Reference Type	Author	Year	Title	Secondary Author	Secondary Title	Place Published	Publisher	Volume	Number	Pages	Keywords	Abstract	Author Address
Journal Article	Abate, Ardi	1997	An oddyssy from caimans to chameleons		Vivarium			8	6	76-77			
Journal Article	Abate, Ardi	1997	Tips on acquiring a chameleon		Vivarium			9	1	44-45			
Journal Article	Abdala, Fernando;Lobo, F.;Scrocchi, G.	1997	Patterns of ossification in the skeleton of Liolaemus quilmes (Iguania: Tropiduridae)		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	1	75-83	Liolaemus quilmes; Ossification		
Journal Article	Abensperg-Traun, Max;Steven, Dion	1997	Ant- and termite-eating in Australian mammals and lizards: a comparison		Australian Journal of Ecology			22		9-17			
Journal Article	Ackerman, R.A.	1997	The nest environment and the embryonic development of sea turtles		The Biology of Sea Turtles					83-106	loggerhead; hawksbill/tsd		
Journal Article	Acosta, Juan Carlos;Murúa, Fernando	1997	Geographic Distribution. Liolaemus pseudoanomalus		Herpetological Review			28	1	50			
Journal Article	Adam, Wolfgang	1997	Ein einfacher Ikubator für Schlangeneier - mit Bemerkungen zur Zeitigung von Schildkröteneiern		Elaphe			5	1	20-23	Incubators		
Journal Article	Adamany, S.L.;Salmon, M.;Witherington, B.E.	1997	Behavior of sea turtles at an urban beach III. Costs and benefits of nest caging as a management strategy		Florida Sci.			60		239-253			
Journal Article	Adamany, Stephanie L.;Salmon, Michael;Witherington, Blair E.	1997	Behaviour of ses turtles at an urban beach III. Costs and benefits of nest caging as a management strategy		Florida Scientist			60	4	239-253	loggerhead; orientation		
Journal Article	Adamopoulou, Chloe;Valakos, Efstratios D.;Legakis, Anastasios	1997	Notes on the diet and reproduction of the Cyclades Blunt-nosed Viper, Macrovipera schweizeri (Werner, 1935) (Squamata: Serpentes: Viperidae)		Herpetozoa			10	3/4	173-175		Univ. of Athens, Dept. of Biol. Zoological Museum, Panepistimioupolis, GR-157 84 Athens, Greece	
Journal Article	Adams, James T.	1997	In search of the Pine barrens timber rattler		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine				May	20-25	Crotalus horridus		
Journal Article	Addison, David S.	1997	Galvanized wire cages can prevent nest depredation		Marine Turtle Newsletter				76	8-11	Sea turtles; Nest protection; Nest predation		
Journal Article	Adler, Kraig	1997	Illustrations of Reptiles		Fauna			1	1	64-71			
Journal Article	Adnyana, W.;Ladds, P.W.;Blair, D.	1997	Efficacy of praziquantel in the treatment of green sea turtles with spontaneous infection of cardiovascular flukes		Australian Veterinary Journal			75	6	405-407	Reptilia, testudines, green turtles, Chelonia mydas, infection, trematode, cardiovascular fluke, Learedius learedi, Hapalotrema mehrai, Hapalotrema dorsopora, praziquantel	Objective To assess the efficacy of praziquantel as a treatment for cardiovascular flukes in turtles. Procedure Six green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) spontaneously infected with cardiovascular flukes (Digenea: Spirorchidae) were treated orally with praziquantel, and necropsied 3 or 7 days later to look for flukes in the heart and major blood vessels, Six similar animals were maintained as untreated controls.   Results Absence of flukes in treated, but not control turtles, indicated that a one day course of treatment at a dose rate of 3 x 50 mg, kg body weight is effective. Conclusion: This result should be of value for preventing disease in wild caught green turtles introduced into farms or aquaria. W Adnyana, James Cook Univ N Queensland, Australian Inst Trop Vet & Anim Sci, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia	
Journal Article	Adnyana, W.;Ladds, P.W.;Blair, D.	1997	Observations of fibropapillomatosis in green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Indonesia		Australian Veterinary Journal			75	10	737-742	Reptilia, testudines, green turtle, Chelonia mydas, infection, tumour, pathology, fibropapilloma	Objective To determine the prevalence and manifestations of fibropapillomatosis in green turtles in Indonesia, to identify any relationship between fibropapillomatosis and concurrent parasitic infection, to ascertain the effect of fibropapillomatosis on health, and to examine whether environment might have an effect on the prevalence of fibropapillomatosis. Procedure 4407 green turtles (Chelonia mydas) and 401 hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) were examined. The occurrence of fibropapillomatosis was correlated with sex, maturity, curved carapace length, body weight  curved carapace length ratio, the number and distribution of tumours on the skin, parasite burdens, some haematological variables and the region of capture. Results Fibropapillomatosis was seen only in green turtles, and the overall prevalence in these was 21.5%. This prevalence increased with the curved carapace length up to 85 cm. The average number of tumours per affected turtle was 5 +  - SD 4.1 (range, 1 to 29), and was negatively correlated with the body weight  curved carapace length ratio (rs = -0.8; P = 0.001). The red blood cell count in turtles with fibropapilloma was lower than in non-fibropapilloma turtles captured and examined at the same time (P = 0.001). The prevalence of fibropapilloma in turtles captured near densely populated, industrial regions (26.3%) was greater than in turtles from sparsely populated areas (17.7%). Conclusion Fibropapillomatosis in green sea turtles in Indonesia is of moderate occurrence; young mature turtles (curved carapace length = 85 cm) are most frequently affected. Fibropapilloma adversely affects health of turtles. Fluke infestation seems not to be a causal factor, but viral infection, perhaps with concurrent stress of environmental origin, seems likely. W Adnyana  James Cook Univ N Queensland  Australian Inst Trop Vet & Anim Sci  Townsville  Qld 4811, Australia	
Journal Article	Aguilar Miguel, Xochitl	1997	Effects of temperature on sex determination in C. acutus and C. moreletii		Crocodile Specialist group Newsletter			16	1	22			
Journal Article	Ahervuo, Ismo	1997	Viljakäärmeen lisääntyminen		Herpetomania			6	5	22-26			
Book Section	Ahsan, M.F.	1997	The Bostami or black softshell turtle, Aspideretes nigricans: problems and proposed conservation measures	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			287-289			
Journal Article	Aken, Gijs van	1997	Armature for heat lamps in the snake terrarium		Litteratura Serpentium			17	2	26-27			
Journal Article	Aken, Gijs van	1997	Alternative places for a terrarium		Litteratura Serpentium			17	6	110-113			
Journal Article	Al-Dokhi, Othman A.	1997	Fine structure of sperm tail differentaition in the sand skink, Scincus mitranus (Anderson, 1871) (Squamata, Reptilia)		Journal of Arid Environments			37		395-401			
Journal Article	Al-Oran, Ratib;Disi, Ahmad M.;Al-Mehim, Walid N.;Amr, Zuhair S.	1997	Reptiles from Wadi Araba		Mu'tah Journal for Research and Studies			12	4	45-67			
Journal Article	Albert, David H.	1997	An ever-growing menagerie		Reptiles			5	5	100			
Journal Article	Alberts, Allison C.	1997	Use of a non-contact temperature reader for measuring skin surface temperatures and estimating internal body temperatures in lizards		Herpetological Review			28	1	32-33	Temperature; Techniques; Body temperature		
Journal Article	Alberts, Allison C.;Perry, Andrew M.;Lemm, Jeffrey M.;Phillips, John A.	1997	Effects of incubation temperature and water potential on growth and thermoregulatory behavior of hatchling Cuban Rock Iguanas (Cyclura nubila)		Copeia			1997	4	766-776			
Journal Article	Alberts, A. C.;Grant, T. D.	1997	Use of a non-contact temperature reader for measuring skin surface temperatures and estimating internal body temperatures in lizards		Herpetological Review			28	1	32-33	temperature, technique, skin, laser, body temperature		
Book	Alderton, David	1997	Turtles & Tortoises of the World			New York	Facts on File			191			
Journal Article	Alderton, David	1997	Housing your snake		Pet Reptile				1	37-40			
Journal Article	Alderton, David	1997	Setting up home for iguanas		Pet Reptile				2	6-9			
Journal Article	Alexandrino, J.;Ferrand, N.;Arntzen, J. W.	1997	Genetic variation in some populations of the golden-striped salamander, Chioglossa lusitanica (Amphibia: Urodela), in Portugal		Biochem Genet			35	11-12	371-81		Genetic variation in the golden-striped salamander (Chioglossa lusitanica) was assessed in 231 individuals from four Portuguese populations by means of horizontal starch gel electrophoresis and isoelectric focusing. Three of 19 enzyme systems, representing 21 presumptive loci, were found to be polymorphic: phosphoglucomutase 1 (PGM1), peptidase B (PEPB), and peptidase D (PEPD). The observed average heterozygosity in Chioglossa lusitanica (0.027) is significantly lower than that observed for other amphibians, either urodeles or salamandrids. Differences in allele frequencies and the presence of private alleles are indicative of a high degree of population differentiation. PEPD, in particular, seems to be a diagnostic locus separating the southernmost population studied from the others.	
Journal Article	Alford, R. A.;Richards, S. J.	1997	Lack of evidence for epidemic disease as an agent in the catastrophic decline of Australian rain forest frogs.		Conservation Biology			11		1026-1029	Amphibia, anura, conservation, mass mortality		
Journal Article	Alibardi, L.	1997	Ultrastructural and audoradiographic analysis of setae development in the embryonic pad lamellae of the lizard Anolis lineatopus		Annales des Sciences naturelles, Zoologie, Paris			18	2	51-61			
Journal Article	Alibardi, Lorenzo	1997	Ultrastructural and autoradiographic analysis of setae development in the embryonic pad lamellae of the lizard Anolis lineatopus		Annales des Sciences Naturelles Zoologie, Paris			18	2	51-61			
Journal Article	Allen, Craig R.;Rice, Kenneth G.;Wojcik, Daniel P.;Percival, H. Franklin	1997	Effect of red imported fire ant envenomation on neonatal American Alligators		Journal of Herpetology			31	2	318-321	Fire ants; Alligator mississippiensis		
Journal Article	Almeida-Santo, Selma Maria;Salomão, Maria da Graça	1997	Long-term sperm storage in the female Neotropical ratlesnake Crotalus durissus terrificus (Viperidae: Crotalidae)		Japanese Journal of Herpetology			17	2	46-52		Laboratório de Herpetologia, Instituto Butantan, Av. Dr. Vital Brasil 1500, Butantã, 05503-900 São Paulo, SP, Brazil	
Journal Article	Altig, Ronald	1997	Book review: The Neotropical toad genus Atelopus		Herpetological Review			28	4	219	Book review		
Journal Article	Alvarado-Diaz, Javier;Huacuz-Elias, Dolores del C.;Suazo-Ortuño, Ireri	1997	Geographic Distribution. Porthidium hespere		Herpetological Review			28	2	98			
Journal Article	Alvarez, I.M.;Walworth, E.;Guillette, L.J.;Buhi, W.C.	1997	Identification of proteins synthesized and released by the vitellogenic alligator reproductive tract  (Abstract only)		Biol. Reprod.			56	Supple. 1	94	AM, reproduction, biochemistry,		
Journal Article	Alviani, Sandro	1997	Maravillosos encuentros en las selvas de Costa Rica		Reptilia (Spain)				10	53-56			
Journal Article	Amann, Toni;Rykena, Silke;Joger, Ulrich;Nettmann, Hans Konrad;Veith, Michael	1997	Zur artlichen Trennung von Lacerta bilineata Daudin, 1802 und L. viridis (Laurenti, 1768) [Specific separation of Lacerta bilineata Daudin, 1802 and L. viridis (Laurenti, 1768)]		Salamandra			33	4	255-268		Hessisches Landesmuseum, Friedensplatz 1, D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany	
Book Section	Amato, G.D.;Behler, J. L.;Tryon, B. W.;Hermon, D. W.	1997	Molecular variation in the bog turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergii	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			259-262			
Journal Article	Amr, Zuhair S.;Al-Oran, Ratib M.;Al-Melhim, Walid N.	1997	Aggregation behavior in two Jordanian Snakes: Coluber rubriceps and Typhlops vermicularis		Herpetological Review			28	3	130-131	Coluber rebriceps; Typhlops vermicularis		
Journal Article	Amr, Zuhair S.;Disi, Ahmad M.;Al-Melhim, Walid N.	1997	Additions to the knowledge of Müller's snake, Micrelaps muelleri Boettger, 1880 (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae)		Herpetozoa			10	3/4	163-168		Dept. of Biology, Jordan University of Science & Technology, P.O. Box 3030, Irbid, Jordan	
Journal Article	Ananjeva, Natalia B.;Dujsebayeva, Tatyana N.	1997	SEM study of skin sense organs in two Uromastyxspecies (Sauria: Agamidae) and Sphenodon punctatus (Rhynchocephalia: Sphenodontidae)		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	1	46-49	Uromastyx; Sphenodon; Skin sense organs; Morphology		
Book	Ananjeva, N. B.;Munkhbayer, Kh.;Orlov, N. L.;Orlova, V. F.;Semenov, D. V.;Terbish, Kh.	1997	Amphibians and Reptiles of Mongolia			Moscow	Russian Academy of Sciences			416			
Journal Article	Anderson, Ann M.;Conway, Warren C.;Haukos, David A.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Gastrophryne olivacea		Herpetological Review			28	1	48			
Journal Article	Anderson, Ann M.;Haukos, David A.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Gastrophryne olivacea		Herpetological Review			28	1	48			
Journal Article	Anderson, James T.;Conway, Warren C.;Ostrand, Kenneth G.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Spea multiplicata		Herpetological Review			28	4	208			
Journal Article	Anderson, Steven C.	1997	Book review: Gecko Fauna of the USSR and Contiguous Regions		Herpetological Review			28	4	221-222	Book review		
Journal Article	Anderson, N.L.;Wack, R.F.;Hatcher, R.	1997	Hematology and clinical chemistry reference ranges for clinically normal, captive new guinea snapping turtle (Elseya novaeguineae) and the effects of temperature, sex, and sample type		Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine			28	4	394-403	Reptilia, testudines, New Guinea snapping turtle, Elseya novaeguineae, blood, chemistry, values, plasma	Median values and confidence intervals for hematology and serum and plasma chemistry parameters were established for 29 male and female healthy New Guinea snapping turtles (Elseya novaeguineae) held at 24.5 degrees C and 30.0 degrees C. Creatine kinase, albumin, potassium, and phosphorus values were significantly higher at 24.5 degrees C than at 30.0 degrees C. Glucose, alkaline phosphatase, aspartate transaminase, alanine aminotransferase, total carbon dioxide, and chloride values were significantly higher at 30.0 degrees C than at 24.5 degrees C. Cholesterol and calcium values were significantly higher in females than in males. Hemoglobin, packed cell volume, and bilirubin were significantly higher in males than in females. and bile acid values were significantly higher in serum than in plasma.	
Journal Article	Anderson, Curtis W.;Nishikawa, Kiisa C.	1997	The functional anatomy and evolution of hypoglossal afferents in the Leopard frog, Rana pipiens		Brain Research			771		285-291			
Journal Article	Andrade, Denis V.;Cruz-Neto, Ariovaldo P.;Abe, Augusto S.	1997	Meal size and specific dynamic action in the rattlesnake Crotalus durissus (Serpentes: Viperidae)		Herpetologica			53	4	485-493			
Journal Article	Andreu, Gustavo Casas	1997	Dispersion o vicarianza en la distribucion de Crocodylus en el continente Americano		Reunión Regional Del Grupo De Especialistas En Cocodrilos de América Latina Y El Caribe					44-51	Crocodylus acutus, intermedius, moreletii, rhombifer		
Journal Article	Andreu, Gustavo Casas	1997	Crocodylus moreleti (lagarto)		Historia Natural De Los Tuxtlas					481-483			
Journal Article	Andreu, Gustavo Casas;Miguel, Xóchitl Aguilar	1997	La polémica sobre la declinación mundial de poblaciones de anfibios		Ciencias Naturales			4	1	97-102		The decline of amphibian populations during the last two decades my be one of several phenomena within the general crisis of global diversity or it may be exclusive to the group, affecting many of its species.  At present it is important to evaluate this phenomenon to be able to take action.  Species which are vulnerable or in danger of extinction exist in Mexico; we do not know, however, whether we are facing a process of decline.	
Journal Article	Andreu, Gustavo	1997	Distribution of the yellow-bellied snake Pelamis platurus in the Pacific of Mexico		Rev. Soc. Mex. Hist. Nat.			47		157-166			
Journal Article	Andreu, Gustavo Casas;Barrios-Quiroz, Gabriel	1997	Nuevos aportes a la anidación (1990-1993) de Crocodylus moreletii  en cautiverio en Tabasco, México		Reunión Regional Del Grupo De Especialistas En Cocodrilos de América Latina Y El Caribe					21-25			
Journal Article	Andrews, Robin M.;Méndez de la Cruz, Fausto R.;Santa Cruz, Marciela Villagrán	1997	Body temperatures of female Sceloporus grammicus: Thermal stress or impared mobility?		Copeia			1997	1	108-115	Sceloporus grammicus; Thermal stress; Thermoregulation; Body temperature		
Journal Article	Andrews, Robin M.;Qualls, Carl P.;Rose, Barbara R.	1997	Effects of low temperature on embryonic development of Sceloporus Lizards		Copeia			1997	4	827-833			
Journal Article	Andrews, C.;Bertram, J. E. A.	1997	Mechanical work as a determinant of prey-handling behavior in the tokay gecko (Gekko gekko)		Physiological Zoology			70	2	193-201	work, gecko, mechanical work, feeding, predation, prey-handling		
Journal Article	Anonymous	1997	"Marine Turtle Conservation Action" in India		Marine Turtle Newsletter				76	20-21	India; Conservation; Sea Turtles		
Journal Article	Anonymous	1997	Salamandra salamandra		Reptilia			3	9	39-42	Salamandra salamandra		
Journal Article	Anonymous	1997	Iets over naamgeving		Het Terrarium			14	9	16-17			
Journal Article	Anonymous	1997	CITES proposals		Crocodile Specialist group Newsletter			16	1	4-11	CITES		
Journal Article	Anonymous	1997	Live alligator exports authorized		Crocodile Specialist group Newsletter			16	1	12			
Journal Article	Anonymous	1997	Programa de Repoblacion de Crocodylus acutus		Crocodile Specialist group Newsletter			16	1	18-19			
Journal Article	Anonymous	1997	Snakes smuggled via U.S. Mail		Traffic USA			16	1	5-6	Illegal trade		
Journal Article	Anonymous	1997	13-count indictment against Strictly Reptiles, Inc		Traffic USA			16	1	6-7	Illegal trade		
Journal Article	Anonymous	1997	Boa constrictor conviction		Traffic USA			16	1	7	Illegal trade		
Journal Article	Anonymous	1997	Reptile importer sentenced		Traffic USA			16	1	9	Illegal trade		
Journal Article	Anonymous	1997	Japanese sea turtle trafficker arrested		Traffic USA			16	1	11-12	Illegal trade		
Journal Article	Anonymous	1997	Pasión por lo vivo: Homenaje a Pere Martínez Carrión		Reptilia (Spain)				11	29-31			
Journal Article	Anonymous	1997	Charles Tanner: 19th January, 1911-23rd December, 1996		Monitor: Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society			8	3	130-134			
Journal Article	Anonymous	1997	Review: The Action Plan for Australian Amphibians		Froglog				23	3-4			
Journal Article	Anonymous	1997	The big herp crash of 1997 and the future of herpetoculture: The Vivarium interviews Philippe de Vosjoli		Vivarium			8	6	26-28;66			
Journal Article	Anonymous	1997	Thomas A. Huff - a biographical Sketch		The OphidioFile			1	4	33			
Journal Article	Anonymous	1997	The 36th Annual Metting of the Herpetological Society of Japan, November 8-9, 1997, at Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University - Abstracts		Japanese Journal of Herpetology			17	2	62-84			
Book	Anonymous	1997	Arizona Wildlife: Amphibians and Reptiles			Phoenix	Arizona Game and Fish Department			36			
Journal Article	Applegate, Robert;Witwer, Mark	1997	Safe water bowls for neonate snakes		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	1	6			
Journal Article	Arad, Zeev;Schwarzbaum, Amir;Werner, Yehudah L.	1997	Temperature selection and thermoregulation in the Moorish gecko, Tarentola mauritanica		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	3	269-282	Tarentola mauritanica; Thermoregulation		
Journal Article	Aresté, M.;Farriols, J. L.	1997	Chondropython viridis Pitón verde Schlegel, 1872		Reptilia (Spain)				10	39-42			
Journal Article	Aresté, M.;Farriols, J. L.	1997	Ahaetulla prasina Grüne Peitschenschlange		Reptilia (German)				6	39-42			
Journal Article	Aresté, M.;Farriols, J. L.	1997	Ahaetulla prasina Serpiente liana asiática (Boie, 1827)		Reptilia				12	39-42			
Journal Article	Aresté, M.;Farriols, J. L.	1997	Corucia zebrata Escinco gigante de las islas Salomón Gray, 1855		Reptilia				13	39-42			
Journal Article	Aresté Gargallo, Manel	1997	La termorregulación en los reptiles		Reptilia			3	9	8-16	Thermoregulation		
Journal Article	Ariel, E.;Ladds, P.W.;Roberts, B.L.	1997	Mycobacteriosis in young freshwater crocodiles (Crocodylus johnstoni)		Australian Veterinary Journal			75	11	831-833	Reptilia, sauria, crocodylia, Crocodylus johnstoni, infection, bacteria, Mycobacteria	E Ariel, James Cook Univ N Queensland, Dept Biomed & Trop Vet Sci, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia	
Journal Article	Ariel, E.;Ladds, P. W.;Buenviaje, G. N.	1997	Concurrent gout and suspected hypovitaminosis A in crocodile hatchlings		Aust Vet J			75	4	247-9	*Alligators and Crocodiles; Animal; Animals, Newborn; Diet/adverse effects/standards/*veterinary; Gout/complications/pathology/*veterinary; Kidney/pathology; Liver/pathology; Myocardium/pathology; Prevalence; Queensland/epidemiology; Stomach/pathology; Tongue/pathology; Vitamin A Deficiency/complications/pathology/*veterinary		
Journal Article	Arnold, Debbie M.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Anolis carolinensis carolinensis		Herpetological Review			28	1	49			
Journal Article	Arnold, S.F.;Vonier, P.M.;Collins, B.M.;Klotz, D.M.;Guillette, L.J.;McLachlan, J.A.	1997	In-vitro synergistic interaction of alligator and human estrogen receptors with combinations of environmental chemicals		Environm. Health Persp.			105	Suppl. 3	615-618	AM, biochemistry, reproduction, toxin,	The effect of mixtures of environmental chemicals with hormonal activity has not been well studied. To investigate this phenomenon, the estrogen receptor (ER) from the American alligator (aER) or human (hER) was incubated with <H-3>17 beta-estradiol in the presence of selected environmental chemicals individually or in combination. The environmental chemicals included the insecticide chlordane, which has no estrogenic activity. and the pesticides dieldrin and toxaphene, which have very weak estrogenic activity. Chlordane, dieldrin, and toxaphene individually demonstrated no appreciable displacement of <H-3>17 beta-estradiol from aER and hER at the concentration tested. A combination of these chemicals inhibited the binding of <H-3>17 beta-estradiol by 20 to 40%. Alachlor, a chemical recently discovered to have weak estrogenic activity, also displaced <H-3>17 beta-estradiol more effectively in combination with dieldrin than alone. These results indicate that combinations of some environmental chemicals inhibit <H-3>17 beta-estradiol binding in a synergistic manner. This suggests that the ER may contain more than one site for binding environmental chemicals. The possibility that the ER binds multiple environmental chemicals adds another level of complexity to the interaction between the environment and the endocrine system.	
Journal Article	Arntzen, J. W.;Burger, R.J. F.;Cogalniceanu, D.;Wallis, G. P.	1997	The distribution and conservation status of the Danube crested newt, Triturus dobrogicus		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	2	133-142	Tritrurus dobrogicus; Conservation; Distribution		
Journal Article	Arntzen, J. W.;Garcia-Paris, Mario	1997	Phylogeny and biogeography of midwife toads (Alytes, Discoglossidae): a rebuttal		Contributions to Zoology			66	4	263-268			
Journal Article	Arntzen, J.W.;Bugter, R.J.F.;Cogalniceanu, D.;Wallis, G.P.	1997	The distribution and conservation status of the Danube crested newt, Triturus dobrogicus		Amphibia-Reptilia			18		133-142	Pannonian and Dobrogean lowlands		
Journal Article	Arribas, Oscar J.	1997	un Diseño atípico en Vipera ursinii y datos sobre los effectos de su mordedura		Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española				8	30-31			
Journal Article	Arteaga, A.;Herrera, E.	1997	Crecimiento, sobrevivencias y uso de hábitat de Crocodylus acutus introducidos en el embalse de Tacarigua, Edo Falcón, Venezuela		Croc. Spec. Group Newslet.			16	2	16-17.  [Translation in English follows]	CA, growth, demography, habitat, ecology, management, release, South America,		
Journal Article	Artega, Alfredo;Herrera, Emilio	1997	Crecimento, sobrevivencias y uso de hábitat de Crocodylus acutus introducidos en el Embalse de Tacarigua, Edo. Falcón, Venezuela		Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter			16	2	16-18			
Journal Article	Arthur, P.G.;Franklin, C.E.;Cousins, K.L.;Thorarensen, H.;Hochachka, P.W.;Farrell, A.P.	1997	Energy turnover in the normoxic and anoxic turtle heart		Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A - Physiology			117	1	121-126	Reptilia, testudines, Chrysemys scripta, physiology, heart, hypoxia, anoxia, temperature, cardiac, ATP, cardiac output, heart rate	We examined the possibility that the heart of the turtle Chrysemys scripta is an exceptional anaerobic performer, by measuring myocardial power output, lactate output, and estimated ATP turnover in perfused heart preparations. Over a range of myocardial power outputs at 5 and 15 degrees C we find that turtle hearts perfused with anoxic saline do not show a particularly outstanding ability to produce ATP anaerobically. Furthermore, at 15 degrees C anoxia reduced the ATP turnover rate to 50% of the normoxic rate. At 5 degrees C the anoxia-induced depression of ATP turnover was even more pronounced, being 4-fold lower than the normoxic rate. In addition, anoxia at 5 degrees C reduced the basal metabolic rate of the turtle heart. We conclude that long-term cardiac tolerance of hypoxia in this species is more likely related to metabolic depression rather than to an exceptional anaerobic performance. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Inc. PG Arthur, Univ Western Australia, Dept Biochem, Nedlands, Wa 6009, Australia	
Journal Article	Arzabe, Cristina;Almeida, A. Cláudio C. de	1997	Life history notes on Leptodactylus troglodytes (Anura, Leptodactylidae) in northeastern Brazil		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	2	211-215	Leptodactylus troglodytes; Reproductive behavior; Life history		
Journal Article	Ashley Ross, M. A.;Lauder, G. V.	1997	Motor patterns and kinematics during backward walking in the pacific giant salamander: evidence for novel motor output		J Neurophysiol			78	6	3047-60		Kinematic and motor patterns during forward and backward walking in the salamander Dicamptodon tenebrosus were compared to determine whether the differences seen in mammals also apply to a lower vertebrate with sprawling posture and to measure the flexibility of motor output by tetrapod central pattern generators. During treadmill locomotion, electromyograms (EMGs) were recorded from hindlimb muscles of Dicamptodon while simultaneous high-speed video records documented movement of the body, thigh, and crus and allowed EMGs to be synchronized to limb movements. In forward locomotion, the trunk was lifted above the treadmill surface. The pelvic girdle and trunk underwent smooth side-to-side oscillations throughout the stride. At the beginning of the stance phase, the femur was protracted and the knee joint extended. The knee joint initially flexed in early stance and then extended as the foot pushed off in late stance, reaching maximum extension just before foot lift-off. The femur retracted steadily throughout the stance. In the swing phase, the femur rapidly protracted, and the leg was brought forward in an "overhand crawl" motion. In backward walking, the body frequently remained in contact with the treadmill surface. The pelvic girdle, trunk, and femur remained relatively still during stance phase, and most motion occurred at the knee joint. The knee joint extended throughout most of stance, as the body moved back, away from the stationary foot. The knee flexed during swing. Four of five angles showed significantly smaller ranges in backward than in forward walking. EMGs of forward walking showed that ventral muscles were coactive, beginning activity just before foot touchdown and ceasing during the middle of stance phase. Dorsal muscles were active primarily during swing. Backward locomotion showed a different pattern; all muscles except one showed primary activity during the swing phase. This pattern of muscle synergy in backward walking never was seen in forward locomotion. Also, several muscles demonstrated lower burst rectified integrated areas (RIA) or durations during backward locomotion. Multivariate statistical analysis of EMG onset and RIA completely separated forward and backward walking along the first principal component, based on higher RIAs, longer durations of muscle activity, and greater synergy between ventral muscles during early stance in forward walking. Backward walking in Dicamptodon uses a novel motor pattern not seen during forward walking in salamanders or during any other locomotor activity in previously studied tetrapods. The central neuronal mechanisms mediating locomotion in this primitive tetrapod are thus capable of considerable plasticity.	
Journal Article	Ashton, Kyle G.;Smith, Hobart M.;Chiszar, David	1997	Geographic Distribution. Crotalus viridis viridis		Herpetological Review			28	3	159			
Journal Article	Ataev, Chary A.;Farkas, Baláza;Buskirk, James R.	1997	Reptiles of the Autonomous Republic of Turkmenistan		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	627-634			
Journal Article	Atapattu, Nandana	1997	Surgical intervention under field conditions for trauma to the mandible of a python (Python molurus)		Lyriocephalus			3	1	29-30		Dept. of Wildlife Conservation, 18 Gregory's Road, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka	
Journal Article	Attum, Omar	1997	A note on the sex ratio of the Egyption tortoise, Testudo kleinmanni		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				61	14-15			
Journal Article	Aubry, Keith B.;Gregory, Patrick	1997	Herpetology in the Puget Lowlands of western Washington and southwestern British Columbia		Herpetological Review			28	1	12-13	Washington; British Columbia		
Journal Article	Auge, Marc;Smith, Richard	1997	Les Agamidae (Reptilia, Squamata) du Paleogene d'Europe Occidentale		Belg. J. Zool.			127	2	123-138	Tinosaurus europeocaenus sp. nov.		
Journal Article	Augé, Marc	1997	A consideration of the phylogenetic significance of acrodonty		Herpetological Journal			7	3	111-113	Acrodont		
Journal Article	Auth, David L.;Smith, Hobart M.;Chiszar, David	1997	Geographic Distribution. Eumeces brevirostris indubitus		Herpetological Review			28	3	157			
Journal Article	Auth, David L.;Smith, Hobart M.;Chiszar, David	1997	Geographic Distribution. Sceloporus horridus oligoporus		Herpetological Review			28	3	158			
Journal Article	Auth, David L.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Farancia erytrogramma erytrogramma		Herpetological Review			28	3	159			
Journal Article	Auth, David L.;Chiszar, David;Smith, Hobart M.;Van Breukelen, Frank	1997	Geographic Distribution. Masticophis mentovarius mentovarius		Herpetological Review			28	4	210			
Journal Article	Auth, David L.;Smith, Hobart M.;Van Breukelen, Frank;Chiszar, David	1997	Geographic Distribution. Tantilla rubra		Herpetological Review			28	4	211			
Journal Article	Autumn, Kellar;Losos, Johnathan B.	1997	Notes on jumping ability and thermal biology of the enigmatic anole Chamaelinorops barbouri		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	442-444		Chamaelinorops barbouri	
Journal Article	Autumn, Kellar;Farley, Claire T.;Emshwiller, Maya;Full, Robert J.	1997	Low cost of locomotion in the banded becko: a test of the nocturnality hypothesis		Physiological Zoology			70	6	660-669			
Journal Article	Autumn, Kellar;Farley, Claire T.;Emshwiller, Maya;Full, Robert J.	1997	Low cost of locomotion in the banded gecko: a test of the nocturnality hypothesis		Physiological Zoology			70	6	660-669			
Journal Article	Autumn, K.;Farley, C. T.;Full, R. J.	1997	Low cost of locomotion in the banded gecko: a test of the nocturnality hypothesis		Physiological Zoology			70	6	660-669	locomotion, crawling, geckos, nocturnal		
Journal Article	Averianov, Alexander O.	1997	Paleocene sea snakes from the eastern part of Tethys		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	2	128-142		Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, St Petersburg 199034, Russia	
Journal Article	Averianov, Alexander O.;Danilov, Igor G.	1997	A varanid lizard (Squamata: Varanidae) from the Early Eocene of Kirghizia		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	2	143-147		Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, St Petersburg 199034, Russia	
Book Section	Avery, H.W.;Neibergs, A.	1997	Effects of cattle grazing on the desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii: nutritional and behavioral interactions	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			13-20			
Journal Article	Avila, Luciano Javier;Soto, Eduardo	1997	Geographic Distribution. Liolaemus fitzgeraldi		Herpetological Review			28	2	96			
Journal Article	Avila, Luciano Javier;Priotto, Jose W.;Morando, Mariana	1997	Geographic Distribution. Liolaemus saxatilis		Herpetological Review			28	2	96			
Journal Article	Avila, Luciano Javier	1997	Geographic Distribution. Pseudotomodon trigonatus		Herpetological Review			28	2	98			
Journal Article	Avila, Luciano Javier;Cardinale, Lisandro	1997	Bothrops alternatus (Vibora de la Cruz). Reproduction		Herpetological Review			28	4	205			
Journal Article	Axelsson, Eva;Nyström, Per;Sidenmark, Johan;Brönmark, Christer	1997	Crayfish predation on amphbian eggs and larvae		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	3	217-228	Hyla arborea; Predation		
Journal Article	Axelsson, M.;Franklin, C.E.;Fritsche, R.;Grigg, G.C.;Nilsson, S.	1997	The sub-pulmonary conus and the arterial anastomosis as important sites of cardiovascular regulation in the crocodile Crocodylus porosus		J. Exp. Biol.			200	4	807-814	CPR, heart, physiology,	We present evidence to support the hypothesis that the arterial anastomosis and the cogteeth-like valves located in the sub-pulmonary conus in the right ventricle are important sites of cardiovascular regulation in the crocodile Crocodylus porosus. The influence of the arterial anastomosis on the development of the 'foramen spike' in the left aortic pressure trace, which occurs at the onset of diastole when the pressures in the right and left aortas become equal, and on gastrointestinal blood flow was examined in unanaesthetised C. porosus using blood vessel occluders, Measurements of blood flow in the arterial anastomosis showed that, during non-shunting conditions, there was a substantial systolic blood how from the right aorta into the coeliac artery, The total coeliac artery blood flow was the sum of the anastomosis flow from the right aorta plus the left aortic flow originating from the right aorta via the foramen of Panizza during diastole, During mechanically induced pulmonary-to-systemic shunting, the anastomosis blood flow was reversed, with blood flowing from the left to the right aorta, The magnitude of the 'foramen spike' was directly related to the vascular resistance in the anastomosis, When vascular resistance in the anastomosis was high, such as during mechanical occlusion, there was an increase in the right aortic to left aortic pressure gradient during systole which resulted in an increase the foramen spike amplitude, Recordings of right intraventricular pressure in unanaesthetised C. porosus showed spontaneous changes in right intracardiac systolic pressure, The pressure recordings were biphasic, with the second contraction (isometric) being highly variable in size, indicating the control of pulmonary outflow resistance, possibly via the 'cogteeth valves' located in the sub-pulmonary conus in the right ventricle.	
Journal Article	Axelsson, M.;Franklin, C.E.	1997	From anatomy to angioscopy: 164 years of crocodilian cardiovascular research, recent advances, and speculations		Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A - Physiol.			118	1	51-62	heart, anatomy,	This paper present: a synthesis of current research on the crocodilian cardiovascular system with a view to encourage discussion and debate about the intricacies of this unique system and to provide ideas and suggestions for future studies. Innovative experimental approaches combined with new technologies have helped to resolve the complex flow and pressure patterns observed during non-shunting conditions that predominate in resting instrumented animals and during pulmonary to systemic shunting, which has been observed to occur spontaneously and during diving. The mechanisms and structures that may induce and regulate shunting are presented and the functional significance of a pulmonary to systemic shunt is discussed.	
Journal Article	Ayers, D. Y.;Shine, R.	1997	Thermal influences on foraging ability: body size, posture and cooling rate of an ambush predator, the python Morelia spilota		Functional Ecology			11		342-347			
Book Section	Baard, E.H.W.	1997	A conservation strategy for the geometric tortoise, Psammobates geometricus	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			324-329			
Journal Article	Babbitt, Kimberly J.;Tanner, George W.	1997	Effects of cover and predator identity on predation of Hyla squirella tadpoles		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	128-130	Hyla squirella; Tadpoles; Predation		
Journal Article	Bachs Taberner, Miquel	1997	Salmonelosis en reptiles		Reptilia			3	9	28-32	Salmonella		
Journal Article	Baek, H.H.;Cadwallader, K.R.	1997	Aroma volatiles in cooked alligator meat		J. Food Sci.			62		5	farm, utilization,	Volatile components from cooked (convection oven at 176.7 degrees C for 30 min) alligator meat were isolated by vacuum simultaneous distillation and solvent extraction (V-SDE) and dynamic headspace sampling (DHS) and analyzed by gas chromatography combined with mass spectrometry, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, or olfactometry. We identified 56 compounds in V-SDE extracts and 13 in DHS extracts. Volatile profiles were similar for all alligator meat samples regardless of alligator size (length). However, concentration of volatiles increased as alligator size increased. Most volatile compounds were lipid-derived aldehydes, which made up 73.9-79.4% of total volatiles in V- SDE extracts and 82.4-89.2% in DHS extracts. Hexanal, the most abundant compound, and (Z)-4-heptenal were considered responsible for the green, grassy and fishy, rancid off-odor of cooked alligator meat samples.	
