Association of Herpetologists, and the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; 14-20 June 2000, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
39	Enge, K. M., H. F. Percival, K. G. Rice, M. L. Jennings, G. R. Masson, and A. R. Woodward. 2000. Summer nesting of turtles in alligator nests in Florida. Journal of Herpetology 34:497–503.
40	Ewert, M. A., and D. R. Jackson. 1994. Nesting ecology of the alligator snapping turtle (Macroclemys temminckii) along the lower Apalachicola River, Florida. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Nongame Wildlife Program Final Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 45pp.
41	Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. 1992. 1991–92 annual report. Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 20pp.
42	Foster, M. L., and S. R. Humphrey. 1992. Effectiveness of wildlife crossings in reducing animal/auto collisions on Interstate 75, Big Cypress Swamp, Florida. Prepared for Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 124pp.
43	Foster, G. W., J. M. Kinsella, P. E. Moler, L. M. Johnson, and D. J. Forrester. 1998. Parasites of Florida softshell turtles (Apalone ferox) from southeastern Florida. Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington 65:62–64.
44	Giovanetto, L. A. 1992. Population ecology and relative abundance of sympatric freshwater turtles in the headwaters of two spring-fed rivers in western peninsular Florida. Dissertation, Florida Institute of Technology, Orlando, Florida, USA. 106pp.
45	Goff, C. C., and D. S. Goff. 1935. On the incubation of a clutch of eggs of Amyda ferox (Schneider). Copeia 1935:156.
46	Hamilton, W. J., Jr. 1941. Notes on some mammals of Lee County, Florida. American Midland Naturalist 25:686–691.
47	Hamilton, W. J., Jr. 1947. Egg laying of Trionyx ferox. Copeia 1947(3):209.
48	Hansen, K. L., and D. E. Sweat. 1962. Spermiation in Rana p. pipiens in response to heteroplastic pituitary materials. Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 25:109–120.
49	Harcourt, H. 1889. Home life in Florida. John P. Morton and Company, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. 433pp.
50	Hartmann, T. 1988. Florida herps: the Florida softshell turtle, Trionyx ferox. League of Florida Herpetological Societies Newsletter (November):17–19.
51	Heinrich, G., and D. E. Richardson. 1993. Apalone ferox (Florida softshell). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 24:31.
52	Holman, J. A. 1996. The large Pleistocene (Sangamonian) herpetofauna of the Williston IIIA Site, north-central Florida. Herpetological Natural History 4:35–47.
53	Hulbert, R. C., and G. S. Morgan. 1989. Stratigraphy, paleoecology, and vertebrate fauna of the Leisley Shell Pit local fauna, early Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) of southwestern Florida. Paper of the Florida Paleontologist No. 2. 19pp.
54	Hunziker, R. 1995. Focus on the Florida softshell. Reptile Hobbyist 1(1):14, 16, 18.
55	Hutt, A. 1969. Florida softshell turtle. Florida Wildlife 23(6):10–12.
56	Iverson, J. B. 1985. Reproduction in the Florida softshell turtle, Trionyx ferox. Florida Scientist 48:41–44.
57	Iverson, J. B., and P. E. Moler. 1997. The female reproductive cycle of the Florida softshell turtle (Apalone ferox). Journal of Herpetology 31:399–409.
58	Jackson, D. R. 1991. Trionyx ferox (Florida softshell). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 22:56.
59	Jackson, D. R. 2002. Survey of an important distributional gap in the Florida range of the river cooter and other freshwater turtles. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Final Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 27pp.
60	Kellogg, R. 1929. The habits and economic importance of alligators. U.S. Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin No. 147, Washington, D.C. 36pp.
61	Knight, C. F. 1871. Remarks on the Florida turtles. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 14:16–18.
62	Koschmann, G. 1966. Turtles and the Everglades water problem. International Turtle & Tortoise Society Journal 1(1):21–22, 36, 47.
