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1	Altig, R., and R. Lohoefener. 1983. Rana areolata Baird and Girard. Crawfish frog. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 324.1–4.
2	Anonymous. n.d. Cross Florida greenbelt state recreation and conservation area management plan. Volume IV. Report on biological issues. Report for Florida Department of Natural Resources and Canal Authority of State of Florida, University Planning Team, Department Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 163pp.
3	Anonymous. 1987. Concerns being raised over development. Tortoise Burrow, Bulletin of the Gopher Tortoise Council 7(25):3.
4	Anonymous. 1989. Gopher frog. Florida Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Science and Technical Services 1(1):3.
5	Anonymous. 1991. Declining amphibians need study. Florida Department of Natural Resources, Office of Land Use Planning and Biological Services, Resource Management Notes 3(2):11.
6	Anonymous. 1991. Toads on roads. Florida Department of Natural Resources, Office of Land Use Planning and Biological Services, Resource Management Notes 3(1):2–3.
7	Anonymous. 1992. Dusky gopher frog, American chaffseed proposed for federal listing. Florida Department of Natural Resources, Office of Land Use Planning and Biological Services, Resource Management Notes 4(1):15.
8	Barbour, T. 1920. Herpetological notes from Florida. Copeia 1920:55–57.
9	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.
10	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.
11	Beever, J. W., III. 1992. The Cedar Point Site, western Charlotte County, Florida: a wildlife survey and management plan. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Office of Environmental Services, Southwest Florida Field Office, Punta Gorda, Florida, USA. 84pp.
12	Blair, W. F., and J. D. Kilby. 1936. The gopher mouse–Peromyscus floridanus. Journal of Mammalogy 17:421–422.
13	Blair, F. W. 1951. Interbreeding of natural populations of vertebrates. American Naturalist 85:9–30.
14	Blatchley, W. S. 1902. A nature wooing at Ormond by the Sea. Nature Publishing Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 245pp.
15	Blihovde, W. B. 1999. Love thy neighbor: gopher frog (Rana capito) site fidelity at gopher tortoise burrows. 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.
16	Blihovde, W. B. 2000. Gopher frog (Rana capito) site fidelity at gopher tortoise burrows. Tortoise Burrow, Bulletin of the Gopher Tortoise Council 20(1):4 (abstract).
17	Blihovde, W. B. 2000. Rana capito aesopus (Florida gopher frog). Ectoparasites. Herpetological Review 31:101.
18	Blihovde, W. B. 2000. Terrestrial behavior of the Florida gopher frog (Rana capito aesopus). M.S. Thesis, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA. 85pp.
19	Blihovde, W. B., and L. M. Ehrhart. 2000. Predicting Florida gopher frog (Rana capito aesopus) movements using logistic regression. Page 87 (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.
20	Branch, L. C., D. G. Hokit, and B. M. Stith. 1996. Landscape dynamics and scrub lizards: assessing the effects of landscape structure on populations at multiple scales. Final Report to U.S. Department of the Interior, Biological Resources Division, Cooperative Research Units for RWO 122, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 204pp.
21	Branch, L. C., and D. G. Hokit. 2000. A comparison of scrub herpetofauna on two central Florida ridges. Florida Scientist 63:108–117.
22	Breininger, D. R., M. J. Barkaszi, R. B. Smith, D. M. Oddy, and J. A. Provancha. 1994. Endangered and potentially endangered wildlife on John F. Kennedy Space Center and faunal integrity as a goal for maintaining biological diversity. NASA Technical Memorandum 109204, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. 451pp.
23	Breininger, D. R., M. J. Barkaszi, R. B. Smith, D. M. Oddy, and J. A. Provancha. 1998. Prioritizing wildlife taxa for biological diversity conservation at the local scale. Environmental Management 22:315–321.
24	Campbell, T. S. 1990. The gopher frogs of Florida (Rana areolata). League of Florida Herpetological Societies Newsletter (February):13–14.
25	Carr, A. F., Jr. 1940. A contribution to the herpetology of Florida. University of Florida Publications, Biological Sciences 3:1–118.
26	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.
27	Cronin, J. T., and J. Travis. 1986. Size-limited predation on larval Rana areolata (Anura: Ranidae) by two species of backswimmer (Hemiptera: Notonectidae). Herpetologica 42:171–174.
28	Deckert, R. F. 1914. Further notes on the Salientia of Jacksonville, Florida. Copeia 1914(5):2–4.
29	Delis, P. 1993. Effects of urbanization on the community of anurans of a pine flatwood habitat in west central Florida. M.S. Thesis, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA. 47pp.
