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1 Allen, E. R., and W. T. Neill. 1952. Skinks and fence lizards. Florida Wildlife 5(8):13, 55–56.
2 Anonymous. 1987. Listing protection proposed for two plants and three animals: two Florida lizards. Endangered Species Technical Bulletin 12(2):6–7.
3 Anonymous. 1999. South Florida multiple-species recovery plan. Prepared for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Southeast Region, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
4 Babbitt, L. H. 1951. Courtship and mating of Eumeces egregius. Copeia 1951:79.
5 Bartlett, R. D. 1995. A stroll on the Lake Wales Ridge. Tropical Fish Hobbyist 43(8):110, 112, 114, 116–118, 120, 126, 128, 131.
6 Bartlett, D. 1999. Notes from the field. The road to Cedar Key: in search of the elusive Cedar Key mole skink. Reptiles Magazine 7(9):10, 12, 14.
7 Bartlett, D. 2002. Notes from the field. Southern shores: a whirlwind tour of Dixie reveals a plethora of herps. Reptiles Magazine 10(12):26, 28, 30–33.
8 Blatchley, W. S. 1902. A nature wooing at Ormond by the Sea. Nature Publishing Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 245pp.
9 Branch, L. C., D. G. Hokit, B. M. Stith, B. W. Bowen, and A. Clark. 1999. Effects of landscape dynamics on endemic scrub lizards: an assessment with molecular genetics and GIS modeling. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission Final Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 88pp.
10 Branch, L. C., and D. G. Hokit. 2000. A comparison of scrub herpetofauna on two central Florida ridges. Florida Scientist 63:108–117.
11 Carr, A. F., Jr. 1940. A contribution to the herpetology of Florida. University of Florida Publications, Biological Sciences 3:1–118.
12 Christman, S. P. 1970. The possible evolutionary history of two Florida skinks. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 33:291–293.
13 Christman, S. P. 1978. Blue-tailed mole skink, Eumeces egregius lividus (Mount). Pages 38–40 in R. W. McDiarmid, editor. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Volume 3. Amphibians and reptiles. University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
14 Christman, S. P. 1978. Cedar Key mole skink, Eumeces egregius insularis (Mount). Pages 57–58 in R. W. McDiarmid, editor. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Volume 3. Amphibians and reptiles. University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
15 Christman, S. P. 1978. Florida Keys mole skink, Eumeces egregius egregius (Baird). Pages 36–38 in R. W. McDiarmid, editor. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Volume 3. Amphibians and reptiles. University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
16 Christman, S. P., R. B. Huck, and E. D. Hardin. 1986. Endemism and Florida's interior sand pine scrub. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Annual Report Project GFC-84-101, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
17 Christman, S. P. 1988. Endemism in Florida's interior sand pine scrub. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Nongame Wildlife Program Final Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 246pp.
18 Christman, S. P. 1992. Bluetail mole skink, Eumeces egregius lividus Mount. Pages 117–122 in P. E. Moler, editor. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Volume III. Amphibians and reptiles. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
19 Christman, S. P. 1992. Cedar Key mole skink, Eumeces egregius insularis Mount. Pages 223–226 in P. E. Moler, editor. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Volume III. Amphibians and reptiles. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
20 Christman, S. P. 1992. Florida Keys mole skink, Eumeces egregius egregius (Baird). Pages 178–180 in P. E. Moler, editor. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Volume III. Amphibians and reptiles. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
21 Clark, A. M. 1998. The skinks of Florida's xeric habitats: phylogeography of Neoseps reynoldsi and Eumeces egregius. Abstract in Proceedings of the 78th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 46th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, 14th Annual Meeting of the American Elasmobranch Society, and the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Herpetologists, 16–22 July 1998, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
22 Cox, J. A., and R. S. Kautz. 2000. Habitat conservation needs of rare and imperiled wildlife in Florida. Office of Environmental Services, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 156pp.
23 Crother, B. I., chair. 2000. Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Herpetological Circular No. 29. 82pp.
24 Davis, G. 1998. Florida's red-tailed skinks. Reptile Hobbyist 3(6):52–56.
25 Dodd, C. K., Jr., and M. L. Griffey. 2002. Remarks on the current status of the non-marine herpetofauna of Egmont Key, Florida. Florida Scientist 65:62–66.
26 Duellman, W. E., and A. Schwartz. 1958. Amphibians and reptiles of southern Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 3:181–324.
27 Franz, R., R. E. Ashton, and W. W. Timmerman. 1995. Behavior and movements of certain small sandhill amphibians and reptiles in response to drift fences. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Nongame Wildlife Program Project Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 92pp.
28 Godwin, J. C. 1992. Geographic distribution: Eumeces egregius onocrepis (peninsula mole skink). Herpetological Review 23:89.
29 Greenberg, C. H. 1993. Effect of high-intensity wildfire and silvicultural treatments on biotic communities of sand pine scrub. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 185pp.
30 Greenberg, C. H., D. G. Neary, and L. D. Harris. 1994. A comparison of herpetofaunal sampling effectiveness of pitfall, single-ended, and double-ended funnel traps used with drift fences. Journal of Herpetology 28:319–324.
31 Greenberg, C. H., D. G. Neary, and L. D. Harris. 1994. Effect of high-intensity wildfire and silvicultural treatments on reptile communities in sand-pine scrub. Conservation Biology 8:1047–1057.
