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1	Allen, E. R., and D. Swindell. 1948. Cottonmouth moccasin of Florida. Herpetologica 4(Supplement 1):1–15.
2	Allen, E. R., and W. T. Neill. 1950. The cottonmouth moccasin. Florida Wildlife 4(3):8–9, 16.
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., and D. Swindell. 1988. Some like it hot! The cottonmouth moccasin of Florida. Reprinted in League of Florida Herpetological Societies Newsletter (December):11–20.
5	Anonymous. 1991. Roadkill. Florida Department of Natural Resources, Office of Land Use Planning and Biological Services, Resource Management Notes 3(1):2.
6	Bartlett, D. 2002. Notes from the field. The rains came: Payne's Prairie is a study in the extremes of nature. Reptiles Magazine 10(5):22–27.
7	Bennetts, R. E., M. W. Collopy, and S. R. Beissinger. 1988. Nesting ecology of snail kites in Water Conservation Area 3A. Department of Wildlife and Range Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Technical Report No. 31. 174pp.
8	Blair, W. F. 1935. An ecological investigation of the marsh rabbit of the region of Gainesville, Florida. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 67pp.
9	Blair, W. F. 1936. The Florida marsh rabbit. Journal of Mammalogy 17:197–207.
10	Butler, J. 1993. The fate of Hatchling Number 116. Tortoise Burrow, Bulletin of The Gopher Tortoise Council 13(2):6.
11	Butler, J. 1993. The fate of Hatchling Number 116. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Office of Resource Management, Resource Management Notes 5(4):5.
12	Butler, J. A., and S. Sowell. 1995. Survivorship and predation of hatchling and yearling gopher tortoises. Page 27 (abstract) in Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 8–13 August 1995, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA.
13	Butler, J. A., and S. Sowell. 1996. Survivorship and predation of hatchling and yearling gopher tortoises, Gopherus polyphemus. Journal of Herpetology 30:455–458.
14	Carr, A. F., Jr. 1936. The Gulf island cottonmouths. Proceedings of the Florida Academy of Sciences 1:86–90.
15	Carr, A. F., Jr. 1940. A contribution to the herpetology of Florida. University of Florida Publications, Biological Sciences 3:1–118.
16	Carr, A. F., Jr. 1964. Ulendo: travels of a naturalist in and out of Africa. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, USA. 303pp.
17	Carr, A. 1994. The Gulf-island cottonmouths. Pages 225–229 in M. H. Carr, editor. A naturalist in Florida: a celebration of Eden. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, Connecticut, USA.
18	Carter, W. H. 1980. Creatures and chronicles from Cross Creek. Atlantic, Tabor City, North Carolina, USA. 296pp.
19	Cook, D. G. 1982. Cottonmouth activity patterns in northwest Florida. Page 63 (abstract) in Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles and the 30th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, 1–6 August 1982, North Carolina State Museum of Natural History, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
20	Cook, D. G. 1983. Activity patterns of the cottonmouth water moccasin, Agkistrodon piscivorus Lacepede, on a northwest Florida headwater stream. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 88pp.
21	Ellis, L. 1984. Cottonmouth research. Florida Wildlife 38(1):28–30.
22	Frederick, P. C., and M. W. Collopy. 1988. Reproductive ecology of wading birds in relation to water conditions in the Florida Everglades. Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Technical Report No. 30, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 259pp.
23	Gloyd, H. K., and R. Conant. 1990. Snakes of the Agkistrodon complex: a monographic review. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. 614pp.
24	Hayes, A. A. 2000. A little piece of string. Herp Herald, Newsletter of the Gainesville Herpetological Society 17(1):5–6, 12.
25	Heinrich, G., and K. R. Studenroth, Jr. 1996. Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti (Florida cottonmouth). Diet. Herpetological Review 27:22.
26	Hughes, W. 1969. Danger afield. Florida Wildlife 23(5):18–19.
27	Kardong, K. V. 1975. Prey capture in the cottonmouth snake (Agkistrodon piscivorus). Journal of Herpetology 9:169–175.
28	Leavitt, B. B. 1957. Water moccasin preys on pied-billed grebe. Wilson Bulletin 69:112–113.
29	Lillywhite, H. B., C. M. Sheehy, III, and M. D. McCue. 2002. Scavenging behaviors of cottonmouth snakes at island bird rookeries. Herpetological Review 33:259–261.
30	Limbaugh, J. 1989. Off the road, into the field. Gainesville Herpetological Society Newsletter 6(1):16–19.
31	May, P. G., and T. M. Farrell. 1998. Florida's flatwoods cottonmouths: observations of feeding behavior. Reptile & Amphibian Magazine (September–October):18–24.
32	Means, D. B. 1999. Venomous snakes of Florida. Florida Wildlife 53(5):13–20.
33	Meshaka, W. E., Jr. 2001. The Cuban treefrog in Florida: life history of a successful colonizing species. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 191pp.
34	Murphy, J. M. 1987. Alligator shooting in Florida (1899). Pages 353–364 in F. Oppel and T. Meisel, editors. Tales of Old Florida. Castle, Secaucus, New Jersey, USA.
35	Murril[l], W. A. 1927. Hunting cottonmouth moccasins. Outdoor Life 60(6):84.
36	Neill, W. T. 1955. Deadly cottonmouth or harmless water snake? Florida Wildlife 9(2):22–23, 44.
37	Packard, W. 1910. Florida trails as seen from Jacksonville to Key West and from November to April inclusive by Winthrop Packard ... illustrated from photographs by the author and others. Small, Maynard and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 300pp.
38	Palis, J. G. 1993. Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti (Florida cottonmouth). Prey. Herpetological Review 24:59–60.
39	Safford, W. E. 1919. Natural history of Paradise Key and the near-by Everglades of Florida. Pages 377–434 in Smithsonian Report for 1917. [Publication No. 2508, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.]
40	Stubbs, T. 1974. A moccasin may be more than a shoe. Florida Naturalist 47(1):17–20.
41	Stubbs, T. 1979. Moccasin. Florida Naturalist 52(4):2–4.
42	Studenroth, K. R. 1991. Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti (Florida cottonmouth). Feeding behavior. Herpetological Review 22:60.
43	Van Duyn, G. 1936. Snakes are where you find them. Field & Stream 41(6):32–33, 67–69.
44	Wharton, C. H. 1958. The ecology of the cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus Lacepede, of Sea Horse Key, Florida. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 225pp.
45	Wharton, C. H. 1960. Birth and behavior of a brood of cottonmouths, Agkistrodon piscivorus piscivorus with notes on tail-luring. Herpetologica 16:125–129.
46	Wharton, C. H. 1969. The cottonmouth moccasin on Sea Horse Key, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 14:227–272.

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