Journal Article	Bagatto, Brian P.;Blankenship, Emmett L.;Henry, Raymond P.	1997	Implanting an arterial catheter in softshell turtles		Herpetological Review			28	4	194-196			
Journal Article	Bagatto, B.;Guyer, C.;Hauge, B.;Henry, R. P.	1997	Bimodal respiration in two species of Central American turtles		Copeia			1997	4	834-839			
Journal Article	Bagatto, Brian P.;Blankenship, Emmett L.;Henry, Raymond P.	1997	Tricaine Methane Sulfate (MS-222) anesthesia in spiny and Florida soft-shell turtles, Apalone spinifera and Apalone ferox		Bulletin of the Association of Reptilian Amphibian Veterinarians			7	2	9-11			
Journal Article	Baggato, B.;Guyer, C.;Hauge, B.;Henry, R. P.	1997	Bimodal respiration in two species of Central American turtles		Copeia			1997	4	834-839	Staurotypus triporcatus, Kinosternon leucostomum		
Journal Article	Baha El Din, S. M.	1997	A new species of Tarentola (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Desert of Egypt		African Journal of Herpetology			46	1	30-35		Nature Protection Sector, Egyption Environmental Affairs Agency, 3 Abd Alla El Katib St. Dokki, Cairo, Egypt	
Journal Article	Baker, John	1997	Stability for Swedish treefrogs?		Froglog				20	2-3	Sweden; Hyla arborea		
Journal Article	Baker, John	1997	The Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				59	35-38			
Journal Article	Baker, John	1997	Book review: Okoboji Wetlands. A Lesson in natural History		Herpetological Journal			7	3	128	Book review		
Journal Article	Baker, Gillian C.;Beebee, Trevor J. C.	1997	Microenvironmental effects on competition between Rana and Bufo larvae, and on the abundance of Prototheca richardsi, in small fish-ponds		Herpetological Journal			7	4	149-154			
Book Section	Baker, Richard J.	1997	Revising Minnesota's list of endangered and threatened species: amphibians and reptiles	Moriarty, John J. and Jones, Delvin	Minnesota's Amphibians and Reptiles, Their Conservation and Status: Proceedings of a Symposium	Lanesboro	Serpent's tale			11-14			
Journal Article	Bakker, John	1997	Opmerkelijk nestgedrag bij een Heterodon nasicus		Het Terrarium			14	8	8-9	Heterodon nasicus		
Journal Article	Bakker, John	1997	Striking nest behavior of Heterodon nasicus nasicus		Litteratura Serpentium			17	1	10-11	Heterodon nasicus		
Journal Article	Balazs, George H.;Aguirre, A. Alonso;Murakawa, Shawn K. K.	1997	Occurrence of oral fibropapillomas in the Hawaiian green turtle: Differential disease expression		Marine Turtle Newsletter				76	1-2	Oral fibropapillomas; Chelonia mydas		
Journal Article	Baldwin, Robert	1997	The demons of Madagascar: leaf-tailed geckos of the genus Uroplatus		Reptiles			5	5	48-68	Uroplatus		
Journal Article	Baldwin, Robert;Baldwin, Nikki	1997	The breeders		Reptiles			5	10	100			
Journal Article	Ballesteros, Tomás;Degollada, Arturo	1997	Primera cita de tritón pirenaico Euproctus asper en la Cordillera Litoral Catalana		Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española				8	2-3			
Book	Balsai, Michael	1997	General Care and Maintenance of Popular Monitors and Tegus			Santee	Advanced Vivarium Systems			170	Varanus; Tupinambis		
Journal Article	Balsai, Michael	1997	Book review: Advances in Herpetoculture		Vivarium			8	4	22-23	Book review		
Journal Article	Balsai, Michael	1997	Controversies about rodent diets for Savannah monitors		Vivarium			8	5	18-19	Varanus exanthematicus		
Journal Article	Balsai, Michael	1997	Monitors and omnivory		Vivarium			8	6	73			
Journal Article	Balsai, Michael	1997	Bizarre subcutaneous abscesses in Tegus, Too?		Vivarium			9	1	24			
Journal Article	Bambaradeniya, C. N. B.;Samarawickrema, P. K.;Ranawana, K. B.	1997	Some observations on the natural history of Lyriocephalus scutatus (Linnaeus, 1776) (Reptilia: Agamidae)		Lyriocephalus			3	1	25-28		Dept. of Zoology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka	
Journal Article	Bambaradeniya, C. N. B.	1997	Observation of a ranid (Hoplobatrachus crassus) swallowing a microhylid (Microhyla rubrum)		Lyriocephalus			3	2	32		Dept. of Zoology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka	
Journal Article	Bannert, Brigitte	1997	Überwinterung von Halsbandeidechsen		TI Magazin				134	42-46	Lacerta		
Journal Article	Barandun, Jonas;Reyer, Heinz-Ulrich	1997	Reproductive ecology of Bombina variegata: Development of eggs and larvae		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	107-110	Bombina variegata; Reproductive ecology; Development		
Journal Article	Barandun, Jonas;Reyer, Heinz-Ulrich	1997	Reproductive ecology of Bombina variegata: characterisation of spawning ponds		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	2	143-154	Bombina variegata; Spawning sites		
Journal Article	Barandun, Jonas;Reyer, Heinz-Ulrich;Anholt, Bradley	1997	Reproductive ecology of Bombina variegata: aspects of life history		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	4	347-355			
Journal Article	Barbadillo, L. J.;Sánchez-Herráiz, M. J.;Valdemoro, D. G.	1997	Coloación atípica en un juvenil de Anguis fragilis en el norte de la Península Ibérica (Burgos)		Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española				8	29			
Journal Article	Barbadillo, L. J.;Valdemoro, D. G.;Sánchez-Herráiz, M. J.	1997	Coronella austriaca melánica depredando sobre Lacerta monticola cantabrica en el norte de la Península Ibérica (Burbia, León)		Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española				8	31-33			
Journal Article	Barbadillo, L. Javier;Bauwens, D.	1997	Sexual dimorphism of tail length in lacertid lizards: test of a morphological constraint hypothesis		Journal of Zoology, London			242	3	473-482			
Journal Article	Barcenas, Eva;Guañabens, Joaquín	1997	Serpientes venenosas		Reptilia			3	9	17-23			
Journal Article	Barker, Dave;Barker, Tracy	1997	Big & beautiful: The reticulated python		Reptiles			5	6	48-67	Python reticulatus		
Journal Article	Barker, Dave	1997	Hunting the reticulated python		Reptiles			5	6	56-57	Python reticulatus		
Journal Article	Barker, John;Grigg, Gordon;Tyler, Michael	1997	Australian frogs		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Jan./Feb.	12-23	Australia		
Journal Article	Barker, Dayna	1997	Preliminary observations on nutrient composition differences between adult and pinhead crickets, Acheta domestica		Bulletin of the Association of Reptilian Amphibian Veterinarians			7	1	10-13			
Journal Article	Barnard, B. J.	1997	Antibodies against some viruses of domestic animals in southern African wild animals [In Process Citation]		Onderstepoort J Vet Res			64	2	95-110		Twenty-four species of South African wild animals were tested for the presence of antibodies against the viruses of 16 common diseases of domestic animals. Positive results were obtained for African horsesickness, equine encephalosis, equid herpes virus-1, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, Allerton disease (Herpes mammillitis), lumpy skin disease, parainfluenza, encephalomyocarditis, bluetongue, Wesselsbron disease, bovine ephemeral fever, and Akabane disease complex. No antibodies could be demonstrated against the viruses of equine influenza, equine infectious anaemia, equine viral arteritis and Rift Valley fever. The negative results substantiate observations that the latter diseases, with the exception of equine viral arteritis, are absent in South Africa. The number of animal species found positive for a specific virus, ranged from 0-16. No antibodies were found in crocodiles and warthogs, whereas antibodies against Wesselsbron and bovid herpes virus-1 were present in 16 species. Antibodies against viruses of horses were found almost exclusively in zebras and, although elephants reacted to African horsesickness, no neutralizing antibodies against it could be demonstrated in their sera. Zebras were also found to be positive for Wesselsbron and Akabane, which are usually regarded as viruses of ruminants. Antibodies against most viruses were encountered in all vegetation zones in South Africa but, as a rule, most viruses were more prevalent in the high-rainfall zone in KwaZulu- Natal.	
Journal Article	Barnett, Linda K.;Emms, Craig	1997	Herpetological observations in the Chagos Archipelago, British Indian Ocean Territory		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				59	6-12	Chagos Archipelago		
Journal Article	Barnwell, Mary E.;Meylan, Peter A.;Walsh, Timothy	1997	The spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata) in central Florida		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	405-408	Clemmys guttata; Florida		
Journal Article	Barreto, R.	1997	Thesis										
Journal Article	Barrio, César Luis;Fonoll, Rafael	1997	Sobre una población de salamandras Salamandra salamandra con pigmentación anómala		Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española				8	33-36			
Journal Article	Barrio, C.;Bosch, J.	1997	Mauremys leprosa como presa de Lutra lutra		Doñana Acta Vertebrata			24	2	191-192	predation, Reptilia, Mauremys leprosa		
Journal Article	Barrio Amoros, Cesar L.	1997	Salamanders of the Iberian Peninsula: A panoramic view		Reptilian			5	1	26-30	Salamandra		
Journal Article	Barrio Amorós, César L.	1997	Asturias paraíso batracológico de España		Reptilia (Spain)				10	49-52			
Journal Article	Barron, James N.	1997	Condition-adjusted estimator of reproductive output in snakes		Copeia			1997	2	306-318	Reproductive output; Serpentes; Nerodia sipedon		
Journal Article	Barron, James N.	1997	Calorimetric analysis of neotropical water snakes, Nerodia sipedon		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	422-425		Nerodia sipedon	
Journal Article	Bart, Henry L., Jr.;Bailey, Mark A.;Ashton, Ray E., Jr.;Moler, Paul E.	1997	Taxonomic and nomenclatural status of the Upper Black Warrior River Waterdog		Journal of Herpetology			31	2	192-201	Nectrurus alabamensis		
Journal Article	Barten, Stephen L.	1997	Hitting the rattlesnake jackpot		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	12	245-250			
Book	Bartholomew, Breck	1997	1996 Herpetological Index			Logan, UT	Bibliomania			151	Bibliography		
Book Section	Bartlett, R. D.	1997	The impact of the pet trade on populations of protected turtles (with brief notes on other reptile species)	Tyning, Thomas F.	Status and Conservation of Turtles of the Northeastern United States: A Symposium	Lanesboro, MN	Serpent's Tale			50-53	Turtle trade; Pet trade		
Journal Article	Bartlett, Dick	1997	Florida to Florida (with many stops between): Part three		Reptiles			5	5	40-45			
Journal Article	Bartlett, Dick	1997	Florida to Florida (with many stops between): Part two		Reptiles			5	4	24-29			
Journal Article	Bartlett, Dick	1997	Florida to Florida (with many stops between): Conclusion		Reptiles			5	6	40-45			
Journal Article	Bartlett, Dick	1997	A search for the obscure		Reptiles			5	7	32-38			
Journal Article	Bartlett, Dick	1997	Breeding the Veiled Chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus)		Reptiles			5	7	62-63	Chamaeleo calyptratus		
Journal Article	Bartlett, Dick	1997	40 years of thought on Paynes Prairie		Reptiles			5	7	68-73			
Journal Article	Bartlett, Dick	1997	The Lake Wales Ridge and lake Okeechobee		Reptiles			5	8	18-20			
Journal Article	Bartlett, Dick	1997	A visit to the Northwest - Florida, that is		Reptiles			5	9	24-27			
Journal Article	Bartlett, R. D.	1997	Reminiscing about Paraguayan herps		Reptiles			5	10	12-17			
Journal Article	Bartlett, R. D.	1997	Miami and the Keys: A troubled trip		Reptiles			5	10	18-22			
Journal Article	Bartlett, Dick	1997	An Amazon excursion		Reptiles			5	11	24-29			
Journal Article	Bartlett, Dick	1997	Pipa toads, the Tennessee Aquarium and the Cincinnati Zoo		Reptiles			5	12	26-29			
Journal Article	Bartlett, Dick	1997	The Kenyan and other familiar sand boads		Reptiles			5	12	48-61			
Journal Article	Bartlett, Dick	1997	A Costa Rica interlude (the final chapter)		Reptiles			5	2	10-14			
Journal Article	Bartlett, Dick	1997	Florida to Florida (with many stops between): Part one		Reptiles			5	3	86-91	Florida		
Journal Article	Bartlett, Dick	1997	A Costa Rica Interlude (Part 4)		Reptiles			5	1	44-46	Pelamis platurus		
Journal Article	Bartley, Glenn R.	1997	The married snake keepers guide to springtime		The Herptile			22	1	38-42			
Journal Article	Bartley, Glenn R.	1997	Herp encounters near Laredo, Texas (Part 1): From March through June 1996		Herptile: Journal of the International Herpetological Society			22	2	54-60			
Journal Article	Bartley, Glenn R.	1997	Herp encounters near Laredo, Texas (from March through June 1996)		The Herptile			22	3	99-110			
Journal Article	Bartley, Glenn R.	1997	The married snake keeper's guide to summertime: The third in a series		The Herptile			22	3	128-130			
Journal Article	Barton, Diane P.	1997	Introduced animals and their parasites: The cane toad, Bufo marinus, in Australia		Australian Journal of Ecology			22		316-324			
Journal Article	Barts, Mirko;Haacke, Wulf D.	1997	Zur Reptilienfauna der Tsodilo-Berge und angrenzender Gebiete in NW-Botswana - Teil I: Testudines: Testudinidae; Sauria I		Sauria			19	1	3-12	Botswana; South Africa; Geochelone pardalis; Psammobates oculifer; Colopus wahlbergi; Pachydactylus bibronii; Pachydactylus tsodiloensis; Lygodactylus capensis; Chameleo quilensis; Acanthocercus atricollis; Agama armata; Gerrhosaurus multilineatus; Ichnotropis capensis; Ichnotropis squamulosa; Ichnotropis grandiceps; Heliobolus lugubris; Mabuya striata; Mabuya varia; Typhlosaurus lineatus; Lygosoma sundevalli		
Journal Article	Barts, Mirko;Haacke, Wulf D.	1997	Zur Reptilienfauna der Tsodilo-Berge und angrenzender Gebiete in NW-Botswana. Teil II: Sauria; Serpentes		Sauria			19	4	15-21		Africa; Botswana	
Journal Article	Basford, Leslie	1997	The captive care and breeding of the Prehensile Tailed skink (Corucia zebrata)		Herptile: Journal of the International Herpetological Society			22	2	73-75			
Journal Article	Bashey, Farrah;Dunham, Arthur E.	1997	Elevational variation in the thermal constraints on and microhabitat preferences of the Greater Earless Lizard Cophosaurus texanus		Copeia			1997	4	725-737			
Journal Article	Basluke, Alysia	1997	And babies make 10		Reptiles			5	6	100			
Journal Article	Basso, Nestor G.;Williams, Jorge D.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Bufo variegatus		Herpetological Review			28	2	92			
Journal Article	Basso, Néstor G.;Ubeda, Carmen A.	1997	The tadpole of Atelognathus nitoi (Leptodactylidae, Telmatobiinae)		Alytes			15	3	121-126			
Journal Article	Bates, Michael F.;Heideman, Neil J. L.	1997	Report on a collection of lizards from Owambo District, Northern Namibia		African Herp News				26	16-21		National Museum, P.O. Box 266, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa	
Journal Article	Bates, M. F.	1997	Herpetofauna of the nature reserves and national parks of the Free State province of South Africa		African Journal of Herpetology			46	1	13-29. (Errata in 46(2):143-146)		National Museum, P.O. Box 266, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa	
Journal Article	Batist, Peter de	1997	Boekbespreking: Fascinerende Slangen		Terra			33	4	122			
Journal Article	Batley, Lee	1997	The emperor's new babies		Pet Reptile				1	54-57			
Journal Article	Bauck, Louise	1997	Avoiding hidden dangers - Choosing substrate materials for reptiles		Reptiles			5	6	76-81			
Journal Article	Bauer, Aaron M.	1997	Book review: Geckoes, Biology, Husbandry, and Reproduction		Herpetological Review			28	2	105-106	Book review		
Journal Article	Bauer, Aaron M.	1997	Book review: Chamäleons, Bunte Juwelen der Natur: Handbuch der Modernen Chamäleonolgie		Herpetological Review			28	2	106-107	Book review		
Journal Article	Bauer, Aaron M.;Sadlier, Ross A.;Chazeau, Jean	1997	Geographic Distribution. Litoria aurea		Herpetological Review			28	3	156			
Journal Article	Bauer, Aaron M.	1997	Book review: A Guide to the Reptiles and Frogs of the Perth Region		Herpetological Review			28	3	165	Book review		
Journal Article	Bauer, Aaron M.	1997	Book review: Amphibien und Reptilien Deutschlands		Herpetological Review			28	4	219-220	Book review		
Journal Article	Bauer, Aaron M.;Good, David A.;Branch, William R.	1997	The taxonomy of the southern African leaf-toed geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae), with a review of Old World "Phyllodactylus" and the description of five new genera		Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci.			49	14	447-497			
Journal Article	Bauer, Aaron M.	1997	Peritoneal pigmentation and generic allocation in the Chamaeleonidae		African Journal of Herpetology			46	2	117-123		Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA 19085-1699, USA	
Journal Article	Bauer, Aaron M.	1997	Geckoes, biology, husbandry, and reproduction		Herpetological Review			28	2	105-107			
Journal Article	Bauer, A. M.;Branch, W. R.	1997	Family Gekkonidae Genus Phyllodactylus		Proceedings of the FitzSimons Commemorative Symposium 1997					24-28	South Africa		
Journal Article	Bauer, Aaron M.	1997	Amphibien und reptilien Deutschlands		Herpetological Review			28	4	219-220			
Journal Article	Bauer, Aaron M.	1997	A guide to the reptiles and frogs of the Perth region		Herpetological Review			28	3	165			
Journal Article	Bauer, Aaron M.;Good, David A.;Sadlier, Ross A.	1997	Allozyme evidence for the phyllogeny of the giant New Caledonian geckos (Squamata: Diplodactylidae: Rhacodactylus), with comments on intraspecfic variation		New Zealnd Journal of Zoology			24		232-332			
Journal Article	Bauer, Aaron M.	1997	Lizard phylogeny in 1943		Proceedings of the FitzSimons Commemorative Symposium					87-93			
Journal Article	Baumgartner, R.;Wenker, Ch.;Isenbügel, E.;Kaser-Hotz, B.	1997	Unexpected end of a coeliotomy in an Aldabra giant tortoise (Geochelone gigantea) of the zoological garden in Zürich Unerwarteter Ausgang einer Zöliotomie bei einer Aldabra Riesenschildkröte (Geochelone gigantea) aus dem zoologischen Garten Zürich		Verhandl. Ber. Erkrankungen der Zootiere			NF 2		47-49	Reptilia, testudines, Aldabra giant tortoise, Geochelone gigantea, technique, diagnostics, pathology	Dr. R. Baumgartner, Kant. Vet. Amt Zürich, Culmannstr 1, CH-8090 Zürich, Switzerland	
Journal Article	Baur, Bertran	1997	Lagartos cornudos especialistas en hormigas		Reptilia			3	9	56-59	Phrynosoma		
Journal Article	Bayless, Mark;Dwyer, Quetzal	1997	Notes on the peach-throated monitor		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine				May	26-30	Varanus jobiensis		
Journal Article	Bayless, Mark K.	1997	The rough-neck Monitor lizard (Varanus rudicollis)		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	12	250-252			
Journal Article	Bäumr, Marc	1997	Chamaeleo montium: Probleme und Erfolge bei der Haltung einer Zuchtgruppe des Bergchamäleons		Elaphe			5	2	2-10	Chamaeleo montium		
Journal Article	Báez, Ana María;Trueb, Linda	1997	Redescription of the Paleogene Shelania pascuali from Patagonia and its bearing on the relationships of fossil and recent pipoid frogs		Scientific Papers				4	1-41			
Journal Article	Báez, Ana María;Trueb, Linda	1997	Redescription of the Paleogene Shelania pascuali from Patagonia and its bearing on the relationships of fossil and recent Pipoid frogs		Scientific Papers			4		1-41	paleogene, phylogeny		
Journal Article	Beachy, Christopher King	1997	Effect of predatory larval Desmognathus quadramaculatus on growth, survival, and metamorphsis of larval Eurycea wilderae		Copeia			1997	1	131-137	Eurycea wilderae; Predatory larvae; Growth; Survival; Metamorphosis		
Journal Article	Beachy, Christopher K.	1997	Courtship behavior in the Plethodontid salamander Gyrinophilus porphyriticus		Herpetologica			53	3	289-296	Gyrinophilus porphyriticus; Courtship behavior; Phylogeny; Plethodontidae		
Journal Article	Beaman, Kent R.;Hollingsworth, Bradford D.;Lawler, Howard E.;Lowe, Charles E.	1997	Bibliography of Sauromalus (Duméril 1856), the Chuckwallas		Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service				116	1-44	Bibliography		
Journal Article	Beane, Jeffrey C.;Zappalorti, Robert T.	1997	Clemmys muhlenbergii (Wood Frog). Parasitism		Herpetological Review			28	3	148-149			
Journal Article	Beane, Jeffrey C.;Herman, Dennis W.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Hemidactylium scutatum		Herpetological Review			28	3	155			
Journal Article	Beane, Jeffrey C.;Hoffman, Erich L.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Rana capito capito		Herpetological Review			28	4	208			
Journal Article	Beck, Christopher	1997	Effect of changes in resource level on age and size at metamorphisis in Hyla squirella		Oecologia			112		187-192	Age at metamorphisis, size at metamorphisis, Hyla, developmental plasticity, phenotype plasticity		
Journal Article	Beck, C. W. 	1997	Effect of changes in resource level on age and size at metamorphosis in Hyla squirella		Oecologia			112		187-192			
Journal Article	Beck, C. W.	1997	Effects of change in resource level on age and size at metamorphosis in Hyla squirella		Oecologia			112		187-192			
Journal Article	Becker, Herbert;Müller, Andreas	1997	Bemerkenswerte Beobachtungen bei der Aufzucht der Gekielten Moschusschildkröte (Kinosternojn carinatum) (Gray, 1856)		Elaphe			5	3	10-15	Kinosternon carinatum		
Journal Article	Beebee, Trevor	1997	Funny-coloured frogs		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				60	40			
Journal Article	Behler, John L.;Winn, Bradford;hayes, Royce H., Jr	1997	Snake fauna of St. Catherines Island, Georgia		Herpetological Review			28	3	162			
Journal Article	Behler, J. L.;Winn, B.;Hayes, R. H.	1997	Snake Fuana of St. Catherines Islands, Georgia		Herpetological Review			28	3	162	island, survey		
Book Section	Behler, J.L.	1997	Troubled time for turtles (foreword)	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			xviii-xxii			
Journal Article	Behra, Oliver	1997	Salt water caiman		Crocodile Specialist group Newsletter			16	1	19	Melanosuchus niger		
Journal Article	Bellini, Claudio;Sanches, Taisi Maria	1997	Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas, with fused carapacial scutes nesting at Atol das Rocas, Brazil		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	437	Chelonia mydas; Anomalies		
Journal Article	Belzer, William	1997	Box Turtle conservation issues		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine				July/Aug.	32-35	Terrapene		
Journal Article	Benabib, Miriam;Kjer, Karl M.;Sites, Jack W., Jr	1997	Mitochondrial DNA sequence-based phylogeny and the evolution of viviparity in the Sceloporus scalaris group (Reptilia, Squamata)		Evolution			51	4	1262-1275			
Journal Article	Bender, Xandra	1997	Tip van tante Xandra		Het Terrarium			15	1	14			
Journal Article	Bender, Brigitte	1997	Fund zweier flavistischer Teichmolche (Triturus vulgaris) [Two cases of flavistic smooth newts (triturus vulgaris)]		Zeitschrift für Feldherpetologie			4		211-212		Fontanestr. 15, D-33719 Bielefeld, Germany	
Journal Article	Bender, Brigitte	1997	Temporärer Albinismus bei der Erdkröte (Bufo bufo) [Temporary albinism in the common toad (Bufo bufo)]		Zeitschrift für Feldherpetologie			4		212-214		Fontanestr. 15, D-33719 Bielefeld, Germany	
Journal Article	Bender, Brigitte	1997	Unterschiede der Pupillengröße bei Weibchen und Männchen der Erdkröte (Bufo bufo) [Discrimination of male and female common toads (Bufo bufo) using differences in the eye to pupil size ratio]		Salamandra			33	3	177-182		Fontanestr. 15, D-33719 Bielefeld, Germany	
Journal Article	Bendon, John	1997	Mayaguana Blues		Iguana Times			6	1	3-9			
Journal Article	Bendon, John	1997	A delicate situation: Iguana delicatissima at the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust		Iguana Times			6	2	36-37			
Journal Article	Benitez-Mandujano, M. A.;Flores-Nava., A.	1997	Growth and metamorphosis of Rana catesbeiana (Shaw) tadpoles fed live and supplementary feed, using tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (L), as a biofertilizer		Aquacult. Res.			28		481-488			
Book	Benítez Gálvez, C. P. Juan Enrique	1997	Los Ofidios de Puebla			Puebla	Comisión Estatal Forestal y de la Fauna Silvestre			122			
Journal Article	Bennett, Daniel	1997	Varanus bengalensis; the Bengal or clouded monitor lizard		Reptilian			5	1	47-56	Varanus bengalensis		
Book	Bennett, Daniel	1997	Monitor Lizards: Natural History, Biology, & Husbandry			Frankfurt Germany	Edition Chimaira			354	Varanus; Monitor lizards; varanidae		
Book	Bennett, Daniel	1997	Warane der Welt-Welt der Warane [Varanids of the World-The World of Varanids]			Frankfurt	Edition Chimaira			400+	Varanus; Varanidae		
Book	Bennett, Ross	1997	Reptiles & Frogs of the Australian Capital Territory			Woden, ACT	National Parks Association of the ACT			x, 86 p.			
Journal Article	Bergadá, José;Pether, Jim	1997	Crotalus adamanteus		Reptilia			3	9	24-26	Crotalus adamanteus		
Journal Article	Bergadá, José	1997	Tailandia: meca del turismo herpetológico		Reptilia (Spain)				10	33-36			
Journal Article	Bergadá, José	1997	Colúbridos: Estilimo y color		Reptilia				13	16-21			
Journal Article	Bergen, Kathrin;Semlitsch, Raymond D.;Reyer, Heinz-Ulrich	1997	Hybrid female matings are directly related to the availability of Rana lessonae and Rana esculenta males in experimental populations		Copeia			1997	2	275-283	Hybrids; Rana lessonae; Rana esculenta		
Journal Article	Berger, Heinz;Derstner, Marina;Zavadil, Vít	1997	Ein neues Vorkommensgebiet des Fadenmolches (Triturus h. helveticus) am Ostrand seines Verbreitungsareals im Grenzraum Sachsen-Böhmen (Deutschland-Tschechische Republik) [A new occurence of the palmate newt (Triturus h. helveticus) at the eastern border of its area in the boundry of Saxony-Bohemia (Germany-Czech Republic)]		Zeitschrift für Feldherpetologie			4		101-113		HB: Siedlung 4, D-04779 Wiederoda, Germany	
Journal Article	Berger, L.;Speare, R.;Humphrey, J.	1997	Mucormycosis in a free-ranging green tree frog from Australia		Journal of Wildlife Diseases			33	4	903-907	Amphibia, anura, green tree frog, Litoria caerulea, infection, fungus, Mucor amphibiorum, pathology	Mucor amphibiorum is reported for the first time from a free-ranging native amphibian, a green tree frog (Litoria caerulea) from Queensland, Australia. The nasal cavity was largely replaced by granulomatous inflammatory tissue, and most internal organs had nodular granulomas. Typical mother and daughter sphaerules of M. amphibiorum occurred in these nodules which were due to granulomatous inflammation as well as areas of more active mixed inflammation with necrosis. Tissue homogenate from the spleen was inoculated into two cane toads (Bufo marinus), and one toad became infected with M. amphibiorum.	
Journal Article	Berghof, Hans-Peter	1997	Phelsuma barbouri Loveridge		Sauria, Suplement			19	3	385-388			
Journal Article	Berghof, Hans-Peter	1997	Phelsuma nigristriata Meier		Sauria, Suplement			19	3	399-402			
Journal Article	Bergman, Enoch;Hill, Ben;Montgomery, Chad;Hobert, Justin;Boback, Scott;Mackessy, Stephen P.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Chrysemys picta belli		Herpetological Review			28	1	49			
Journal Article	Bergman, Enoch;Hill, Ben;Montgomery, Chad;Hobert, Justin;Boback, Scott;Mackessy, Stephen P.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Tropidoclonion lineatum lineatum		Herpetological Review			28	1	53			
Journal Article	Bernal-Carlo, Amanda;Roze, Janis A.	1997	Snake genus Atractus (Colubridae) from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, with a description of a new species		Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society			33	4	165-170	Atractus nebularis sp. nov.		
Book Section	Berril, Michael;Bertram, Susan;Pauli, Bruce	1997	Effects of pesticides on amphibian embryos and larvae	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			233-245			
Journal Article	Berry, James F.;Seidel, Michael E.;Iverson, John B.	1997	A new species of mud turtle (genus Kinosternon) from Jalisco and Colima, Mexico, with notes on its natural history		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	329-337	New species; Kinosternidae; Kinosternon chimalhuaca sp. nov.; Systematics; distribution; Ecology; Jalisco; Colima		
Journal Article	Berry, Randal	1997	Reptile dealers past & present: A brief history		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine				Sept./Oct.	66-75			
Book Section	Berry, K.H.	1997	The desert tortoise recovery plan: an ambitious effort to conserve biodiversity in the Mojave and Colorado deserts of the United States	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			430-440			
Book Section	Berry, K.H.	1997	Demographic consequences of disease in two desert tortoise populations in California, USA	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			91-99			
Book Section	Bertram, Susan;Berrill, Michael	1997	Fluctuations in a northern population of Gray Treefrogs, Hyla versicolor	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			57-63			
Journal Article	Beshkov, Vladimir A.	1997	Record-sized tortoises, Testudo graeca ibera and Testudo hermanni boettgeri, from Bulgaria		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	593-596			
Journal Article	Bevan, Dave	1997	Toads and frogs		Pet Reptile				1	6-10			
Journal Article	Bevan, Dave	1997	Iguanas		Pet Reptile				1	31-34			
Journal Article	Bevan, Dave	1997	Spiders		Pet Reptile				2	11-14			
Journal Article	Bevan, Dave	1997	Terrapins		Pet Reptile				2	49-52			
Journal Article	Bevier, Catherine Robb	1997	Breeding activity and chorus tenure of two Neotropical Hylid frogs		Herpetologica			53	3	297-311	Amphibia; Energetics; Reproduction; Scinax		
Journal Article	Bey, T. A.;Boyer, L. V.;Walter, F. G.;McNally, J.;Desai, H.	1997	Exotic snakebite: envenomation by an African puff adder (Bitis arietans)		J Emerg Med			15	6	827-31		We report an envenomation by the African puff adder (Bitis arietans), an exotic snake in the United States. The patient developed swelling and ecchymoses in the affected extremity, and cutaneous necrosis of the envenomated fingertip. There was no significant coagulopathy. He received 20 vials of specific antivenin (Schlangengift-Immunserum Behring Zentralafrika, Behringwerke, Marburg, Germany) and debridement of devitalized finger tissue. The only permanent sequelae were cutaneous scarring and permanent loss of the fingernail on the envenomated finger. Exotic snakebite is a rare presenting problem in emergency departments. The initial approach to a patient envenomated by an exotic venomous snake is discussed. Use of antivenin and supportive care are emphasized.	
Journal Article	Beyhl, Friedrich	1997	Zum Blüten besuch von lacertiden Eidechsen auf den Inseln Madeira und El Hierro [Flower-visiting lacertid lizards on the islands of Madeira and El Hierro]		Salamandra			33	3	213-218		Nonnbornstr. 23, D-65779 Kelkheim, Germany	
Journal Article	Bezy, Robert L.;Goldberg, Stephen R.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Hyla regilla		Herpetological Review			28	3	156			
Journal Article	Bickford, David	1997	Using local people to monitor frog populations in Papua New Guinea		Froglog				23	2-3			
Journal Article	Bille, Thomas	1997	Barisia imbricata planifrons (Oaxacan Imbricate Alligator Lizard). Antipredator Behavior		Herpetological Review			28	4	202			
Journal Article	Bille, Thomas	1997	Book review: Amphibien im Aquarium		Nordisk Herpetologisk Forening			40	2	67		Bellmansgade 40, 2100 København Ø, Denmark	
Journal Article	Birchard, Geoffrey F.;Packard, gary C.	1997	Cardiac activity in supercooled hatchling of the painted turtle (Chrysemys picta)		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	166-169	Chrysemys picta; Supercooling; Freeze tolerance		
Journal Article	Birchard, G.F.;Packard, G.C.	1997	Cardiac activity in supercooled hatchlings of the painted turtle (Chrysemys picta)		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	166-169	Reptilia, testudines, painted turtle, Chrysemys picta, physiology, temperature, heart, supercooled hatchling	GF Birchard, George Mason Univ, Dept Biol, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA	
Journal Article	Birt, Randy A.;Greve, John H.;Powell, Robert	1997	Anolis barkeri (Barker's Anole). Parasitism		Herpetological Review			28	4	201			
Journal Article	Bischoff, Wolfgang;Schmidtler, Josef Friedrich	1997	Nach 115 Jahren in Syrien wiedergefunden: Micrelaps muelleri Böttger, 1880 (Serpentes: Atractaspidae) [Rediscovered after 115 years in Syria: Micrelaps muelleri Böttger, 1880 (Serpentes: Atractaspidae)]		Salamandra			33	1	25-32	Micrelaps muelleri; Syria		
Journal Article	Bishop, Christine A.	1997	Contaminants, deformites and lots of hypotheses!		The Boreal Dip Net/L'Épuisette Boréale			2	1	7	Amphibians decline		
Book Section	Bishop, Christine A.;Pettit, Karen E.;Gartshore, Mary E.;Macleod, Duncan A.	1997	Extensive monitoring of anuran populations using call counts and road transects in Ontario (1992 to 1993)	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			149-160			
Journal Article	Bisplinghof, Hans	1997	Tips zur Fütterung von Königspythons und anderen Schlangen		Elaphe			5	2	27			
Journal Article	Bjorndal, Karen A.;Bolten, Alan B.;Lagueux, Cynthia J.;Jackson, Dale R.	1997	Dietary overlap in three sympatric congeneric freshwater turtles (Pseudemys) in Florida		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	430-433	Pseudemys; Florida; Diet		
Journal Article	Bjorndal, K. A.	1997	Fermentation in reptiles and amphibians		 Gastrointestinal Microbiology					199-230	green; herbivory		
Journal Article	Black, Jesse	1997	Keeping and breeding leopard geckos (Eublepharis macularius)		Reptiles			5	3	10-18	Eublepharis macularius		
Journal Article	Blackwelder, Barry;Blackwelder, Linda	1997	It's a waterdog-Or is it?		Reptiles			5	4	100			
Journal Article	Blahak, Silvia	1997	Buchbesprechungen: Herpetopathologia		Elaphe			5	1	63-64	Book review		
Journal Article	Blair, Kathleen B.;Chiszar, David;Smith, Hobart M.	1997	New records for Texas amphibians and reptiles		Herpetological Review			28	2	99			
Journal Article	Blake, Peter	1997	Improving hatchling feeding reposnses		The Herptile			22	1	11-14			
Journal Article	Blake, Hugh	1997	My life (so far) with Garden Tree Boas (Corallus hortulanus)		Reptilian			5	3	25-27	Corallus hortulanus		
Journal Article	Blamires, Sean J.	1997	An extended breeding season of the orange-sided bar-lipped skink, Glaphyromorphus douglasi		Herpetofauna			27	2	59-60		School of Biological Sciences, Northern Territory University, Myilly Point Campus, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia	
Journal Article	Blanchard, Fran;Arneill, T.;Czupryna, L.;Chiszar, David;Smith, Hobart M.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Masticophis flagellum testaceus		Herpetological Review			28	1	52			
Journal Article	Blasco, manuel;Gonzalez, Diego	1997	Geographic Distribution. Chamaeleo chamaeleon		Herpetological Review			28	3	157			
Journal Article	Blasus, Randy E.	1997	Amphibian & Reptile Time Table for Minnesota: A Guide to the Seasonal Activity of Minnesota's Amphibians & Reptiles		Minnesota Herpetological Society Occasional Paper				4	1-30	Minnesota		
Journal Article	Blasus, Randy E.	1997	Amphibian & Reptile timetable for Minnesota: A guide to the Seasonal activity of Minnesota's Amphibians & Reptiles		Minnesota Herpetological Society Occasional Paper				4	1-14			
Journal Article	Blatchford, David	1997	Book review: A guide to the Snakes of Papua New Guinea		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	4	85-86	Book review		
Journal Article	Blatchford, David	1997	Book review: Iguana iguana guide for successful captive care		The Herptile			22	1	45-48	Book review		
Journal Article	Blatchford, David	1997	Book review: Snakes and Snake Hunting; and Snakes: The Keeper and the Kept		Litteratura Serpentium			17	2	44-45	Book review		
Journal Article	Blatchford, David	1997	Book review: Kaleidoscopic Tree Boas: The Genus Corallus of Tropical America		Herptile: Journal of the International Herpetological Society			22	2	93-94			
Journal Article	Blatchford, David	1997	Book review: The Natural History of Monitor Lizards		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	10	214			
Journal Article	Blaustein, A. R.;Kiesecker, J. M.;Chivers, D. P.;Anthony, R. G.	1997	Ambient UV-B radiation causes deformities in amphibian embryos		Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA			94		13735-13737	deformities, mutation, amphibians, development		
Journal Article	Blem, Charles R.	1997	Lipid reserves of the eastern cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus) at the northern edge of its range		Copeia			1997	1	53-59	Agkistrodon piscivorus; Lipid reserves		
Journal Article	Blem, Graeme	1997	Big snakes		Litteratura Serpentium			17	5	90-93			
Journal Article	Blinova, Tatiana K.;Blinov, Vladimir N.	1997	Distribution and abundance of amphibians in the forested steppes and steppes of southern Transuralia		Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union			2		31-44			
Journal Article	Blomberg, S. P.	1997	Local symptoms of envenomation by the ornamental snake, Denisonia maculata (Steindacher): Elapidae		Herpetofauna			27	1	46-48			
Journal Article	Blosat, Birgit	1997	Die Amphibien und Reptilien in der Gemeinde Much (Nordrhein-Westfalen) [Amphibians and reptiles of the municipality Much (Northrhine-Westphalia)]		Zeitschrift für Feldherpetologie			4		13-35		Subbelrather Straße 152, D-50823 Köln, Germany	
Journal Article	Blosat, Birgit	1997	Morphometrische und ökologische Feldstudien an Reptilien im Bergischen Land (Nordrhein-Westfalen) - I. Blindschleiche (Anguis f. fragilis Linnaeus, 1758) [Morphometric and ecological field-studies on reptiles in the Bergisches Land )North Rhine-Westphalia) - I. Slow Worm (Anguis f. fragilis Linnaeus, 1758)]		Salamandra			33	3	161-174		Subbelrather Str. 152, D-50823 Köln, Germany	
Book Section	Boarman, W.I.;M. Sazaki, W. B. Jennings	1997	The effect of roads, barrier fences, and culverts on desert tortoise populations in California, USA	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			54-58			
Book Section	Boarman, W.I.	1997	Predation on turtles and tortoises by a "subsidized predator" (summary report)	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			103-104			
Journal Article	Boatright-Horowitz, S. S.;Simmons., A. M.	1997	Transient deafness accompanies auditory development during metamorphosis form tadpole to frog. 		Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA			94		14877-14882			
Journal Article	Boback, Scott;Bergman, Enoch;Montgomery, Chad;Hobert, Justin;Hill, Ben;mackessy, Stephen P.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Gastrophryne olivacea		Herpetological Review			28	1	48			
Journal Article	Bogaerts, Sergé	1997	Marmorivesiliskot Triturus m. marmoratus & Triturus m. pygmaeus		Herpetomania			6	2	31-36	Triturus marmoratus marmoratus; Triturus marmoratus pygmaecus		
Journal Article	Bogart, James P.;Klemens, Michael W.	1997	Hybrids and Genetic Interactions of Mole Salamanders (Ambystoma jeffersonianum  and A. laterale ) (Amphibia: Caudata) in New York and New England		American Museum Novitates				3218	1-78			
Journal Article	Bogart, James P.;Klemems, Michael W.	1997	Hybrid and genetic interactions of mole salamanders (Ambystoma jeffersonianum and A. laterale) (Amphibia: Caudata) in New York and New England		Novitates			3218		1-78			
Journal Article	Bogart, J. P.;Klemens., M. W.	1997	Hybrids and genetic interactions of mole salamanders (Ambytoma jeffersonianum and A. laterale)(Amphibia: Caudata) in New York and New England.		American Museum Novitates				3218	1-78			
Journal Article	Bogart, James P.;Klemens, Michael W.	1997	Hybrids and genetic interactions of Mole Salamanders (Ambystoma jeffersonianum and A. laterale) (Amphibia: Caudata) in New York and New England		American Museum Novitates				3281	1-78			
Journal Article	Boissinot, Stéphane;Ineich, Ivan;Thaler, Louis;Guillaume, Claude-P.	1997	Hybrid origin and clonal diversity in the parthenogenetic gecko, Lepidodactylus lugubris in French Polynesia		Journal of Herpetology			31	2	295-298	Lepidodactylus lugubris		
Journal Article	Boistel, Renaud;Sueur, Jérôme	1997	Comporement sonore de la femelle de Platymantis vitiensis (Amphibia, Anura) en l'absence du mâle [The female of Platymantis vitiensis (Amphibia, Anura) calls in the absence of the male]		C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Sciences de la vie			320		933-941			
Journal Article	Bolanos, J.R.;Sanchez, J.;Piedra, L.	1997	Inventano y estructura poblacional de cocodrilos en tres zonas de Costa Rica		Rev. Biol. Trop.			44	3	283-287	CA, CCR, ecology, distribution, habitat,	[Inventory and population structure of Crocodylids in 3 areas of Costa Rica.]  Crocodilian populations were studied in La Rambla de Sarapiqui, Golfo de Nicoya and the mangrove associated to the rivers Terraba and Sierpe, Costa Rica. In comparison with other countries there is a normal population density in the three places. Caiman crocodilus fuscus was found in both rivers. Crocodylus acutus occurs in the three zones. Caiman population densities are higher in Sierpe than in La Rambla. Crocodile's density was similar in the three study sites.	