30	Delis, P. R., H. R. Mushinsky, and E. D. McCoy. 1996. Decline of some west-central Florida anuran populations in response to habitat degradation. Biodiversity and Conservation 5:1579–1595.
31	Dodd, C. K., Jr. 1997. Imperiled amphibians: a historical perspective. Pages 159–196 in G. W. Benz and D. E. Collins, editors. Aquatic fauna in peril: the southeastern perspective. Special Publication 1, Southeast Aquatic Research Institute, Lenz Design & Communications, Decatur, Georgia, USA.
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	Eisenberg, J. 1983. The gopher tortoise as a keystone species. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Gopher Tortoise Council 4:1–4.
34	Enge, K. 1993. Field notes: Florida gopher frog (Rana capito aesopus). Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, The Skimmer 9(1):6.
35	Enge, K. M., and N. J. Douglass. 2000. Easement Documentation Report (Volume II: vertebrate surveys) for Fisheating Creek Ecosystem–Phase I, Glades County, Florida. Prepared for the Conservation and Recreational Lands Program and the Division of State Lands, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 72pp.
36	Enge, K. M., and K. N. Wood. 1999–2000. A herpetofaunal survey of Chassahowitzka Wildlife Management Area, Hernando County, Florida. Herpetological Natural History 7:117–144.
37	Enge, K. M., and K. N. Wood. 2001. Herpetofauna of Chinsegut Nature Center, Hernando County, Florida. Florida Scientist 64:283–305.
38	Feliciano, S. L. 2000. A comparison of two northern cricket frog (Acris crepitans) populations and their habitats during drought conditions in southeastern New York and the Florida Panhandle. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 73pp.
39	Fernald, R. T. 1989. Coastal xeric scrub communities of the Treasure Coast Region, Florida: a summary of their distribution and ecology, with guidelines for their preservation and management. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Nongame Wildlife Program Technical Report No. 6, Tallhassee, Florida, USA. 113pp.
40	Fogarty, M. J. 1978. Florida gopher frog, Rana areolata aesopus (Cope). Pages 5–6 in R. W. McDiarmid, editor. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Volume 3. Amphibians and reptiles. University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
41	Franz, R. 1986. The Florida gopher frog and the Florida pine snake as burrow associates of the gopher tortoise in northern Florida. Pages 16–20 in Proceedings of the 5th Annual Meeting of the Gopher Tortoise Council, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
42	Franz, R., C. K. Dodd, Jr., and C. Jones. 1988. Rana areolata aesopus (Florida gopher frog). Movement. Herpetological Review 19:33.
43	Franz, R., D. Maehr, A. Kinlaw, C. O'Brien, and R. D. Owen. 1998. Avon Park Air Force Range Project: distribution and abundance of sensitive wildlife species at Avon Park Air Force Range. Final Report, Project RWO-169. 90pp.
44	Franz, R., and L. L. Smith. 1999. Distribution of the striped newt and Florida gopher frog in peninsular Florida. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Final Report, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 46pp.
45	Gassett, J. W., K. L. Johannsen, K. A. Dasher, and K. V. Miller. 1998. Remote monitoring of herpetofauna in armadillo and gopher tortoise burrows in the Florida Panhandle. Page 25 (abstract) in R. A. Moranz, J. L. Hardesty, and K. Maute, compilers. Research report, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, 1998: a compilation of inventory, monitoring and research conducted in support of ecosystem management. The Nature Conservancy, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
46	Gentry, J. B., and M. H. Smith. 1968. Food habits and burrow associates of Peromyscus polionotus. Journal of Mammalogy 49:562–565.
47	Godley, J. S. 1992. Gopher frog, Rana capito Le Conte. Pages 15–19 in P. E. Moler, editor. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Volume III. Amphibians and reptiles. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
48	Goin, C. J., and M. G. Netting. 1940. A new gopher frog from the Gulf Coast, with comments upon the Rana areolata group. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 28:137–169.
49	Greenberg, C. H. 2001. Spatio-temporal dynamics of pond use and recruitment in Florida gopher frogs (Rana capito aesopus). Journal of Herpetology 35:74–85.
50	Hallinan, T. 1923. Observations made in Duval County, northern Florida, on the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus). Copeia 1923:11–20.
51	Hardesty, J. L., and C. Kindell. 1997. Conserving ecosystems at Eglin AFB. Endangered Species Bulletin 22(1):8–9.
52	Harper, F. 1935. The name of the gopher frog. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 48:79–82.
53	Hay Smith, L. 1991. The Nature Conservancy purchases four upland tracts. Tortoise Burrow, Bulletin of The Gopher Tortoise Council 11(3):7.