63	Koschmann, G. 1967. A softshell comes to life. International Turtle & Tortoise Society Journal 1(6):9.
64	Lardie, R L. 1973. Notes on eggs and young of Trionyx ferox (Schneider). Journal of Herpetology 7:377–378.
65	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. U.S. Department of Commerce, National Technical Information Services PB-278 456, Volume 1. 643pp.
66	LeConte, J. 1854. Notice of American animals, formerly known, but now forgotten or lost. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7:8–14.
67	Lettino, B. 1980. Cooter, catfish & quail. Florida Sportsman 11(8):50–54.
68	Lewis, T. E., and K. J. Irwin. 2001. Geographic distribution: Macrochelys temminckii (alligator snapping turtle). Herpetological Review 32:274.
69	Line, L. 1998. Fast decline of slow species. National Wildlife 36(6):22–31.
70	Loennberg, E. 1894. Notes on reptiles and batrachians collected in Florida in 1892 and 1893. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 17:317–339.
71	Low, J. 1992. Softshells: aquatic pioneers of the turtle tribe. Reptile & Amphibian Magazine (January–February):18–23.
72	Magee, D. R. 1980. Two record-sized Trionyx ferox from northeastern Florida. Indigo, News Bulletin of the Florida Herpetological Society 1:4.
73	Marchand, L. J. 1942. A contribution to the knowledge of the natural history of certain freshwater turtles. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 113pp.
74	McNair, D. B. 2000. Fish crow predation on eggs being laid by a Florida softshell turtle. Oriole 65:12–13.
75	Meylan, P. A. 1987. The phylogenetic relationships of soft-shelled turtles (family Trionychidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 186:1–101.
76	Meylan, P. A. 1995. Pleistocene amphibians and reptiles from the Leisley Shell Pits, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37 Part I:273–297.
77	Meylan, P. A., W. A. Auffenberg, and R. C. Hurlbert. 2001. Reptilia 1: turtles and tortoises. Pages 118–136 in R. C. Hurlbert, editor. The fossil vertebrates of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
78	Meylan, P. A., R. Schuler, and P. E. Moler. 2002. Spermatogenic cycle of the Florida softshell, Apalone ferox. Copeia 2002:779–786.
79	Moler, P. E. 1992. Impact of commercial exploitation on softshell turtle populations (feasibility study). Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Statewide Wildlife Research Final Performance Report Study No. 7541, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 32pp.
80	Moler, P. E., and M. B. Epstein. 1994. Apalone ferox (Florida softshell). Diet. Herpetological Review 25:23.
81	Moler, P. E., and J. E. Berish. 1995. Impact of commercial exploitation on softshell turtle populations. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission Final Report Study No. 7542, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 18pp.
82	Moody, H. L. 1957. A fisheries study of Lake Panasoffkee, Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 20:21–88.
83	Neill, W. T. 1951. The taxonomy of North American soft-shelled turtles, genus Amyda. Ross Allen's Reptile Institute, Publication of the Research Division 1:7–24, Silver Springs, Florida, USA.
84	Neill, W. T., H. J. Gut, and P. Brodkorb. 1956. Animal remains from four preceramic sites in Florida. American Antiquity 21:383–395.
85	Nicol, E. 1991. An introduction to: life with turtles. Mid-Florida, Ocala, Florida, USA. 125pp.
86	Norris, D. 1974. The Florida softshell. Florida Wildlife 28(5):24–26.
87	Pearson, D. W. 1994. Turtle conservation symposium generates conservation funds and turtle protection pleas. Gainesville Herpetological Society Newsletter 11(2):17–19.