Journal Article	Bolek, Matthew G.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Hyla chrysoscelis		Herpetological Review			28	2	93			
Journal Article	Bolek, Matthew G.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Graptemys geographica		Herpetological Review			28	2	94			
Journal Article	Bolek, Matthew G.	1997	Seasonal occurrence of Cosmoceroides dukae and prey analysis in the blue-spotted salamander, Ambystoma laterale, in southeastern Wisconsin		J. Helminthol. Soc. Wash.			64	2	292-295			
Journal Article	Bolette, David P.	1997	First record of Pachysentis canicola (Acanthocephala: Oligacanthorhynchida) and the occurrence of Mesocestodes sp. Tetrathyridia (Cestoidea: Cyclophyllidea) in the  Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox (Serpentes: Viperidae)		Journal of Parasitology			83	4	751-752			
Journal Article	Bolsta, Phil	1997	Freeze-drying: A new trend in reptile preservation		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Mar./Apr.	52-54			
Journal Article	Bonath, K.	1997	Narcosis, surveillance and clinical effects - comparative aspects of poikylotherms (Reptiles, amphibians and fishes) and domestic animals [Narkose, Überwachung und klinische Reaktionen - Vergleichende Betrachtungen über poikilothere (Reptilien, Amhibian, Fische) und Haustiere]		Kleintier Praxis			24		185-198	Reptilia, serpentes, sauria, testudines, amphibia, anura, caudata, narcosis		
Book Section	Bonin, Joël;DesGranger, Jean-Luc;Rodrigue, Jean;Ouellet, Martin	1997	Anuran species richness in agricultural landscapes of Québec: Forseeing long-term results of road call surveys	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			141-149			
Book Section	Bonin, Joël;Bachand, Yves	1997	The use of artificial covers to survey terrestrial salamanders in Québec	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			175-179			
Book Section	Bonin, Joël;Ouellet, Martin;Rodrigue, Jean;DesGranges, Jean-Luc;Gagné, François;Sharbel, Timothy F.;Lowcock, Leslie A.	1997	Measuring the health of frogs in agricultural habitats subjected to pesticides	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			246-257			
Journal Article	Bonner, L. A.;Diehl, W. J.;Altig., R.	1997	Physical, chemical and biological dynamics of five temporary dystrophic forest pools in central Mississippi		Hydrobiologia			353		77-89			
Journal Article	Bonnet, Xavier	1997	Influence of size on survival in newborn asp vipers (Vipera aspis): preliminary results		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	1	107-112	Vipera aspis; Size; Survival		
Journal Article	Boraston, Bob	1997	Annual conference of the herpetofauna groups of Great britain and Ireland		The Rephiberary				230	6-10			
Journal Article	Bordin, S.;Meza, A. N.;Saad, S. T.;Ogo, S. H.;Costa, F. F.	1997	cDNA-derived amino-acid sequence of a land turtle (Geochelone carbonaria) beta-chain hemoglobin		Biochem Mol Biol Int			42	2	255-60		The cDNA sequence encoding the turtle Geochelone carbonaria beta-chain was determinated. The isolation of hemoglobin mRNA was based on degenerate primers' PCR in combination with 5'- and 3'-RACE protocol. The full length cDNA is 615 bp with the ATG start codon at position 53 and TGA stop codon at position 495; The AATAAA polyadenylation signal is found at position 599. The deduced polypeptyde contains 146 amino-acid residues. The predicted amino acid sequence shares 83% identity with the beta-globin of a related specie, the aquatic turtle C. p. belli. Otherwise, identity is higher when compared with chicken beta-Hb (80%) than with other reptilian orders (Squamata, 69%, and Crocodilia, 61%). Compared with human HbA, there is 67% identity, and at least three amino acid substitutions could be of some functional significance (Glu43 beta-->Ser, His116 beta-->Thr and His143 beta-->Leu). To our knowledge this represents the first cDNA sequence of a reptile globin gene described.	
Journal Article	Borkhvardt, valentin G.;Malashichev, Yegor B.	1997	Position of the epicoracoids in arciferal pectoral girdles of the fire-bellies Bombina(Amphibia: Discoglossidae)		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	1	28-30	Bombina; Epicoracoid position; Limb eruption		
Journal Article	Borkin, Leo J.;Litvinchuk, Spartak N.;Rosanov, Yuri M.	1997	Amphibians and reptiles of Moldavia: additions and corrections, with a list of species		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	1	50-62	Moldavia; Check-list		
Journal Article	Borkowski, R.	1997	Lead poisoning and intestinal perforations in a snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) due to fishing gear ingestion		Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine			28	1	109-113	Reptilia, testudines, snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina, pathology, intoxication, lead poisoning, fishing sinker, intestinal perforation,	An adult male snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) was presented to the Tufts Wildlife Clinic with generalized weakness and limited ability to walk. A fishing hook was lodged in the corner of its mouth, monofilament line trailed from its cloaca. and radiography revealed that the turtle had ingested two additional hooks and a large sinker. The hemogram showed leukocytosis. At exploratory celiotomy, the fishing line was seen to have acted as a linear foreign body and had perforated the intestines. Multiple enterotomies were performed to remove the sinker and line, and perforations were repaired. Two of the hooks could not be surgically or endoscopically retrieved. Blood lead concentration was 3.6 ppm prior to the start of chelation therapy with calcium disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid and declined to undetectable levels within 6 wk. The turtle recovered and was released. R Borkowski, Tufts Univ, Sch Vet Med, Dept Med, Grafton, MA 01535 USA	
Journal Article	Borkowski, R.	1997	Lead poisoning and intestinal performations in a snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) due to fishing gear ingestion		Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine			28	1	109-113	fishing gear		
Journal Article	Boron, W. F.;Fong, P.;Hediger, M. A.;Boulpaep, E. L.;Romero, M. F.	1997	The electrogenic Na/HCO3 cotransporter		Wien Klin Wochenschr			109	12-13	445-56	Acid-Base Equilibrium/genetics/*physiology; Animal; Carrier Proteins/genetics/*physiology; Cloning, Molecular; Kidney Tubules, Proximal/*physiology; Rabbits; Rats; RNA, Messenger/genetics; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.; Urodela; Xenopus laevis	The electrogenic Na/HCO3 cotransporter (symporter) is the major HCO3- transporter of the renal proximal tubule (PiT), located at the basolateral membrane (BLM), and also plays a noteworthy role in Na+ reabsorption. HCO3 transporters are important for regulation of intracellular pH (pHi) in most cells and also thereby regulate blood pH. This electrogenic Na/HCO3 cotransporter was first discovered using perfused Ambystoma tigrinum (salamander) renal, proximal tubules. This novel cotransporter mediates the movement of one Na+ ion with several HCO3- ions, making it electrogenic, is blocked by stilbene compounds, but does not depend on intra- or extracellular Cl-. This and similar cotransporters have been found in a number of tissues and cell types. Recently, we used Xenopus-laevis oocytes to expression clone the salamander renal electrogenic Na Bicarbonate Cotransporter (NBC). Using microelectrodes to monitor membrane potential (Vm) and intracellular pH (pHi), we followed oocyte expression after injecting poly (A)+, fractioned poly (A)+, or cRNA. All experimental solutions contained 100 microM ouabain to block the Na+/K+ pump. Our expression assay was to apply 1.5% CO2/10 mM HCO3- (pH 7.5), allow pHi to stabilize from the CO2-induced acidification, and then remove bath Na+. Removing bath Na+ from native oocytes and water-injected controls, hyperpolarized the oocytes by approximately 5 mV and had no effect on pHi. However, for oocytes injected with poly (A)+ RNA, removing Na+ transiently depolarized the cell by approximately 10 mV and caused pHi to decrease; both effects were blocked by 4,4'-diisothiocyano-2,2'- stilbenedisulfonate (DIDS) and required HCO3-. Electrophoretic fractionation of the poly (A)+ RNA, enriched the expression signal. From the optimal expression-fraction, we constructed a size-selected cDNA library in pSPORT1. Screening our Ambystoma library yielded a single clone (aNBC). We could detect expression 3 days after injection of NBC cRNA. In aNBC-expressing oocytes, adding CO2/HCO3-elicited a large (> 50mV) and rapid hyperpolarization, followed by a partial relaxation as pHi stabilized. Na+ removal in CO2/HCO3-depolarized the cell by > 40mV and decreased pHi, aNBC encodes a protein of 1035 amino acids with several putative membrane-spanning domains, and has a low level of amino-acid homology (approximately 30% to the AE family of Cl- HCO3 exchangers. aNBC is the first member of a new family of Na(+)- linked HCO3- transporters and, together with the AE family, defines a new superfamily of HCO3- transporters. Using aNBC to screen a rat- kidney cDNA library, we identified a full-length cDNA clone (rNBC), rNBC encodes a protein of 1035 amino acids, is 86% identical to aNBC, and can be functionally expressed in oocytes.	
Journal Article	Bosch, Hubert;Werning, Heiko	1997	Löbbecke Museum & Aquazo in Düsseldorf		Reptilia (German)				6	69-71			
Thesis	Bosch, J	1997	Competencia e interacciones acústicas en Alytes obstetricans y Alytes cisternasii. Implicaciones en la selección de pareja.					
Journal Article	Bosman, W.;van Gelder, J. J.;Strijbosch, H.	1997	The effect of inundation on hibernating Bufo bufo and Bufo calamita		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	4	339-346			
Journal Article	Bourne, Godfrey R.	1997	Reproductive behavior of terrestrial breeding frogs Eleutherodactylus johnstonei in Guyana		Journal of Herpetology			31	2	221-229	Eleutherodactylus johnstonei; Guyana; Reproductive behavior		
Book	Bouskila, Amos;Amitai, Pinchas	1997 (?)	Handbook of Amphibians & Reptiles of Israel			Jerusalem	Keter Publishing			345 p.			
Journal Article	Bovee, Allan	1997	The wood frog: A survival story		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Mar./Apr.	44-50	Rana sylvatica		
Journal Article	Bowen, Brian W.;Bass, Anna L.	1997	Movement of Hawksbill Turtles: what scale is relevant to conservation, and what scale is resolvable with mtDNA data?		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	440-442	Eretmochelys imbricata; mtDNA; Migration		
Book Section	Bowen, Brian W.	1997	Complex population structure and the conservation genetics of migratory marine mammals: lessons from sea turtles	Dizon, A.E.;Chivers, S.J. and Perrin, W.F.	Molecular genetics of marine mammals		Society for Marine Mammology			77-84	loggerhead; migration; DNA		
Journal Article	Bowen, B. W.;Grant, W.S.	1997	Phylogeography of the sardines (Sardinops spp.): assessing biogeographic models and population histories in temperate upwelling zones		Evolution			51	5	1601-1610	dna; migration		
Book Section	Bowen, B.W.;Karl, S.A.	1997	Population genetics, phylogeography, and molecular evolution	Lutz, P.L. and Musick, J.A.	The biology of sea turtles		CRC Press			29-50	dna; conservation		
Journal Article	Bowles, Frank D.	1997	A short note on the herpetofauna of Lankawi Island, Malaysia		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				59	15-18	Malaysia		
Journal Article	Boye, Peter;Meinig, Holger	1997	Amphibienlandfallen aus der Sicht des Säugetierschutzes		Mertensiella			7		365-376			
Journal Article	Boyer, Donal;Boyer, Thomas H.	1997	Comments on husbandry and medical problems in captive varanids		Varanids			1	1	4-11	Varanus		
Journal Article	Boyles, M.;Freilich, Jerry E.	1997	The desert tortoise in the Mojave Desert parks: a preliminary research update		Park Science			17	2	9-13			jfreilich@rmisp.com
Journal Article	Böhme, Wolfgang;Ziegler, Thomas	1997	On the synonymy and taxonomy of the Bengal monitor lizard, Varanus bengalensis (Daudin, 1802) complex (Sauria: varanidae)		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	2	207-211	Varanus bengalensis Complex		
Journal Article	Böhme, Wolfgang	1997	Buchbesprechungen: Morphologic and genetic studies of the European plethodontid salamanders: Taxonomic inferences (genus Hydromantes)		Salamandra			33	3	221-222			
Journal Article	Böhme, Wolfgang;Ziegler, Thomas	1997	A taxonomic review of the Varanus (Polydaedalus) niloticus (Linnaeus, 1766) species complex		Herpetological Journal			7	4	155-162			
Journal Article	Böhme, Wolfgang	1997	Eine neue Chamäleonart aus der Calumma gastrotaenia - Verwandtschaft Ost-Madagaskars		herpetofauna			19	107	5-10			
Edited Book	Böhme, Wolfgang;Bischoff, Wolfgang;Ziegler, Thomas	1997	Herpetologica Bonnensis: Proceedings of the 8th Ordinary General Meeting of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica 23-27 August 1995, Bonn, Germany			Bonn	SEH			414			
Edited Book	Böhme, Wolfgang;Bischoff, Wolfgang;Ziegler, Thomas	1997	Herpetologia Bonnensis: Proceedings of the 8th Ordinary General Meeting of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica 23-27 August 1995, Bonn, Germany			Bonn	SEH			414			
Journal Article	Böhme, Wolfgang;Ziegler, Thomas	1997	Großwarane im Museum Koenig, mit Bemerkungen zu Afrikas größter Echse		Tier und Museum			5	3	65-74			
Journal Article	Böhme, Wolfgang;Ziegler, Thomas	1997	Varanus melinus sp. n., ein neuer Waran aus der V. indicus-Gruppe von den Molukken, Indonesien		herpetofauna			19	111	26-34			
Journal Article	Böll, Susanne;Erben, Reinhold G.;Linsenmair, K. Eduard	1997	Wie zuverlässig ist die skeletochronologische Altersbestimmung bei der Geburtshelferkröte Alytes obstetricans?		Mertensiella			7		315-327			
Journal Article	Brady, Lee	1997	Book review: Ecology and conservation of Amphibians		Herpetological Journal			7	4	174			
Journal Article	Branch, W. R.	1997	A new Platysaurus (Squamata: Cordylidae) from the Northern Cape Province, South Africa		African Journal of Herpetology			46	2	124-136		pemwrb@zoo.upe.ac.za	
Journal Article	Branch, W. R.;Shine, R.;Harlow, P. S.;Webb, J. K.	1997	Sexual dimorphism, diet and aspects of reproduction of the western keeled snake, Pythonodipsas carinata (Serpentes: Colubridae)		African Journal of Herpetology			46	2	89-97		pemwrb@zoo.upe.ac.za	
Journal Article	Branch, W. R.	1997	Recent Herpetological Books. Part 3		African Herp News				26	36-45	Book review	pemwrb@zoo.upe.ac.za	
Journal Article	Branch, W. R.	1997	Typhlops bibronii Bibron's Blind Snake, Size		African Herp News				26	28		pemwrb@zoo.upe.ac.za	
Journal Article	Branch, W. R.	1997	A tribute to Don Broadley: Africa's premier herpetologist		African Journal of Herpetology			46	2	58-67		pemwrb@zoo.upe.ac.za	
Journal Article	Branch, William R.	1997	A new adder (Bittis; Viperidae) from the Western cape province, South Africa		South African Journal of Zoology			32	2	37-42			
Journal Article	Branch, W. R.;Whiting, M. J.	1997	A new Platysaurus (Squamata: Cordylidae) from the Northern Cape Province, South Africa		Afr. J. Herpetol.			46	2	124-136			
Journal Article	Brandão, Reuber A.;Duar, Bruno A.;Brito, Adriana C.;Sebben, Antonio	1997	Geographic Distribution. Physalaemus centralis		Herpetological Review			28	2	93			
Journal Article	Brandão, Reuber A.;Duar, Bruno A.;Sebben, Antonio	1997	Geographic Distribution. Scinax squalirostris		Herpetological Review			28	2	93			
Journal Article	Brandstaetter, Frank;Redl, Michela	1997	On the etymology of Asian snakes of the genus Psammophis (Serpentes: Colubridae)		Hamadryad			22	1	50-53			
Journal Article	Brattstrom, Bayard H.	1997	Status of the subspecies of the Coast Horned Lizard, Phrynosoma coronatus		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	434-436		Phrynosoma coronatum	
Book Section	Breisch, Alvin	1997	The status and managment of turtles in New York	Tyning, Thomas F.	Status and Conservation of Turtles of the Northeastern United States: A Symposium	Lanesboro, MN	Serpent's Tale			11-14	New York; Conservation; Status; Turtles		
Journal Article	Brewer, Susan	1997	The Asian bullfrog (Kaloula pulchra)		Reptilian			4	10	26-28	Kaloula pulchra		
Journal Article	Bridges, Jim	1997	Herp photography: An introduction		Vivarium			8	3	36-38	Photography		
Journal Article	Bridges, Jim	1997	Herpetological photography: Camera equipment		Vivarium			8	4	34-36			
Journal Article	Bridges, Jim	1997	Camera mounted flash photography		Vivarium			8	5	51-53			
Journal Article	Bridges, Jim	1997	Herpetological photography: 35 mm film - Kodak versus Fuji		Vivarium			8	6	74-75			
Journal Article	Bridges, C. M.;Gutzke., W. H. N.	1997	Effects of environmental history, sibship, and age on predator-avoidance responses of tadpoles. 		Canadian Journal of Zoology			75		87-93			
Journal Article	Brieger, A.;Riley, J.	1997	Osteolaemus tetraspis en el Congo		Reptilia				13	49-53			
Journal Article	Bringsøe, Henrik	1997	Turistvenlige Karpenisi i Centralgrækenland: Et ideelt rejsemål til herpetologiske udflugter		Nordisk Herpetologisk Forening			40	2	38-56		Esthersvej 7, 4600 Køge, Denmark	
Journal Article	Bringsøe, Henrik	1997	Forekomst af europæisk sumpskilpadde, Emys orbicularis, i Danmark [Occurrence of European pond terrapin, Emys orbicularis, in Denmark]		Nordisk Herpetologisk Forening			40	2	57-64		Esthersvej 7, 4600 Køge, Denmark	
Journal Article	Brisbin, I. Lehr, Jr	1997	Book review: Ecological Studies on Crocodilians in Suriname: Niche segregation and Competition in Three Predators		Copeia			1997	3	641-642	Book review		
Journal Article	Brisbin, I. Lehr	1997	Book review: Alligators, Prehistoric Presence in the American Landscape		Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter			16	3	19-20			
Journal Article	Brisbin, I.L., Jr.	1997	Ecological studies of crocodilians in Suriname: niche segregation and competition in three predators, by Paul E Ouboter (Book review)		Copeia			1997	3	641-642	CCR, PP, PT, ecology, habitat,		
Journal Article	Britten, Hugn B.;Riddle, Brett R.;Brussard, Peter F.;Marlow, Ron;Lee, Thomas E., Jr	1997	Genetic delineation of management units for the Desert Tortoise, Gopherus agassizii, in Northeastern Mojave Desert		Copeia			1997	3	523-530	Gopherus agassizii; Genetics		
Journal Article	Britton, Adam	1997	Crocodilian: Disciples of Sebek		The Rephiberary				231	5-9	Crocodilia		
Journal Article	Broadley, D. G.	1997	Geographic distribution. Dalophia ellenbergeri		African Herp News				26	34-35		Biodiversity Foundation for Africa, P.O. Box FM 730, Famona, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe	
Journal Article	Broadley, Donald G.	1997	An anomalous specimen of Pelusios sinuatus lacking mesoplatra		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	610-611			
Journal Article	Broadley, D. G.;Rasmussen, G.S.A.	1997	Geographic distribution. Nucras intertexta		African Herp News				26	34		Biodiversity Foundation for Africa, P.O. Box FM 730, Famona, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe	
Journal Article	Broadley, D. G.;Haagner, G. V.;Lambris, A. J. L.	1997	Geographic distribution. Scelotes limpopoensis limpopoensis		African Herp News				26	32-33		Biodiversity Foundation for Africa, P.O. Box FM 730, Famona, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe	
Journal Article	Broadley, D. G.	1997	A review of the Monopeltis capensis complex in southern Africa (Reptilia: Amphisbaenidae)		African Journal of Herpetology			46	1	1-12. (Corrigendum in 46(2):147)		Biodiversity Foundation for Africa, P.O. Box FM 730, Famona, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe	
Journal Article	Broadley, Donald G.	1997	Osteological characters of the shell and humerus in hinged tortoises of the African genus Kinixys		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	526-531			
Journal Article	Broadley, Donald G.;Broadley, Sheila	1997	A revision of the African genus Zygaspis Cope (Reptilia: Amphisbaenia)		Syntarsus				4	1-23			
Journal Article	Brochu, C.A.	1997	Morphology, fossils, divergence timing, and the phylogenetic relationships of Gavialis		Syst. Biol.			46	3	479-522	GG, fossil, taxonomy, evolution,	Although morphological data have historically favored a basal position for the Indian gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) within Crocodylia and a Mesozoic divergence between Gavialis and all other crocodylians, several recent molecular data sets have argued for a sister-group relationship between Gavialis and the Indonesian false gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii) and a divergence between them no earlier than the Late Tertiary, Fossils were added to a matrix of 164 discrete morphological characters and subjected to parsimony analysis. When morphology was analyzed alone, Gavialis was the sister taxon of all other extant crocodylians whether or not fossil ingroup taxa were included, and a sister-group relationship between Gavialis and Tomistoma was significantly less parsimonious. In combination with published sequence and restriction site fragment data, Gavialis was the sister taxon of all other living crocodylians, but the position of Tomistoma depended on the inclusion of fossil ingroup taxa; with or without fossils, preferred morphological and molecular topologies were not significantly different. Fossils closer to Gavialis than to Tomistoma can be recognized in the Late Cretaceous, and fossil relatives of Tomisioma are known from the basal Eocene, strongly indicating a divergence long before the Late Tertiary. Comparison of minimum divergence time from the fossil record with different measures of molecular distance indicates evolutionary rate heterogeneity within Crocodylia. Fossils strongly contradict a post-Oligocene divergence between Gavialis and any other living crocodylian, but the phylogenetic placement of Gavialis is best viewed as unresolved.	
Journal Article	Brochu, C.A.	1997	A review of "Leidyosuchus" (Crocodyliformes, Eusuchia) from the Cretaceous through Eocene of North America		J. Vert. Paleo.			17		679-697	fossil,	A review of all described species referred to Leidyosuchus recognizes six valid taxa: Leidyosuchus canadensis, L. multidentatus, L. sternbergii, L. formidabilis, L. wilsoni, and L. acutidentatus. Leidyosuchus riggsi is a nomen dubium, L. gilmorei is a junior synonym of L. canadensis, and Diplocynodon stuckeri is a junior synonym of L. wilsoni. Phylogenetic analysis of 164 morphological characters indicates a basal position within Alligatoroidea for L. canadensis. The name Listrognathosuchus is established for L. multidentatus, which is an alligtoroid, but difficult to characterize further because of its incompleteness. The remaining taxa form a clade herein named Borealosuchus; this group is related to, but not within, a monophyletic group that includes Alligatoroidea and Crocodyloidea. A close relationship between these taxa and Diplocynodon is rejected. Although presently known only from the Tertiary of Europe, taxa closer to Diplocynodon than to Alligatoridae are expected to occur in the Late Cretaceous.	
Journal Article	Brochu, C.A.	1997	Synonymy, redundancy, and the name of the crocodile stem-group		J Vert. Paleo.			17		448-449	taxonomy, evolution, anatomy, fossil,		
Journal Article	Broderick, Annette C.;Hancock, E. Geoffrey	1997	Insect infestation of Mediterranean marine turtle eggs		Herpetological Review			28	4	190-191			
Journal Article	Broderick, Annette C.;Godley, Brendan J.	1997	Observations of reproductive behavior of male green turtles (Chelonia mydas) at a nesting beach in Cyprus		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	615-616			
Journal Article	Brodkin, Marc;Simon, Martin	1997	The effect of aquatic acidification on Rana pipiens		Froglog				20	3	Rana pipiens; Acidification		
Journal Article	Broggi, Mario F.	1997	Notizen zur Herpetofauna von Kalymnos und Leros (Dodekanes, Griechenland) [Notes on the herpetofauna of Kalymnos and Leros (Dodecanese, Greece)]		Herpetozoa			10	3/4	135-138		St. Mamerten 35, FL-9495 Triesen, Fürstentum, Liechtenstein	
Journal Article	Broggi, Mario F.	1997	Zur Verbreitung von Testudo graeca ibera Pallas, 1814 auf den Inseln der Nordostägäis und der Dodekanes (Griechenland) (Testudines: Testudinidae) [On the distribution of Testudo graeca ibera Pallas, 1814 in north-east Aegean and Dodekanese islands (Greece) (Testudines: Testudinidae)]		Herpetozoa			10	3/4	153-155		St. Mamerten 35, FL-9495 Triesen, Fürstentum, Liechtenstein	
Book Section	Brooks, Ronald J.	1997	Dynamics of a northern population of snapping turtles. how can long-lived species be conserved?	Tyning, Thomas F.	Status and Conservation of Turtles of the Northeastern United States: A Symposium	Lanesboro, MN	Serpent's Tale			31-33	Chelydra serpentina; Ontario; Conservation		
Journal Article	Brooks, Ronald J.;Krawchuk, Margaret A.;Stevens, Cameron;Koper, Nicola	1997	Testing the precision and accuracy of age estimation using lines in scutes of Chelydra serpentina and Chrysemys picta		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	521-529			
Journal Article	Brown, Walter C.;Brown, Rafe M.;Alcala, Angel C.;Frost, Darrell	1997	Replacement name for Platymantis reticulatus brown, brown, and Alcala, 1997 (Ranidae: Raninae)		Herpetological Review			28	3	131	Platymantis reticulatus; Platymantis isarog		
Journal Article	Brown, Rafe M.;ferner, John W.;Diesmos, Arvin C.	1997	Definition of the Philippine Parachute Gecko, Ptychozoon intermedium Taylor 1915 (Reptilia: Squamata: gekkonidae): Redescription, designation of a neotype, and comparisons with related species		Herpetologica			53	3	357-373	Gekkonidae; Mindanao; Ptychozoon intermedium; Ptychozoon kuhli; Ptychozoon lionotum; Ptychozoon horsfieldii; Ptychozoon rhacophorus		
Journal Article	Brown, Lorna J.	1997	An evaluation of some marking and trapping techniques currently used in the study of anuren population dynamics		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	410-419		Marking techniques; Trapping techniques	
Book	Brown, Philip R.	1997	A Field Guide to Snakes of California			Houston, TX	Gulf			viii + 215			
Journal Article	Brown, M. A.;Carne, A.;Chambers, G. K.	1997	Purification, partial characterization and peptide sequences of vitellogenin from a reptile, the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus)		Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol			117	2	159-68		Vitellogenin (Vg), a major precursor to egg yolk proteins, was purified from plasma of an estradiol-treated female tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) by MgCl2-EDTA precipitation and DEAE-cellulose chromatography. The amino acid composition of tuatara Vg is similar to that of other vertebtate Vgs and contains a large proportion of serine (13.7 mol/100 mol of total amino acid). The amino acid sequences of the N-terminus of mature Vg (33 residues) and of several trypsin- and CNBr-generated peptides were determined. Six peptide sequences obtained from tuatara Vg could be aligned with Vg sequences from other vertebrates. Reduced and non-reduced forms of tuatara Vg have the same apparent molecular mass (approximately 218 kDa) when resolved by SDS-PAGE, indicating that inter-chain disulfide bonds are not a feature of the molecule in this species. Western blot analysis with anti-tuatara Vg antiserum indicated that at least some epitopes are shared among Vgs of turtle, alligator and tuatara.	
Journal Article	Brown, Walter C.;Brown, Rafe M.;Alcala, Angel C.	1997	Species of the hazelae group of Platymantis (Amphibia: Ranidae) from the Philippines, with descriptions of two new species		Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences			49		405-421	Solomon Islands, Fiji, New Guinea, Palau Islands		
Journal Article	Brown, Walter C.;Alcala, Angel C.;Diesmos, Arvin C.	1997	A new species of the genus Platymantis (Amphibia: Ranidae) from Luzon Island, Philippines		Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington			110		18-23			
Journal Article	Brown, L. E.;Rosati., R. R.	1997	Effects of three different diets on survival and growth of larvae of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis		Progr. Fish-Cult.			59		54-58			
Journal Article	Brown, Rafe M.;Ferner, John W.;Diesmos, Arvin C.	1997	Definition of the Philippine parachute gecko, Ptychozoon intermedium Taylor 1915 (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae): redescription, designation of the neotype, and comparisons with related species		Herpetologica			53	3	357-373			
Journal Article	Brown, Walter C.;Brown, Rafe M.;Alcala, Angel C.	1997	Species of the hazelae group of Platymantis (Amphibia: Ranidae) from the Philippines, with descriptions of two new species		Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences			49	11	405-421	Platymantis panayensis sp. nov.; Platymantis reticulatus sp. nov.		
Journal Article	Bruce, Richard C.	1997	Life history attributes of the salamander Bolitoglossa colonnea		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	592-594			
Journal Article	Bruchmann, Herbert	1997	Haltung und Nachzucht von Thamnophis elegans vagrans		Elaphe			5	2	20-24	Thamnophis elegans vagrans		
Journal Article	Bryant, Benn Richard;Vogelnest, Larry;Hulst, Frances	1997	The use of cryosurgery in a diamond python, Morelia spilota spilota, with fibrosarcoma and radiotherapy in a common death adder, Acanthophis antarcticus, with melanoma		Bulletin of the Association of Reptilian Amphibian Veterinarians			7	3	9-12			
Journal Article	Buck, Sharon V.	1997	Florida's herp trade: A collector's paradise ... and a land exploited		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Jan./Feb.	72-81	Florida; Collecting; pet trade		
Journal Article	Buckley, Larry J.;Axtell, Ralph W.	1997	Evidence for the specific status of the Honduran lizards formerly referred to Ctenosaura palearis (Reptilia: Squamata: Iguanidae)		Copeia			1997	1	138-150	Ctenosaurua palearis; Taxonomy; Honduras; Ctenosaurua melanosterna n. sp.; New species		
Journal Article	Budzinski, Ralph-M.	1997	Homosexuelles Verhalten bei Geckos der Gattung Phelsuma		Sauria			19	3	33-34			
Book Section	Buech, R.B.;L. G. Hanson, M. D. Nelson	1997	Identification of wood turtle nesting areas for protection and management	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			383-391			
Book Section	Buech, Richard R.;Nelson, Mark D.	1997	Conservation of wood turtles in Minnesota	Moriarty, John J. and Jones, Delvin	Minnesota's Amphibians and Reptiles, Their Conservation and Status: Proceedings of a Symposium	Lanesboro	Serpent's tale			15-21			
Journal Article	Buenviaje, G.N.;Hirst, R.G.;Ladds, P.W.;Millan, J.M.	1997	Isolation of Dermatophilus sp from skin lesions in farmed Saltwater crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus)		Austral. Vet. J.			75	5	365-367	CPR, disease, farm,		
Journal Article	Buhle, Manfred	1997	Buchbesprechung: Die Rotbauchunke (Bombina bombina) - Ökologie und Bestandssituation		Sauria			19	1	38	Book review		
Journal Article	Buhle, Manfred	1997	Buchbesprechung: Die Amphibien und Reptilien Deutschlands		Sauria			19	2	22	Book review		
Journal Article	Buhle, Manfred	1997	Buchbesprechung: Zeitschrift für Feldherpetologie		Sauria			19	2	46	Book review		
Journal Article	Buhle, Manfred	1997	Buchbesprechung: Haltungsrichtlinien, Mindestansprüche für Schildkröten		Sauria			19	3	40		Book review	
Journal Article	Buhlmann, K.A.;Mitchell, J.C.	1997	Ecological notes on the amphibians and reptiles of the naval surface warfare center, Dahlgren Laboratory, King George County, Virginia		Banisteria			9		45-51			
Journal Article	Buhlmann, K. A.;Mitchell, J. C.;Rollins, M. G.	1997	New approaches for the conservation of  bog turtles, Clemmys muhlenbergii, in Virginia		Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoise and Turtles-An International Conference					359-363	conservation, Virginia, Bog turtles, Clemmys muhlenbergii		
Book Section	Buhlmann, K.A.;J. C. Mithchell, M. G. Rollins	1997	New approaches for the conservation of bog turtles, Clemmys muhlenbergii, in Virginia	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			359-363			
Book Section	Buhlmann, K.A.;Gibbons, J.W.	1997	Imperiled aquatic reptiles of the southeastern United States: Historical review and current conservation status	Benz, G.W. and Collins, D.E.	Aquatic fauna in peril: The southeastern Perspective	Decatur	Lenz design & Communications			554			
Journal Article	Bulian, Joachim	1997	Chondropythons from Bangkok?		Litteratura Serpentium			17	1	4-5	Bangkok; Thailand		
Journal Article	Bulian, Joachim	1997	A problematic terrarium animal? Remarks on Chrysopelea ornata ornatisima		Litteratura Serpentium			17	3	52-57	Chrysopelea ornata ornatissima		
Journal Article	Bull, K.H.;Mason, R.T.;Whittier, J.	1997	Seasonal testicular development and sperm storage in tropical and subtropical populations of the brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis)		Australian Journal of Zoology			45	5	479-488	Reptilia, serpentes, brown tree snake, Boiga irregularis, physiology, propagation, testicle, cycle, season	The seasonal pattern of testicular development of tropical and subtropical brown tree snakes, Boiga irregularis, was investigated. We also examined sperm storage in the reproductive tracts of both sexes. Males in south-eastern Queensland had a testicular cycle that was strongly seasonal, with testicular regression during the wet summer. Males from Papua New Guinea had a continuous testicular cycle, in which sperm was present in some animals every month. Females from south-eastern Queensland had no stored sperm or sperm storage receptacles in their oviducts. Sperm was found in only one of 28 female reproductive tracts. The sperm was located in the lumen, suggesting recent insemination. In contrast, the presence of sperm in the ductus deferens of most males in both populations indicated that males store sperm. This facilitates the apparent dissociation between the male and female reproductive cycles that has been reported previously in south-eastern Queensland populations. Male B. irregularis must store sperm for at least six months, from the time of maximal testicular development in autumn, until ovulation occurs in spring and early summer. This pattern of reproduction in B. irregularis fits neither a postnuptial nor a prenuptial pattern, as has been observed in a few other tropical snakes.	
Journal Article	Bullington, Stephen W.	1997	Herpetoculture, biodiversity, and biointegration		Vivarium			8	5	16-17			
Journal Article	Bulova, Susan J.	1997	Conspecific chemical cues influence burrow choice by Desert Tortoises (Gopherus agassizii)		Copeia			1997	4	802-810			
Journal Article	Bunn, Derek S.	1997	Deaths of European treefrogs Hyla arborea probably by contact with Bombina species		Herptile: Journal of the International Herpetological Society			22	2	50-51			
Journal Article	Burger, R. Michael	1997	Miscellaneous notes on the Caicos Islands dwarf boa, Tropidophis greenwayi: reproduction, locomotion and maximum size		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	2	26-27	Tropidophis greenwayi; Caicos Islands; Reproduction; Locomation; Maximum size		
Journal Article	Burger, R. Michael	1997	The natural history, captive husbandry & reproduction of the emerald tree boa (Corallus caninus)		Reptiles			5	5	76-87	Corallus caninus		
Journal Article	Burger, R. Michael	1997	Natural history and husbandry of the Caribbean dwarf boas of the genus Tropidophis		Vivarium			8	3	6-11	Caribbean; Tropidophis		
Journal Article	Burger, R. Michael	1997	Predation by to species of coral snakes n Limón Province, Costa Rica		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	7	145	Micrurus alleni; Micrurus multifasciatus hertwigi		
Journal Article	Burger, R. Michael	1997	The end of an era: Reptiles, amphibians, and dealers		Reptiles			5	11	78-87			
Book Section	Burke, V.J.;Gibbons, J. W.	1997	Evaluating wetland conservation policies with GIS models of habitat use by aquatic turtles (abstract)	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			358			
Journal Article	Burkhoff, D.;Fulton, R.;Wharton, K.;Billingham, M. E.;Robbins, R.	1997	Myocardial perfusion through naturally occurring subendocardial channels		J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg.			114	3	497-9	AM, heart, anatomy,		
Journal Article	Bursey, C.R.;McAllister, C.T.;Freed, P.S.	1997	Oochoristica jonnesi sp n (Cyclophyllidea: Linstowiidae) from the house gecko, Hemidactylus mabouia (Sauria: Gekkonidae), from Cameroon		Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington			64	1	55-58	Reptilia, sauria, house gecko, Hemidactylus mabouia, infection, helminth, cestoda, Oochoristica jonnesi sp n	Six specimens of Oochoristica jonnesi sp. n. were recovered from the small intestines of 4 of 14 (29%) house geckos, Hemidactylus mabouia, from Cameroon. Oochoristica jonnesi sp. n. has few characteristics in common with African species of Oochoristica; rather, it belongs to that group of species possessing fewer than 25 testes in a single cluster and circular suckers, namely, O. junkea, O. lygosomae, O. lygosomatis, O. novaezelandae, and O. sobolevi. The new species can be readily differentiated from the other species of this group by number of lobules of the ovary or number of osmoregulatory canals. CR Bursey Penn State Univ Shenango Campus 147 Shenango Ave Sharon, PA 16146 USA	
Journal Article	Buscalioni, A.D.;Ortega, F.;Rasskingutman, D.;Perezmoreno, B.P.	1997	Loss of carpal elements in crocodilian limb evoluation morphogenetic model corroborated by paleobiological data		Biol. J. Linn. Soc.			62	1	133-144	fossil, anatomy, evolution,	The comparison of bone homology between the manus of an Early Cretaceous fossil crocodile and that of the extant species Alligator mississippiensis supports explicitly, for the first time, the hypothesis of carpal loss in crocodilian limb evolution. This hypothesis, based on a developmental model of the organization of the tetrapod limb, is in accordance with the fossil evidence, and may supersede traditional Haeckelian views based on recapitulatory paradigms. The homologous relationships of carpal elements reveal the existence of two carpal patterns-one plesiomorphic and one apomorphic-in the crocodilian lineage. Phylogenetic change is explained causally by alterations of the osteogenesis of the distal carpals 2 and 3, which remain unossified in extant crocodile adults. This implies that crocodilian limb evolution is constrained by a process of paedomorphosis. This modification of the architecture of the crocodilian hand is a terminal event of its evolutionary history, affecting only eusuchian crocodiles. The results of this study contest the traditional view that the skeletal pattern of the crocodilian limb has been conserved unchanged since the Triassic.	
Journal Article	Bush, Sarah L.	1997	Vocal behavior of males and females in the Majorcan Midwife Toad		Journal of Herpetology			31	2	251-257	Alytes muletensis; Vocal behavior		
Journal Article	Bush, Brian	1997	Captive reproduction in the south-western carpet python, Morelia spilota imbricata, including an exceptional fasting record of a reproductively active female		Herpetofauna			27	2	8-12		9 Birch Place, Stoneville, WA 6081, Australia	
Journal Article	Bush, S.;Bell, D. J.	1997	Courtship and female competition in the majorcan midwife toad, Alytes muletensis		Ethology			103		292-303	Amphibia, Anura, behavior, Discoglossidae, parental care, sexual selection,		
Journal Article	Busk, M.;Larsen, E. H.;Jensen., F. B.	1997	Acid-base regulation in tadpoles of Rana catesbeiana exposed to environmental hypercapnia		Journal of Experimental Biology			200		2507-2512			
Journal Article	Buskirk, James R.	1997	New locality records for freshwater turtles from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	415-416	Yucatan Peninsula; Mexico; Kinosternon creaseri; Staurotypus triporcatus; Rhinoclemmys areolata		
Journal Article	Buskirk, James	1997	The Malayan Flat-Shelled Turtle Notochelys platynota		Vivarium			9	1	6-9;15			
Journal Article	Buskirk, Josh Van;McCollum, S. Andy;Werner, Earl E.	1997	Natural selection for environmentally induced phenotypes in tadpoles		Evolution			51	6	1983-1992	Antipredator behavior, inducible defense, phenotypic plasticity, predation, Pseudacris triseriata, selection, trade-off		
Book Section	Butler, B.O.	1997	Blanding's turtles at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, USA: a case of "mutualism" between turtles and tanks	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			59-60			
Journal Article	Butterfield, Brian P.;French, Daniel R.;Fears, Scott R.;Hargreaves, Michelle D.;Lewis, Angela J.;Roby, Christine D.;Hood, Leah M.;Robinson, Jennifer R.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Eurycea longicauda longicauda		Herpetological Review			28	2	92			
Journal Article	Butterfield, Brian P.;French, Daniel R.;Fears, Scott R.;Hargreaves, Michelle D.;Lewis, Angela J.;Roby, Christine D.;Hood, Leah M.;Robinson, Jennifer R.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Bufo woodhousii fowleri		Herpetological Review			28	2	92			
Journal Article	Butterfield, Brian P.;French, Daniel R.;Fears, Scott R.;Hargreaves, Michelle D.;Lewis, Angela J.;Roby, Christine D.;Hood, Leah M.;Robinson, Jennifer R.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Anolis carolinensis		Herpetological Review			28	2	95			
Journal Article	Butterfield, Brian P.;French, Daniel R.;Fears, Scott R.;Hargreaves, Michelle D.;Lewis, Angela J.;Roby, Christine D.;Hood, Leah M.;Robinson, Jennifer R.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Scincella lateralis		Herpetological Review			28	2	92			
Journal Article	Buttle, David	1997	Observations on reptiles and amphibians of Andros (Cyclades, Greece)		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				60	5-12			
Journal Article	Bülow, Bernd von	1997	Später Laichtermin der Erdkröte (Bufo bufo) [Late spawning of the common toad (Bufo bufo)]		Zeitschrift für Feldherpetologie			4		214-216		Holtweg 31, D-45721 Haltern, Germany	
Journal Article	Byrd, Dan;Byrd, Sylvia	1997	Turks and Caicos Island rock iguanas		Reptiles			5	4	76-79	Cyclura		
Journal Article	Caballero gasca, F. J.;Donaire Barroso, Davis	1997	Macrothele calpetana: La mayor araña del la Península Ibérica		Reptilia				12	49-51			
Journal Article	Cabera, Mario R.;Colantonio, Sonia E.	1997	Taxonomic revision of the South American subspecies of the turtle Kinosternon scorpioides		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	507-513			
Journal Article	Cacivio, Pedro Matias	1997	Geographic Distribution. Thamnodynastes hypoconia		Herpetological Review			28	3	160			
Journal Article	Cagle, Florence	1997	Never say never (about iguanas)		Reptiles			5	8	100			
Journal Article	Cagle, Jane	1997	The green iguana in captivity: do green iguanas have the ability to adapt to common environmental stimuli?		Iguana Times			6	1	19-20			
Journal Article	Cagle, Jane	1997	The green iguana in captivity: Do iguanas have the ability to adapt to common environmental stimuli?		Iguana Times			6	1	19-20			
Journal Article	Caiaffa, W. T.;Antunes, C. M.;de Oliveira, H. R.;Diniz, C. R.	1997	Epidemiological and clinical aspects of snakebite in Belo Horizonte, southeast Brazil		Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo			39	2	113-8		Epidemiologic and clinical aspects of 310 hospitalized snakebite patients and 310 matched controls were described, over a seven years period, from an emergency hospital in Belo Horizontal, Southeast Brazil. The diagnosis was based upon clinical picture or actual snake identification. Fifty six percent of victims were bitten by the snakes of genus Bothrops, 32.0% by Crotalus, 1.0% by Lachesis and 10.0% undetermined. During the study period, stable number of cases and marked seasonal variation were noted. In comparing cases of snakebite and controls, those from a rural area or who were involved in agricultural labor activity were identified as a high risk group, with an odds ratio (OR) of 14.7 and 6.7, respectively, in favor of being bitten. Upon treatment, snakebite patients were 13.5 times more likely to have had early anaphylactic reactions than their controls, with a higher association in the age group > or = 20 years (OR = 30.3). Increased risks were also detected for pyrexia (OR = 11.7), with a marked association in the group under 19 years old (OR = 16.6). Severe cases of snakebite are an important treatable cause of morbidity in Brazil but therapy may be potentially life threatening. The higher case-fatality ratio encountered, compared to national statistics may be due the representativeness of the more severe cases who sought hospitalization. Preventing snakebite and early referral of those who are bitten is proposed.	