32 Hamilton, W. J., Jr., and J. A. Pollack. 1958. Notes on the life history of the red-tailed skink. Herpetologica 14:25–28.
33 Hingtgen, T. 1995. Vertebrate inventories in District 4. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Resource Management Notes 6(6):3–4.
34 Hipes, D., D. R. Jackson, K. NeSmith, D. Printiss, and K. Brandt. 2001. Field guide to the rare animals of Florida. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
35 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.
36 LeBuff, C. R., Jr. 1960. The presence of certain herptiles in southwest Florida. Herpetologica 16:197–198.
37 Lee, D. S. 1969. Moisture toleration: a possible key to dispersal ability in three fossorial lizards. Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 5:53–56.
38 Lowe, D. W., J. R. Matthews, and C. J. Moseley, editors. 1990. The official World Wildlife Fund guide to endangered species of North America. Beacham, Washington, D.C., USA. 1180pp.
39 Matter, J. M. 1999. Lizards out-of-phase: natural history and reproductive cyclicity in a fossorial skink, Eumeces egregius. Page 159 (abstract) in Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 79th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 15th Annual Meeting of the American Elasmobranch Society, 47th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, and the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 24–30 June 1999, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA.
40 McConkey, E. H. 1957. The subspecies of Eumeces egregius, a lizard of the southeastern United States. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 2:13–23.
41 Meshaka, W. E., Jr., and J. N. Layne. 2002. Herpetofauna of a long-unburned sandhill habitat in south-central Florida. Florida Scientist 65:35–50.
42 Mount, R. H. 1961. The natural history of the red-tailed skink, Eumeces egregius Baird. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 86pp.
43 Mount, R. H. 1963. The natural history of the red-tailed skink, Eumeces egregius Baird. American Midland Naturalist 70:356–385.
44 Mount, R. H. 1965. Variation and systematics of the scincoid lizard, Eumeces egregius (Baird). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 9:183–213.
45 Mount, R. H. 1968. Eumeces egregius (Baird). Mole skink. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 73.1–2.
46 Muller, J. W. 1989. Matrix of habitats and distribution by county of rare/endangered species in Florida. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 91pp.
47 Mushinsky, H. R., and E. D. McCoy. 1995. Vertebrate species composition of selected scrub islands on the Lake Wales Ridge of central Florida. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission Nongame Wildlife Program Project Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 325pp.
48 Mushinsky, H. R., and E. D. McCoy. 1995. Distribution and abundance of two rare skinks in Florida scrub. Abstract in Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologist and Herpetologists, 11th Annual Meeting of the American Elasmobranch Society, and 43rd Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, 15–19 June 1995, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
49 Myers, S. 1983. Geographic distribution: Eumeces egregius onocrepis (peninsula mole skink). Herpetological Review 14:84.
50 Neill, W. T. 1971. The last of the ruling reptiles: alligators, crocodiles, and their kin. Columbia University Press, New York, New York, USA. 486pp.
51 Neill, W. T. 1974. Reptiles and amphibians in the service of man. Pegasus: Division of The Bobbs-Merrill Company, New York, New York, USA. 248pp.
52 Owen, R. D., and R. Franz. 1998. The herpetofaunal assemblage of a unique south-central Florida ecosystem. Abstract in Proceedings of the 78th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 46th Annual Meeting of the Herpetologists' League, 14th Annual Meeting of the American Elasmobranch Society, and the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Herpetologists, 16–22 July 1998, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
53 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.]
54 Schaefer, G. C., and C. E. Roeding. 1973. Evidence for vaginal sperm storage in the mole skink, Eumeces egregius. Copeia 1973:346–347.
55 Smith, C. R. 1977. Food resource partitioning of burrowing sand-pine scrub reptiles. Herpetological Review 8(3, Supplement):17 (abstract).
56 Smith, C. R. 1982. Food resource partitioning of fossorial Florida reptiles. Pages 173–178 in N. J. Scott, editor. Herpetological communities. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wildlife Research Report No. 13.
57 Taylor, E. H. 1935. A taxonomic study of the cosmopolitan scincoid lizards of the genus Eumeces with an account of the distribution and relationships of its species. University of Kansas Scientific Bulletin 23:1–643.
58 Telford, S. R., Jr. 1959. A study of the sand skink Neoseps reynoldsi Stejneger. Copeia 1959:110–119.
59 Telford, S. R., Jr. 1992. Factors affecting the distribution of Neoseps reynoldsi, the sand skink, in Ocala National Forest. Unpublished Report, Ocala National Forest, Silver Springs, Florida.
60 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1993. Recovery plan for the sand skink and blue-tailed mole skink. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 30pp.
61 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.
62 Wilson, L. D., and L. Porras. 1983. The ecological impact of man on the south Florida herpetofauna. University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, Special Publication No. 9, Lawrence, Kansas, USA. 89pp.
63 Witz, B. W., D. S. Wilson, and M. D. Palmer. 1991. Distribution of Gopherus polyphemus and its vertebrate symbionts in three burrow categories. American Midland Naturalist 126:152–158.
64 Wright, A. H. 1935. Some rare amphibians and reptiles of the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 21:340–345.
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