88	Pritchard, P. C. H. 1980. Record size turtles from Florida and South Amerika [sic]. Chelonologica 1(3):113–123.
89	Pritchard, P. C. H. 1994. Overview of Florida turtles. Abstract in a symposium on the status and conservation of Florida turtles, 2–3 April 1994, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
90	Pritchard, P. C. H. 1999. Overview of the status of Florida turtles (take a thousand anecdotes and soon you have some real data). Abstract in G. L. Heinrich and P. A. Meylan, coordinators. A Second Symposium on the Status and Conservation of Florida Turtles and the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Gopher Tortoise Council, 8–11 October 1999, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
91	Pritchard, P. C. H. 2001. Observations on body size, sympatry, and niche divergence in softshell turtles (Trionychidae). Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4:5–27.
92	Reason, B., and D. Reason, editors. 1996. Turtle of the month: Florida soft-shell turtle (Apalone ferox formerly Trionyx). Rephibrary No. 26:13.
93	Robinson, G. B., S. C. Robinson, and J. Lane. 1996. Discover a watershed: the Everglades. The Watercourse, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA. 278pp.
94	Roman, J. 1999. From Bourbon Street to the sushi bar: molecular investigations of the wildlife trade. Abstract in G. L. Heinrich and P. A. Meylan, coordinators. A Second Symposium on the Status and Conservation of Florida Turtles and the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Gopher Tortoise Council, 8–11 October 1999, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
95	Roman, J., and B. W. Bowen. 2000. The mock turtle syndrome: genetic identification of turtle meat purchased in the southeastern United States of America. Animal Conservation 3:61–65.
96	Schwartz, A. 1956. The relationships and nomenclature of the soft-shelled turtles (genus Trionyx) of the southeastern United States. Charleston Museum Leaflet No. 26. 21pp.
97	Shotts, E. B., Jr., J. L. Gaines, Jr., L. Martin, and A. K. Prestwood. 1972. Aeromonas-induced deaths among fish and reptiles in an eutrophic inland lake. Journal of the American Veterinary Medicine Association 161:603–607.
98	Smith, G. 1967. The softshell turtle. Florida Wildlife 21(2):13.
99	Smith, L. L. 1999. The role of the Paynes Prairie Wildlife Coalition in the conservation of Florida turtles. Abstract in G. L. Heinrich and P. A. Meylan, coordinators. A Second Symposium on the Status and Conservation of Florida Turtles and the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Gopher Tortoise Council, 8–11 October 1999, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
100	Smith, L. L., and C. K. Dodd, Jr. 2003. Wildlife mortality on U.S. Highway 441 across Paynes Prairie, Alachua County, Florida. Florida Scientist 66:128–140.
101	Stamm, D. 1994. The springs of Florida. Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, USA. 112pp.
102	Stejneger, L. 1944. Notes on the American soft-shell turtles with special reference to Amyda agassizii. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 94:1–75.
103	Stunkard, H. W. 1924. On some trematodes from Florida turtles. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 43:97–113.
104	Ware, F. J., H. Royals, and T. Lange. 1990. Mercury contamination in Florida largemouth bass. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 44:5–12.
105	Webb, R. G. 1962. North American recent soft-shelled turtle (Family Trionychidae). Publication of the Kansas Museum of Natural History 13:429–611.
106	Webb, R. G. 1973. Trionyx ferox (Schneider). Florida softshell turtle. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 138.1–3.
107	White, C. P. 1986. Designed for survival—freshwater turtles. National Geographic Magazine 169:40–59.
108	Willoughby, H. L. 1898. Across the Everglades: a canoe journey of exploration, by Hugh L. Willoughby. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. 192pp.
109	Wing, E. S. 1975. Prehistoric use of animal resources in Florida. Florida State Museum, The Plaster Jacket No. 24:1–18.
110	Wisenbaker, M. 2000. Sanctuary in the sand. Florida Wildlife 54(1):7–9.
111	Woodin, M. C., and C. D. Woodin. 1981. Everglade kite predation on a soft-shelled turtle. Florida Field Naturalist 9(4):64.
112	Zug, G. R. 1963. Male genitalia in the systematics of turtles. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 39pp.

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