Journal Article	Caillouet, Charles W.;Robertson, Bradley A.;Fontaine, Clark T.;Williams, Theodore D.;Higgins, Benjamin M.;Revera, Dickie B.	1997	Distinguishing captive-reared from wild Kemp's ridleys		Marine Turtle Newsletter				77	1-6	Lepidochelys kempii		
Journal Article	Caldwell, Kim	1997	Cycling colubrids for healthy offspring		Reptilian			5	1	33-37			
Journal Article	Caldwell, J. P.	1997	Pair bonding in spotted poison frogs		Nature			385		211	Amazon, dendrobates, vanzolinii, Brazil, tropical forest, behavior, social		
Journal Article	Caldwell, Michael W.	1997	Limb osteology and ossification patterns in Cryptoclidus (Reptilia: Plesiosauroidea) with a review of Sauropterygian limbs		Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology			17	2	295-307			
Journal Article	Camp, Carlos D.	1997	Desmognathus monticola (Seal Salamander). Oophagy		Herpetological Review			28	2	81-82			
Journal Article	Camp, Carlos D.	1997	The status of the black-bellied salamander (Desmognathus quadramaculatus) as a predator of heterospecific salamanders in Appalachian streams		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	613-616			
Thesis	Campbell, Barry Norval	1997	Hic sunt serpentes: Molecular phylogenetics and the Boidae (Serpentes: Booidae)			127		
Journal Article	Campi, Ursula;Campi, Felice	1997	Bemerkungen zu Freilandhaltung und Nachzuchten von Testudo hermanni boettgeri (Griechische Landschildkröte) in Italien		Elaphe			5	1	7-10	Testudo hermanni boetgeri; Italy		
Journal Article	Canales, Manuel Muñiz	1997	Crocodiles of Nayarit		Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter			16	3	15			
Journal Article	Canela Agraz, Josep;Canela Agraz, Joan;Vázquez Suñe, Jordi	1997	Decorsción de terrarios con espuma de poliuretano		Reptilia (Spain)				10	8-10			
Journal Article	Canela Agraz, Josep;Canela Agraz, Joan;Vázquez Suñé, Jordi	1997	Epipedobates tricolor		Reptilia				13	34-38			
Journal Article	Cann, John	1997	Georges short-neck turtle, Elseya georgesi sp. nov.		Monitor: Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society			9	1	18-23			
Journal Article	Cann, John	1997	The Northern yellow-faced turtle, Emydura tanybaraga sp. nov.		Monitor: Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society			9	1	24-29;34-35			
Journal Article	Cann, John	1997	Irwin's turtle, Elseya irwini sp. nov.		Monitor: Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society			9	1	36-40			
Journal Article	Cann, John	1997	Kuchlings long-neck turtle, Chelodina kuchlingi sp. nov.		Monitor: Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society			9	1	41-44			
Book Section	Cantarelli, V.H.	1997	The Amazon turtles - Conservation and management in Brazil	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			407-410			
Journal Article	Canyon, D. V.;Hii, J. L. K.	1997	The gecko: an environmentally friendly biological agent for mosquito control		Medical and Veterinary Entomology			11		319-323			
Journal Article	Capizzi, Dario;Luiselli, Luca	1997	The diet of the four-lined snake (Elaphe quatrolineata) in Mediterranean Central Italy		Herpetological journal			7	1	1-5	Elaphe quatrolineata; Italy; Diet		
Journal Article	Capula, Massimo;Luiselli, Luca;Rugiero, Lorenzo;Evangelisti, Fatima;Anibaldi, Claudio;Jesus, Veronica Trujillo	1997	Notes on the food habits of Coluber hippocrepis nigrescens from Pantelleria Island: A snake that feed on both carrion and living prey		Herpetological Journal			7	2	67-70	Coluber hippocrepis nigrescens		
Journal Article	Capula, Massimo;Filippi, Ernesto;Luiselli, Luca;Jesus, Veronica Trujillo	1997	The ecology of the Western Whip Snake, Coluber viridiflavus (Lacépède, 1789), in Mediterranean Central Italy (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae)		Herpetozoa			10	1/2	65-79		Coluber viridiflavus; Italy; Ecology; Activity; Life history; Convergent evolution	
Journal Article	Capula, Massimo;Luiselli, Luca	1997	A tentative review of sexual behavior and alternative reproductive strategies of the Italian colubrid snakes (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae)		Herpetozoa			10	3/4	107-119		Museo Civico di Zoologia, viale del Giardino Zoologico 20, I-00197 Rome, Italy	
Journal Article	Caputo, Vincenzo;Guarino, Fabio M.;Baldanza, Fulvio	1997	A new finding of the skink, Chalcides ocellatus in the ex Royal Garden of Portici (Naples, Italy)		Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española				8	3-4			
Journal Article	Caramaschi, Ulisses;Gonçalves da Cruz, Carlos Alberto	1997	Redescription of Chiasmocleis albopunctata (Boettger) and description of a new species of Chiasmocleis (Anura: Microhylidae)		Herpetologica			53	2	259-268	Anura; Microhylidae; Chiasmocleis albopunctata; Chiasmocleis mehelyi n. sp.; Taxonomy		
Journal Article	Caramaschi, Ulisses;Velosa, Antonio	1997	Stombus precrenulatus Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937, a junior synonym of Proceratophrys schirchi (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1937) (Anura: Leptodactylidae)		Copeia			1997	3	629-631	Stombus precrenulatus; Proceratophrys schirchi		
Journal Article	Caramaschi, Ulisses;Cruz, Carlos Alberto Gonçalves Da	1997	Redescription of Chiasmocleis albopunctata (Boettger) and description of a new species of Chiasmocleis (Anura: Microhylidae)		Herpetologica			53	2	259-268			
Journal Article	Card, Winston	1997	Considerations for manipulating artificial environmental parameters for reptiles in captivity		Reptiles			5	1	66-77			
Journal Article	Cardoso de Lima, Aldeniza;Magnusson, William E.;Lopes da Costa, Valdenise	1997	Diet of the turtle Phrynops rufipes in Central Amazônia		Copeia			1997	1	216-219	Phrynops rufipes; diet		
Journal Article	Carey, Cynthia	1997	Disease, stress and amphibian declines		Froglog				22	1	Amphibian decline		
Journal Article	Carissimi-Priori, Luis Batista	1997	La magia y los repriles I: Tortugas y anfibios		Reptilia (Spain)				10	57-61	Mythology; folklore		
Journal Article	Carissimi-Priori, Luis Batista	1997	Magie und Aberglauben. teil 2 Schlangen und Echsen		Reptilia (German)				5	60-64			
Journal Article	Carissimi-Priori, Luis Batista	1997	La Magia y los Reptiles II Lagartos y serpientes		Reptilia (Spain)				11	60-64			
Journal Article	Carlin, Joel L.	1997	Genetic and morphological differentiation between Eurycea longicauda longicauda and E. guttolineata (Caudata: Plethodontidae)		Herpetologica			53	2	206-217	Allozymes; Eurycea guttolineata; Eurycea longicauda; Morphometrics		
Journal Article	Carmel, Brendan	1997	Control of intestinal parasites		Monitor: Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society			9	1	50-52			
Journal Article	Carr, Stacey E.;Stuart, James N.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Scaphiopus couchii		Herpetological Review			28	1	49			
Journal Article	Carr, Stacey E.;Stuart, James N.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Heterodon nasicus nasicus		Herpetological Review			28	1	52			
Journal Article	Carr, Stacey E.;Stuart, James N.;Degenhardt, William G.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Pseudacris triseriata		Herpetological Review			28	3	156			
Journal Article	Carretero, Miguel A.;Llorente, Gustavo A.	1997	Reproduction of Psammodromus algirus in coastal sandy areas of NE Spain		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	4	369-382			
Journal Article	Casares, M.;Rubel, A.;Honegger, R.E.	1997	Observations on the female reproductive cycle of captive giant tortoises (Geochelone spp.) using ultrasound scanning		Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine			28	3	267-273	Reptilia, testudines, giant tortoises, Geochelone spp., physiology, propagation, ultrasonography, reproduction, ovarian follicles, oviductal eggs	The reproductive activities of one adult female Galapagos tortoise (Geochelone nigra) and three adult female Aldabra tortoises (Geochelone gigantea) were monitored over 2 yr using ultrasound scanning. A nonrestraining technique of tactile stimulation was used for all examinations. Developing, preovulatory, and atretic ovarian follicles, as well as eggs at various stages of shell deposition, were identified and measured. In G. nigra, follicles became preovulatory at a diameter of 40-42 mm and eggs were laid 34-84 days (mean = 55.6, n = 5) after the thin-shelled eggs were first detected in the oviducts. Geochelone nigra was capable of retaining eggs, with the shell already formed, until the next breeding season. No eggs have been produced by G. gigantea during their stay in Zurich Zoo although follicles of 38-40 mm have been observed frequently in two animals. A Rubel, Loro Parque, Puerto La Cruz 38400, Spain	
Journal Article	Casas Andreu, Gustavo;Aguilar Miguel, Xochitl	1997	El Estado de Mexico y la declinacion mundial de amfibios		Siyan can. Revista de la Faculdad de Ciencias, UNEMex			1	2	3-6			
Journal Article	Casas Andreu, Gustavo;Aguilar Miguel, Xochitl	1997	Claves de identificacion de los anfibios del Estado de Mexico		Siyan can. Revista de la Faculdad de Ciencias, UNEMex			1	2	39-46	key amphibians mexico		
Journal Article	Case, Russ;Goll, Peter;Hutchins, Bill;Samuelson, Phillip	1997	Cold-blooded creations: Four herp artists discuss their work		Reptiles			5	4	10-23			
Journal Article	Case, Russ	1997	1996 Reptiles article index		Reptiles			5	1	78-91			
Journal Article	Case, Russ	1997	Book reviews: Making Pet Palaces; General Care and Maintenance of Popular Tortoises; and Snake Lovers' Lifelist & Journal		Reptiles			5	3	80-81	book review		
Journal Article	Casey, R.N.;Quackenbush, S.L.;Work, T.M.;Balazs, G.H.;Bowser, P.R.;Casey, J.W.	1997	Evidence for retrovirus infections in green turtles Chelonia mydas from the Hawaiian islands		Diseases of Aquatic Organisms			31	1	1-7	Reptilia, testudines, green turtle, infection, virus, retrovirus, fibropapillomatosis, reverse transcriptase	Apparently normal Hawaiian green turtles Chelonia mydas and those displaying fibropapillomas were analyzed for infection by retroviruses. Strikingly, all samples were positive for polymerase enhanced reverse transcriptase (PERT) with levels high enough to quantitate by the conventional reverse transcriptase (RT) assay. However, samples of skin, even from asymptomatic turtles, were RT positive, although the levels of enzyme activity in healthy turtles hatched and raised in captivity were much lower than those observed in asymptomatic free-ranging turtles. Turtles with fibropapillomas displayed a broad range of reverse transcriptase activity. Skin and eye fibropapillomas and a heart tumor were further analyzed and shown to have reverse transcriptase activity that banded in a sucrose gradient at 1.17 g ml(-1). The reverse transcriptase activity purified from the heart tumor displayed a temperature optimum of 37 degrees C and showed a preference for Mn2+ over Mg2+. Sucrose gradient fractions of this sample displaying elevated reverse transcriptase activity contained primarily retroviral-sized particles with prominent envelope spikes, when negatively stained and examined by electron microscopy. Sodium dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) analysis of gradient-purified virions revealed a conserved profile among 4 independent tumors and showed 7 prominent proteins having molecular weights of 116, 83, 51, 43, 40, 20 and 14 kDa. The data suggest that retroviral infections are widespread in Hawaiian green turtles and a comprehensive investigation is warranted to address the possibility that these agents cause green turtle fibropapillomatosis (GTFP). JW Casey, Cornell Univ, Coll Vet Med, Dept Microbiol & Immunol, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA	
Journal Article	Casper, Gary S.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Ambystoma laterale		Herpetological Review			28	1	47			
Journal Article	Casper, Gary S.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Pseudacris triseriata triseriata		Herpetological Review			28	1	48-49			
Journal Article	Casper, Gary S.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Graptemys geographica		Herpetological Review			28	1	49			
Journal Article	Casper, Gary S.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Sternotherus odoratus		Herpetological Review			28	4	209			
Journal Article	Casper, Gary S.	1997	Recent amphibian and reptile distribution records for Wisconsin		Herpetological Review			28	4	214-216			
Journal Article	Casper, G. S.	1997	Ambystoma laterale (blue-spotted salamander)		Herpetological Review			28	1	47			
Book Section	Castano-Mora, O.V.	1997	Status of the tortoises and freshwater turtles of Colombia	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			302-306			
Journal Article	Castaño-Mora, Olga Victoria	1997	La situacion de Podocnemis erythrocephala (Spix, 1824) (Testudinata: Pelomedusidae), en Colombia		Caldasia			19	1-2	55-60			
Journal Article	Castrucci, Ana Maria de L.;Sherbrooke, Wade C.;Zucker, Naida	1997	Regulation of physiological color change in dorsal skin of male tree lizards, Urosaurus ornatus		Herpetologica			53	4	405-410			
Journal Article	Cathers, T.;Lewbart, G.A.;Correa, M.;Stevens, J.B.	1997	Serum chemistry and hematology values for anesthetized American bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana)		Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine			28	2	171-174	Amphibia, anura, bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana  blood, values, hematology, serum chemistry	Samples taken from seven male and seven female adult American bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) were evaluated by complete blood count and serum chemistry to establish baseline data on commercially available frogs destined for laboratory use. Differences between sexes were analyzed and females had higher plasma protein, calcium, and sodium levels. GA Lewbart N Carolina State Univ Coll Vet Med Dept Compan Anim & Special Species Med 4700 Hillsborough St Raleigh, NC 27606 USA	
Book Section	Cayot, L.J.;Morillo, G. E.	1997	Rearing and repatriation of Galapagos tortoises: Geochelone nigra hoodensis, a case study	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			178-183			
Journal Article	Cedhagen, Tomas	1997	Anurans collected in West Malaysia		Asiatic Herpetological Research			7		1-5	West Malaysia; Anura; Amphibia		
Journal Article	Censky, Ellen J.;Lindsay, Kevin	1997	Geographic Distribution. Gymnophthalmus underwoodi		Herpetological Review			28	4	210			
Journal Article	Censky, Ellen J.;Hodge, Karim	1997	Geographic Distribution. Ramphotyphlops braminus		Herpetological Review			28	4	210			
Journal Article	Censky, E. J.	1997	Female mate choice in the non-territorial lizard Ameiva plei (Teiidae)		Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology			40		221-225	tropics, sexual selection, behavior, teiidae		
Journal Article	Cespedez, Jorge Abel	1997	Geographic Distribution. Melanophryniscus stelzneri dorsalis		Herpetological Review			28	2	93			
Journal Article	Cespedez, Jorge Abel	1997	Geographic Distribution. Pleurodema borelli		Herpetological Review			28	4	208			
Journal Article	Chaloupka, Milani;Zug, George R.	1997	A polyphasic growth function for the endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle, Lepidochelys kempii		Fishery Bulletin			95		849-856			
Journal Article	Chaloupka, M.Y.;Limpus, C.J.	1997	Robust statistical modelling of hawksbill sea turtle growth rates (southern Great Barrier Reef)		Marine Ecology			146		1-8	growth		
Book Section	Chaloupka, M.Y.;Musick, J. A.	1997	Age, growth, and population dynamics	Musick, J. A. and Lutz, P.L.	The Biology of Sea Turltes	Boca Raton, Florida	CRC Press			233-277	loggerhead; green; demographics; tagging; growth; model		
Journal Article	Chanda, Shyamal K.;Sarkar, Anurup K.	1997	The validity of Philautus shyamrupusChanda and Ghosh, 1989 (Anura: Rhacophoridae)		Hamadryad			22	1	46-47			
Journal Article	Chanda, Shyamal K.;Das, Indraneil	1997	The systematic status of Nyctibatrachus sanctipalustris modestus Rao, 1920 (Anura: Ranidae)		Hamadryad			22	1	48-49			
Journal Article	Chandraratne, R. M. M.	1997	Some reptile bones from the Gedige Excavation in 1985, the Citadel of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka		Lyriocephalus			3	2	7-15		Dept. of Archaeology, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka	
Journal Article	Channing, Alan;Drewes, Robert C.	1997	Description of the tadpole of Bufo kisoloensis		Alytes			15	1	13-18	Bufo kisoloensis		
Journal Article	Channing, Alan	1997	Book review: Amphibien der Westafrikanischen Savanne		Herpetological Review			28	4	218	Book review		
Journal Article	Cheng, I.-J.;Chen, T.-H.	1997	The incidental capture of five species of sea turtles by coastal setnet fisheries in the eastern waters of Taiwan		Biological Conservation			82		235-239	green; loggerhead; mortality		
Journal Article	Cherepanov, Gennady O.	1997	The origin of the bony shell of turtles as a unique evolutionary model in reptiles		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	2	155-162		Dept. of Vert. Zool., St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia	
Journal Article	Chevalier, J.;Girondot, M.	1997	Dynamique de pontes des tortues marines en Guyane francaise pendant la saison 1997		Bull. Soc. Herp. Fr.			85-86		5-19	leatherback		
Journal Article	Chikin, Yuri A.	1997	A catalogue of non-metrical variations in skull bones of Vipera lebetina (Reptilia, Viperidae)		Asiatic Herpetological Research			7		6-18	Reptilia; Ophidia; Viperidae; Vipera lebetina obtusa; Vipera lebetina turanica; Vipera lebetina cernovi; Uzbekistan; Turkmenistan; Caucasus; Osteology; Skull bones		
Journal Article	Chiner Furguet, Carles	1997	Pseudohibernación: un caso cuyo tratamiento nos debe hacer reflexionar		Reptilia				12	13-15			
Journal Article	Chirio, Laurent;Ineich, Ivan	1997	Geographic Distribution. Ramphotyphlops braminus		Herpetological Review			28	1	52			
Journal Article	Chiszar, David;Smith, Hobart M.	1997	Numismatic herpetology: Paper money		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	3	45-67	Numismatics		
Journal Article	Chiszar, David;Smith, Hobart M.	1997	New records for amphibians and reptiles from Texas		Herpetological Review			28	2	99-100			
Journal Article	Chiszar, David;van Breukelen, Frank;Smith, Hobart M.	1997	Russian herpetological coins: A study in the meaning of dragons		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	7	147-150	numismatics		
Journal Article	Chivers, Douglas P.;Wildy, Erica L.;Blaustein, Andrew R.	1997	Eastern long-toed salamader (Ambystoma macrodactylum columbianum) larvae recognize cannibalistic conspecifics		Ethology			103		187-197	trophic polymorphism, cannibal morphs, typical morphs		
Journal Article	Chivers, D. P.;Wildy, E. L.;Blaustein., A. R.	1997	Eastern long-toed salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum columbianum) larvae recognize cannibalistic conspecifics		Ethology			103		187-197			
Journal Article	Chondropoulos, Basil P.;Chiras, George	1997	Geographic Distribution. Podarcis erhardii livadiaca		Herpetological Review			28	2	97			
Journal Article	Chondropoulos, Basil P.;Chiras, George	1997	Geographic Distribution. Testudo marginata		Herpetological Review			28	4	209			
Journal Article	Chou, W.-H.;Lin., J.-Y.	1997	Tadpoles of Taiwan		Spec. Publ. Nat. Mus. Taiwan				7	1-98			
Journal Article	Chou, Wen-hao;Lin, Jun-yi	1997	Tadpoles of Taiwan		National Museum of Natural Science Special Publication				7	iv, 1-98			
Journal Article	Choudhury, Anwaruddin	1997	Status of Gharial in Arunachal Pradesh		Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter			16	3	8			
Journal Article	Choudhury, N. K.;Sharma, D. K.;Sengupta, S.	1997	Notes on the distribution and diet of Kachuga sylhetensis		Hamadryad			22	1	61-62			
Book Section	Choudhury, B.C.;S. Bhupathy, E. O. Moll	1997	Conservation and management of freshwater turtles and land tortoises in India (executive summary)	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			301			
Journal Article	Chrisman, C.L.;Walsh, M.;Meeks, J.C.;Zurawka, H.;Larock, R.;Herbst, L.;Schumacher, J.	1997	Neurologic examination of sea turtles		Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association			211	8	1043	Reptilia, testudines, sea turtle, technique, examination, neurology	Objective-To determine whether neurologic examination techniques established for use on dogs and cats could be adapted for use on sea turtles. Design-Prospective controlled observational study. Animals-4 healthy Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas), 1 healthy Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempi), and 6 Green Turtles suspected to have neurologic abnormalities. Procedure-Neurologic examinations were performed while sea turtles were in and out of the water and in ventral and dorsal recumbency. Mentation, general activity, head and body posture, movement and coordination, thoracic and pelvic limb movement, strength and muscle tone, and tail movement were observed. Thoracic and pelvic limb flexor reflexes and nociception, righting response, cranial nerve reflexes, clasp and cloacal reflexes, and neck, dorsal scute, cloacal, and tail nociception were tested. Results-Results of neurologic evaluations were consistent for healthy sea turtles. Sea turtles suspected to have neurologic abnormalities had abnormal results. Clinical implications-Many of the neurologic examination techniques used to evaluate dogs and cats can be adapted and used to evaluate sea turtles. A standardized neurologic examination should result in an accurate assessment of neurologic function in impaired sea turtles and should help in evaluating effects of rehabilitation efforts and suitability for return to their natural environment. CL Chrisman  Univ Florida  Coll Vet Med  Dept Small Anim Clin Sci  Gainesville, FL 32610 USA	
Journal Article	Christian, Trevor	1997	A field trip to the McIlwraith Range - Capr York Peninsula		Monitor: Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society			8	3	160-169			
Journal Article	Christian, Keith;Parry, David	1997	Reduced rates of water loss and chemical properties of skin secretions of the frogs Litoria caerulea and Cyclorana australis		Australian Journal of Zoology			45		13-20			
Book Section	Christopher, M.M.;K. A. Nagy, I. Wallis, J. K. Klaassen, K. H. Berry	1997	Laboratory health profiles of desert tortoises in the Mojave Desert: a model for health status evaluation of chelonian populations	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			76-82			
Journal Article	Chubinishvili, Alexander T.	1997	The status of natural populations of the Rana esculenta - complex in response to anthropogenic influences: a morphogenetic approach		Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union			2		117-124			
Journal Article	Cima, R. R.;Cheng, I.;Klingensmith, M. E.;Chattopadhyay, N.;Kifor, O.;Hebert, S. C.;Brown, E. M.;Soybel, D. I.	1997	Identification and functional assay of an extracellular calcium-sensing receptor in Necturus gastric mucosa		Am J Physiol			273	5 Pt 1	G1051-60	Amiloride/pharmacology; Amino Acid Sequence; Animal; Cell Membrane/drug effects/physiology; Cloning, Molecular; Gastric Fundus; Gastric Mucosa/drug effects/*physiology; Membrane Potentials/drug effects; Microelectrodes; Molecular Sequence Data; Necturus; Neomycin/pharmacology; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Pyloric Antrum; Rats; Receptors, Cell Surface/biosynthesis/*chemistry/*physiology; Sequence Alignment; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.; Transcription, Genetic	In mammals and amphibians, increases in extracellular Ca2+ can activate bicarbonate secretion and other protective functions of gastric mucosa. We hypothesized that the recently cloned extracellular Ca(2+)-sensing receptor (CaR) is functioning in the gastric mucosa. In Necturus maculosus gastric mucosa, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction using primers based on previously cloned CaR sequences amplified a 326-bp DNA fragment that had 84% nucleotide sequence identity with the rat kidney CaR. Immunohistochemical localization of the CaR using specific anti-CaR antiserum revealed its presence on the basal aspect of gastric epithelial cells. In microelectrode studies of Necturus antral mucosa, exposure to elevated Ca2+ (4.8 mM) and the CaR agonists NPS-467 and neomycin sulfate resulted in significant hyperpolarizations of basal membrane electrical potentials and increases in apical-to-basal membrane resistance ratios. Circuit analysis revealed that these changes reflected specific decreases in basolateral membrane resistance. Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis using indomethacin significantly attenuated these effects. We conclude that the CaR is present and functioning in Necturus gastric antrum.	
Journal Article	Ciofi, C.;Swingland, I.R.	1997	Environmental sex determination in reptiles		Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci.			51	3-4	251-265	reproduction, temperature, TSD,	n recent years, representatives of more than 40 families of reptiles have been studied to understand how environmental parameters affect sex determination. In this review, we summarise the distribution and taxonomic pattern of sex determining mechanisms, outline the main hypotheses of the adaptive significance of temperature sex determination (TSD), and of skewed population sex ratios. We also examine the competing hypotheses of the physiological and molecular mechanisms involved in TSD.	
Journal Article	Claessen, Hugo	1997	Jurrassic Kikker springt in het Record Book		Terra			3	3	87			
Journal Article	Claessen, Hugo	1997	Beschouwingen bij het doseren van medicamenten in functie van het metabolisme		Terra			3	3	94-97			
Journal Article	Claessen, Hugo	1997	Ultra-violet lampen		Terra			3	3	98	UV lights		
Journal Article	Claessen, Hugo	1997	Beschouwingen aangaande het houden van inlandse reptielen en amfibieën		Terra			33	5	151-152			
Journal Article	Clark, Richard	1997	The herpetofauna of the uninhabited islands of the Spetsai/Hydra Island complex, Greece		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				58	36-43	Greece		
Journal Article	Clark, Bob	1997	Tiger, tiger...		Vivarium			8	4	37			
Journal Article	Clark, David L.;Macedonia, Joseph M.;Rosenthal, Gil G.	1997	Testing video playback to lizards in the field		Copeia			1997	2	421-423	Anolis grahami		
Journal Article	Clark, Donald R.;Bunck, Christine M.;Hall, Russell J.	1997	Female reproductive dynamics in a Maryland population of ringneck snakes (Diadophis punctatus)		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	476-483			
Book Section	Clay, Douglas	1997	The effects of temperature and acidity on spawning of the spotted salamander, Ambystoma maculatum, in Fundy National Park	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			226-232			
Journal Article	Clemons, Jan	1997	Conserving Great Crested newts		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				59	2-5	Triturus cristatus		
Journal Article	Close, Lisa M.;Seigel, Richard A.	1997	Differences in body size among populations of red-eared sliders (Trachemys scripta elegans) subjected to different levels of harvesting		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	563-566			
Journal Article	Close, L. M.;Seigel, R. A.	1997	Differences in body size amoung populations of red-eared sliders (Trachemys scripta elegans) subjected to different levels of harvesting		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	563-556	red-eared slider, Trachrmys scripta elegans,  harvesting, population, body size		
Journal Article	Cloudsley-Thompson, J. L.	1997	Book review: Reptiles and herbivory		Herpetological Journal			7	4	174-175			
Journal Article	Cobb, G.P.;Wood, P.D.;OQuinn, M.	1997	Polychlorinated-biphenyls in eggs and chorioallantoic membranes of American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) from coastal South Carolina		Environm. Toxicol. Chem.			16	7	1456-1462	AM, disease, pollutants,	Assessing chemical exposure in threatened or endangered wildlife species presents unique analytical problems. Chorioallantoic membranes (CAMs) have been proposed as surrogate tissues for evaluation of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) exposure in oviparous species. Research was undertaken to determine the extent of PCB accumulation in alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) at sites along the coast of South Carolina and to evaluate the utility of CAMs as surrogate tissues for determining PCB concentrations in whole alligator eggs. Polychlorinated biphenyls were found in eggs and CAMs of alligators from both sites examined. Concentrations of PCBs were higher in CAMs (p = 0.02) and eggs (p = 0.001) from sites known to contain chlorinated hydrocarbons than from more pristine sites. Total PCBs partitioned predictably (r(2) > 0.59; p < 0.02) between egg and CAM tissues indicating the utility of CAMs to serve as surrogate tissues when comparing total PCB concentrations in whole eggs. Tetrachloro through octachloro biphenyl homologues and total PCBs in CAMs from reference areas were correlated with concentrations of these homologues in eggs. At contaminated sites, total PCB concentrations in CAMs were correlated with total PCB concentrations in eggs.	
Journal Article	Cogãlniceanu, Dan	1997	An inexpensive chamber for collecting the excretory products of tadpoles		Herpetological Review			28	1	36	Fecal samples; Techniques		
Journal Article	Cohen, Mary Anderson	1997	The Russian Tortoise Testudo (Agrionemys) horsfieldii		The League of Florida Herpetological Societies				November	19-21			
Journal Article	Coke, Rob L.	1997	Jackson's chameleon: captive care & breeding		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine				May	12-19	Chamaeleo jacksonii		
Journal Article	Colberg, Mary Ellen;DeNardo, Dale F.;Rojek, Nora A.;Miller, Jack W.	1997	Surgical procedure for radio transmitter implantation into aquatic, larval salamanders		Herpetological Review			28	2	77-78	telemetry, technique, amphibian		
Journal Article	Cole, Charles J.;Gans, Carl	1997	The karyotype of Dibamus novaeguineae (Squamata: Dibamidae)		Herpetologica			53	2	229-232	Reptilia; Squamata; Dibamidae; Dibamus novaeguineae; Karyotype; Systematics		
Journal Article	Cole, Oliver	1997	My first few months keeping lizards		Reptilian			5	3	20-21			
Journal Article	Cole, Ronald;Mirtschin, Peter	1997	Australia's fierce snake		Reptiles			5	12	62-73			
Journal Article	Coleman, Ronald M.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Diploglossus monotropis		Herpetological Review			28	4	210			
Journal Article	Colgan, D. J.;Da Costa, P.	1997	Genetic discrimination between the iguanas Brachylophus vitiensis and Brachylophus fasciatus		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	589-591			
Journal Article	Colli, Guarino R.;Péres, Ayrton K.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Chironius flavolineatus		Herpetological Review			28	3	158			
Journal Article	Colli, Guarino R.;Péres, Ayrton K.;Zatz, Mariana G.	1997	Foraging mode and reproductive seasonality in Tropical lizards		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	490-499			
Book	Collins, Joseph T.	1997	Standard Common and Scientific Names for North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Fourth Edition			St. Louis, MO	SSAR			iii + 40	North America		
Journal Article	Committee, Flat-tailed Horned Lizard Working Group of Interagency Coordinating	1997	Flat-tailed horned lizard rangewide management strategy		An Arizona-California Conservation Strategy					i-iii, 1-92			
Journal Article	Comrie, J.	1997	The bite of the Boomslang		Herptile: Journal of the International Herpetological Society			22	2	52-53			
Journal Article	Conant, Roger	1997	The Great Barrancas		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	9	189-196			
Book	Conant, Roger	1997	A Field Guide to the Life and Times of Roger Conant			Provo, UT	Selva			xx + 498 + 8 color plates			
Journal Article	Conley, A.J.;Elf, P.;Corbin, C.J.;Dubowsky, S.;Fivizzani, A.;Lang, J.W.	1997	Yolk steroids decline during sexual-differentiation in the alligator		Gen. Comp. Endocrinol.			107	2	191-200	AM, endocrinology, reproduction,	The leading explanation of temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) in reptiles postulates that (1) ovarian differentiation is directed by estrogen and that (2) estrogen is synthesized in the developing gonad following induction of aromatase expression. However, the source of steroid substrate for aromatization has not yet been identified. In addition, sex ratios vary as a function of clutch, but such biases are as yet unexplained. To address these issues, we measured estradiol, testosterone, and androstenedione in yolks of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) before, during, and after the period of gonadal differentiation in this TSD species. Eggs were collected from a wild population in Louisianna and were incubated at male- and female-determining constant temperatures in the lab, as well as at intermediate temperatures that produced both sexes. Steroids were assayed in yolk extracts after celite column chromotography. All three steroids were found to be in the range of nanograms/gram of yolk at stage 16. Androstenedione was the predominant steroid, 2- to 3-fold higher in concentration than estradiol and 15- to 20-fold higher than testosterone. The levels of these steroids declined (5- to 30-fold) between stages 16 and 25, most markedly between stages 21 and 23, regardless of incubation temperature. The chronology of this sharp decline in steroid levels in our study coincides with the timing of gonadal differentiation in this species, between stages 21 to 23 based on previous reports. Estradiol levels in yolks differed by 3-fold in some clutches relative to others, whereas, no clutch differences were apparent for either androstenedione or testosterone. These data demonstrate that alligator yolk contains high concentrations of two steroid substrates utilized for estrogen synthesis, as well as significant quantities of estradiol itself. We hypothesize that estradiol levels in yolk provide a steroid background, variable among and within clutches, on which gonadal development is initiated and proceeds. As a consequence, we suggest that yolk provides an epigenetic maternal contribution that modulates the effect of incubation temperature on hatchling sex.	
Journal Article	Conley, A.J.;Elf, P.;Corbin, C.J.;Dubowsky, S.;Fivizzani, A.;Lang, J.W.	1997	Yolk steroids decline after sexual differentiation in the alligator		General and Comparative Endocrinology			107		191-200	croc; sex determination; tsd		
Journal Article	Conlon, J. M.;Trauth, S. E.;Sever, D. M.	1997	Purification and structural characterization of insulin from the lesser siren, Siren intermedia (Amphibia: Caudata)		Gen Comp Endocrinol			106	3	295-300		Insulin has been isolated from an extract of the pancreas of a salamander, the lesser siren Siren intermedia, and its primary structure was established as: A-chain, Gly-Ile-Val- Glu-Gln-Cys-Cys-His-Asn-Thr10-Cys-Ser-Leu-Tyr-Gln-Leu-Glu-Asn-Tyr- Cys20-Asn, and B-chain, Val-Pro-Asn-Lys-Pro- Leu-Cys-Gly-Ala-His10-Leu-Val-Glu-Val-Met-Tyr-Phe-Val- Cys-Gly20-Asp-Arg-Gly-Phe-Phe-Tyr-Pro-Ser-Ser-Thr 30. Although those amino acid residues considered to constitute the receptor-binding region of insulin have been retained, siren insulin contains several substitutions (Gln-->Lys at B4, Ser-->Ala at B9, Ala-->Val at B14, Leu-->Met at B15, Leu-->Phe at B17, Pro-->Ser at B28, and Lys-->Ser at B29) of amino acid residues that are conserved in insulins from species of other amphibian orders. The biological activity of siren insulin was not investigated in this study but the substitutions at B28 (involved in dimer formation) and at B14 and B17 (involved in hexamer formation) may be expected to influence conformation and therefore biological potency. The data are consistent with the view that the Sirenoidea represent an early divergence from the ancestral stock of salamanders.	
Journal Article	Conlon, J. M.;Platz, J. E.;Nielsen, P. F.;Vaudry, H.;Vallarino, M.	1997	Primary structure of insulin from the African lungfish, Protopterus annectens		General and Comparative Endocrinology			107	3	421-427	Protopterus Annectens; Typhlonectes Natans; Amphiuma Tridactylum; Siren Intermedia; Amia Calva; Xenopus Laevis; Lepisosteus Spatula; Polyodon Spathula; Oncorhynchus Kisutch; African Lungfish; Mammal; Human; Caecilian; Three-Toed Amphiuma; Lesser Siren; Bowfin; Clawed Toad; Gar; Paddlefish; Salmon; Pancreas; Insulin; Purification; Amino Acid Sequence; Sequence Homology; Phylogeny; Evolution; Molecular Genetics; Digestive System; Endocrine System	Among the extant Sarcopterygii, the interrelationship between the Dipnoi (lungfishes), Actinistia (coelacanths), and Tetrapoda (tetrapods) is controversial. Insulin has been purified from an extract of the pancreas of the African lungfish Protopterus annectens and its primary structure established as A-chain, Gly)-Ile-Val-Glu-Gln-Cys-Cys-His-Lys-Pro-10-Cys-Ser-Leu-Tyr-Glu-Leu-Glu-Asn-Tyr-Cys-20-Asn-Val-Pro; and B-chain, Ala-Val-Leu-Asn-Gln-His-Leu-Cys-Gly-Ser-10-His-Leu-Val-Ala-Leu-Tyr-Leu-Val-CyS-20-Ala-Asp-Asn-Gly-Phe-Phe-Tyr-Lys-Pro-Ser-3O-Gly. Lungfish insulin contains unusual structural features, such as the dipeptide extension to the C-terminus of the A-chain and the substitution Arg fwdarw Asn at position B-23 in the putative receptor binding region of insulin, which may be expected to influence appreciably its biological potency relative to mammalian insulins. Lungfish insulin also contains amino acid substitutions such as Gly fwdarw Ala at position B-21, Glu fwdarw Asp at position B-22, and a Lys fwdarw Ser residue at position B-30, previously found in insulins from amphibia. This observation is consistent with paleontological data suggesting that lungfish and amphibia share a close phylogenetic relationship.	
Journal Article	Conover, Michael R.;Dubow, Tami J.	1997	Alligator attacks on Humans in the United States		Herpetological Review			28	3	120-124	Alligator mississippiensis; Alligator attacks		
Journal Article	Conover, M. R.;Dubow, T. J.	1997	Alligator attacks on humans in the United States		Herpetological Review			28	3	120-124	alligator, attacks, review		
Journal Article	Conway, Warren C.;Anderson, James T.;Ostrand, Kenneth G.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Pseudacris clarkii		Herpetological Review			28	4	208			
Journal Article	Cooke, A. S.	1997	Monitoring a breeding population of Crested Newts (Triturus cristatus ) in a housing development		Herpetological Journal			7	2	37-41	Triturus cristatus		
Journal Article	Cooper, William E., Jr;Vitt, Laurie J.	1997	Maximizing male reproductive success in the broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps): preliminary evidence for mate guarding, size-assortative pairing, and opportunistic extra-pair mating		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	1	59-73	Eumeces laticeps; Reproductive success; Mate guarding; Size-assortative pairing		
Journal Article	Cooper, William E., Jr	1997	Independent evolution of squamate olfaction and vomerolfaction and correlated evolution of vomerolfaction and lingual structure		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	1	85-105	Evolution; Olfaction; Vomerolfaction		
Journal Article	Cooper, John E.;Davies, Owen	1997	Studies on morbidity and mortality in smooth snakes (Coronella ssp.)		Herpetological journal			7	1	19-22	Cornella; Morbidity; Mortality		
Journal Article	Cooper, William E., Jr	1997	Threat factors affecting antipredatory behavior in the broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps): Repeated approach, change in predator path, and predator's field of view		Copeia			1997	3	613-619	Eumeces laticeps; Antipredator behavior		
Journal Article	Cooper, William E., Jr	1997	factors affecting risk and cost of escape by the broad-headed skink (Eumeces laticeps): predator speed, directness of approach, and female presence		Herpetologica			53	4	464-474			
Journal Article	Cooper, J.E.;Davies, O.	1997	Studies on morbidity and mortality in smooth snakes (Coronella spp.)		Herpetological Journal			7	1	19-22	Reptilia, serpentes, Coronella, pathology, survey	Data on morbidity and mortality in European smooth snakes, Coronella austriaca and C. girondica, were collated and a limited amount of clinical and pathological material was examined. There proved to be a paucity of published information and much of that available related to captive reptiles. Coronella spp. appeared to be susceptible to diseases that are well recognised in other reptiles in captivity - for example, pneumonia, ophthalmitis, nephritis, salpingitis and hepatitis. Mites were commonly associated with anaemia. Data from captivity are of some relevance to free-living populations, particularly when Coronella spp, are translocated or captured and studied in confinement. Information on health and disease needs to be collated and made available to those who are working on these species. There is also an urgent need to collect field data, not only in order to ascertain the prevalence of diseases and infections in free-living populations but also to establish databases on ''normal'' snakes. Protocols are presented to assist in the compilation and standardization of findings in live and dead specimens.	