54	Hendry, L. C., T. M. Goodwin, and R. F. Labisky. 1982. Florida's vanishing wildlife. Revised edition. Florida Cooperative Extension Service No. 485, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 69pp.
55	Hipes, D. L., and D. R. Jackson. 1996. Rare vertebrate fauna of Camp Blanding Training Site, a potential landscape linkage in northeastern Florida. Florida Scientist 59:96–114.
56	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.
57	Holman, J. A. 1958. Notes on reptiles and amphibians from Florida caves. Herpetologica 14:179–180.
58	Hubbard, H. G. 1893. The Florida land tortoise-gopher, Gopherus polyphemus. Science 22:57–58.
59	Jensen, J. B. 1994. Geographic distribution: Rana capito sevosa (dusky gopher frog). Herpetological Review 25:161.
60	Jensen, J. B., J. G. Palis, and M. A. Bailey. 1995. Rana capito sevosa (dusky gopher frog). Submerged vocalization. Herpetological Review 26:98.
61	Jensen, J. B. 2000. Rana capito (gopher frog). Predation. Herpetological Review 3:42.
62	Kent, D. M., and E. Snell. 1994. Vertebrates associated with gopher tortoise burrows in Orange County, Florida. Florida Field Naturalist 22:8–10.
63	Kent, D. M., M. A. Langston, and D. W. Hanf. 1997. Observations of vertebrates associated with gopher burrows in Orange County, Florida. Florida Scientist 60:197–201.
64	LaClaire, L. V., and R. Franz. 1990. Importance of isolated wetlands in upland landscapes. Pages 9–15 in M. Kelly, editor. Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Florida Lake Management Society, Winter Haven, Florida, USA.
65	LaClaire, L. V. 1997. Amphibians in peril: resource management in the Southeast. Pages 307–338 in G. W. Benz and D. E. Collins, editors. Aquatic fauna in peril: the southeastern perspective. Special Publication 1, Southeast Aquatic Research Institute, Lenz Design & Communications, Decatur, Georgia, USA.
66	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.
67	Lee, D. S. 1973. Notes on an unique population of gopher frogs, Rana areolata, from central Florida. Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 9:1–5.
68	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.
69	Mazzotti, F. J., and M. E. Hudson Kelley. 2001. Wildlife in danger of extinction: south Florida. Fact Sheet WEC-127 [SS-WIS-07], Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 22pp.
70	Means, D. B. 1976. Survey of the status of amphibians and reptiles of the Ocala National Forest, Florida. Unpublished Report to the U.S. Forest Service. 43pp.
71	Means, D. B. 1976. Survey of the status of amphibians and reptiles of the Apalachicola National Forest, Florida. Unpublished Report to the U.S. Forest Service. 58pp.
72	Means, D. B., and G. O. Grow. 1985. The endangered longleaf pine community. ENFO (Florida Conservation Foundation) 85(4):1–12.
73	Means, D. B., and D. Printiss. 1996. Use of a temporary pond by amphibians and reptiles in the Munson Sandhills of the Apalachicola National Forest with special emphasis on the striped newt and gopher frog, Year 1: September 1995–September 1996. Final Report to the U.S. Forest Service, National Forests in Florida, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 38pp.
74	Means, D. B., and R. C. Means. 1997. Use of a temporary pond by amphibians and reptiles in the Munson Sandhills of the Apalachicola National Forest with special emphasis on the striped newt and gopher frog, Year 2: September 1996–September 1997. Final Report to the U.S. Forest Service, National Forests in Florida, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 23pp.
75	Means, D. B., and R. C. Means. 1998. Distribution of the striped newt (Notophthalmus perstriatus) and gopher frog (Rana capito) in the Munson Sand Hills of the Florida Panhandle. Final Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. 42pp.
76	Means, D. B., and R. C. Means. 1998. Red Hills survey for breeding pond habitat of the flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum), gopher frog (Rana capito), and striped newt (Notophthalmus perstriatus) in the Tallahassee Red Hills of Leon, Gadsden, and Jefferson counties, Florida, and the Tifton Uplands of Thomas and Grady counties, Georgia. Final Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. 23pp.
77	Means, D. B. 1999. The effects of highway mortality on four species of amphibians at a small, temporary pond in northern Florida. Pages 125–128 in G. Evink, P. Garrett, and D. Zeigler, editors. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Wildlife Ecology and Transportation. FL-ER-73-99, Florida Department of Transportation, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
78	Means, R. C., and D. B. Means. 2000. Effects of sand pine silviculture on pond-breeding amphibians in north Florida. Page 320 (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.