Journal Article	Cooper, W.E.;Whiting, M.J.;Vanwyk, J.H.	1997	Foraging modes of cordyliform lizards		South African Journal of Zoology			32	1	9-13	reptilia, sauria, food, feeding, foraging	The first quantitative data on foraging mode in the cordyliform lizards reveal different foraging behaviours between and within families. All species of cordylids studied (four Cordylus, two Pseudocordylus, and one Platysaurus) are ambush foragers. However, the species of Cordylus and Pseudocordylus microlepidotus are the most extreme ambushers. These species spent a significantly lower per cent time moving than did all of the other species studied and made significantly fewer movements per minute than Platysaurus capensis and gerrhosaurids. In addition, P. microlepidotus made significantly fewer movements per minute than did its congener Pseudocordylus capensis. Possible reasons for the high number of movements per minute in Platysaurus capensis are discussed. Very limited observations of two gerrhosaurid species show that Cordylosaurus subtessellatus is an active forager and Gerrhosaurus validus forages actively at least some of the time. A tentative hypothesis of the evolution of cordyliform foraging behaviour based on very limited data hints that active foraging is plesiomorphic in the Gerrhosaurini and further that gerrhosaurids may have retained active foraging from the common ancestor of Scincidae and Cordyliformes. Somewhat stronger data suggest that ambush foraging arose in the common ancestor of Cordylidae or Cordylinae. Further study is needed to trace inter-and intrageneric changes in foraging mode in cordylids. WE Cooper Indiana Univ Purdue Univ Dept Biol FT Wayne, IN 46805 USA	
Journal Article	Coote, Jon	1997	Ultra-violet lights or vitamin D3 for your reptiles?		Herptile: Journal of the International Herpetological Society			22	2	76-80			
Journal Article	Coppen, James	1997	The herpetological shows of Florida		Reptilian			5	3	22-24			
Journal Article	Costanzo, J. P.;Irwin, J. T.;Lee, R. E.	1997	Freezing impariment of male reproductive behaviors of the freeze-tolerant wood frog (Rana sylvatica)		Physiological Zoology			70	2	158-166	temperature, frogs, freeze tolerance, mating, reproductive behavior		
Journal Article	Couper, Patrick J.;Schneider, Christopher J.;Covacevich, J. A.	1997	A new species of Saltuarius (Lacertilia: Gekkonidae) from Granite-based, open forests of eastern Australia		Memoirs of the Queensland Museum			42	1	91-96	Saltuarius wyberba n. sp.		
Journal Article	Courtillot, V.;Hulot, G.;Alexandrescu, M.;Mouël, J.-L.;Kirschvink, J.L.	1997	Sensitivity and evolution of sea-turtle magnetoreception: observations, modelling and constraints from geomagnetic secular variation		Terra Nova			9		203-207	orientation; migration; loggerhead; Green		
Journal Article	Covacevich, J. A.;Sutherland, S. K.;Coventry, A. J.;Cann, J.	1997	Obituary: Charles Tanner, Herpetologist		Herpetofauna			27	1	52-55			
Journal Article	Cox, Merel J.;Nabhitabhata, Jarujin	1997	Geographic Distribution. Typhlops porrectus		Herpetological Review			28	1	53			
Journal Article	Cox, Merel J.	1997	Reticulate pythons (Rython reticulatus) in Bangkok		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Mar./Apr.	20-24	Thailand; Python reticulatus		
Journal Article	Cox, Merel J.;Chiszar, David;Smith, Hobart M.	1997	Mandibular protractions and their correlation with meal size in juvenile Thai snakes during ingestion of rodent prey		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	1	31-33	Predation; prey handling; mandibular protraction; meal size		
Journal Article	Crabbe, Malcolm	1997	Double clutching of corn snakes		Herptile: Journal of the International Herpetological Society			22	2	87-88			
Journal Article	Crabbe, Malcolm	1997	Royals revisited		The Herptile			22	3	111-112			
Journal Article	Crain, D. A.;Guillette, Lj, Jr.;Rooney, A. A.;Pickford, D. B.	1997	Alterations in steroidogenesis in alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) exposed naturally and experimentally to environmental contaminants		Environ Health Perspect			105	5	528-33	Alligators and Crocodiles/embryology/*physiology; Animal; Aromatase/*blood; Case-Control Studies; Embryo, Nonmammalian/drug effects; Endocrine Glands/*drug effects; Estradiol/*blood; Female; Herbicides/*adverse effects; Insecticides, Organochlorine/*adverse effects; Male; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.; Testosterone/*blood; Water Pollution, Chemical/*adverse effects	Many environmental contaminants alter the reproduction of animals by altering the development and function of the endocrine system. The ability of environmental contaminants to alter the endocrine system of alligators was studied both in a descriptive study in which juvenile alligators from a historically contaminated lake were compared to animals from a control lake and in an experimental study in which hatchling control alligators were exposed in ovo to several endocrine- disrupting standards and two modern-use herbicides. Endocrine status was assessed by examining plasma hormone concentrations, gonadal- adrenal mesonephros (GAM) aromatase activity, and gonadal histopathology. In the descriptive study, juvenile alligators from the contaminated lake had significantly lower plasma testosterone concentrations (29.2 pg/ml compared to 51.3 pg/ml), whereas plasma 17 beta-estradiol concentrations did not vary when compared to controls. GAM aromatase activity was significantly decreased n the alligators from the contaminated lake (7.6 pmol/g/hr compared to 11.4 pmol/g/hr). In the experimental study, the endocrine-disrupting standards had the expected effects. 17 beta-Estradiol and tamoxifen caused sex reversal from male to female, with a corresponding increase in aromatase activity. Vinclozolin had no apparent effect on male or female alligators. Among the herbicides tested, atrazine induced GAM aromatase activity in male hatchling alligators that was neither characteristic of males nor females, although testicular differentiation was not altered. Exposure to 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid had no effect on the endocrine parameters that were measured. Together, these studies show that exposure to some environmental chemicals (such as atrazine) can alter steroidogenesis in alligators, but the endocrine alterations previously noted for Lake Apopka, Florida, alligators can not be fully explained by this mechanism.	
Journal Article	Cranston, Thurgess;Cranston, Eunice	1997	Feeding the reluctant snake		Vivarium			8	3	44-47	Book review		
Journal Article	Cranston, Thurgess	1997	natural history and captive husbandry of the Mexican Milk Snake, Lampropeltis triangulum annulata		Vivarium			8	5	48-50;68			
Journal Article	Creer, Douglas A.;Kjer, Karl M.;Simmons, Daniel L.;Sites, Jack W., Jr	1997	Phylogenetic relationships of Sceloporus scalaris species group (Squamata)		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	353-364		Sceloporus scalaris Species Group; Phylogeny	
Book Section	Crenshaw, Graham J.	1997	Disease in Canadian amphibian populations	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			258-270			
Journal Article	Crews, D.;Coomber, P.;Gonzalez-Lima, F.	1997	Effects of age and sociosexual experience on the morphology and metabolic capacity of brain nuclei in the leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius), a lizard with temperture-dependent sex determination		Brain Resarch			758		169-179	sex ratio		
Journal Article	Cribb, T.H.;Pichelin, S.P.	1997	Notopronocephalus peekayi gen. et sp. n. (Digenea: Pronocephalidae) from Australian freshwater turtles		Folia Parasitologica			44	4	279-282	Reptilia, testudines, Elseya latisternum, E. dentata, Emydura signata, infection, helminth, trematode,  Notopronocephalus peekayi gen. et sp. n.	Notopronocephalus peekayi gen, et sp, n. is described from the intestine of Elseya latisternum Gray, 1867, E. dentata (Gray, 1863) and Emydura signata Ahl, 1932 from rivers in Queensland. The new genus is distinguished by the absence of ventral glands, simple (neither diverticulate nor sinuous) caeca terminating at the anterior margin of the testes, excretory arms not uniting in forebody, single ovary, two opposite testes close to the posterior end of the body, intracaecal genital pore, vitelline follicles anterior to the testes, cirrus-sac orientated obliquely and not divided into two portions, and the uterus intracaecal. This is the first pronocephalid to be described from an Australian freshwater turtle and the first from the family Chelidae. TH Cribb, Univ Queensland, Dept Parasitol, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia	
Journal Article	Crnobrnja-Isailovic, J.;Dzukic, G.;Krstic, N.;Kalezic, M. L.	1997	Evolutionary and paleogeographical effects on the distribution of the Triturus cristatus superspecies in the central Balkans		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	4	321-332			
Journal Article	Crnobrnja-Isailovic, Jelka;Dzukic, Georg	1997	Raznovrsnost faune vodozemaca i gmizavaca u sirem Regionu Skadarskog Jezera i znacaj njenog ocuvanja [Diversity of amphibian and reptile fauna in the Lake Skadar Region and importance of its conservation		CANU, Posebna izdanja, Podgorica			44		237-261		GD: georg@ibiss.bg.ac.yu	
Journal Article	Crochet, Pierre-André	1997	Herpetological observations in southern Israel		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				60	13-24			
Journal Article	Crother, Brian I.	1997	Book review: Contributions to West Indian Herpetology: A tribute to Albert Schwartz		Herpetological Review			28	1	54-55	Book review; West Indies		
Journal Article	Crouse, Deborah	1997	Pacific leatherback postscript		Marine Turtle Newsletter				76	12-14	Dermochelys coriacea; Sea turtle mortality		
Journal Article	Crowe, Alan	1997	A futher instance of tongue regeneration in an snake		Herpetofauna			27	2	50		50 Lighthouse Road, Woonona, NSW 2517, Australia	
Journal Article	Crumly, Charles R.	1997	Book review: The Galápagos Tortoises: Nomenclatural and Survival Status		Herpetological Review			28	3	167-168	Book review		
Journal Article	Crump, Martha L.	1997	Book review: The Neotropical Toad Genus Atelopus		Copeia			1997	4	890-891			
Journal Article	Cruz, Félix B.	1997	Reproductive activity in Tropidurus etheridgei in the semiarid Chaco of Salta, Argentina		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	444-450		Tropidurud etheridgei	
Journal Article	Cruz, Carlos Alberto Gonçalves Da;Caramaschi, Ulisses;Izecksohn, Eugênio	1997	The genus Chiasmocleis Méhely, 1904 (Anura, Microhylidae) in the Atlantic Rain Forest of Brazil, with description of three new species		Alytes			15	2	49-71	C. becegoi, C. albopunctata, C. urbanae, C. leucosticta, C. schubarti		
Book	Cruz, Gustavo Adolfo	1997	Serpientes Venenosas de honduras			Tegucigalpa	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras			160, 9 plates			
Book	Cruz, Gustavo Adolfo	1997	Serpientes Venenosas de Honduras			Tegucigalpa	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras			160, 9 plates			
Journal Article	Cryder, Michael R.;Grismer, L. Lee;Hollingsworth, Bradford D.;Wong, Humberto	1997	Geographic Distribution. Phyllodactylus xanti		Herpetological Review			28	2	97			
Journal Article	Cuadrado, Mariano	1997	Efectividad de los censos nocturnos de camaleón común		Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española				8	27-28			
Journal Article	Cullings, Kenneth W.;Morafka, David J.;Hernandez, José;Roberts, John W.	1997	Reassessment of phylogenetic relationships among pitviper genera based on mitochondrial cytochrome b gene sequences		Copeia			1997	2	429-432	Phylogenetics; Pitvpers; Agkistrodon		
Journal Article	Cullum, Alistair J.	1997	Comparisons of physiological performance in sexual and asexual whiptail lizards (genus Cnemidophorus): Implications for the role of heterozygosity		The American Naturalist			150	1	24-47			
Book Section	Curtin, C.G.	1997	Biophysical analysis of the impact of shifting land use on ornate box turtles, Wisconsin, USA	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles ) An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			31-36			
Journal Article	Cvetkovic, D.;Kalezic, M. L.;Dzukic, G.	1997	Sexual size and shape difference in the crested newt (Triturus carnifex): ontogenetic growth aspects		Alytes			15	1	37-48		Triturus carnifex	
Journal Article	da Cruz, Carlos Alberto Gonçalves;Caramaschi, Ulisses;Izecksohn, Eugênio	1997	The genus Chiasmocleis Méhely, 1904 (Anura, Microhylidae) in the Atlantic Rain Forest of Brazil with description of three new species		Alytes			15	2	49-71	Chiasmocleis atlantica n. sp.; Chiasmocleis capixaba n. sp.; Chiasmocleis carvalhoi n. sp.		
Journal Article	da Silva, Hélio Ricardo	1997	Two character states new for Hylines and the taxonomy of the genus Pseudacris		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	609-613			
Journal Article	Da Silveira, Ronis;Da Silveira, Bárbara Brandão	1997	Capture and recapture of an adult Black Caiman in Mamirauá		Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter			16	2	18-20			
Journal Article	Da Silveira, Ronis;Magnusson, William Ernest;Campos, Zilca	1997	Monitoring the distribution, abundance and breeding areas of Caiman crocodilus crocodilus and Melanosuchus niger in the Anavilhanas Arcipelago, Central Amazonia, Brazil		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	514-520			
Journal Article	Da Silveria, R.;Magnusson, W.E.;Campos, Z.	1997	Monitoring the distribution, abundance and breeding areas of Caiman crocodilus crocodilus and Melanosuchus niger in the Anavilhanas Archipelago, Central Amazonia, Brazil		J. Herpetol.			31	4	514-5220	CCR, MN, reproduction, distribution, nest,		
Journal Article	Dai, A.;Del Genio, A.D.;Fung, I.Y.	1997	Clouds, precipitation and temperature range		Nature			386		665-666	temperature		
Book Section	Daigle, Claude	1997	Distribution and abundance of the chorus frog Pseudacris triseriata in Québec	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			73-77			
Book Section	Dale, R.;Lee, J.	1997	An action plan for nonprofit organizations in turtle and tortoise conservation	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			411-413			
Journal Article	Daltry, Jennifer C.;Martin, Gerard N.	1997	Rediscovery of the black narrow-mouthed frog, Melanobatrachus indicus Beddome, 1878		Hamadryad			22	1	57-58			
Journal Article	Daltry, Jennifer C.	1997	Book review: Reptile and Amphibian Variants: Colors, Patterns and Scales		Hamadryad			22	1	65-66			
Journal Article	Daly, Garry	1997	Behaviour of the bearded dragon lizards Pogona barbata and P. vitticeps in captivity		Herpetofauna			27	2	28-32		c/- North Nowra P.O., NSW 2541, Australia	
Journal Article	Daly, John W.;Garraffo, H. Martin	1997	Highly selective construction of trans(2,3)-cis(2,6)-trisubstituted piperidines: An application to the chiral synthesis of Dendrobates alkaloids		Tetrahedron			53	28	9553-9574			
Journal Article	Daly, John W.;Padgett, Wiiliam L.;Saunders, Robin L.;John F. Cover, Jr.	1997	Absence of tetratoxins in a captive-raised riparian frog, Atelopus varius		Toxicon			35	5	705-709			
Journal Article	Daly, John W.;Garraffo, H. Martin;Hall, Geoffrey S. E.;John F. Cover, Jr.	1997	Absence of skin alkaloids in captive-raised Madagascan mantelline frogs (Mantella) and sequestration of dietary alkaloids		Toxicon			35	7	1131-1135			
Journal Article	Daly, John W.;Garrafo, H. Martin;Myers, Charles W.	1997	The origin of frog alkaloids:  An enigma		Pharmaceutical News			4	4	9-14	Melanophryniscus, Mantella, Pseudophryne, Epidobates, Phyllobates, Dendrobates, histrionicus, auratus		
Journal Article	Danch, James M.	1997	The South American bushmaster		Reptiles			5	7	10-22	Lachesis muta		
Journal Article	Daniels, R. J. Ranjit	1997	A field guide to the frogs and toads of the Western Ghats, India: Part II		Cobra			28		1-24		3rd Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Madras 600 113, India	
Journal Article	Daniels, R. J. Ranjit	1997	A field guide to the frogs and toads of the Western Ghats, India: Part III		Cobra			29		1-13		3rd Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area, Madras 600 113, India	
Journal Article	Danilov, Igor G.;Averianov, Alexander O.	1997	New data on the turtles from the early Eocene of Kirgizia		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	1	40-45	Manouria; Hadrianus; Cheloniinae; Eocene; Kirghizia		
Journal Article	Darby, A. D.	1997	Notes on Hawksbill Turtle nesting on Golden Seas Beach, Oracabessa, Jamaica		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				60	29-32			
Journal Article	Darby, A.D.	1997	Notes on hawksbill turtle nesting on Golden Seas beachk, Oracabessa, Jamaica		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				60	29-32	hawksbill; nest		
Journal Article	Darevsky, Ilya S.;Szczerbak, Nikolai N.	1997	A new gecko of the genus Gonydactylus (Sauria: Gekkonidae) with a key to the species of Vietnam		Asiatic Herpetological Research			7		19-22	Sauria; New species; Femoral pores; Vietnam; Key; Gonydactylus paradoxus sp. nov.		
Journal Article	Darevsky, Ilya S.;Tuniyev, Boris S.	1997	A new lizard species from Lacerta saxicola group - Lacerta dryada sp. nov. (Sauria, Lacertidae) and some comments relative to Lacerta clarkorum Darevsky et Vedmederja, 1977		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	1	1-7	Lacerta dryada sp. nov.; Lacerta clarkorum; Lacerta saxicola Group; Adzharistan; Turkey		
Journal Article	Darevsky, Ilya S.;Orlov, Nikolai L.	1997	A new genus and species of scincid lizards from Vietnam: The first Asiatic skink with double rows of basal subdigital pads		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	323-326		Lipinia; Paralipinia n. gen.; Paralipinia rara n. ap.	
Journal Article	Darevsky, Ilya S.;Helfeberger, Notker;Orlov, Nikolai;Shah, Karan	1997	Two new species of the genus Gonydactylus (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Eastern Nepal		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	2	89-93		Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Universitetskaya nab. 1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia	
Journal Article	Das, Banka Behary	1997	Struggle to protect the Bhitara Kanika ecosystem is ongoing		Marine Turtle Newsletter				76	18-20	Bhitara Kanika; Conservation; Sea turtles; India;		
Journal Article	Das, Indraneil	1997	Rediscovery of Lipina Macrotympanum (Stoliczka, 1873) from the Nicobar Islands, India		Asiatic Herpetological Research			7		23-26	Lipina macrotympanum; Sauria; Scincidae; Nicobar Islands; India		
Journal Article	Das, Indraneil	1997	A reassessment of hardella isoclina Dubois, 1908 (Testudines: Bataguridae) from the Trinil Beds of the Javan Pleistocene		Herpetological Journal			7	2	71--73	Hardella isoclina		
Journal Article	Das, Indraneil	1997	A new species of Cyrtodactylus from the Nicobar Islands, India		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	375-382		Cyrtodactylus adleri n. sp.	
Journal Article	Das, Indraneil	1997	Book review: The Amphibian Fauna of Sri Lanka		Herpetological Review			28	4	220-221	Book review		
Journal Article	Das, Indraneil	1997	Resolution of systematic status of Eublepharis macularius fuscus Börner, 1981 (Eublepharidae: Sauria: Squamata)		Hamadryad			22	1	13-20			
Journal Article	Das, Indraneil;Chanda, Shyamal K.	1997	Philautus sanctisilvaticus (Anura: Rhacophoridae), a new frog from the Sacred Groves of Amarkantal, Central India		Hamadryad			22	1	21-27			
Journal Article	Das, Indraneil	1997	Checklist of the reptiles of India with English common names		Hamadryad			22	1	32-45			
Journal Article	Das, Indraneil;Dattagupta, Basudeb	1997	Rediscovery of the holotypes of Ophisops jerdoni Blyth, 1853 and Barkudia insularis Annandale, 1917		Hamadryad			22	1	53-55			
Journal Article	Das, Indraneil	1997	Dates of publication of Hamadryad (vols. 1-21)		Hamadryad			22	1	64			
Journal Article	Das, Indraneil;Andrews, Harry	1997	Bibliography to the herpetology of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands		Hamadryad			22	1	68-72			
Journal Article	Das, Indraneil;Whitaker, Romulus	1997	A redescription of Ramanella mormorata Rao, 1937 (Anura, Microhylidae)		Alytes			15	3	127-132			
Journal Article	Das, Indraneil	1997	Kachuga sylhetensis recorded from northern Bengal, with notes on turtles of Gorumara National Park, Eastern India		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	616-617			
Journal Article	Das, Indraneil	1997	The frog that wears a mask on its bottom!		Lyriocephalus			3	2	31	Microhyla rubrum	idas@mailhost.unimas.my	
Journal Article	Das, Indraneil	1997	The frog that wears a mask on its bottom!		Lyriocephalus			3	2	31		Centre for Herpetology, Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, Post Bag 4, Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu 603 104, India	
Book Section	Das, I.	1997	Conservation problems of tropical Asia's most-threatened turtles	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			295-301			
Journal Article	Dasgupta, Ritwik	1997	Effects of predation and trophic conditions on the reproduction of Tylototriton verrucosus (Caudata: Salamandridae) in Darjeeling		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	2	163-169		Zool. Dept., Government College, Darjeeling 734101, India	
Journal Article	Davenport, John;Huat, Khoo Khay	1997	Salinity tolerance and preference in the frog Rana rugulosa		Herpetological Journal			7	3	114-115	Rana rugulosa; Salinity tolerance		
Journal Article	Davenport, John	1997	Book review: Biology and Conservation of Sea Turtles (Revised Edition)		Herpetological Journal			7	3	127	Book review		
Journal Article	Davenport, John;de Verteuil, Nina;Magill, Shona H.	1997	The effects of current velocity and temperature upon swimming in juvenile green turtles Chelonia mydas L.		Herpetological Journal			7	4	143-147			
Journal Article	Davenport, John	1997	Temperature and the life-history strategies of sea turtles		Journal of Thermal Biology			22	6	479-488	TSD; pivotal; sex ratio; loggerhead; hawksbill; Green; leatherback; ridley		
Journal Article	David, Patrick;Tong, Haiyan	1997	Translations of recent descriptions of Chinese pitvipers of the Trimeresurus-complex (Serpentes, Viperidae), with a key to the complex in China and adjacent areas		Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service				112	1-31			
Book	Davidson, Jane Pierce	1997	The Bone Sharp: The Life of Edward Drinker Cope			Philadelphia	Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia			x, 237 p., 11 plates			
Journal Article	Davies, Stephen;Blatchford, David	1997	Book Review: Geckoes, Biology, Husbandry and Reproduction		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				59	39	Book review		
Book Section	Davis, Theodore M.	1997	Non-disruptive monitoring of terrestrial salamanders with artificial cover objects on southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			161-174			
Journal Article	Davison, Linda;Davison, Steve	1997	Parson's chameleons: A fresh approach		Reptiles			5	1	48-63	Chamaeleo parsoni		
Journal Article	Day, Keith S.;Crosby, Chad W.;Lentsch, Leo D.	1997	Compendium of Amphibian and Reptile records for northeastern Utah -1900 to 1996		Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife Resources Publication				97-13	vi, 1-106			
Journal Article	de Avalos, Juan;Martínez Carrión, Pere	1997	Warane		Reptilia (German)				5	16-21	Varanus		
Journal Article	de Avalos, Juan;Martínez Carrión, Pere	1997	Varanos		Reptilia (Spain)				11	16-21	Varanus		
Journal Article	de Avalos Schlegel, Juan	1997	Rhampholeon spp.: Mantenimiento y cría en cautividad		Reptilia				12	52-54			
Journal Article	de la Ossa Velásquez, Jaimia	1997	Anotaciones sobre produccion de reptiles en cautiverio en una granja Colombiana		Reptilia				13	26-29			
Journal Article	De la Riva, Ignacio;Lynch, John D.	1997	New species of Eleutherodactylus from Bolivia (Amphibia: Leptodactylidae)		Copeia			1997	1	151-157	Eleutherodactylus fraudator; Systematics; Bolivia; New species; Eleutherodactylus pluvicanorus n. sp.		
Journal Article	De la Riva, Ignacio;Duellman, William E.	1997	The identity and distribution of Hyla rossalleni Goin		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	4	433-436			
Journal Article	De La Riva, Ignacio;Lynch, John D.	1997	New species of Eleutherodactylus from Bolivia (Amphibia: Liptodactylidae)		Copeia			1		151-157	E. fraudator, E. pluvicanorus, subgenus Craugastor		
Journal Article	de Oca, Adrián Nieto-Montes;Mendelson, Joseph R.	1997	Variation in Rhadinaea marcellae (Squamata: Colubridae), a poorly known species from the Sierra Madre Oriental of México		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	124-127	Rhadinaea marcellae; Mexico; Variation		
Journal Article	de Queiroz, Alan	1997	Lip-flaring in Thamnophiine snakes and its possible association with feeding on soft-bodied, sticky prey		Herpetological Review			28	1	28-29	Thamnophis; Feeding; Lip-flaring		
Journal Article	De Queiroz, Kevin	1997	Misunderstandings about the phylogenetic approach to biological nomenclature: a rply to Liden and Oxelman		Zoologica Scripta			26	1	67-70	systematics		
Journal Article	De Queiroz, Kevin	1997	The Linnaean hierarchy and the evolutionization of taxonomy, with emphasis on the problem of nomenclature		Aliso			15	2	125-144			
Journal Article	de Queiroz, Kevin	1997	Misunderstandings about the phylogenetic approach to biological nomenclature: a reply to Lidén and Oxelman		Zoologica Scripta			26	1	67-70			
Journal Article	de Queiroz, Kevin;Good, David A.	1997	Phenetic clustering in biology: A critique		Quarterly Review of Biology			72	1	3-30			
Journal Article	de Sá, Rafael O.;Wassersug, Richard;Kehr, Arturo I.	1997	Description of tadpoles of thre species of Scinax (Anura: Hylidae)		Herpetological journal			7	1	13-17	Scinax berthae; Scinax nebulosa; Scinax boesemani; Tadpole description		
Journal Article	de Sá, Rafael O.;Lavilla, Esteban O.	1997	The tadpole of Pseudis minuta (Anura: Pseudidae), an apparent case of heterochrony		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	3	229-240	Pseudis minuta; Herterochrony		
Journal Article	De Sá, Rafael O.;Wassersug, Richard;Kehr, Arturo I.	1997	Description of tadpoles of three species of Scinax (Anura: Hylidae)		Herpetological Journal			7		13-17	S. berthae, S. nebulosa, S. boesemani, labial arm		
Journal Article	de Silva, Anslem	1997	Calotes calotes (Linnaeus, 1758) (Reptilia: Agamidae) feeding on Merremia angustifolia Flowers		Lyriocephalus			3	1	36		Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka	
Journal Article	de Silva, Anslem	1997	Book review: The Herpetological Contributions of Wilhelm C. H. Peters (1815-1883)		Lyriocephalus			3	1	38		Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka	
Journal Article	de Silva, Anslem	1997	Book review: Biogeography of the Reptiles of South Asia		Lyriocephalus			3	1	39		Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka	
Journal Article	de Silva, Anslem	1997	Report on the International Conference of the Biology and Conservation of the South Asian Amphibians and Reptiles		Lyriocephalus			3	1	40-43		Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka	
Journal Article	de Silva, Anslem	1997	Marine turtles of Sri Lanka: An overview		Lyriocephalus			3	2	16-25		Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka	
Journal Article	de Silva, Anslem	1997	Lankascincus taprobanensis (Kelaart, 1854) A skink with a prehensile tail		Lyriocephalus			3	2	26-27		Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka	
Journal Article	de Silva, Anslem	1997	Crab feeding on a tadpole		Lyriocephalus			3	2	28		Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka	
Journal Article	de Silva, Anslem	1997	A non venomous colubrid bite: Case report		Lyriocephalus			3	2	29		Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka	
Journal Article	de Silva, G. S.	1997	International tag returns for Turtle Island Park, Sabah, Malaysia - 1985 to 1995 and notes on the Sabah - Philippines Turtle Management Plan		Sarawak Museum Journal			51	72	145-169, 4 plates			
Journal Article	de Villiers, Atherton L.	1997	The endangered micro frog threatened by mining		African Herp News				26	6-7		Cape Nature Conservation, Private Bag X5014, Stellenbosch 7599, South Africa	
Journal Article	de Vosjoli, Philippe	1997	The spectrum of ethnoherpetology		Vivarium			8	3	16-20	Ethenoherpetology		
Journal Article	de Vosjoli, Philippe;Mailloux, Robert	1997	Raising tadpoles		Vivarium			8	4	14-15			
Journal Article	de Vosjoli, Philippe	1997	A simple egg-laying container for chameleons		Vivarium			8	4	6-7			
Journal Article	de Vosjoli, Philippe;Mailloux, Robert	1997	All predictions are that 1997 will be the year of the dragon		Vivarium			8	4	21			
Journal Article	de Vosjoli, Philippe	1997	Diets for large chameleons		Vivarium			8	5	8;68			
Journal Article	de Vosjoli, Philippe;Mailloux, Robert	1997	Bearded Dragons: questions and answers		Vivarium			8	5	14-15			
Journal Article	de Vosjoli, Philippe;Mailloux, Robert;Travis, David	1997	Keeping and breeding the amazing Chacoan monkey frog		Vivarium			8	5	38-42			
Journal Article	de Vosjoli, Philippe;Mailloux, Robert	1997	Tips for success with baby bearded dragons		Vivarium			8	6	24			
Journal Article	de Vosjoli, Philippe;McKeown, Sean	1997	Dendrobates: The coming revolution in herpetoculture		Vivarium			8	6	30-39; 69	Dendrobates		
Journal Article	de Vosjoli, Philippe	1997	A new look at Boa Constrictors		Vivarium			9	1	37-43			
Journal Article	de Vosjoli, Philippe;McKeown, Sean	1997	Dendrobates: Feeding poison frogs		Vivarium			9	1	66-68			
Journal Article	De Vriendt, Erwin;Brand, Corinne Van de	1997	De bezoeking		Het Terrarium			14	9	14-15			
Journal Article	de Vries, J. P.	1997	Licht voor uw vissen, vogels en andere dieren		Het Terrarium			14	10	18-22			
Journal Article	De Witte, Paul	1997	Kennismaking met Leiocephalus carinatus		Terra			33	5	146-147			
Journal Article	Deandrade, D.V.;Abe, A.S.	1997	Evaporative water loss and oxygen uptake in two casque-headed tree frogs, Aparasphenodon brunoi and Corythomantis greeningi (Anura, Hylidae)		Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A - Physiology			118	3	685-689	Amphibia, anura, casque-headed tree frog, Aparasphenodon brunoi, Corythomantis greeningi, physiology, evaporative water loss	Evaporative water loss (EWL) and oxygen uptake ((V) over dot o(2)) was measured in two species of tree frogs with cranial co-ossification, Aparasphenodon brunoi and Corythomantis greeningi. Both species use their head to seal the entrance of bromeliads, tree holes or rocky crevices used as shelters. EWL was significantly reduced in sheltered individuals of both species as compared with those exposed nude to desiccation. EWL per unit area through the head surface was significantly lower than the body skin for A. brunoi but not for C., greeningi. EWL per unit surface area through C. greeningi body skin was about 50% that of A. brunoi, indicating a less permeable skin in the former species. The relationship between cranial coossification and EWL is discussed. ((V) over dot o(2)) in A. brunoi was comparable with other anurans of similar size, whereas in C. greeningi, it was lower than predicted from body mass. Moreover, ((V) over dot o(2)), in C. greeningi showed less sensitivity to temperature increase than in A. brunoi. C. greeningi occurs in a drier environment than A. brunoi, and this appears to be reflected in their EWL and ((V) over dot o(2)) characteristics. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Inc. DV Deandrade, Univ Estadual Paulista, Dept Zool, CP 199, BR-13506900 Rio Claro, Sp, Brazil	
Journal Article	Deban, Stephen M.	1997	Modulation of prey capture behavior in the plethodontid salamander Ensatina eschscholtzii		The Journal of Experimental Biology			200		1951-1964			
Journal Article	Deban, Stephen M.;Wake, David B.;Roth, Gerhard	1997	Salamander with a ballistic tingue		Nature			389		27-28			
Journal Article	Deban, Stephen M.;Wake, David B.;Roth, Gerhard	1997	Salamander with a ballistic tongue		Nature			389		27-28	Hydromantes supramontis		
Journal Article	Dechambrier, A.;Paulino, R.C.	1997	Proteocephalus joanae sp n (Eucestoda: Proteocephalidea), a parasite of Xenodon neuwiedi (Serpentes: Colubridae) from South America		Folia Parasitologica			44	4	289-296	Reptilia, serpentes, Xenodon neuwiedi, infection, helminth, cestode, Proteocephalus joanae sp. n.,  Proteocephalidae,	A new species of Proteocephalus, P. joanae sp. n., is described from the intestine of the colubrid snake, Xenodon neuwiedi (Gunther, 1863) (Serpentes: Xenodontinae), from Brazil. The new species differs from all other members of Proteocephalus by possessing a swollen elongated posterior part of the scolex herein considered as a metascolex. Furthermore, it is the only member of New World Proteocephalus possessing a voluminous glandular apical organ larger than suckers. P. joanae is also characterized by very elongated gravid proglottides. This is the first member of the Proteocephalidea occurring in Xenodon. Even though the species differs significantly from other species of the genus Proteocephalus, which currently contains many species that are morphologically very distinctive, it seems prudent to refrain from reworking the classification of the group until accurate redescriptions of Neotropical species can be conducted, preferably based on examination of type and freshly collected material. The definition of the metascolex is discussed herein. A Dechambrier, Nat Hist Museum, POB 6434, CH-1211 Geneva 6, Switzerland	
Journal Article	Deckel, A. Wallace	1997	Effects of alcohol consumption on lateralized aggression in Anolis carolinensis		Brain Research			756		96-105			
Journal Article	Degheselle, René;Van der Meulen, Jan	1997	Herpetologische observatie-uitstap in België en Noord-Frankrijk [Herpetological observation trip in belgium and northern France]		Terra			33	2	37-38			
Journal Article	Degheselle, René	1997	Epipedobates tricolor, de drie-strepenboomkruiper		Terra			3	3	88-89	Epipedobates tricolor		
Journal Article	Degheselle, René	1997	Lacerta galloti galloti		Terra			33	4	110-111			
Journal Article	Degheselle, René	1997	Hyla ebraccata		Terra			33	4	116-117			
Journal Article	Degheselle, René	1997	Het houden van Lacerta's		Terra			33	5	148-150			
Journal Article	Del-Grande, Maria Lúcia;Moura, Gisele	1997	Hyla sanborni (NCN). Predation		Herpetological Review			28	3	147			
Journal Article	Delay, R. J.;Dubin, A. E.;Dionne, V. E.	1997	A cyclic nucleotide-dependent chloride conductance in olfactory receptor neurons		J Membr Biol			159	1	53-60	Adenosine Triphosphate/pharmacology; Animal; Calcium/*metabolism/pharmacology; Chloride Channels/drug effects/*physiology; Cyclic AMP/analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology; Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism; Cyclic GMP/analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology; Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology; In Vitro; Isoquinolines/pharmacology; Membrane Potentials/drug effects/physiology; Necturus; Olfactory Receptor Neurons/*physiology; Patch-Clamp Techniques; Photolysis; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.; Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.; 1-(5-Isoquinolinesulfonyl)-2-methylpiperazine/pharmacology	Whole-cell membrane currents were recorded from olfactory receptor neurons from the neotenic salamander Necturus maculosus. Cyclic nucleotides, released intracellularly by flash photolysis of NPE-caged cAMP or NPE-caged cGMP, activated a transient chloride current. The chloride current could be elicited at constant voltage in the absence of extracellular Ca2+ as well as in the presence of 3 mM intracellular Ca2+, suggesting that the current did not require either voltage or Ca2+ transients for activation. The current could be elicited in the presence of the protein kinase inhibitors H-7 and H-89, and in the absence of intracellular ATP, indicating that activation was independent of protein kinase A activity. These results suggest that Necturus olfactory receptor neurons contain a novel chloride ion channel that may be directly gated by cyclic nucleotides.	
Journal Article	Delgado, O.;Grau, A.;Pou, S.;Riera, F.;Massuti, C.;Zabala, M.;Ballesteros, E.	1997	Seagrass regression caused by fish cultures in Fornells Bay (Menorca, Western Mediterranean)		Oceanologica Acta			20	3	557-563	farming; conservation		
Journal Article	Delvolvé, Isabelle;Bem, Tiaza;Cabelguen, Jean-Marie	1997	Epaxial and limb muscle activity during swimming and terrestrial stepping in the adult newt, Pleurodeles waltl		J. Neurophysiol.			78		638-650			
Journal Article	Demeke, Yirmed	1997	Notes on breeding, tail groth and other aspects of the biology of the red-headed agama, Agama agama (Sauria: Agamidae) in Mago National Park, Ethiopia		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				58	19-25	Ethiopia; Agama agama; Bredding		
Journal Article	Demlong, Michael J.	1997	Head-starting Rana subaquavocalis in captivity		Reptiles			5	1	24-33	Rana subaquavocalis; conservation; head-starting		
Journal Article	Demuth, Jeffery P.	1997	Regina alleni (Striped Crayfish Snake). Size		Herpetological Review			28	2	90-91			
Journal Article	Demuth, Jeffery P.;Buhlmann, Kurt A.	1997	Diet of the turtle Deirochelys reticularia on the Savannah River Site, South Carolina		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	450-453		Deirochelys reticularia	
Journal Article	Dennis, Manuel	1997	Orinoco Crocodile breeding program		Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter			16	3	12-13			
Journal Article	Denoël, Mathieu	1997	Un cas de néoténie, dans un bâtiment désaffecté, chez le triton alpestre, Triturus alpestris apuanus (Salamandridae)		Alytes			15	2	99-103			
Journal Article	Denver, Robert John	1997	Proximate mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity in amphibian metamorphosis		Amer. Zool.			37		172-184			
Journal Article	Denver, Robert J.	1997	Environmental stress as a developmental cue: Corticotropin-releasing hormone is a proximate mediator of adaptive phenotypic plasticity in amphibian metamorphosis		Hormones and Behavior			31	2	169-179			
Journal Article	Denver, R. J. 	1997	Environmental stress as a developmental cue: corticotrophin-releasing hormone as a proximate mediator of adaptive phenotypic plasticity in amphibian metamorphosis		Hormones and Behavior			31		1169-179			
Journal Article	Denver, R. J.	1997	Environmental stress as a developmental cue: corticotropin-releasing hormone is a proximate mediator of adaptive phenotypic plasticity in amphibian metamorphosis		Hormones and Behavior			31		169-179			
Journal Article	Denzer, Wolfgang;Günther, Rainer;Manthey, Ulrich	1997	Annotated type catalogue of the Agamid lizards (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae) in the Museum für Naturkunde der Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin (former Zoological Museum Berlin)		Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin			73	2	309-332			
Journal Article	Deptula, Walter	1997	Ghost of the Great Plains		Reptiles			5	10	32-46	Lampropeltis triangulum		
Book Section	DesMeules, Mark P.	1997	Historic and current status of turtles in Vermont	Tyning, Thomas F.	Status and Conservation of Turtles of the Northeastern United States: A Symposium	Lanesboro, MN	Serpent's Tale			1-2	Vermont; Turtles; Status		
Journal Article	Desser, Sherwin S.	1997	Blood parasites of the iguanid lizard, Ctenosaura similis from Costa Rica, with a description of Hepatozooon gamezi n. sp.		J. Euk. Microbiol.			44	2	162-167			
Journal Article	Deuti, Kaushik	1997	Range extension of some Indian amphibians		Cobra			29		19-28		39A, G.S. Road, Calcutta 700 027, India	
Journal Article	Devaux, Bernard	1997	Testudo kleinmanni		Reptilia (German)				5	43-51	Testudo kleinmanni		
Book Section	Devaux, B.;Stubbs, D.	1997	Species recovery programme for Hermann's tortoise in Southern France	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			330-332			
Book	DGHT	1997	Mindestanfordrungen an die haltung von Reptilien vom 10. januar 1997			Rheinbach	DGHT			78			
Journal Article	Di Trani, Corinne;Zuffi, Marca A.L.	1997	Thermoregulation of the European Pond Turtle, Emys orbicularis in Central Italy		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	428-430	Emys orbicularis; Thermoregulation; Italy		
Journal Article	Diazpaniagua, C.;Keller, C.;Andreu, A.C.	1997	Hatching success, delay of emergence and hatchling biometry of the spur-thighed tortoise, Testudo graeca, in south-western Spain		Journal of Zoology			243	Part 3	543-553	Repotilia, testudines, greek tortoise, Testudo hermanni, propagation, delay of emergence, hatchling biometry	Hatching success, egg incubation, emergence and hatchling characteristics were assessed for 44 naturally incubating nests of Testudo graeca in south-western Spain. Nest predation rate was 4.5% and overall hatching success was 82.4%. Incubation periods ranged from 78 to 114 days, and hatchlings delayed emergence from the nest from one to 23 days. Emergences occurred from mid August to late September, and were not correlated with nesting dates, but earlier laid nests had longer incubation times, which was probably owing to lower temperatures experienced by clutches laid at the beginning of the nesting season. Variance of hatchling body size and mass was high and was mainly influenced by the gravid female. Mean straight carapace length was 34.14 mm, and mean body mass 10.8 g. Hatchlings from clutches laid last in the nesting season had significantly better physical condition. Hatchling mass was positively correlated with egg mass, and both Variables were positively correlated with emergence date. Both better physical condition and relatively late emergence may confer advantages to hatchlings in the face of unfavourable environmental conditions in autumn. C Diazpaniagua, Estac Biol Donana, Apdo 1056, Seville 41080, Spain	
Journal Article	Dickinson, H.C.;Fa, J.E.	1997	Ultraviolet light and heat source selection in captive spiny-tailed iguanas (Oplurus cuvieri)		Zoo Biology			16	5	391-401	Reptilia, sauria, spiny-tailed iguanas (Oplurus cuvieri, physiology, thermoregulation, ultraviolet light, heat source	Three experimental manipulations were conducted to assess the influence of heat source selection and active thermoregulation on ultraviolet (UV) light exposure in captive spiny-tailed iguanas (Oplurus cuvieri) at the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. Four replicates per manipulation were conducted on six individual lizards. All animals were tested in a separate enclosure to which they were acclimated before observations. Data on choice of thermal sources were collected during the first 2 hr of light, when lizards were actively thermoregulating. Animals were allowed to choose between incandescent light, UV light and a non-light heat source (thermotube) in different combinations. Recorded temperatures close to the incandescent light (37 degrees C) were always significantly higher than at the thermotube (33 degrees C) and at the UV Light (29 degrees C). Manipulation 1 offered the animals a choice of an UV Light and an incandescent light as thermal sources. Manipulation 2 presented animals with the thermal choices in Manipulation 1, but substrates under each source in Manipulation 1 were switched. In Manipulation 3, animals could choose between an incandescent light and the thermotube. All studied lizards were significantly more attracted to the incandescent light than to the UV light or thermotube. Incandescent light elicited a significantly higher proportion of basking behaviors in all individuals than the other sources. A high proportion of time basking was also spent in front of the thermotube but fewer individuals and less time were spent basking under the UV light. Heat source selection was generally found to be independent of substrate. Management applications of this preference are suggested for juvenile diurnal heliothermic iguanids. (C) 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc. JE Fa, Int Training Ctr, Jersey Wildlife Preservat Trust, les Augres Manor, Jersey JE3 5BP, England	
Book Section	Didiuk, Andrew	1997	Status of Amphibians in Saskatchewan	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			110-116			
Journal Article	Dierauf, Leslie	1997	Did they think it was Labor Day?		Endangered Species Bulletin			22	6	6-7	Lepidochelys kempi		
Book	Diesner, Günter;Reichholf, Josef	1997	Leksykon Przyrodniczy: Plazy i Gady			Warsaw	Bertelsmann			288			
Journal Article	Dietrich, Norbert	1997	Amphibien als Pilzsucher - gibt's denn so etwas?		Elaphe			5	3	81-82			
Journal Article	Dijk, D. E. Van	1997	Ingested molted skin as Possible source of ostracods and mites in the gut of anurans		Herpetological Review			28	4	190	skin  eating, frogs, parasites		
Book Section	Dijk, P.P. van	1997	Turtle conservation in Myanmar: past, present, and future	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			265-271			
Journal Article	Dijk, Pim van;Wit, Hero P.;Segenhout, Johannes M.	1997	Dissecting the frog inner ear with Gaussian noise. I. Application of high-order Wiener-kernel analysis		Hearing Research			114		229-242			
Journal Article	Dijk, Pim van;Wit, Hero P.;Segenhout, Johannes M.	1997	Dissecting the frog inner ear with Gaussian noise. II. Temperature dependence of inner ear function		Hearing Research			114		243-251			
Journal Article	Dimit, Beatty	1997	Brown house snakes as pets		Litteratura Serpentium			17	2	36-39	Lamprophis fuliginosus		
Journal Article	Dimit, Beaty	1997	Reincarnation: the return of Tut		Litteratura Serpentium			17	5	103-104			
Journal Article	Distler, Jane K.	1997	Book review: Living Dragons: A natural History of the World's Monitor Lizards		Copeia			1997	4	899-900			
Journal Article	Divers, Stephen J.	1997	Reproductive surgery in the tortoise (Testudo sp.)		Reptilian			4	10	64-67	Testudo		
Journal Article	Divers, Stephen J.	1997	Constipation in snakes		Reptilian			5	1	68-71			
Journal Article	Divers, Stephen J.	1997	The facts about Salmonella		Reptilian			5	2	68-72	Salmonella		
Journal Article	Divers, Stephen J.	1997	Environmental lighting		Reptilian			5	3	67-71			
Journal Article	Divers, Stephen J.	1997	Parasites		Pet Reptile				2	36-40			
Journal Article	Dixon, James R.	1997	Book review: Amphibians and Reptiles of New Mexico		Herpetological Review			28	2	104-105	Book review		
Journal Article	Dixon, James R.	1997	1997 supplement to Texas herpetological county records and Texas herpetological literature		Texas Herpetological Society Special Publication				3	1-14			
Journal Article	Dmi'el, Razi;Perry, Gad;Lazell, James	1997	Evaporative water loss in nine insular populations of the lizard Anoplis critatellus group in the British Virgin Islands		Biotropica			29	1	111-116			
Journal Article	Doan, Tiffany M.	1997	A new trap for the live capture of large lizards		Herpetological Review			28	2	79			
Journal Article	Dodd, C. Kenneth, Jr.;Griffey, Marian L.	1997	Scincella lateralis (Ground Skink). Predation		Herpetological Review			28	2	89			
Journal Article	Dodd, C. Kenneth, Jr.	1997	Clutch size and frequency in Florida Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina bauri): Implications for Conservation		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	370-377	Terrapene carolina bauri; Reproduction; Clutch size; Clutch frequency; Fecundity; Conservation; Florida		
Journal Article	Dodd, C. Kenneth, Jr;Franz, Richard;Johnson, Steve A.	1997	Shell injuries and anomalies in an insular population of Florida box turtles (Terrapene carolina bauri)		Herpetological Natural History			5	1	66-72			
Journal Article	Dodd, C. Kenneth, Jr	1997	Population structure and the evolution of sexual size dimorphism and sex ratios in an insualr population of Florida box turtles (Terrapene carolina bauri)		Can. J. Zool.			75		1495-1507			
Journal Article	Dodd, C. Kenneth	1997	Jumping crocs of the Adelaide River		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Jan./Feb.	24-28	Crocodylus johnstoni		
Journal Article	Dodd, C.K.Jr.	1997	Population structure and the evolution of sexual size dimorphism and sex ratios in an insular population of Florida box turtle (Terrapene carolina bauri)		Canadian Journal of Zoology			75		1495-1507	sex ratio		
Book Section	Dodd, C. Kenneth, Jr	1997	Imperiled amphibians: A historical perspective	Benz, G. W. and Collins, D. E.	Aquatic Fauna in Peril: The Southeastern Perspective	Decatur, GA	Southeast Aquatic Research Institute			165-200			
Journal Article	Dolmen, Dag;Arnekleiv, Jo V.;Kubykin, Rudolf A.	1997	Habitat and abundance of the Semirechensk Salamander (Ranodon sibiricus) at a site in the Borokhujir River Valley, Kazakhstan		Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union			2		45-70			
Journal Article	Domènech, Salvador	1997	Nueva localidad para Lacerta bonnali en el Pirineo de Lleida		Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española				8	11-12			
Journal Article	Donoghue, Susan	1997	Bromiliads for naturalistic vivaria		Vivarium			8	3	24-25			
Journal Article	Doody, J. Sean	1997	Book review: Turtles of the United States and Canada		Herpetofauna			27	1	55-56			
Journal Article	Doody, J. Sean;taylor, Robert V.	1997	A note on the foraging behaviour of the snake Dendrelaphis punctulata in the Northern Territory		Herpetofauna			27	2	55-56		Applied Ecology Research Group, University of Canberra, P.O. Box 1, Belconnen, ACT 2616, Australia	
Journal Article	Dorcas, Michael E.;Peterson, Charles R.	1997	Head-body temperature differences in free-ranging rubber boas		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	87-93	Charina bottae; Thermoregulation; Body temperature; Idaho		
Journal Article	Dorcas, M.E.;Peterson, C.R.;Flint, M.E.T.	1997	The thermal biology of digestion in rubber boas (Charina bottae): Physiology, behavior, and environmental constraints		Physiological Zoology			70	3	292-300	Reptilia, serpentes, rubber boa, Charina bottae, physiology, thermoregulation, performance	Coadaptation predicts a match between the thermal physiology and thermoregulatory behavior of reptiles. We tested this prediction by studying the digestive biology of rubber boas (Charina bottae). We measured the thermal dependence of gastric digestive rate and passage rate in rubber boas from 10 degrees C to 35 degrees C. We examined the effect of digestion on their thermal preference by measuring the temperatures of C. bottae in a thermal gradient before and after feeding. While the passage rates calculated from the body temperatures of digesting snakes were higher than the passage rates calculated from the body temperatures of nondigesting snakes, there was no difference in calculated digestive rates. These results indicate that the thermoregulatory behavior of C. bottae may be more tightly correlated with factors affecting passage rate than with digestive rate alone. Results of simulating the constraints of the thermal environment on the digestive biology of C. bottae showed that digestion would lake more than twice as long in the spring as in the summer. In addition, during the summer, snakes thermoregulating as digesting snakes would pass food 12% faster than those thermoregulating as nondigesting snakes, These results demonstrate how interpretation of laboratory studies can be improved when combined with measurements of appropriate environmental conditions.ME Dorcas, Savannah River Ecol Lab, Drawer E, Aiken, SC 29802 USA	
Journal Article	Dorcas, Michael E.;Peterson, Charles R.;Flint, Mary E. T.	1997	The thermal biology biology of digestion in rubber boas (Charina bottae): physiology, behavior, and environmental constraints		Physiological Zoology			70	3	292-300			
Journal Article	Dorcas, M. E.;Peterson, C. R.;Flint, M. E. T.	1997	The thermal biology of digestion in Rubber Boas (Charina bottae): physiology, behavior, enviromental constraints		Physiological Zoology			70	3	292-300	Rubber Boas, Charina bottae,  physiology, behavior, enviroment, digestion		
Journal Article	Dorcas, Michael E.;Peterson, Charles R.;Flint, Mary E.T.	1997	The thermal biology of digestion in rubber boas (Charina bottae): physiology, behavior, and environmental constraints		Physiological Zoology			70	2	292-300			
Journal Article	Dorcus, Michael E.	1997	Book review: Amphibians and Reptiles of New Mexico		Copeia			1997	3	643-645	Book review		
Journal Article	Dorries, K. M.;White, J.;Kauer, J. S.	1997	Rapid classical conditioning of odor response in a physiological model for olfactory research, the tiger salamander		Chem Senses			22	3	277-86	Acetates; Ambystoma; Animal; Butanols; Camphor; *Conditioning, Classical; Electroshock; *Odors; Olfactory Nerve/physiology; Pentanols; Smell/*physiology; Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.; Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.; Tail	In recent years there have been a number of important advances in the understanding of cellular mechanisms related to olfactory function. Hypotheses regarding the complex relationships among odorant structure, physiological activity and behavioral outcome generated by these findings, however, remain largely untested due to a paucity of psychophysical data on stimulus discrimination in the same experimental species. Comparisons between behavioral and physiological responses are essential for elucidating the critical aspects of stimulus coding in sensory systems. We have developed a method for generating psychophysical data in one of the primary model species used in olfactory research, the tiger salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum. These psychophysical experiments are carried out under the same conditions as physiological experiments in our laboratory. Using classical conditioning, individual salamanders are trained over a period of 2-3 h to show skin potential responses to odor and not air. Failure to train using backward pairing demonstrates that the response is not due to sensitization or pseudoconditioning. The conditioned response is mediated by the olfactory pathway, as it is blocked by olfactory nerve section. We show that salamanders detect three odorants that are commonly used stimuli in physiological experiments (butyl alcohol, butyl acetate and amyl acetate), but cannot detect a fourth common experimental odorant, camphor. This method should be a powerful tool for studying olfactory information processing by providing data on discriminability of stimuli used in salamander physiological studies.	
Journal Article	Doughty, Paul	1997	The effects of "fixed" clutch sizes on lizard life-histories: Reproduction in the Australian Velvet Gecko, Oedura lesuerii		Journal of Herpetology			31	2	266-272	Oedura lesueurii; Clutch size; Life history		
Journal Article	Doughty, P.	1997	The effoect of 'fixed' clutch sizes on lizard life-histories: reproduction in the Australian velvet gecko, Oedura lasueurii		Journal of Herpetology			31	2	266-272	sex ratio; tsd		
Journal Article	Dowling, Herndon G.	1997	On viewing Cope's illustration: an excercise in classification		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	4	77-80			
Journal Article	Downes, Sharon;Foster, Ralph;Molnar, Cathy	1997	New insights into the distribution and habitat of the vulnerable Bronzeback Legless Lizard Ophidiocephalus taeniatus		Herpetofauna			27	1	11-13			
Journal Article	Downes, Sharon;Foster, Ralph;Molnar, Cathy	1997	New insights into the distribution and habitat of the vulnerable bronzeback legless lizard Ophiocepahlus taeniatus		Herpetofauna			27	1	11-13		Biological Sciences, Building A08, Sydney University, NSW 2006, Australia	
Journal Article	Downie, J. R.;Weir, A.	1997	Developmental arrest in Leptodactylus fuscus tadpoles (Anura: Leptodactylidae) III: Effect of length of arrest period on growth potential		Herpetological Journal			7	3	85-92	Leptodactylus fuscus; Growth		
Journal Article	Dreslik, Michael J.	1997	An inexpensive method for creating spaghetti tags for marking Trionychid turtles		Herpetological Review			28	1	33	Tags; Techniques		
Journal Article	Dreslik, Michael J.	1997	A note on foraging behavior of the river cooter (Pseudemys concinna)		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	5	105	Pseudemys concinna		
Journal Article	Dreslik, Michael J.	1997 (1998)	Ecology of the River Cooter, Pseudemys concinna, in a southern Illinois floodplain lake		Herpetological Natural History			5	2	135-145		Dept. of Zoology, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL 61920, USA	
Journal Article	Dresser, Sherwin S.	1997	Blood parasites of the iguanid lizard, Ctenosaura similis from Costa rica, with a description of Hepatozoon gamezi n. sp.		J. Euk. Microbiol.			44	2	162-167			
Journal Article	Driscoll, Don A.;Roberts, J. Dale	1997	Impact of fuel-reduction buring on the frog Geocrinia lutea in southwest Western Australia		Australian Journal of Ecology			22		334-339			
Journal Article	du Preez, Louis H.	1997	Report on Ninth African Amphibian Symposium		African Herp News				26	4-5		Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300 South Africa	
Journal Article	Dubach, Jean;Sajewicz, Agatha;Pawley, Ray	1997	Parthenogenesis in the Arafuran file snake (Acrochordus arafurae)		Herpetological Natural History			5	1	11-18	Parthenogenesis		
Journal Article	Dubois, Alain	1997	Editorial: 15 years of Alytes		Alytes			14	4	129			
Journal Article	Dubois, Alain	1997	An evolutionary biologist's view on the science of biology		Alytes			15	3	133-136			
Journal Article	Dubuc, Don	1997	Alligator snapper - A storyteller's delight		Louisiana Outdoors			3	2	12-13;43			
Journal Article	Duellman, William E.;De La Riva, Ignacio;Wild, Erik R.	1997	Frogs of the Hyla armata and Hyla pulchella groups in the Andes of South America, with definitions and analyses of phylogeneti relationships of Andean groups of Hyla		Scientific Papers				3	1-41			
Journal Article	Duellman, William E.	1997	Amphibians of La Escalera Region, Southeastern Venezuela: Taxonomy, Ecology, and Biogrography		Scientific Papers				2	1-52			
Journal Article	Duellman, William E.	1997	Amphibians of La Esalera region, southeastern Venezuela: Taxonomy, ecology, and biogeography		Scientific Papers			2		1-52	Anura, Venezuelan Guayana, communities		
Journal Article	Duellman, William E.;Riva, Ignacio De La;Wild, Erik R.	1997	Frogs of the Hyla armata and Hyla pulchella groups in the Andes of South America, with definitions and analyses of phylogenetic relationships of Andean groups of Hyla		Scientific Papers			3		1-41	phylogenetic relationships		
Journal Article	Duellman, William E.	1997	Amphibians of La Escalera Region, Southeastern Venezuela: Taxonomy, Ecology, and Biogeography		Scientific Papers				2	1-52			
Journal Article	Duenker, N.	1997	Development and organization of the retinal dopaminergic system of Ichthyophis kohtaoensis (Amphibia: Gymnophiona)		Cell & Tissue Research			289	2	265-274	Ichthyophis Kohtaoensis; Mature; Larva; Embryo; Retinal Dopaminergic System; Inner Nuclear Layer; Ganglion Cell Layer; Inner Plexiform Layer; Optic Nerve Head; Ontogenesis; Larval Development; Visual System Degeneration; Neurotransmitters; Dopamine; Tyrosine Hydroxylase; Sense Organs; Development; Sensory System; Nervous System	Ichthyophis kohtaoensis, a member of the limbless Gymnophiona, has a specialized subterranean burrowing mode of life and a predominantly olfactory-guided orientation. The only visually guided behavior seems to be negative phototaxis. As these animals possess extremely small eyes (only 540 gm in diameter in adults), functional investigations of single retinal cells by electrophysiological methods have so far failed. Therefore, the content and distribution of retinal transmitters have been investigated as indications for a functioning sense organ in an animal that is supposed to be blind. In this study, the organization and development of the dopaminergic system have been examined in the retinae of embryonic, larval, and adult L. kohtaoensis, by using an antiserum against tyrosine hydroxylase, the rate-limiting enzyme in the catecholamine synthetic pathway, and an antiserum against dopamine itself. Labeled somata are situated in the inner nuclear layer and in the ganglion cell layer. Dopamine-positive fibers form a dense diffuse plexus, that covers the whole inner plexiform layer, whereas tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive processes show a tendency to arborize in a stratified manner. Tyrosine-hydroxylase-immunolabeled fibers can occasionally be observed in the optic nerve head of larval stages. During ontogenesis and larval development, the distribution of transmitter-expressing cells changes and their number decreases, but no general degeneration of the visual system is detectable. Adult Ichthyophis still have retinal transmitters, indicating that the eyes, although obviously playing a minor role in a subterranean ecological niche, retain all the elements of functioning sense organs.	
Journal Article	Duguy, R.;Moriniere, P.;Meunier, A.	1997	Observations de tortues marines en 1996 (Atlantique)		Annales de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles de la Charente-Maritime								
Journal Article	Dujsebayeva, Tatjaina;Castellano, Sergio;Giacoma, Cristina;Balletto, Emilio;Odierna, Gaetano	1997	On the distribution of diploid and tetraploid green toads of the Bufo viridis complex (Anura; Bufonidae) in southern Kazakhstan		Asiatic Herpetological Research			7		27-31	Amphibia; Bufonidae; Bufo viridis complex; Bufo danatensis; Kazakhstan; distribution		
Journal Article	Dunayev, Evgeniy A.	1997	A record of the Green Toad (Bufo viridis) with five legs in Moscow Province		Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union			2		169-171			
Journal Article	Dundee, Harold A.;Liner, Ernest A.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Trimorphodon tau tau		Herpetological Review			28	4	211			
Journal Article	Dunlap, S. A.;Moore, S. R.;Beazley, L. D.	1997	Changing patterns of vasculature in the developing amphibian retina		Journal of Experimental Biology			200		2479-2492			
Journal Article	Dunn, Sarah	1997	Wanted dead or alive		Pet Reptile				1	44-46			
Book Section	Dupuis, Linda A.	1997	Effects of logging on terrestrial amphibians of coastal British Columbia	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			185-190			
Journal Article	Durtsche, Richard D.;Grier, Paul;Fuller, Michael;Lutterschmidt, William;Bradley, Rosemary;meier, C. Kate;Hardy, Steven C.	1997	Ontogenetic variation in the autecology of the greater earless lizard Cophosaurus texanus		Ecogeography			20		336-346			
Journal Article	Durtsche, R. D.;Gier, P. J.;Fuller, M. M.;Lutterschmidt, W. I.;Bradley, R.;Meier, C. K.;Hardy, S. C.	1997	Ontogenetic variation in the autecology of the greater earless lizard Cophosaurus texanus		Ecography			20		336-346	diet, thermal ecology, temperature, activity, microhabitat, Texas, Phrynosomatidae, focal		
Journal Article	Dutta, Sushil K.	1997	A new species of Limnonectes (Anura: Ranidae) from Orissa, India		Hamadryad			22	1	1-8	Limnonectes orissaensis n. sp.		
Journal Article	Dutta, Sushil K.	1997	A record of Gekkoella nebulosus (Beddome, 1870) from Orissa		Hamadryad			22	1	49-50			
Journal Article	Dutta, S. K.;Acharjyo, L. N.	1997	Further additions to the herpetofauna of Orissa, India		Cobra			30		1-8		Dept. of Zoology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, 751004 Orissa, India	
Journal Article	Dwyer, Christine M.;Kaiser, Hinrich	1997	Relationship between skull form and prey selection in the Thamnophiine snake genera Nerodia and Regina		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	463-475			
Journal Article	Echeverría, Dinorah D.	1997	Microanatomy of the buccal apparatus and oral cavity of Hyla minuta Peters, 1872 larvae (Anura, Hylidae), with data on feeding habits		Alytes			15	1	26-36	Hyla minuta		
Journal Article	Edwards, Jon	1997	The enigmatic Hog Island Boa		Reptilian			5	2	19-24	Boa constrictor		
Journal Article	Edwards, Jon;Low, Jenny	1997	The reptiles of Kerala		Reptilian			5	3	51-54			
Journal Article	Egretzberger, Gerhard	1997	Bemerkungen zur Haltung und Zucht dreier Bartagamen-Arten der Gattung Pogona Storr, 1982 (Reptilia: Sauria: Agamidae)		Jahrbuch für den Terarianer			4		10-20	Pogona minima; Pogona "rankini"; Pogona vitticeps; Behavior; Captive breeding; Incubation		
Journal Article	Ehmcke, Jens	1997	Erfolgreiche spezialisten der Brutbiologie: Frösche der gattung Eleutherodactylus in Costa Rica		Reptilia (German)				5	56-59	Eleutherodactylus; Costa Rica		
Journal Article	Ehmcke, Jens	1997	Especialistas en la cría: Las ranas del género Eleutherodactylus de Costa Rica		Reptilia (Spain)				11	56-59	Eleutherodactylus; Costa Rica		
Journal Article	Eidenmüller, Bernd	1997	Haltung und Zucht von Warane		Reptilia (German)				5	22-25	Varanus		
Journal Article	Eidenmüller, Bernd	1997	Comentarios sobre el mantenimiento y la cria de Varanos		Reptilia (Spain)				11	22-25	Varanus		
Journal Article	Eidenmüller, Bernd;Wicker, Rudolf	1997	The breeding of Gillen's Pygmy Monitor Varanus gilleni, Lucas & Frost 1895		Herpetofauna			27	1	2-6			
Book	Eidenmüller, Bernd	1997	Warane: Lebensweise, Pflege, Zucht			Offenbach, Germany	Herpeton			160			
Journal Article	Eidenmüller, Bernd;Wicker, Rudolf	1997	The breeding of Gillen's pygmy monitor, Varanus gilleni, Lucas & Frost 1895		Herpetofauna			27	1	2-6		Griesheimer Ufer 53, 65933 Frankfurt, Germany	
Journal Article	Eisen, Rebecca J.;Schall, Jos. J.	1997	Comparing foraging success in submissive malaria-infected and territorial nonifected fence lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis)		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	147-149	Sceloporus occidentalis; foraging success; Malaria		
Journal Article	Eisen, R.J.;Schall, J.J.	1997	Comparing foraging success in submissive malaria-infected and territorial noninfected fence lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis)		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	147-149	Reptilia, sauria, fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis, infection, protozoa, plasmodium, behaviour, foraging success	RJ Eisen, Univ Vermont, Dept Biol, Burlington, VT 05405 USA	
Journal Article	Elbing, Kerstin	1997	Anmerkungen zu Überschneidungen individueller Aktivitätsbereiche bei Zauneidechsen (Lacerta agilis) [Comments on overlapping activity areas in sand lizards (Lacerta agilis)]		Zeitschrift für Feldherpetologie			4		93-100		Institut für Ökologie und Evolutionsbiologie, AG Evolutionsbiologie, Universität Bremen/FB2, Postfach 330 440, D-28334 Bremmen, Germany	
Journal Article	Elfström, Bruce	1997	Genus Ctenosaura: The Spiny-Talied Iguanas		Reptiles			5	8	48-71	Ctenosaura		
Book Section	Ellinger, Norbert;Jehle, Robert	1997	Struktur und Dynamik einer Donaukammolch-Population (Triturus dobrogicus, Kiritzescu 1903) am Endelteich bei Wien: Ein Überblick über neun Untersuchungsjahre	Hödl, Walter;Jehle, R. and Gollmann, G.	Populationsbiologie von Amphibien: Eine Langzeitstudie auf der Wiener Donauinsel	Stapfiz 51	Land Öberösterreich OÖ Landesmuseum			133-150			
Journal Article	Ellman, Marla M.	1997	Hematology and plasma chemistry of the Inland Bearded Dragon, Pogona vitticeps		Bulletin of the Association of Reptilian Amphibian Veterinarians			7	4	10-12			
Journal Article	Ely, Ed	1997	Tantilla planiceps (California Black-headed snake). Predation		Herpetological Review			28	3	154-155			
Journal Article	Emerson, Sharon B.;Carroll, Lara;Hess, Davis L.	1997	Hormonal induction of thumb pads and the evolution of secondary sexual characteristics of the Southeast Asian fanged frog, Rana blythii		Journal of Experimental Zoology			279		587-596			
Journal Article	Emerton, Stephen;Burgin, Shelly	1997	A recent record of the threatened giant burrowing frog, Helioporus australiacus in the Cumberland Plain of Western Sydney		Herpetofauna			27	2	58		School of Science, University of Western Sydney - Hawkesbury, Richmond, NSW 2753, Australia	
Journal Article	Emlem, S.T.	1997	When mothers prefer daughters over sons		Trends in Ecology and Evolution			12	8	291-292	sex ratio		
Journal Article	Emshwiller, Maya G.;Gleeson, Todd T.	1997	Temperature efects on aerobic metabolism and terrestrial locomotion in American alligators		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	142-147	Alligator mississippiensis; Temperature; Aerobic metabolism; Locomotion		
Journal Article	Emshwiller, M.G.;Gleeson, T.D.	1997	Temperature effects on aerobic metabolism and terrestrial locomotion in American alligators		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	142-147	Reptilia, sauria, crocodylia, American alligator, physiology, temperature, behavior, locomotion, Oxygen consumption	TD Gleeson, Univ Colorado, Dept Environm Populat & Organism Biol, Boulder, CO 80309 USA	
Journal Article	Encalada, S.E.;Bjorndal, K.A.;Bolten, A.B.;Zurita, C.J.;Schroeder, B.;Possardt, E.;Sears, C.J.;Bowen, B.W.	1997	Population structure of loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) nesting colonies in the Atlantic and Mediterranean as inferred from mitochondrial DNA control region sequences		Marine Biology						caretta; DNA		
Journal Article	Enge, Kevin M.	1997	Use of silt fencing and funnel traps for drift fences		Herpetological Review			28	1	30-31	Funnel traps; Drift fences; Survey techniques		
Journal Article	Engel, A.B.;Bassanezi, R.C.	1997	A cybernetic strategy for optimal farming on the growth of Caiman crocodilus yacare		Kybernetes			26	2-3	306	CCR, CY, farm, growth,	Presents an optimal strategy for managing crocodile farms. The strategy is illustrated with the case study of Caiman Crocodilus Yacare of the farm Coocrijapan. However, the strategy can be easily transferred to other farms, once sufficient data on their own crocodile stock is gathered. The main advantage of the ideas developed is that they deal with just one parameter: the break-even point of the process. The underlying assumption of having a single parameter is that there is no seasonal change in prices; that is, the unitary price of food (say, per kilogram) and the unitary price of crocodile hide (say, per square centimetre) remain approximately constant in some currency. This may or may not be true in the local currency of the country that hosts the farm. With this assumption, dimensionless quantities for profit and return are found.	
Journal Article	Epperson, Deborah M.;Wendland, Lori D.	1997	Gopherus polyphemus (Gopher Tortoise). Nesting		Herpetological Review			28	2	87			
Book Section	Ernst, Carl H.	1997	Turtles of the United States: overview and prospects for the future	Tyning, Thomas F.	Status and Conservation of Turtles of the Northeastern United States: A Symposium	Lanesboro, MN	Serpent's Tale			27-31	United States; Conservation; Turtles		
Journal Article	Ernst, Mark	1997	Rare beestjes, die padhagedissen		Het Terrarium			14	11	8-9	Phrynosoma coronatum		
Journal Article	Ernst, Mark	1997	Van 't net		Het Terrarium			14	12	31			
Journal Article	Ernst, Mark	1997	Vreemde snuiters op Hawaii		Het Terrarium			14	12	32			
Journal Article	Ernst, Mark	1997	Van het net		Het Terrarium			15	1	9-11			
Journal Article	Ernst, Carl H.	1997	Book review: Amphibians and Reptiles of the Great Lakes Region		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	11	230			
Journal Article	Ernst, Carl H.	1997	Book review: Venomous Snakes: Ecology, Evolution and Snakebite		Copeia			1997	4	900-903			
Journal Article	Ernst, Carl H.;Lovich, Jeffrey E.;Laemmerzahl, Arndt F.;Sekscienski, Steve	1997	A comparison of plastral scute lengths among members of the box turtle genera Cuora and Terrapene		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	603-607			
Journal Article	Eskandari, S.;Stiffler, D. F.	1997	Interrenal function in larval Ambystoma tigrinum. IV. Acid-base balance and the renin-angiotensin system		Gen Comp Endocrinol			105	1	18-30	Acid-Base Equilibrium/drug effects/*physiology; Acidosis/blood/chemically induced/metabolism/veterinary; Aldosterone/blood/metabolism; Ambystoma/embryology/*physiology; Angiotensin II/pharmacology; Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology; Animal; Blood Gas Analysis; Captopril/pharmacology; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Female; Interrenal Gland/drug effects/*physiology; Male; Renin-Angiotensin System/drug effects/*physiology; Saralasin/pharmacology; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Time Factors	Larval Ambystoma tigrinum were cannulated nonocclusively in the truncus arteriosus and allowed to recover for 20-24 hr. In one group of animals a peritoneal cannula was inserted in order to induce acidosis through the injection of lactic acid (2 &mgr;mol/g). Immediately following a control blood sample (hr 0), lactic acid was injected, and blood samples were collected at 1, 4, 8, and 24 hr and analyzed for pH, PCO2, PO2, [HCO3-], and aldosterone. These animals exhibited a significant metabolic acidosis, which was accompanied by a significant increase in plasma aldosterone, and recovered in approximately 24 hr. Additional groups of animals were subjected to the same acidosis and also received either saralasin (0.01 or 1 microg/g at 0, 1, and 4 hr) or captopril (0.01-0.1 or 1 microg/g at 0, 1, and 4 hr). The groups of animals whose renin-angiotensin system was blocked by saralasin or captopril did not show a significant change in their ability to recover from the metabolic acidosis. Furthermore, saralasin and captopril were ineffective in inhibiting the normal rise in circulating aldosterone in response to acidosis. In another group of animals, synthetic human angiotensin II (1 microg/g; Ang II) was infused immediately following the control blood sample (hr 0) and blood samples were collected at 2, 4, 6, and 8 hr and assayed for aldosterone. Plasma aldosterone levels increased significantly from 133 +/- 91 pg/ml at hr 0 to a maximum of 3288 +/- 519 pg/ml at hr 4. Sham-treated animals did not increase circulating aldosterone. When Ang II (1 microg/g) and saralasin (1 microg/g) were given simultaneously, however, the rise in plasma aldosterone was only about 35% that of animals which received Ang II alone. We conclude that administration of Ang II leads, either directly or indirectly, to synthesis and release of aldosterone from the interrenal tissues of larval Ambystoma tigrinum and that this rise can be significantly attenuated by saralasin. We furthermore conclude that although the renin-angiotensin system may be indirectly involved in recovery from an acid challenge, it does not appear to be the stimulus for the observed increase in plasma aldosterone in response to acidosis in these animals.	
Journal Article	Estrada, Alberto R.;Hedges, S. Blair	1997	A new species of frog from the Sierra Maestra, Cuba (Leptodactylidae, Eleutherodactylus)		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	364-368		Eleutherodactylus glamyrus n. sp.; Cuba	
Journal Article	Etheridge, Richard;Espinoza, Robert E.	1997	New records and natural history notes for lizards from Northwestern Argentina		Herpetological Review			28	3	160-161			
Journal Article	Evans, Pablo;Wilkinson, Phil	1997	Black caiman attack		Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter			16	3	5-6			
Journal Article	Evans, Susan E.;Sigogneau-Russell, Denise	1997	New Sphenodontians (Diapsida: Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia) from the Early Cretaceous of North Africa		Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology			17	1	45-51			
Journal Article	Evans, Susan E.;Barbadillo, Javier	1997	Early Cretaceous lizards from Las Hoyas, Spain		Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society			119		23-49			
Journal Article	Even, Eddy	1997	Blood pythons, Python curtus; subspecies, acre and breeding		Litteratura Serpentium			17	6	116-124			
Journal Article	Evers, Hans-Georg;Stallknecht, Helmut	1997	Aquaristische Eindrücke aus Costa Rica (I)		TI Magazin				136	60-65			
Journal Article	Faber, Helmut	1997	Der Einsatz von passiven integrierten Transpondern zur individuellen Markierung von Bergmolchen (Triturus alpestris) im Freiland		Mertensiella			7		121-132			
Journal Article	Fabrezi, Marissa;Chalabe, Teresa	1997	A review of the fusion of trigeminal and facial ganglia during larval development of some neobatrachian anurans		Alytes			15	1	1-12			
Journal Article	Fair, W. Scott;Henke, Scott E.	1997	Efficacy of capture methods for a low density population of Phrynosoma cornutum		Herpetological Review			28	3	135-137	Phrynosoma cornutum		
Journal Article	Fandiño, María Claudia;Lüddecke, Horst;Amézquinta, Adolfo	1997	Vocalisation and larval transportation of male Colostethus subpunctatus (Anura: Dendrobatidae)		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	1	39-48	Colostethus subpunctatus; Vocalization; Larval transportation; Parental care		
Journal Article	Faragher, Sarah Grimké;Jaeger, Robert G.	1997	Distributions of adult and juvenile red-backed salamanders: testing new hypotheses regarding territoriality		Copeia			1997	2	410-414	Territoriality; Plethodon cinereus		
Journal Article	Farkas, Balázs L.;Sasvári, László;Buskirk, James R.	1997	Maximum size of the Egyption Tortoise, Testudo kleinmanni		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	415	Maximum size; testudo kleinmanni		
Journal Article	Farley, Claire T.;Ko, T. Christine	1997	Mechanics of locomotion in lizards		Journal of Experimental Biology			200		2177-2188			
Journal Article	Farley, Claire T.	1997	Maximum speed and mechanical power output in lizards		Journal of Experimental Biology			200		2189-2195			
Journal Article	Fast, Frank	1997	A glimpse of New Caledonia's elusive Eurydactylus vieillardi		Vivarium			9	1	48			
Journal Article	Fenolio, Danté	1997	The hole thing: Frog and toad microhabitats		Fauna			1	1	4-15			
Journal Article	Fenolio, Danté;Ready, Michael	1997	Mystical Monkey Frogs: Sapos' Magic		Fauna			1	2	68-72	Phyllomedusa bicolor		
Journal Article	Fenske, Reiner;Grellmann, Thomas	1997	Beobachtungen an Kubaleguanen (Cyclura nubila Gray, 1831) auf der Insel Cayo Largo del Sur vor Kuba		Sauria			19	3	3-7		Cyclura nubila; Ecology; Husbandry	
Journal Article	Ferner, John W.;Brown, Rafe M.;Greer, Allen E.	1997	A new genus and species of moist closed canopy forest skinks from the Philippines		Journal of Herpetology			31	2	187-192	Philippines; New genus; New species; Scincidae; Parvoscincus n. gen.; Parvoscincus sisoni n. sp.		
Journal Article	Ferretti, P.;Ghosh, S.	1997	Expression of regeneration-associated cytoskeletal proteins reveals differences and similarities between regenerating organs		Dev Dyn			210	3	288-304	Animal; Cytoskeletal Proteins/biosynthesis/genetics/*physiology; Extremities/*physiology; Jaw/embryology/*physiology; Keratin/biosynthesis/genetics/physiology; Mesoderm/cytology; Notophthalmus viridescens; *Regeneration; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Tail/physiology; Wound Healing/*physiology	The unique events which allow regeneration of an entire organ to occur are formation of a specialized wound epidermis and accumulation of progenitor cells (blastemal cells) at the amputated surface to form a blastema. In order to identify some of the molecular events underlying the early stages of the regenerative process which are either common to different systems or specific to one of them, we have investigated whether molecules which are induced in limb blastemas are also expressed in skin repair and during regeneration of other complex body structures (lower jaws, upper jaws, and tails). In addition, we have addressed the issue of the identity of progenitor cells during jaw development and regeneration by analyzing the expression of limb blastemal markers in the developing head and face. We have focused on cytoskeletal components, and particularly on the epidermal keratin NvKII, the simple epithelial keratins 8 and 18 and 22/18, because they are among the few molecules which have been shown to be associated with regeneration in the limb and may play significant roles in various developmental processes. Some important findings emerge from this study: 1) Expression of the epidermal keratin NvKII, unlike that of its mammalian homologue K6, is not simply induced in response to wounding, but is associated with regeneration of specific organs. In fact, NvKII is expressed in regenerating limbs and tails, but not in upper or in lower jaw regenerates, demonstrating the existence of molecular differences in the composition of the wound epidermis in these systems. This, together with the fact that NvKII mRNA is regulated by retinoic acid, which differentially affects patterning of limbs and jaws, argues for distinct inductive abilities of the wound epidermis in different organs. 2) In contrast to the differential expression of the epidermal keratin NvKII, the regeneration-associated cytoskeletal molecules identified in limb blastemal cells are expressed in a similar fashion in jaw and tail blastemas. Therefore, it appears that similar cellular events lead to the establishment of an actively proliferating population of progenitor cells from the stump of different organs. Finally, the mesenchyme of the facial rudiments, unlike that of developing limb buds, expresses simple epithelial keratins. Thus, it appears that mesenchymal progenitor cells of developing and regenerating jaws are alike in regard to their intermediate filament content, and this may be related to nerve-dependent growth control of progenitor cells in different developing and regenerating systems.	