79	Means, D. B., and T. C. Means. 2003. Effects of sand pine silviculture on pond-breeding amphibians in the Woodville Karst Plain of North Florida. Pages 7–8 (abstract) in Gopher Tortoise Council 25th Anniversary Meeting, 3–5 October 2003, Wekiwa Springs State Park, Apopka, Florida, USA.
80	Moler, P. E. 1983. Winter serenade. Florida Wildlife 36(5):18–23.
81	Moler, P. E. 1990. Delicate balance: gopher frog (Rana areolata). Florida Wildlife 44(3):9.
82	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.
83	Muller, J. W., G. R. Knight, S. R. Telford, Jr., and P. M. Sheridan. 1991. Biological inventory of the Cross Florida Greenbelt State Recreation and Conservation Area: survey for occurrences of rare plants and animals and exemplary natural communities. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 136pp.
84	Nickerson, M. A., and S. Feliciano Celino. 2003. Rana capito (gopher frog). Drought shelter. Herpetological Review 34:137–138.
85	Palis, J. 1995. Winter chorus. Florida Wildlife 49(1):12–14.
86	Palis, J. G., and J. B. Jensen. 1995. Distribution and breeding biology of the flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum) and gopher frog (Rana capito) on Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Final report. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 32pp.
87	Palis, J. G., and R. A. Fischer. 1997. Species profile: gopher frog (Rana capito spp.) on military installations in the southeastern United States. Technical Report SERDP-97-5, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA. 20pp.
88	Palis, J. G., J. B. Jensen, and D. R. Jackson. 1998. Survey of gopher frogs (Rana capito) and flatwoods salamanders (Ambystoma cingulatum). Page 45 (abstract) in R. A. Moranz, J. L. Hardesty, and K. Maute, compilers. Research report, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, 1998: a compilation of inventory, monitoring and research conducted in support of ecosystem management. The Nature Conservancy, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
89	Palis, J. G. 1998. Breeding biology of the gopher frog, Rana capito, in western Florida. Journal of Herpetology 32:217–223.
90	Printiss, D. 1998. FNAI surveys. Tortoise Burrow, Bulletin of the Gopher Tortoise Council 18(2):4–5.
91	Printiss, D., and D. Hipes. 1999. Rare amphibian and reptile survey of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Final Report, Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 57pp.
92	Printiss, D., and D. Hipes. 2001. Inventory and management considerations of amphibians and reptiles on the Sumatra Tract, Tate's Hell State Forest, Florida. Final Report to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Forestry. Florida Natural Areas Inventory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 40pp.
93	Schmalzer, P. A., S. R. Boyle, and H. M. Swain. 1999. Scrub ecosystems of Brevard County, Florida: a regional characterization. Florida Scientist 62:13–47.
94	Smith, M. H. 1966. The evolutionary significance of certain behavioral, physiological, and morphological adaptations of the old-field mouse, Peromyscus polionotus. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 187pp.
95	Stevenson, J. A. 1996. Florida's ecosystem management and wildlife In G. L. Evink, P. Garrett, D. Zeigler, and J. Berry, editors. Trends in addressing transportation related wildlife mortality. Proceedings of the transportation related wildlife mortality seminar. FL-ER-58-96, Florida Department of Transportation, Tallahassee, Florida.
96	Telford, S. R., Jr. 1993. Breeding sites for the gopher frog and the striped newt in Ocala National Forest, and the discovery of a possibly undescribed species of frog apparently restricted to the forest. Unpublished Report, Ocala National Forest, Silver Springs, Florida, USA. 13pp.
97	Test, F. C. 1893. The "gopher frog." Science 22:75.
98	Travis, J., W. H. Keen, and J. Juilianna. 1985. The role of relative body size in a predator-prey relationship between dragonfly naiads and larval anurans. Oikos 45:59–65.
99	Van Hyning, T. 1923. A collecting note on Florida batrachians. Copeia 1923:68.
100	Wallace, D. G., M.-C. King, and A. C. Wilson. 1973. Albumin differences among ranid amphibians: taxonomic and phylogenetic implications. Systematic Zoology 22:1–13.
101	Walls, J. G. 2000. Crawfish and gopher frogs: the burrow frogs. Reptile & Amphibian Hobbyist 6(3):39–43.
102	Wood, K. N. 1995. Geographic distribution: Rana capito aesopus (Florida gopher frog). Herpetological Review 26:42.
103	Young, J. E., and B. I. Crother. 2001. Allozyme evidence for the separation of Rana areolata and Rana capito and for the resurrection of Rana sevosa. Copeia 2001:382–388.

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