Journal Article	Ferrier, Wayne	1997	Natural History & captive care of the American Bullfrog		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Nov./Dec.	38-43			
Journal Article	Fetkavich, Craig;Livo, Lauren J.;Smith, Hobart M.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Pseudacris triseriata		Herpetological Review			28	2	93			
Journal Article	Figueiredo Vietas, Claudia;Marcovaldi, Maria Angela	1997	An ecotourism initiative to increase awareness and protection of marine turtles in Brazil: the turtle by night program		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	607-610			
Journal Article	Figueres, Jesus Muro	1997	Treatment of articular gout in a mediterranean pond turtle, Mauremys leprosa		Bulletin of the Association of Reptilian Amphibian Veterinarians			7	4	5-8			
Journal Article	Filella, Eduard	1997	Cuora amboinensis la tortuga caja del sudeste asiático y sus subespecies		Reptilia				13	43-47			
Journal Article	Finkler, Michael S.	1997	Impact of egg content on post-hatchling size, body composition, and performance in the Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina). Linnaeus Fund Research Report		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	452-455	Chelydra serpentina; Egg content		
Journal Article	Finkler, Michael S.;Claussen, Dennis L.	1997	Within and among clutch variation in the composition of Chelydra serpentina eggs with initial egg mass		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	620-624			
Journal Article	Finkler, Michael S.;Claussen, Dennis L.	1997	Use of the tail in terrestrial locomotor activities of juvenile Chelydra serpentina		Copeia			1997	4	884-887			
Journal Article	Fischer, Christian;Podloucky, Richard	1997	Berücksichtigung von Amphibien bei naturschutzrelevanten Planungen - Bedeutung und methodische Mindeststandards		Mertensiella			7		261-278			
Book	Fisher, R. N.;Case, T. J.	1997	A field guide to the reptiles and amphibians of coastal southern California			La Jolla, CA	Department of Biology-0116, University of California at San Diego			46			
Journal Article	Fisher, R. N.	1997	Dispersal and evolution of the Pacific Basin gekkonid lizards Gehyra oceanica and Gehyra mutilata		Evolution			51		906-921	Gekkonidae, allozymes, biogeography, dispersal, F-statistics, gene flow, Pacific Basin, island		
Journal Article	Fitzgerald, Lee A.	1997	Book review: Reptiles del noroeste, nordeste, y este de la Argentina. herpetofauna de las selvas subtropicales puna y Pampas		Herpetological journal			7	1	32-33	Book review		
Journal Article	Fitzinger, L.	1997	Neue classification der Reptilien: Entwurf einer systematischen anordnung der schildkroten		Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, SSAR					1-128			
Journal Article	FitzSimmons, N.N.;Limpus, C.J.;Norman, J.A.;Goldizen, A.R.;MIller, J.D.;Moritz, C.	1997	Philopatry of male marine turtles inferred from mitochondrial DNA markers		Proc Natl. Acad. Sci. USA			94		8912-8917	green; DNA		
Journal Article	FitzSimmons, N.N.;Moritz, C.;Limpus, C.J.;Pope, L.;Prince, R.I.T.	1997	Geographic structure of mitochondrial and nuclear gene polymorphisms in Australian green turtle populations and male-biased gene flow		Genetics			147		1843-1854	green; DNA		
Journal Article	Flank, Lenny	1997	Playing with the big boys: handling large constrictors		Reptiles			5	6	32-37			
Journal Article	Flatt, Thomas;Dummermuth, Stefan;Anholt, Bradley R.	1997	Mark-recapture estimates of survival in populations of the Asp Viper, Vipera aspis aspis		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	558-564			
Journal Article	Fleet, Robert R.;Autrey, Bradley C.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Bufo valiceps		Herpetological Review			28	1	48			
Journal Article	Fleishman, L. J.;Bowman, M.;Saunders, D.;Miller, W. E.;Rury, M. J.;Loew, E. R.	1997	The visual ecology of Puerto Rican anoline lizards: habitat light and spectral sensitivity		Journal of Comparative Physiology A			181		446-460			
Journal Article	Fletcher, C.H.;Mullane, R.A.;Richmond, B.M.	1997	Beach loss along armored shorelines on Oahu, Hawaiian Islands		Journal of Coastal Research			13	1	209-215	beach; sex ratio		
Journal Article	Flores, Glenn;Rodríguez, Lily O.	1997	Two new species of the Eleutherodactylus conspicillatus group (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Perú		Copeia			1997	2	388-394	New Species; Peru; Eleutherodactylus skydmainos sp. nov.; Eleutherodactylus karcharias sp. nov.		
Journal Article	Flowers, M. A.;Graves., B. M.	1997	Juvenile toads avoid chemical cues from snake predators		Animal Behaviour			53		641-646			
Journal Article	Fogel, Gary	1997	The grandest of exhibitions: Reptilefest 1997		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	7	154-156			
Journal Article	Fogel, Dave	1997	Large scale aquatic turtle filtration utilizing the wet/dry dilter		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Nov./Dec.	54-56			
Book	Fogel, David	1997	Captive Husbandry and Propagation of the Boa Constrictors and Related Boas			Malabar, FL	Krieger			xv + 98 + 34 color plates			
Journal Article	Fontaine, Clark T.;Williams, Theodore D.	1997	Delayed feeding in neonatal Kemp's ridley, Lepidochelys kempii: A captive sea turtle management technique		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	573-576			
Journal Article	Foppeman, Antoinette	1997	Buitengewoon paringsgedrag van klepschildpadden in Zambia		Het Terrarium			14	10	5-7	Kinixys belliana; Zambia		
Journal Article	Ford, Linda;Simmons, John E.	1997	The Diffusion of Knowledge: Agassiz (1807-1873), Ruthven  (1882-1971), and the Growth of Herpetological Collections		Collection Building in Ichthyology and Herpetology			37		577-593			
Journal Article	Ford, Linda S.;Simmons, John E.	1997	The diffusion of knowledge: Agassiz (1807-1873), Ruthven (1882-1971), and the growth of herpetological collections		Collection Building in Ichthyology and Herpetology					577-593	Curatorial practices, perservatives, fixatives, ethyl alcohol, formalin, specimens		
Journal Article	Formas, J. Ramón	1997	A new species of Batrachyla (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from southern Chile		Herpetologica			53	1	6-13	Anura; Batrachyla nibaldoi n. sp.; New species; Temperate forests; Chile		
Journal Article	Forstner, Michael R. J.;Dixon, J. R.;Starkey, D. E.	1997	An improved technique for formalin fixation of large vertebrates		Herpetological Review			28	2	77			
Journal Article	Forstner, M. R. J.;Hilsenbeck, R. A.;Scudday, J. F.	1997	Geographic variation in whole venom profiles from the mottled rock rattlesnake (Crotalus lepidus lepidus) in Texas		Journal of Herpetology			31	2	277-287	Crotalus lepidus; Texas; Venom profiles		
Book Section	Foscarini, D.A.;Brooks, R. J.	1997	A proposal to standardize data collection and implications for management of the wood turtle, Clemmys insculpta, and other freshwater turtles in Ontario, Canada	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			203-209			
Journal Article	Foster, Jim;Price, Purnima	1997	A case of predation by Python molurus on a fruit bat, Pteropus giganteus, with notes on bat-snake interactions		Hamadryad			22	1	58-61			
Journal Article	Foufopoulos, Johannes	1997	The reptile fauna of the Northern Dodecanese (Aegean Islands, Greece)		Herpetozoa			10	1/2	3-12		Biogeography; Extinction; Cyrtopodion kotschyi; Hemidactylus turcicus; Ablepharus kitaibelii; Laudakia stellio; Coluber najadum; Coluber caspius; Vipera xanthina; Greece	
Book Section	Fournier, Michael A.	1997	Amphibians in the Northwest Territories	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			100-106			
Journal Article	Franco, Francisco L.;Marques, Otavio A. V.;Puorto, Giuseppe	1997	Two new species of colubrid snakes of the genus Clelia from Brazil		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	483-490			
Journal Article	Franke, Joe	1997	Reptiles in Arnhem Land: Aboriginal rock art		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine				July/Aug.	42-47			
Journal Article	Franklin, Carl J.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Hyla cinera		Herpetological Review			28	2	93			
Journal Article	Franklin, Carl J.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Hemidactylus turcicus		Herpetological Review			28	2	96			
Journal Article	Franklin, C. J.;Hartdegen, R. W.	1997	A safer capture technique for large reptiles		Herpetological Review			28	4	197			
Journal Article	Frazer, N. B.	1997	Turtle conservation and halfway technology: what is the problem?		Proceedings: Conservation, restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles- An International Conference					422-425	conservation, technology, turtles, extinction, reproduction, habitats		
Journal Article	Frazier, Scott	1997	Tomistoma survey		Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter			16	3	7-8			
Book Section	Frazier, J.G.	1997	Management of tropical chelonians: dream or nightmare? Part 2	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles-An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			446-452			
Journal Article	Freed, Paul	1997	Record small size for the Western pigmy rattlesnake		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	2	27	Size; Sistrurus miliarius		
Journal Article	Freedman, Courtney	1997	Artist's impressions		Pet Reptile				2	30-34			
Journal Article	Freeman, Alastair	1997	The conservation status of a coastal duneland lizard fauna at Kaitorete Spit, Canterbury, New Zealand		Herpetofauna			27	1	25-30			
Journal Article	Freilich, J. E.;LaRue, E. L. Jr.	1997	Importance of observer experience in finding desert tortoises		Journal of Wildlife Management			62	2	590-596	field technique, observer bias,  reliability, method, procedure		
Book Section	French, Thomas	1997	Turtle conservation in Massachusetts	Tyning, Thomas F.	Status and Conservation of Turtles of the Northeastern United States: A Symposium	Lanesboro, MN	Serpent's Tale			3-4	Massachusetts; Turtles; Conservation		
Journal Article	Frick, Michael G.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Hemidactylus turcicus		Herpetological Review			28	1	50			
Journal Article	Frick, Michael G.;Lindsay, Anne M.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Eurycea longicauda guttolineata		Herpetological Review			28	2	92			
Journal Article	Frick, Michael G.;Lindsay, Anne M.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Hemidactylium scutatum		Herpetological Review			28	2	92			
Journal Article	Frick, Michael G.;Lindsay, Anne M.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Chelydra serpentina		Herpetological Review			28	2	94			
Journal Article	Frick, Michael G.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Ophisaurus attenuatus longicaudus		Herpetological Review			28	2	97			
Journal Article	Frick, Michael G.	1997	Lepidochelys kempi (Kemp's Ridley), Caretta caretta (Loggerhead), and Malaclemys terripin centrata (Carolina Diamondback Terrapin). Diet and Predation		Herpetological Review			28	3	149			
Journal Article	Frick, M.G.	1997	Lepidochelys kempi, Caretta caretta, Malaclemys terrapin centrata.  Diet and Predation		Herpetological Review			28		149	loggerhead; ridley; feeding		
Journal Article	Frick, M.G.	1997	Lepidochelys kempi (Kemp's ridley), Caretta caretta (loggerhead), and Malaclemys terrapin centrata (Carolina diamondback terrapin). Diet and predation		Herpetological Review			28	3	149	ridley; loggerhead; feeding		
Journal Article	Friedl, Thomas W. P.;Klump, Georg M.	1997	Some aspects of population biology in the European Treefrog, Hyla arborea		Herpetologica			53	3	321-330	Hyla arborea; Skeletochronology; Growth rate; Longevity; Age at maturation; Survival; Age structure		
Journal Article	Friend, Carol	1997	Notes on the African Brown House Snake Lamprophis fuliginosus		The Herptile			22	3	135-136			
Journal Article	Fritsche, R.	1997	Ontogeny of cardiovascular control in amphibians		American Zoologist			37	1	23-30	Amphibia, physiology, heart, control	Cardiovascular variables in developing amphibians are affected by both allometry and organogenesis. Blood pressure, cardiac output, and stroke volume increase during development, whereas peripheral resistance decreases, Invariably, resting heart rate changes as development proceeds from embryo through larva to adult, The pattern of change, however, varies between species and does not even correlate with family, The mechanisms underlying these varying patterns of developmental changes in heart rate of anuran amphibians larvae awaits complete description, Cardiovascular variables in adult vertebrates are influenced by nerves and hormones as well as intrinsic factors. However, information on the development of cardiovascular control systems is scarce, but receptor sensitivity apparently develops before functional innervation becomes apparent, The amphibian heart responds to acetylcholine and adrenaline several stages before functional innervation becomes evident, and in some species the cholinergic and adrenergic sensitivity of the cardiac pacemaker changes with development, As in mammals, acute hypoxia results in different cardiovascular responses depending on the developmental stage of the animal, The different responses reflect the relative maturity of neurohormonal mechanisms operating within the cardiovascular system. R Fritsche, Gothenburg Univ, Dept Zoophysiol, S-41390 Gothenburg, Sweden	
Journal Article	Fritz, Uwe;Gaulke, Maren;Lehr, Edgar	1997	Revision der südostasiatischen Dornschildkröten-Gattung Cyclemys Bell, 1834, mit Beschreibung einer neuen Art [Revision of the Southeast Asian leaf turtle genus Cyclemys Bell, 1834, with description of a new species]		Salamandra			33	3	183-212		Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Forschungsstelle, Augustusstraße 2, D-01067 Dresden, Germany	
Journal Article	Fronzuto, Julie A.	1997	Ambystoma tigrinum melanostictum (Blotched Tiger Salamander). Predation		Herpetological Review			28	2	81			
Journal Article	Frost, J.W.;Schmidt, A.	1997	Serological evidence of suceptibility of various species of tortoises to injections by herpesvirus		Verhandl. Ber. Erkrankungen der Zootiere			NF2		25-27	Reptilia, testudines, infection, virus, herpes		
Journal Article	Fry, Shawn K.;DeLay, G. Scott;Hayes, William K.	1997	Video Review: Green Iguanas: The Video Guide to Care and Breeding		Iguana Times			6	1	15	Video review		
Journal Article	Fry, Shawn K.;DeLay, G. Scott;Hayes, William K.	1997	Video Review: Captive care of the Green Iguana		Iguana Times			6	1	14-15	Video review		
Journal Article	Fry, Shawn K.;DeLay, G. Scott;Hayes, William K.	1997	Video review: "Captive Care of the Green Iguana" and "Green Iguanas: The Video Guide to Care and Breeding"		Iguana Times			6	1	14-15			
Journal Article	Fry, Gideon	1997	Book review: Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada		The OphidioFile			1	4	8			
Journal Article	Fry, Gideon	1997	"Here be Fox Snakes" A most Canadian Reptile		The OphidioFile			1	4	16-20;32;35-36			
Journal Article	Frye, Frederic L.	1997	The importance of calcum in relation to phosphorus, especially in folivorous reptiles		Proccedings of the Nutrition Society			56		1105-1117			
Journal Article	Frye, F.F.	1997	The importance of calcium in relation to phosphorus, especially in folivorous reptiles		Proc. Nutrition Soc.			56		1105-1117	Reptilia, sauria, green iduana, food, feeding, calcium, folivory		
Journal Article	Fu, Jinzhong;Lathrop, Amy;Murphy, Robert W.	1997	Phylogeny of genus Scutiger (Amphibia: Megophryidae): A re-evaluation		Asiatic Herpetological Research			7		32-37	Amphibia; Anura; Pelobatoidea; Megophryidae; Scutiger; Morphology; Phylogeny; Parsimony		
Journal Article	Fu, Jinzhong;Murphy, Robert W.	1997	Phylogeny of Chinese Oreolalax and the use of functional outgroups to select among multiple equally parsimonious trees		Asiatic Herpetological Research			7		38-43	Amphibia; Anura; Oreolalax; China; Phylogeny; Functional outgroups		
Journal Article	Fu, J.Z.;Murphy, R.W.;Darevsky, I.S.	1997	Toward the phylogeny of Caucasian rock lizards: implications from mitochondrial DNA gene sequences (Reptilia: Lacertidae)		Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society			120	4	463-477	Reptilia, sauria, Lacerta,  Archaeolacerta,  phylogeny, cytochrome b, ATPase 6,  hybridization	A maximum parsimony phylogeny of 14 Caucasian species of rock lizards, genus Lacerta, subgenus Archaeolacerta, was constructed from mitochondrial cytochrome b and ATPase 6 partial gene sequences. Congruence analyses were carried out between the two genes. A synthesis of the data sets reveals three well supported monophyletic groups: (1) the caucasica group including (Lacerta derjugini ((L. alpina, L. clarkorum) (L. caucasica, L. daghestanica))); (2) the rudis group including (L. parvula (L. portschinskii (L. valentini, L. rudis))); and (3) the saxicola group including (L. mixta (L. nairensis (L. saxicola, L. raddei))). Despite the diagnosis of three groups, the placement of L. praticola as a basal taxon is uncertain, as are the relationships among the three groups. The mitochondrial DNA sequence data suggested prior hybridization between L. mixta and L. alpina and possibly between L. saxicola and L. nairensis. Lacerta raddei was resolved as a paraphyletic species on the mtDNA tree; this may result from either hybridization or random gene sorting. (C) 1997 The Linnean Society of London. JZ Fu, Royal Ontario Museum, Ctr Biodivers & Conservat Biol, 100 Queens Pk, Toronto, on M5S 2C6, Canada	
Journal Article	Fuhri, Carl	1997	Status of the Sandy Cay Rock Iguana, Cyclura rileyi cristata		Iguana Times			6	2	27-30			
Journal Article	Fullerton, Jeffrey A.	1997	Tropical American wood turtles: Rhinoclemmys		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine				Sept./Oct.	44-53	Rhinoclemmys		
Journal Article	Fuster, J.F.;Pages, T.;Palacios, L.	1997	Effect of temperature on oxygen stores during aerobic diving in the freshwater turtle Mauremys caspica leprosa		Physiological Zoology			70	1	7-18	Reptilia, testudines, Mauremys caspica leprosa, physiology, respiration, acid-base, anaerobic metabolism	Oxygen stores available for aerobic diving were studied in the freshwater turtle (Mauremys caspica leprosa) at three constant body temperatures (15 degrees, 25 degrees, and 35 degrees C) and during the thermal transient (30 degrees-15 degrees C) induced by immersion in cold water. The term ''aerobic dive limit'' has been defined as the maximal duration of the dive before lactate increases. This increase occurs when a critical P-O2 value is reached, and it is well characterized at lung level by a sharp increase in the lung apnoeic respiratory quotient. Kinetic analysis of lung gas composition during forced dives at fixed body temperature shows that critical P-O2 values rise with temperature and that the postventilatory P-O2 at the beginning of a dive decreases, so that the two temperature-dependent factors lead to a significant decrease with temperature in the lung O-2, stores available for aerobic diving. During dives with transient body cooling, a natural condition in M. caspica leprosa, temperature equilibration occurs fast enough to expand aerobic scope by bearing the critical P-O2 to the same value obtained at a fixed temperature of 15 degrees C. These dives are characterized by reversed CO2 transport (from lung to tissues) and therefore by negative values of the lung respiratory quotient; a decrease in temperature increases CO2 capacitance of tissues, resulting in a fall in P-CO2, at constant CO2 content. Because this does not occur in the gas phase, P-CO2 difference can lead to diffusion in the direction opposite from normal. This pattern may favour lung-to-tissue O-2 transfer, through the Bohr effect. Therefore, the aerobic dive limit is reduced at high temperature not only through a metabolic rate effect but also through a marked decrease in the available O-2 stores; fast body cooling (30 degrees-15 degrees C) associated with immersion in cold water extends the O-2 stores available for aerobic diving to a level similar to that of immersions at constant body temperatures that are in equilibrium with water temperature.  L Palacios Univ Barcelona Unidad Fisiol Dept Bioquim & Fisiol Ave Diagonal 645 E-08071 Barcelona, Spain	
Journal Article	Fuster, J. F.;Pages, T.;Falacios, L.	1997	Effect of temperature on oxygen stores during aerobic diving in the freshwater turtle Mauremys caspica leprosa		Physiological Zoology			70	1	7-18	temperature, metabolic rate, oxygen, turtle, diving, activity		
Book	Gabaldón, Francisco Sanchis	1997	Guía de los Anfibios y Reptiles de la Comunidad Valenciana			Valencia	Sociedad Herpetologica Valenciana			184			
Journal Article	Gad, Jürgen	1997	Das Exotarium des Frankfurter Zoos		Elaphe			5	1	87-89			
Journal Article	Gadsden-E., Hector;Palacios-Orona, Luis E.	1997	Seasonal dietary patterns of the Mexian fringe-toed lizard (Uma paraphygas)		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	1-9	Uma paraphygas; Diet; Dietary patterns		
Journal Article	Galán, Pedro	1997	Declive de poblaciones de anfibios en dos embalses de la coruña (noroeste de España) por introducción de especies exóticas		Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española				8	38-40			
Journal Article	Galbraith, David A.	1997	Book review: Biology of North American Tortoises		Herpetological journal			7	1	31	Book review		
Book Section	Galbraith, David A.	1997	The role of molecular genetics in the conservation of amphibians	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			282-290			
Book Section	Galbraith, D.A.;R. J. Brooks, G. P. Brown	1997	Can management intervention achieve sustainable exploitation of turtles?	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference,	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			186-194			
Journal Article	Gamble, K.C.;Alvarado, T.P.;Bennett, C.L.	1997	Itraconazole plasma and tissue concentrations in the spiny lizard (Sceloporus sp.) following once-daily dosing		Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine			28	1	89-93	Reptilia, sauria, Sceloporus, infection, fungus, therapy, itraconazole	Mycotic infections in reptiles present as primary diseases and as secondary problems in healing wounds and immunocompromised animals. A triazole antimycotic drug, itraconazole is orally active and well distributed and is effective against many common fungal pathogens in humans. To assess plasma and tissue concentrations after oral dosing in reptiles, a 23.5-mg, kg (mean) itraconazole dose was administered orally with a standard food bolus once daily for 3 days to 10 groups of three or four spiny lizards (Sceloporus sp.). On days 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, and 18, group samples of blood, liver, and muscle were collected. Microbiologic assay of itraconazole concentrations was performed on these pooled samples. Values from an elimination graph of the concentrations of area under the curve (377.21 mu g.hr, ml) and terminal elimination half-life (48.3 hr) were obtained for itraconazole in spiny lizard plasma. Peak itraconazole concentration of 2.48 mu g, ml was obtained in two half-lives and would be expected to achieve steady state at approximately 3.1 mu g, ml plasma concentration in 10 days. Peak liver concentration of 4.27 mu g, ml was attained in 89.95 hr. Muscle concentration did not exceed 0.63 mu g, ml and declined by 97.3 hr. With this dosing regimen, itraconazole plasma and liver concentrations would persist within reported minimum inhibitory concentrations for many fungal pathogens for 6 days beyond the peak concentration.  KC Gamble, Dallas Zoo, 650 S R L Thornton Freeway, Dallas, TX 75203 USA	
Journal Article	Gamradt, S. C.;Kats, L. B.;Anzalone., C. B.	1997	Aggression by non-native crayfish deters breeding in California newts		Conservation Biology			11		793-796			
Journal Article	Gans, Carl	1997	M. Graham Netting 1904-1996		Copeia			1997	3	658-657	obituary		
Journal Article	Gans, Carl;Bauer, Aaron M.;Günther, Rainer	1997	An annotated type catalogue of the amphisbaenians (Reptilia: Squamata: Amphisbaenia) in the Zoological Musuem, Berlin		Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berl.			73	1	41-50			
Journal Article	García-Márquez, Marcos;López-Jurado, Luis F.;Mateo, José A.	1997	Predación de Gallotia simonyi por gatos cimarrones		Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española				8	20-23			
Journal Article	Garner, M.M.;Herrington, R.;Howerth, E.W.;Homer, B.L.;Nettles, V.F.;Isaza, R.;Shotts, E.B.;Jacobson, E.R.	1997	Shell disease in river cooters (Pseudemys concinna) and yellow-bellied turtles (Trachemys scripta) in a Georgia (USA) lake		Journal of Wildlife Diseases			33	1	78-86	Reptilia, testudines, river cooter,  Pseudemys concinna, yellow-bellied turtle,  Trachemys scripta, pathology, shell,	A disfiguring shell disease was detected in river cooters (Pseudemys concinna) and yellow-bellied turtles (trachemys scripta) from Lake Blackshear, Georgia (USA). The turtles used were part of a mark-recapture study conducted from September 1991 to June 1993. Histologic changes on four turtles included acute segmental necrosis of the epidermis, followed by ulceration, necrosis of the underlying dermis and dermal bone, and exaggerated remodeling of bone. Additional findings included visceral inflammatory lesions and bacterial infection, sepsis, and marked trematode ova granulomatosis. The cause of the shell lesions was not determined.  MM Garner, Univ Florida, Coll Vet Med, Gainesville, FL 32610 USA	
Journal Article	Garraffo, H. M.;Jain, P.;Spande, T. F.;Daly, J. W.	1997	Alkaloid 223A: The first trisubstituted indolizidine from dendrobatid frogs		J. Nat. Prod.			60		2-5	Dendrobates pumilio, Dendrobatidae		
Journal Article	Garrett, Clay M.	1997	Eternal spring: a glimpse of Guatemala		Fauna			1	1	54-63			
Journal Article	Garstka, William R.;Burnham, David A.	1997	Posture and stance of Triceratops: evidence of digitigrade manus and cantilever vertebral column		Dinofest Interantional Proceedings			1997		385-391			
Journal Article	Gasparini, Zulma;Spalletti, Luis;De La Fuente, Marcelo	1997	Tithonian marine reptiles of the Western Neuquén Basin, Argentina. Facies and Palaeoenvironments		Geobios			30	5	701-712			
Journal Article	Gaßner, Paul;Hauschild, Andree	1997	Cosmopolitas, per no "Universales" escincos del género Eumeces		Reptilia (Spain)				10	43-48	Eumeces		
Journal Article	Gatesy, S.M.	1997	An electromyographic analysis of hindlimb function in Alligator during terrestrial locomotion		J. Morph.			234		16		The neuromuscular control of the hindlimb of American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) walking on a treadmill was analyzed using simultaneous electromyography (EMG) and cineradiography. EMG and kinematic data were integrated with myological information to discern the interplay of muscles mediating hip and knee movement during the high walk. Twelve muscles, subdivided into 23 individual heads, cross the hip joint of Alligator. Activity patterns of 12 heads of 11 hip muscles and one knee muscle were recorded and quantified. An additional five heads from four muscles were recorded in single individuals. During the stance phase, the caudofemoralis longus prevents hip flexion and actively shortens to retract the femur through an are of 60-80 degrees. At the same time, the adductor femoris 1 and pubo-ischio- tibialis control femoral abduction. The knee is extended 30-40 degrees during stance by contraction of the femoro-tibialis internus. These stance phase muscles often produce discontinuous, periodic EMG signals within their normal burst profile. In late stance and early swing, the ilio-fibularis and the pubo-ischio-tibialis are responsible for flexing the knee. The limb is protracted by the pubo-ischio-femoralis internus 2 and pubo-ischio-femoralis externus 2, which flex the hip. The ilio-femoralis abducts the limb during swing to suspend it above the tread. The role of the ambiens 1, which is active in midswing, is unclear. The ilio-tibialis 2, flexor- tibialis externus and flexor-tibialis internus 2 yield sporadic, low amplitude EMGs; these muscles are recruited at a very low level, if at all, during the slow high walk. Although EMGs do not conclusively delineate muscle function, activity patterns are particularly helpful in elucidating the complex interaction of muscular heads in this system. (C) 1997 Wiley- Liss, Inc.	
Journal Article	Gaulden, Robert L.	1997	Tiger by the trail		Reptiles			5	9	10-18	Crotalus tigris		
Journal Article	Gaulke, Maren;Altenbach, Alexander V.	1997	Reptilien der Karakum		TI Magazin				134	53-56			
Journal Article	Gaulke, Maren	1997	Warane: Nutzung durch den Menschen		Reptilia (German)				5	28-32	Varanus		
Journal Article	Gaulke, Maren	1997	Zur Artenvielfalt der philippinischen Herpetofauna		DATZ			50	9	598-603	Philippines		
Journal Article	Gaulke, Maren	1997	Sex determination of monitor lizards in the field - A review of methods		Hamadryad			22	1	28-31			
Journal Article	Gaulke, Maren;de Silva, Anslem	1997	Monitor lizards of Sri Lanka: Preliminary investigations on their population structure		Lyriocephalus			3	1	1-5		Helene-Mayer-Ring 14, 80809 München Germany	
Book Section	Geffen, E.;Mendelssohn, H.	1997	Effects of military activities on tortoises in Israel (abstract)	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles-An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			73			
Book Section	Geffen, E.;Mendelssohn, H.	1997	Specific threats to tortoises in Israel	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			321			
Book Section	Geffen, E.;Mendelssohn, H.	1997	Avian predation on tortoises in Israel (summary report)	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			105			
Journal Article	Geiger, Arno	1997	Buchbesprechugen: Die Amphibien und Reptilien Deutschlands		Zeitschrift für Feldherpetologie			4		219-221	Book review		
Journal Article	Geiger, Arno	1997	Buchbesprechugen: Zur Wirksamkeit von ErsatzlaichgewUassern für Amphibien beim Bundesfernstraßenbau		Zeitschrift für Feldherpetologie			4		221-223	Book review		
Journal Article	Gemel, Richard	1997	Langjährige Gefangenschaftshaltung einer Breitrandschildkröte, Testudo marginata Schoepff, 1792 (Testudines: Testudinidae) [Longevity of a marginated tortoise, Testudo marginata Schoepff, 1792, in captivity (Testudines: Testudinidae)]		Herpetozoa			10	1/2	91-92		Testudo marginata; Longevity	
Journal Article	Gemel, R.	1997	Book review: The Galápagos Tortoises: Nomenclatural and Survival Status		Herpetozoa			10	3/4	177-178			
Journal Article	Genovart, Meritxell;Oro, Daniel;González-Solís, Jacob;Pedrocchi, Vittorio	1997	Mediterranean reptiles. Predation by gulls		Herpetological Review			28	1	43-44			
Journal Article	Gergus, Eric W. A.;Grismer, L. Lee;Beaman, Kent	1997	Geographic Distribution. Bufo californicus		Herpetological Review			28	1	47			
Journal Article	Gerholdt, James E.	1997	Friends of rare Amphibiand of the Western Ghats (FRAWG)		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Mar./Apr.	64-68	Western Ghats		
Journal Article	Giacoma, Christina;Zugolaro, Cinzia;Beani, Laura	1997	The advertisement calls of the green toad (Bufo viridis): variability and role in mate choise		Herpetologica			53	4	454-464			
Journal Article	Giannasi, Nick;Thorpe, Roger Stephen;Malhotra, Anita	1997	Introductions of Anolis species to the Island of St. Lucia, West Indies: testing for hybrids using multivariate morphometrics		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	586-589			
Journal Article	Giaretta, Ariovaldo A.;Nunes, Renato	1997	Cycloramphus boraceiensis (Flattened Waterfall Frog). Predation		Herpetological Review			28	4	199-200			
Journal Article	Gibbons, L. M.;Khalil, L. F.;Marinkelle, C. J.	1997	Paraorientatractis semiannulata n. g., n. sp. (Cosmocercoidea: Atractidae) from the large intestine of the side-necked turtle, Podocnemis unifilis Troschel, 1848 (Testudines: Pelomedusidae) in Brazil		Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz			92	3	359-64		Specimens collected from the large intestine of the side-necked turtle Podocnemis unifilis Troschel, 1848 in the region of Cumina and Trombetas rivers near Para, Brazil are assigned to a new genus and new species of the nematode superfamily Cosmocercoidea and family Atractidae and named Paraorientatractis semiannulata. The new genus is separated from the nearest genus Orientatractis by the funnel-shaped mouth opening, the presence of 4 distinct lips, 4 papillae in the internal cycle, one on each lip margin, 2 lateral amphids with large amphidial pores and absence of submedian papillae. It is also separated from Orientatractis and Proatractis by the presence of striated lateral alae which curve dorsally extending from mid oesophagus to mid tail, the difference in size of the vulvar opening and the presence of large transverse ridges or semiannules on the dorsal surface. The new species can be separated from the species of the genera Orientatractis and Proatractis by the characters that distinguish the genera and the arrangement of the caudal papillae on the male. A host/parasite list for Podocnemis spp. is included.	
Journal Article	Gibbons, J. Whitfield;Burke, Vincent J.;Lovich, Jeffrey E.;Semlitsch, Raymond D.;Tuberville, Tracey D.;Bodie, J. Russell;Greene, Judith L.;Niewiarowski, Peter H.;Whiteman, Howard H.;Scott, David E.;Pechmann, Joseph H. K.;Harrison, Christopher R.;Bennett, Stephen H.;Krenz, John D.;Mills, Mark S.;Buhlmann, Kurt A.;Lee, John R.;Seigel, Richard A.;Tucker, Anton D.;Mills, Tony M.;Lamb, Trip;Dorcas, Michael E.;Congdon, Justin D.;Smith, Michael H.;Nelson, David H.;Dietsch, M. Barbara;Hanlin, Hugh G.;Ott, Jeannine A.;Karapatakis, Deno J.	1997	Perceptions of species abundance, distribution, and diversity: lessons from four decades of sampling on a government-managed reserve		Environmental Management			21	2	259-268			
Journal Article	Gibbons, J.W.;Burke, V.J.;Lovich, J.E.;Semlitsch, R.D.;Tuberville, T.D.;Bodie, J.R.;Green, J.L.;Niewiarowski, P.H.;Whiteman, H.H.;Scott, D.E.;Pechmann, J.H.K.;Harrison, C.R.;Bennett, S.H.;Krenz, J.D.;Mills, M.S.;Buhlmann, K.A.;Lee, J.R.;Seigel, R.A.;Tucker, A.D.;Mills, T. M.;Lamb, T.;Dorcas, M.E.;Frazer, N.B.;Congdon, J.D.;Smith, M.H.;Nelson, D.H.;Dietsch, M.B.;Hanlin, H.G.;Ott, J.A.;Karapatakis, D.J.	1997	Perceptions of species abundance, distribution, and diversity: lessons from four decades of sampling on a government-managed reserve		Environmental Management			21	2	259-268	abundance, amphibian, biodiversity, distribution, land management, reptile		
Journal Article	Gibbons, J. W.	1997	Measuring declines and natural variation in turtle populations: spatial lessons from long-term studies		Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles- An International Conference					243-246	natural variation, population, habitat		
Journal Article	Gibbs, H. L.;Prior, K. A.;Weatherhead, P. J.;Johnson, G.	1997	Genetic structure of populations of the threatened eastern massasauga rattlesnake, Sistrurus c. catenatus: evidence from microsatellite DNA markers		Mol Ecol			6	12	1123-32	Animal; Crotalus/*genetics; *Genetics, Population; Inbreeding; Microsatellite Repeats; New York; Ohio; Ontario; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Variation (Genetics)/genetics	Throughout its distribution in North America, the threatened eastern massasauga rattlesnake (Sistrurus c. catenatus) persists in a series of habitat-isolated disjunct populations of varying size. Here, we use six microsatellite DNA loci to generate information on the degree of genetic differentiation between, and the levels of inbreeding within populations to understand how evolutionary processes operate in these populations and aid the development of conservation plans for this species. Samples were collected from 199 individuals from five populations in Ontario, New York and Ohio. Our results show that all sampled populations: (i) differ significantly in allele frequencies even though some populations are 50 km apart, and may contain genetically distinct subpopulations 2 km apart; (ii) have an average of 23% of alleles that are population specific; and (iii) have significant FIS values (mean overall FIS = 0.194) probably due to a combination of Wahlund effects resulting from fine-scale genetic differentiation within populations and the presence of null alleles. Our results imply that massasauga populations may be genetically structured on an extremely fine scale even within continuous populations, possibly due to limited dispersal. Additional information is needed to determine if dispersal and mating behaviour within populations can account for this structure and whether the observed differentiation is due to random processes such as drift or to local adaptation. From a conservation perspective, our results imply that these massasauga populations should be managed as demographically independent units and that each has high conservation value in terms of containing unique genetic variation.	
Journal Article	Giebner, Ingo;Helm, Wolfgang	1997	Nachzucht der F2-Generation von Pelusios williamsi wiliamsi Laurent, 1965		Sauria			19	2	23-28	Pelomedusidae; Pelusios williamsi; Husbandry; Breeding		
Journal Article	Gillett, Leigh	1997	Book review: Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory		Herpetological Journal			7	3	126	Book review		
Journal Article	Gioanni, Henri;Sansonetti, Annie;Bennis, Mohamed	1997	Characteristics of cervico-ocular responses in the chameleon		Visual Neuroscience			14		1175-1184			
Journal Article	Girard, Francis	1997	Notes from a South African trip -29.10.1995 to 10.11.1995		The Herptile			22	1	22-25			
Journal Article	Girard, F.	1997	Ptenopus garrulus maculatus, Common Barking Gecko, Courtship and mating		African Herp News				26	24		202, Avenue du Château des Rentiers, 75013 Paris, France	
Journal Article	Girard, F.	1997	Geographic distribution. Pachydactylus austeni		African Herp News				26	32		202, Avenue du Château des Rentiers, 75013 Paris, France	
Journal Article	Girard, Francis	1997	Holidaying with herps in South Africa		African Herp News				26	13-15		202, Avenue du Château des Rentiers, 75013 Paris, France	
Journal Article	Giraudo, Alejandro R.;Arzamendia, Venesa	1997	Geographic Distribution. Clelia rustica		Herpetological Review			28	3	158-159			
Journal Article	Giraudo, Alejandro R.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Lystrophis matogrossensis		Herpetological Review			28	3	159			
Journal Article	Glatston, A.R.	1997	Sex ratio research in zoos and its implications for captive management		Applied Animal Behaviour Science			51		209-216	sex ratio; tsd		
Journal Article	Glaw, Frank;Vences, Miguel	1997	New species of the Boophis tephraeomystax group (Anura: Ranidae: Rhacophorinae) from aird wesetrn Madagascar		Copeia			1997	3	572-578	Boophis tephraeomystax Group; Boophis xerophilus n. sp.		
Journal Article	Gleed-Owen, Chris	1997	The origin of the west coast Natterjacks-Kerry across to Mersey?		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				60	2-4			
Journal Article	Glen, Fiona;Godley, Brendan J.;Kelly, Andrew;Broderick, Annette C.	1997	Marine turtle nesting in the Göksu Delta, Turkey, 1996		Marine Turtle Newsletter				77	17-19	Turkey; Sea Turles		
Thesis	Glenn, T.C.	1997	Genetic bottlenecks in long-lived vertebrates: mitochondrial and microsatellite DNA variation in American alligators and whooping cranes					
Journal Article	Glossip, Danielle;Losos, Jonathan B.	1997	Ecological correlates of number of subdigital lamellae in anoles		Herpetologica			53	2	192-199	Anolis; Habitat use; Lamellae; Toe-pad		
Journal Article	Goater, Cameron P.;Vandenbos, Rena E.	1997	Effects of larval history and lungworm infection on the growth and survival of juvenile Wood Frogs (Rana sylvatica)		Herpetologica			53	3	331-338	Rana sylvatica; Density; Growth; Metamorphosis; Parasitism; Rhabdias ranae; Lungworm		
Journal Article	Godfrey, Matthew H.	1997	Further scrutiny of Mexican ridley population trends		Marine Turtle Newsletter				76	17-18	Mexico; Lepidochelys kempii; Population trends; Status; Conservation		
Journal Article	Godfrey, Matthew H.;Barreto, R.;Mrosovsky, N.	1997	Metabolically-generated heat of developing eggs and its potential effect on sex ratio of sea turtle hatchlings		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	616-619			
Journal Article	Godfrey, Matthew H.;Mrosovsky, N.	1997	Estimating the time between hatching of sea turtles and their emergence from the nest		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	581-585			
Journal Article	Godfrey, M.H.;Barreto, R.;Mrosovsky, N.	1997	Metabolically generated heat of developing eggs and its potential effect on sex ratio of sea turtle hatchlings		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	616-619	leatherback; tsd; egg; incubation; sex ratio; pivotal		
Journal Article	Godley, B.	1997	Marine turtles in British waters		Veterinary Record			140	5	136	Reptilia, testudines, physiology, distribution	B Godley Univ Glasgow Graham Kerr Bldg Glasgow G12 8QQ Lanark, Scotland	
Journal Article	Goldberg, Stephen R.	1997	Reproduction in the western shovelnose snake, Chionactis occipitalis (Colubridae), from California		Great Basin Naturalist			57	1	85-87	Chionactis occipitalis; California; reproduction		
Journal Article	Goldberg, Stephen R.;Lowe, Charles H.	1997	Reproductive cycle of the gila monster, Heloderma suspectum, in southern Arizona		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	161-166	Heloderma suspectum; Reproductive cycle		
Journal Article	Goldberg, Stephen R.;Bursey, Charles R.;Truong, Quynh A.	1997	Helminths of Tago's brown frog, Rana tagoi (Ranidae), from Japan		Asiatic Herpetological Research			7		44-47	Rana tagoi; Ranidae; Cylindrotaenia japonica; Cosmocerca japonica; Oswaldocruzia socialis; Helminths; Rhabdias nipponica; Acanthocephalus lucidis; Japan; parasites		
Journal Article	Goldberg, Stephen R.;Bursey, Charles R.;Cheam, Hay	1997	Helminths from the Sonoran Spotted Whiptail, Cnemidophorus sonorae, and the Western Whiptail, Cnemidophorus tigris (Sauria: Teiidae), from Southern Arizona with comments on Abbreviata terrapenis (Nematoda: Physalopteridae)		Great Basin Naturalist			57	3	273-277	Cnemidophorus sonorae; Cnemidophorus tigris; Helminths; Parasites		
Journal Article	Goldberg, Stephen R.	1997	Phyllodactylus xanti (Leaf-toed Gecko). Reproduction		Herpetological Review			28	3	152-153			
Journal Article	Goldberg, Stephen R.	1997	Reproduction in the Western Coral Snake, Micruroides euryxanthus (Elapidae), from Arizona and Sonora, México		Great Basin Naturalist			57	4	363-365		Micruroides euryxanthus	
Journal Article	Goldberg, Stephen R.	1997	Sceloporus jarrovii (Yarrow's Spiny Lizard). Reproduction in Mexico		Herpetological Review			28	4	204			
Journal Article	Goldberg, S. R.;Bursey, C. R.;Cheam, H.	1997	Helminths of Anolis acutus (Sauria: Polychrotidae) from St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands		J Parasitol			83	3	530-1		Four hundred and fifteen Anolis acutus from St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands were examined for helminths. Three nematodes, Ascarops sp. (larvae), Parapharyngodon cubensis, and Spauligodon caymanensis, and 2 acanthocephalans, Centrorhynchus sp. and Oligacanthorhynchus sp. (cystacanths), were found. The highest prevalence (47%) and mean intensity (21.3) were recorded for S. caymanensis. Anolis acutus is a new host record for each of these helminth species.	
Journal Article	Goldberg, Stephen R.;Bursey, Charles R.;Truong, Quynh A.	1997	Helminths of Tago's Brown Frog, Rana tagoi tagoi (Ranidae), from Japan		Asiatic Herpetological Research			7		44-47			
Book Section	Goldschmid, Ulrike	1997	Das ökologische Konzept der Donauinsel: Biotopverbund und managementmaßnahmen	Hödl, Walter;Jehle, R. and Gollmann, G.	Populationsbiologie von Amphibien: Eine Langzeitstudie auf der Wiener Donauinsel	Stapfiz 51	Land Öberösterreich OÖ Landesmuseum			27-43			
Journal Article	Gollmann, Günter	1997	Book review: Die Amphibien Rußlands und angrenzender Gebiete		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	3	319	Book review		
Book Section	Gollmann, Günter	1997	Wien am Schnittpunkt großer Lebensräume: Hybridzonen bei Amphibien	Hödl, Walter;Jehle, R. and Gollmann, G.	Populationsbiologie von Amphibien: Eine Langzeitstudie auf der Wiener Donauinsel	Stapfiz 51	Land Öberösterreich OÖ Landesmuseum			67-72			
Journal Article	Gomes, Jorge	1997	Vista al zoo de reptiles de Maia		Reptilia			3	9	65-67			
Journal Article	Gomes, M. R.;Peixoto, O. L.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Hyla callipygia		Herpetological Review			28	2	92-93			
Journal Article	Gomes, Jorge	1997	El Camaleon en Europa		Reptilia (Spain)				11	52-55	Chamaleo		
Journal Article	Goncharova, Galina I.;Semenov, Dmitry V.	1997	Amphibian status in Moscow Province: Long-term observations at the Village of Saltykovka		Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union			2		163-165			
Journal Article	Goniakowska-Witalinska, L.	1997	Neuroepithelial bodies and solitary neuroendocrine cells in the lungs of amphibia		Microsc Res Tech			37	1	13-30	Amphibia/*anatomy & histology/classification; Animal; Lung/*cytology/innervation/ultrastructure; Microscopy, Electron; Neurosecretory Systems/*cytology/physiology/ultrastructure; Phylogeny; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't	In the lungs of 12 species of Amphibia investigated so far, solitary neuroendocrine (NE) cells, as well as groups of these cells called "neuroepithelial bodies" (NEB), are observed. They occur in the position strategic to monitoring gas composition, mainly in the ciliated epithelium of the apical part of the septa. A great diversity in the structure of NEB is observed. The NE cells and NEB in Amphibia are predominantly of the "closed type," separated from the air space by a thin cytoplasmic layer of ciliated cells, goblet cells or pneumocytes. In two species, Bufo marinus and Ambystoma tigrinum, the "open type" of NEB occur, where NEB communicate with the air space, by apical cells in Bufo and type II NE cells in Ambystoma. Both types of cells possess single atypical cilia with an 8+1 microtubule arrangement and microvilli on the free surface. Single and grouped NE cells are characterized by small dense core vesicles (DCV) dispersed in the cytoplasm. In Salamandra and Ambystoma the second type of NE cells with large DCV are observed. The DCV represent sites of storage of serotonin and several neuropeptides. The basal parts of NEB and of some solitary cells are invested by the intraepithelial sensory nerve terminals, both afferent and efferent morphologically. In the lungs of Amphibia, similarly to other vertebrates, NE cells, which act as endocrine/paracrine receptors, form epithelial endocrine systems.	
Journal Article	Gonzaga, Luiz A. P.;Castiglioni, Glória D. A.;Alves, Maria Alice S.	1997	Philodryas patagoniensis (NCN). Diet		Herpetological Review			28	3	154			
Journal Article	Gonzalez, A.;Smeets, W. J. A. J.	1997	Distribution of vasotocin- and mesotocin-like immunoreactivities in the brain of Typhlonectes compressicauda (Amphibia, Gymnophiona): Further assessment of primitive and derived traits of amphibian neuropeptidergic systems		Cell & Tissue Research			287	2	305-314	Typhlonectes Compressicauda; Gymnophiona; Amphibia; Vasotocin-Like Immunoreactivity; Mesotocin-Like Immunoreactivity; Brain; Primitive Traits; Derived Traits; Amphibian Neuropeptidergic Systems; Hypothalamo-Hypophysial System; Caudal Hypothalamus; Vasotocinergic System; Mesotocinergic System; Nervous System; Nervous System	To further assess primitive and derived conditions, we have studied the vasotocinergic (AVT) and mesotocinergic (MST) systems by immunohistochemistry in the brain of Typhlonectes compressicauda. This species belongs to a separate order of amphibians which differs in several morphological and behavioral aspects from anurans and urodeles which have been studied previously. Nevertheless, the vasotocinergic and mesotocinergic systems of T. compressicauda are largely comparable to those of other amphibians. Apart from a well-developed hypothalamo-hypophysial system, extrahypothalamic AVT- and MST-immunoreactive groups of cells and extensive networks of fibers were found. A major difference, however, is that neuropeptidergic cells in the caudal hypothalamus and the midbrain tegmentum of T. compressicauda contain MST, whereas those in corresponding locations contain AVT in anurans and urodeles. This suggests that certain neuropeptidergic cell groups in the gymnophionan brain have switched from AVT to MST gene expression, and, thereby, offers a new view on the functional significance of these neuropeptidergic systems.	
Journal Article	Gooch, Bernard	1997	The astonishing addr Vipera berus		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				60	41-43			
Journal Article	Good, David A.;Bauer, Aaron M.;Sadlier, R. A.	1997	Allozyme evidence for the phylogeny of giant New Caledonian geckos (Squamata: Diplodactylidae: Rhacodactylus), with comments on the status of R. leachianus henkeli		Aust. J. Zool.			45		317-330			
Journal Article	Good, David A.;Wake, David B.	1997	Phylogenetic and taxonomic implications of protein variation in the Mesoamerican salamander genus Oedipina  (Caudata: Plethodontidae)		Rev. Biol. Trop.			45	3	1185-1208			
Journal Article	Good, D. A.;Bauer, A. M.;Sadlier, R. A.	1997	Allozyme evidence for the phylogeny of giant New Caldeonian geckos (Squamata: Diplodactylidae: Rhacodactylus), with comments on the status of R. leachianus henkeli		Australian Journal of Zoology			45		317-330			
Journal Article	Good, David A.;Wake, David B.	1997	Phylogenetic and taxonomic implications of protein variation in the Mesoamerican salamander genus Oedipina (Caudata: Plethodontidae)		Rev. Biol. trop.			45	3	1185-1208			
Journal Article	Goodman, Robert H., Jr.;Stewart, Glenn R.;Moisi, Thomas J.	1997	Crotalus cerastes cerastes (Mojave desert sidewinder). Longevity		Herpetological Review			28	2	89			
Journal Article	Goodman, Robert H., Jr.;Tate, Don	1997	Diadophis punctatus vandenburghi (Monterey Ringneck Snake). Diet		Herpetological Review			28	2	90			
Journal Article	Goodman, Robert H. Jr.	1997	Occurrence of double-clutching in the Southwestern Pond Turtle, Clemmys marmorata pallida in the Los Angeles Basin		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	419-420	Clemmys marmorata pallida; Double clutching; Fecundity		
Journal Article	Goot, Rolf van der	1997	Kweekverslag Cerastes vipera, de Avicenna-adder		Het Terrarium			14	12	10-13			
Journal Article	Gordon, Deborah J.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Diadophis punctatus		Herpetological Review			28	1	51-52			
Journal Article	Goris, Richard C.	1997	Book Review: The Biology of a Symbiotic Community. Volume I. Population Biology of the Japanese Lizard Takydromus tachydromoides (Schlegel) (Lacertidae); and Volume II. The Component Symbiote Community of the Japanese Lizard Takydromus tachydromoides (Schlegel) (Lacertidae)		Japanese Journal of Herpetology			17	1	33-34	Book review		
Journal Article	Gorum, Billy	1997	Snakes of enchantment: The New Mexico Milk Snake		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine				Sept./Oct.	38-43	Lampropeltis triangulum		
Journal Article	Gozzo, Stefano;Taglioni, Alessandra;Casetti, Rita;Bagnoli, Claudio;Monaco, Vincenzo	1997	Postmetamorphic development of supernumerary thyroid glands in Pleurodeles waltl		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	93-98	Pleurodeles waltl; Development; Thyroid glands		
Journal Article	Grace, Janet	1997	Captive breeing of the black-headed python Aspidites melanocephalus ....The story continues		Monitor: Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society			9	1	8-9			
Journal Article	Grafe, Ulmar	1997	Use of metabolic substrates in the Gray Treefrog Hyla versicolor: implications for calling behavior		Copeia			1997	2	356-362	Hyla versicolor; Calling behavior		
Book Section	Graham, T. E.	1997	Champlain softshells	Tyning, Thomas F.	Status and Conservation of Turtles of the Northeastern United States: A Symposium	Lanesboro, MN	Serpent's Tale			26-27	Champlain; Vermont; Apalone spinifera		
Journal Article	Graham, Terry E.	1997	Book review: Herpetology in Australia: A Diverse Discipline		Copeia			1997	1	243-244	Book review		
Journal Article	Graham, Terry	1997	Effective predator excluders for turtle nests		Herpetological Review			28	2	76			
Journal Article	Graham, Terry E.	1997	Orientation by the Australian Eastern Long-Necked Turtle, Chelodina longicollis. Linnaeus Fund Research Report		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	450-451	Chelodina longicollis		
Journal Article	Graham, Terry E.;Graham, Andrew A.	1997	Ecology of the Eastern Spiny Softshell, Apalone spinifera spinifera, in the Lamoille River, Vermont		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	363-369	Apalone spinifera spinifera; Ecology; Life history; Reproduction; telemetry; Movements; Hibernation; Vermont		
Journal Article	Graham, T.E.;Saumure, R.A.;Ericson, B.	1997	Map turtle winter leech loads		Journal of Parasitology			83	6	1185-1186	Reptilia, testudines, map turtle, Graptemys geographica, infection, leach, Placobdella parasitica, winter	Adult common map turtles, Graptemys geographica (n = 243), were obtained in November 1995 from a hibernation site in the Lamoille River, Vermont. Of the 208 female turtles examined, 151 (72.6%) had at least 1 leech (Placobdella parasitica) attached and 10 of 35 males (28.6%) were similarly parasitized. Mean abundances were 1.49 (SD = 1.461, n = 208) for female turtles and 0.34 (SD = 0.591, n = 35) for males; the difference was significant (t = 4.558, df = 241, P < 0.001). Leech broods were found on 34 of 208 female turtles (16.3%) and 2 of 35 males (5.7%). One of the leeches was of record size (77.7 mm total length); another specimen measuring 64.4 mm had 153 brood-sized ((x) over bar = 4.5 mm) young attached to its venter. Because of poor visibility and partial ice cover, only 7 turtles were recovered in March 1996. All of these turtles had attached leeches, and 4 turtles had broods of 9-52 young ranging in length from 4.58 to 5.78 mm. One Placobdella ornata was found in the March sample. Our results suggest that leeches of various size classes remain attached to hibernating adult map turtles throughout the winter. TE Graham, Worcester State Coll, Dept Biol, Worcester, MA 01602 USA	
Journal Article	Grand, Joanna;Beissinger, Steven R.	1997	When relocation of Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta) nests becomes a useful strategy		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	428-434		Caretta caretta; Conservation	
Journal Article	Grant, Taran;Humphrey, Elaine C.;Myers, Charles W.	1997	The Median Lingual Process of Frogs: A Bizarre Character of Old World Ranoids Discovered in South American Dendrobatids		American Museum Novitates				3212	1-40			
Journal Article	Grant, Taran;Humphrey, Elaine;Myers, Charles W.	1997	The median lingual process of frogs: A bizarre character of Old World ranoids discovered in South American dendrobatids		American Museum Novitates				3212	1-40	Dendrobatidae, Ranoidae, dendrobatid, Colostethus atopoglossus		
Journal Article	Grant, P.R.;Grant, B.R.	1997	Hybridization, sexual imprinting, and mate choice		American Naturalist			149	1	1-28	sex ratio; hybrid		
Journal Article	Gravendyck, M.;Marschang, R.E.;Schrodergravendyck, A.S.;Kaleta, E.F.	1997	Renal adenocarcinoma in a reticulated python (Python reticulatus)		Veterinary Record			140	14	374-375	Reptilia, serpentes, reticulated python, Python reticulatus, pathology, tumor, kidney	M Gravendyck, Univ Giessen, Inst Avian & Reptile Med, Giessen, Germany	
Journal Article	Gray, Andrew R.	1997	Blue red-eyed tree frog		Reptilian			5	1	10	Agalychnis		
Journal Article	Gray, Andrew R.	1997	The Mexican Leaf Frog, Pachymedusa dacnicolor		Reptilian			5	2	9-10	Pachymedusa dacnicolor		
Journal Article	Gray, Randall L.	1997	Mice in the attic, snakes in the basement: A visit with Steve Hammack		Vivarium			8	5	44-47			
Journal Article	Gray, Lucie A.;Rand, A. Stanley	1997	A daybreak chorus in the frog Agalychin callidryas		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	440-441		Agalychnia callidryas	
Journal Article	Gray, Randall	1997	Captive reproduction of the Ornate Spiny-Tailed Lizard, Uromastyx ocellatus ornatus		Vivarium			8	6	29;67-69	Uromastyx ocellatus		
Journal Article	Gray, Andrew R.	1997	Observations on the biology of Agalychnis spurrelli from the Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica		Herptile: Journal of the International Herpetological Society			22	2	61-70			
Journal Article	Gray, Lucie A.;O'Reilly, James C.;Nishikawa, Kiisa C.	1997	Evolution of forelimb movement patterns for prey manipulation in anurans		Journal of Experimental Zoology			277		417-424			
Journal Article	Graybeal, Anna	1997	Phylogenetic relationships of bufonid frogs and tests of alternate macroevolutionary hypotheses characterizing their radiation		Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society			119		297-338			
Journal Article	Grechko, Vernata V.;Ryabinin, Dmitry M.;Fedorova, Larissa V.;Fedorov, Alexey N.;Ryskov, Alexey P.;Darevsky, Ilya S.	1997	Parentage of Caucasian parthenogenetic roc lizard species (Lacerta) as revealed by restriction endonuclease analysis of highly repetitive DNA		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	4	407-418			
Journal Article	Greckhamer, Alexander	1997	Einen Beuch wert: Happ's Reptilienzoo		Jahrbuch für den Terarianer			4		66-68			
Journal Article	Green, David M.;Kaiser, Hinrich;Sharbel, Timothy F.;Kearsley, Jennifer;McAllister, Kelly R.	1997	Cryptic species of spotted frogs, Rana pretiosa complex, in Western North America		Copeia			1997	1	1-8	Rana pretiosa complex; Cryptic species; Western North America; Rana luteiventris		
Journal Article	Green, Brian;Herrera, Emilio;King, Dennis;Mooney, Nick	1997	Water and energy use in a free-living tropical, carnivorous lizard, Tupinambis teguixin		Copeia			1997	1	200-203	Tupinambis teguixin; Water use; Engery use		
Journal Article	Green, David M.;Pustowka, Cory	1997	Correlated morphological and allozyme variation in the hybridizing toads Bufo americanus and Bufo hemiophrys		Herpetologica			53	2	218-228	Hybrid zone; Amphibians; Toads; Bufo americanus; Bufo hemiophrys; Cline; Manitoba; Morphometrics; Allozymes; Species boundaries		
Edited Book	Green, David M.	1997	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem			ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			xiv + 338			
Book Section	Green, David M.	1997	Temporal variation in abundance and age structure in Fowler's Toads, Bufo fowleri, at Long Point, Ontario	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			45-56			
Book Section	Green, David M.	1997	Perspectives on amphibian population declines: Defining the problem and searching for answers	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			291-308			
Journal Article	Green, Darren	1997	Nesting behaviour in the Eastern Long-necked Turtle Chelodina longicollis		Herpetofauna			27	1	20-24			
Journal Article	Greene, Harry	1997	Snakes and others: past, present, and future		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine				July/Aug.	12-23			
Book Section	Greene, Harry W.	1997	Foreword to the 1997 printing		Rattlesnakes: Their habits, life histories, and influence on mankind	Berkeley	University of California Press			xi-xxiii			
Book	Greene, Harry W.	1997	Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature			Berkeley, CA	University of California Press			xiv + 351			
Journal Article	Greenfield, M. D.;Tourtellot, M. K.;Snedden, W. A.	1997	Precedence effect and the evolution of chorusing		Proceedings B of The Royal  Society of London			264		1335-1361	acoustic communication, Amphibia, Anura, calls-timing, competition, Insecta, Leptodactylidae, models, playback,		
Journal Article	Greer, Gregory C.	1997	Ball python color & pattern aberrancies		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine				May	58-63			
Journal Article	Greer, Gregory C.	1997	Observations of cave salamander feeding behavior		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine				July/Aug.	68-71			
Journal Article	Greer, Allen E.	1997	Leptoseps: A new genus of scincid lizards from Southeast Asia		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	393-398		Leptoseps n. gen.; Leptoseps poilani; Leptoseps osellai	
Journal Article	Greer, Allen E.	1997	Does the limbless Lygosomine skink Isopachys borealisreally lack pectoral and pelvic girdles?		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	461-462		Isopachys borealis	
Journal Article	Greer, Allen E.;Mills, Alison C.	1997	Directional asymmetry in the amphibian pectoral girdle: Additional data and a brief overview		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	594-596			
Journal Article	Greer, Allen E.	1997	Developmental and evolutionary implications of some limb abnormalities in a sample of Green and Golden Bell Frogs, Litoria aurea (Hylidae)		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	596-599			
Journal Article	Greer, A. E.;Shea, G.	1997	Notes on an unusual colour feature and reproduction in the dragon lizard Rankinia adelaidensis adelaidensis		Herpetofauna			27	2	57		Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia	
Journal Article	Greer, Gregory C.	1997	Field notes: Australia 1996		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Jan./Feb.	58-62	Australia		
Book	Greer, Allen E.	1997 (1998)	The Biology & Evolution of Australian Snakes			Chipping Norton, NSW	Surrey Beatty & Sons			xii, 358			
Journal Article	Gregory, C.R.;Harmon, B.G.;Latimer, K.S.;Hafner, S.;Campagnoli, R.P.;Mcmanamon, R.M.;Steffens, W.L.	1997	Malignant chromatophoroma in a canebrake rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus atricaudatus)		Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine			28	2	198-203	Reptilia, serpentes, canebrake rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus atricaudatus, pathology, tumor, malignant chromatophoroma	An adult female canebrake rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus atricaudatus) at Zoo Atlanta (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) had a subcutaneous mass on the left lateral abdomen. Microscopically, the tumor contained a pleomorphic population of cells with abundant intracytoplasmic brown to gold nonrefractile pigment (chromatophores), large stellate cells resembling neurons, and small stellate cells whose cytoplasmic processes formed a fibrillar matrix. The pigment stained black with the Fontana-Masson technique and was positive with the periodic acid-Schiff technique (prior to and after diastase treatment). Neuron-specific enolase was detected in the large stellate cells using an immunohistochemical staining technique. In addition, glial fibrillary acidic and S-100 proteins were detected in the chromatophores with immunohistochemical staining. The smaller stellate cells were strongly S-100 positive. Ultrastructurally, chromatophores contained intracytoplasmic structures composed of concentric lamellar membranes bordered by a triple-layer outer membrane. The morphology of these structures was compatible with pterinosomes. Three fluorescent pigments were isolated from the neoplasm by one-dimensional chromatography and characterized by spectrophotometry and spectrofluorometry. CR Gregory Univ Georgia Coll Vet Med Dept Pathol Athens, GA 30602 USA	
Journal Article	Greßler, Sabine	1997	Was passiert mit unseren Fröschen?		DATZ			50	5	324-327			
Book Section	Greßler, Sabine	1997	Biotopverbund für Amphibien: Trittsteinbiotope, die neue Naturschutzstrategie	Hödl, Walter;Jehle, R. and Gollmann, G.	Populationsbiologie von Amphibien: Eine Langzeitstudie auf der Wiener Donauinsel	Stapfiz 51	Land Öberösterreich OÖ Landesmuseum			235-249			
Journal Article	Griffiths, Richard	1997	Book review: A Natural History of Amphibians		Herpetological journal			7	1	33-34	Book review		
Journal Article	Grismer, L. Lee;Hollingsworth, Ford D.;Cryder, Michael R.;Wong, Humberto	1997	Geographic Distribution. Crotalus enyo enyo		Herpetological Review			28	1	51			
Journal Article	Grismer, L. Lee	1997	Eublepharid geckos: Living relics of gekkotan evolution		Fauna			1	1	26-33			
Journal Article	Grismer, L. Lee	1997	The distribution of Pituophis melanoleucus and P. vertebralis in northern Baja California, México		Herpetological Review			28	2	68-70	Pituophis melanoleucus; Pituophis vertebralis; Mexico		
Journal Article	Grismer, L. Lee	1997	Peninsular Paradise: The natural wonders of Baja		Fauna			1	2	54-67			
Journal Article	Grosse, Wolf-Rüdiger	1997	Die Nutzung von Standards und Tafeln zur Feldbestimmung des Entwicklungsstadiums einheimischer Amphibienlarven		Mertensiella			7		349-364			
Journal Article	Grossmann, Wolfgang	1997	Zur Carapaxgröße der Gelbkopf-Landschilkröte Indotestudo elongata (Blyth, 1853)		Sauria			19	2	7-10	Testudinidae; Indotestudo elongata; Morphology; Maximum size; Malayan Peninsula		
Journal Article	Grossmann, Wolfgang	1997	Buchbesprechung: Schildkröten, Krokodile; Brückenechsen		Sauria			19	2	30	Book review		
Journal Article	Grossmann, Wolfgang	1997	Preisgünstige Plastikterrarien		Sauria			19	2	34			
Journal Article	Grossmann, Wolfgang	1997	Buchbesprechung: The Snakes of Sumatra - An annotated checklist and key, with natural history notes		Sauria			19	3	8		Book review	
Journal Article	Gubanyi, James;Gubanyi, Joseph	1997	Geographic Distribution. Lacerta viridis		Herpetological Review			28	2	96			
Journal Article	Guillaume, Claude-Pierre;Heulin, Benoît;Beshkov, Vladimir	1997	Biogeography of Lacerta (Zootoca) vivipara: reproductive mode and enzyme phenotypes in Bulgaria		Ecography			20		240-246			
Journal Article	Guillette, Louis J., Jr.;Crain, D. Andrew;Rooney, Andrew A.;Woodward, Allan R.	1997	Effect of acute stress on plasma concentrations of sex and stress hormones in juvenile alligators living in control and contaminated lakes		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	347-353		Alligator mississippiensis	
Journal Article	Guillette, L.J.;Woodward, A.R.;Crain, D.A.;Masson, G.R.;Palmer, B.D.;Cox, M.C.;Qui, Y.X.;Orlando, E.F.	1997	The reproductive cycle of the female American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)		Gen. Comp. Endocrinol.			108	1	87-101	AM, reproduction, endocrinology,	We examined ovarian and oviducal gross morphology and collected blood samples from wild female alligators in central Florida during most of the year. Females with vitellogenic follicles were observed throughout the year, although ovaries containing follicles larger than 15 mm were seen only during the spring and early summer (March-June). We detected a pool relationship between female body size and the number of vitellogenic follicles whereas body size was significantly correlated with clutch size. Plasma samples were analyzed for (1) estradiol-17 beta (E-2), testosterone (T), and corticosterone by specific radioimmunoassays; (2) vitellogenin by one-dimensional sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; and (3) total protein, phosphorus, and calcium by spectrophotometric assays. Reproductively active females showed elevated plasma concentrations of E-2 during the fall (September-November) and spring (March-May) whereas non-reproductively active females exhibited basal levels with no apparent peaks. Vitellogenin was detected in the plasma during the same months that plasma E-2 concentrations were elevated. Elevated plasma vitellogenin and E-2 were not correlated with plasma total protein but were correlated with plasma calcium concentration. During late vitellogenesis, plasma T concentrations were elevated in reproductively active females coincident with a period of intense courtship and mating. Corticosterone plasma concentrations exhibit no significant monthly variation, nor apparent changes during various stages of reproductive activity although plasma concentrations were elevated during late gravidity. Our data suggest that female reproductive activity begins in the fall with an increase in plasma E-2 concentration in September or October and vitellogenesis in October. Ovarian activity slows during winter and reactivates with the onset of spring.	
Journal Article	Guinea, Michael L.;Whiting, Scott;Chatto, Ray	1997	Sea turtle deaths coincide with trawling activities in Northern Ausralia		Marine Turtle Newsletter				77	11-14	Sea turtles; Mortality		
Journal Article	Guirguis, S.M.E.;Yee, J.C.;Stiffler, D.F.	1997	Active calcium ion transport in Xenopus laevis skin		Journal of Comparative Physiology B - Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology			167	5	328-334	Amphibia, anura, Xenopus laevis, physiology, Active calcium ion transport, skin,  apical calcium channels,  nifedipine,  diltiazem,  verapamil,  L-channels,  lanthanum,  cobalt,  nickel	The skin of intact, free-swimming Xenopus laevis transports Ca2+ inwardly in a manner that is proportional to the external [Ca2+] up to about 0.3 mmol.l(-1), saturates above 0.3 mmol.l(-1), and is opposed to the electrochemical gradient. Efflux is relatively constant at external concentrations between 0.016 and 0.6 mmol.l(-1); net flux which is negative below 0.125 mmol.l(-1) becomes positive above this external [Ca2+]. Allometric analysis suggests that both Ca2+ influx and efflux scale to the 2, 3 power approximately like surface area. There were no significant differences in influx between summer and fall animals; however, efflux was greater in the fall and this resulted in a change from positive balance in the summer to negative balance in the fall. Isolated skins were shown to support a Ca2+ uptake rate of nearly 30 nmol.cm(-2).h(-1). The phenylalkylamine verapamil in the apical bathing solution significantly inhibited this at 25 mu mol.l(-1). The benzothiazepine diltiazem was also effective at 50 mu mol.l(-1) while the dihydropyradine nifedipine was ineffective up to 100 mu mol.l(-1). The inorganic ion La3+ was effective at blocking Ca2+ uptake at 300 mu mol.l(-1); Ni2+ was also effective at 500 mu mol.l(-1) but Co2+ was ineffective up to 500 mu mol.l(-1). These results suggest that apical calcium channels in Xenopus laevis skin have properties similar to mammalian L-channels and fish gill Ca2+ channels. DF Stiffler, Calif State Polytech Univ Pomona, Dept Biol Sci, Pomona, CA 91768 USA	
Journal Article	Guix, Juan C.;Santos, Xavier;Montori, Albert;Llorente, Gustavo A.;Carretero, Miguel A.	1997	Caiman latirostris (Broad-snouted Caiman). New populations and undescribed habitat		Herpetological Review			28	1	41-42			
Journal Article	Gullberg, A.;Olsson, M.;Tegelstrom, H.	1997	Male mating success, reproductive success and multiple paternity in a ntaural populatoin of sand lizards: behavioural and molecular genetics data		Molecular Ecology			6		105-112	paternity		
Journal Article	Gumpenberger, Ch.;Möstl, E.	1997	Estrogen, androgen and corticosterone concentrations in Testudo hermanni and T. graeca combined with ultrasonography of ovarian follicles and eggs Estrogen-, Androgen und corticosteron konzentrationen im Kot von Griechischen und Maurischen Landschildkröten im Jahresgang mit ergänzender sonographischer Kontrolle		Verhandl. Ber. Erkrankungen der Zootiere			NF 2		67-72	Reptilia , testudines, Testudo hermanni, T. graeca, physiology, faeces, estrogen-, androgen-, corticosterone concentrations		
Journal Article	Gumpenberger, M.;Hittmair, K	1997	Possibilities of diagnosing urogenital diseases in tortoises and turtles by means of imaging methods. Möglichkeiten der bildgebenden Diagnostik beim Urogenitaltrakt von Schildkröten		Verhandl. Ber. Erkrankungen der Zootiere			NF 2		77-85	Reptilia, testudines, pathology, urogenital tract, kidney, oviduct, diagnosis, Ultrasound		
Journal Article	Gumprecht, Andreas;Lauten, Ulrich	1997	Zur Fortpflanzung und Haltung der Levante-Otter Macrovipera lebetina lebetina (Linnaeus, 1758)		Sauria			19	1	39-43	Viperidae; Macrovipera lebetina lebetina; Morphology; Coloration; Distribution; Habitat; Diet; Husbandry; Reproduction		
Journal Article	Gumprecht, Andreas	1997	Die Bambusottern der Gattung Trimeresurus Lacépède Teil I: Die Chinesische Bambusotter Trimeresurus stejnegeri Schmidt, 1925		Sauria			19	3	9-30		Trimeresurus stejnegeri; Taxonomy; morphology; diet; husbandry	
Journal Article	Gustafsson, Joonas	1997	Euroopanlehtisammakko Hyla arborea (Linné 1758)		Herpetomania			6	3	14-19	Hyla arborea		
Journal Article	Gutiérrez-Estrada, Juan Carlos;Bravo, Rafael	1997	Observación de una culebra viperina, Natrix maura, alimentándose de una perca sol, Lepomis gibbosus		Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española				8	37			
Journal Article	Guyer, Craig;Meadows, Charles T.;Townsend, Steven C.;Wilson, L. Glen	1997	A camera device for recording vertebrate activity		Herpetological Review			28	3	138-140			
Journal Article	Guyer, Craig;Hermann, Sharon M.	1997	Patterns of size and longevity of gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) burrows: Implications for the Longleaf Pine Ecosystem		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	507-513			
Journal Article	Guyot, Ghislaine;Devaux, Bernard	1997	Variation in shell morphology and color of Hermann's Tortoise, Testudo hermanni, in southern Europe		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	390-395	Testudo hermanni; Morphology; Allometry; Color; Conservation; France; Spain; Greece; Corsica		
Journal Article	Guzik, Marek;Schimscheiner, Lucjan;Zamachowski, Wladyslaw	1997	Water content in newts (Triturus) during their active life in the aquatic habitat		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	3	313-317	Triturus		
Journal Article	Günther, Rainer	1997	Buchbesprechung: The Neotropical Toad genus Atelopus - Checklist - Biology - Distribution		Sauria			19	1	38	Book review		
Journal Article	Gvozdik, Lumir;Benes, Bohuslav	1997	Amphibians and reptiles of northern Moravia and Silesia, Czech Republic, in the Silesian Museum, Opava		Cas. Slez. Muz. Opava			46		23-49			
Journal Article	Gvozdík, Lumír	1997	Lacerta agilis (Sand Lizard). Dermatophagy		Herpetological Review			28	4	203-204			
Journal Article	Haacke, W. D.	1997	Geographic distribution. Mabuya chimbana		African Herp News				26	34		Department of Herpetology, Transvaal Museum, P.O. Box 413, Pretoria 0001, South Africa	
Journal Article	Haacke, W. D.	1997	Geographic distribution. Mabuya acutilabris		African Herp News				26	33		Department of Herpetology, Transvaal Museum, P.O. Box 413, Pretoria 0001, South Africa	
Journal Article	Haagner, G. V.	1997	Geographic distribution. Prosymna sundevallii lineata		African Herp News				26	35		P.O. Box 702, Hoedspruit 1380, South Africa	
Journal Article	Haagner, G. V.;Burger, M.;Branch, W. R.	1997	Recent African herpetological literature: 17		African Herp News				26	46-57		P.O. Box 702, Hoedspruit 1380, South Africa	
Journal Article	Haagner, G. V.;Bourquin, O.	1997	Geographic distribution. Kinixys natalensis		African Herp News				26	32		P.O. Box 702, Hoedspruit 1380, South Africa	
Journal Article	Haagner, G. V.	1997	Chamaeleo dilepis dilepis Flap-necked Chameleon, Size		African Herp News				26	27		P.O. Box 702, Hoedspruit 1380, South Africa	
Journal Article	Haagner, G. V.	1997	Mabuya striata striata, Striped Skink, Avian predation		African Herp News				26	27-28		P.O. Box 702, Hoedspruit 1380, South Africa	
Journal Article	Haagner, G. V.	1997	Philothamnus natalensis occidentalis, Western Green Snake, Size		African Herp News				26	30		P.O. Box 702, Hoedspruit 1380, South Africa	
Journal Article	Haagner, G. V.	1997	Mehelya capensis capensis, Cape File Snake, Size		African Herp News				26	29		P.O. Box 702, Hoedspruit 1380, South Africa	

Journal Article	Haagner, G. V.	1997	Pachydactylus bibronii Bibron's Gecko, Translocation		African Herp News				26	25-26		P.O. Box 702, Hoedspruit 1380, South Africa	
Journal Article	Haagner, G. V.	1997	Hemidactylus mabouia Tropical House Gecko, Predation		African Herp News				26	25		P.O. Box 702, Hoedspruit 1380, South Africa	
Journal Article	Haagner, G. V.;Haagner, A. J. F.	1997	Xenopus muelleri Tropical Platanna, Avian Predation		African Herp News				26	22		P.O. Box 702, Hoedspruit 1380, South Africa	
Journal Article	Haas, Winfred;Lehr, Edgar;Köhler, Gunther	1997	The tadpole of Bufo kelaartii Günther 1859 from Sri Lanka		Lyriocephalus			3	2	2-6		Fiersbacher Str. 7, D-57635 Hirtz-Maulsbach, Germany	
Journal Article	Haas, A.	1997	The larval hyobranchial apparatus of discoglossoid frogs: its structure and bearing on the systematics of the Anura (Amphibia: Anura)		J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Research			35		179-197			
Journal Article	Haas, A.	1997	Der larvale Hyobranchial-Apparat von Ascaphus truei (Anura: Ascaphidae) und das Grundmuster der Anura		Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, Mainz 			90		172			
Journal Article	Haberl, Werner;Wilkinson, John W.	1997	A note on the unkenreflex and similar defensive postures in Rana temporaria (Anura, Amphibia)		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				61	16-20			
Journal Article	Hadad, Celio F. B.;Hödl, Walter	1997	New reproductive mode in anurans: Bubble nest in Chiasmocleis leucosticta (Microhylidae)		Copeia			1997	3	585-588	Chiasmocleis leucosticta; Reproduction; Nesting		
Journal Article	Haddad, Célio F. B.;Bastos, Rogério P.	1997	Predation on the toad Bufo crucifer during reproduction (Anura: Bufonidae)		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	3	295-298	Bufo crucifer; Predation		
Journal Article	Haddad, Celio F. B.;Hödl, Walter	1997	New reproductive mode in anurans: Bubble nest in Chiasmocleis leucosticta (Microhylidae)		Copeia			1997	3	585-588	Chiasmocleis leucosticta; Reproduction; Nesting		
Journal Article	Haen, Rob	1997	Slangendag Houten 1997		Het Terrarium			15	6	6-7			
Journal Article	Haenel, Gregory J.	1997	Mitochondrial DNA variation in populations of the tree lizard, Urosaurus ornatus		Copeia			1997	1	174-178	Urosaurus ornatus; mtDNA; Population genetics		
Journal Article	Hailey, Adrian;Coulson, Ian M.	1997	Nesting behaviour and clutch and egg size of the hingebak tortoise Kinixys spekii		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				58	11-18	Kinixys spekii; Nesting behavior; Egg size; Clutch size		
Journal Article	Hailey, A.;Loveridge, J.P.	1997	Metabolic depression during dormancy in the African tortoise Kinixys spekii		Canadian Journal of Zoology - Revue Canadienne de Zoologie			75	8	1328-1335	Reptilia, testudines, Kinixys spekii, physiology, hibernation, metabolic depression	Two hypotheses may explain the lack of metabolic depression at low temperature in hibernating reptiles from warm but not cool climates. (1) Physiological ability; reptiles from cool climates have resting metabolic rates elevated at low temperatures and so have greater potential for metabolic depression. (2) Energy benefit; hibernation is generally short in warm climates, so the energy saving possible at low temperature is small. These hypotheses can be separated in a warm-climate reptile that hibernates for a long period, such as the African tortoise Kinixys spekii, which is dormant for 7-8 months a year, in winter and in the following hot dry season. Dormant tortoises had a reduced rate of oxygen consumption ((V) over bar o(2)) between 10 and 25 degrees C compared with resting (V) over bar o(2), measured at the same temperatures in the active season, and at 10-15 degrees C compared with the resting (V) over bar o(2) of controls kept active in winter. These data are consistent with hypothesis 2 but not hypothesis 1. The metabolic rate during dormancy was, on average, 59% of resting (V) over bar o(2) with minimum rates of 47-48% at 10 and 25 degrees C, similar to the minimum rates of about 50% of resting (V) over bar o(2), in other hibernating reptiles. Aestivating ectotherms achieve greater metabolic depression, to about 25% of resting (V) over bar o(2), possibly as a result of reduced gas exchange. A Hailey, 52 Mascotts Close, London NW2 6NS, England	
Journal Article	Haker, Klaus	1997	Haltung and Zucht des Chinesischen Riesensalamanders Andrias davidianus [Keeping and breeding of Andrias davidianus in captivity]		Salamandra			33	1	69-74	Andrias davidianus		
Journal Article	Hall, John A.;Larsen, John H.;Fitzner, Richard E.	1997	Postembryonic ontogeny of the Spadefoot Toad, Scaphiopus intermontanus (Anura: Pelobatidae): external morphology		Herpetological Monographs			11		124-178	Anura; Developmental timing; External morphology; Mouthparts; Ontogeny; Opercular development; Rearing condition; Scaphiopus intermontanus; Spea intermontana; Staging table		
Book Section	Hall, Carol Dorff	1997	Minnesota County Biological Survey amphibians and reptile results, 1988-1994	Moriarty, John J. and Jones, Delvin	Minnesota's Amphibians and Reptiles, Their Conservation and Status: Proceedings of a Symposium	Lanesboro	Serpent's tale			58-62			
Journal Article	Hall, J. A.;J. H. Larsen, Jr.;Fitzner., R. E.	1997	Postembryonic ontogeny of the spadefoot toad, Scaphiopus intermontanus (Anura: Pelobatidae): external morphology		Herpetological Monographs				11	124-178			
Journal Article	Haller-Probst, Melitta S.	1997	Die Verbreitung der Reptilia in den Klimazonen der Erde		Courier Forschungsinsitut Senckenberg				203	1-68, A1-A147			
Journal Article	Halliday, Timothy R.;heyer, W. Ronald	1997	Are amphibian populations dissappearing? A task force status report 1996-1997		The Boreal Dip Net/L'Épuisette Boréale			2	1	2-6	Amphibians decline		
Journal Article	Halliday, Timothy R.;Heyer, W. Ronald	1997	The case of the vanishing frogs		Techology Review			May/June 1997		56-63			
Journal Article	Hallmann, Gerhard	1997	Buchbesprechung: Lehrbuch der madagassischen Sprache mit Übungen und Lösungen		Elaphe			5	3	69-70	Book review		
Book	Hallmann, Gerhard;Kruuger, Jens;Trautmann, Gerd	1997	Faszinierende Taggeckos: Die Gattung Phelsuma			Münster	Natur und Tier			229			
Journal Article	Halpern, M.;Borghjid, S.	1997	Sublingual plicae (anterior processes) are not necessary for garter snake vomeronasal function		J Comp Psychol			111	3	302-6	Animal; Autoradiography; Chemoreceptors/*physiology; Colubridae/*physiology; Discrimination Learning/physiology; Odors; Smell/*physiology; Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.; Tongue/*physiology; Vomeronasal Organ/*innervation	The anterior processes of snakes may transfer odorants from the tongue to the vomeronasal (VN) organ. To test whether the anterior processes are required for a vomeronasally mediated behavior, the authors tested garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) preoperatively and after cauterization of the anterior processes or control cauterization with artificial earthworms covered with earthworm wash (EWW) or distilled water. Snakes in both groups attacked EWW-covered artificial worms but not controls both pre- and postoperatively. In addition, snakes with anterior processes cauterization or control cauterization tongue flicked 3H-proline. Radioautographs of the VN organs of snakes with and without anterior processes were indistinguishable: Snakes in both groups had reduced silver grains over the VN sensory epithelium as had been reported previously with intact snakes. These findings indicate that the anterior processes are unnecessary both for a behavior known to require a functional VN system and for delivery of odorants to the VN organ.	
Journal Article	Hamann, Monika I.;Kehr, Arturo I.	1997	Lysapsus limellus (NCN). Parasitism		Herpetological Review			28	2	85			
Journal Article	Hanken, James;Jennings, David H.;Olsson, Lennart	1997	Mechanistic basic of life-history evolution in anuran amphibians: direct development		American Zoologist			37		160-171			
Journal Article	Hanken, J.;Jennings, D. H.;Olsson., L.	1997	Mechanistic basis of life-history evolution in anuran amphibians: direct development		American Zoologist			37		160-171			
Journal Article	Harbig, Peter	1997	Buchbesprechung: Terrarien - Bau und Einrichtung		Sauria			19	4	13-14		Book review	
Book	Harding, James H.	1997	Amphibians an Reptiles of the Great Lakes Region			Ann Arbor	University of Michigan Press			xvi, 378			
Journal Article	Hardy, I.C.W.	1997	Possible factors influencing vertebrate sex ratios: an introductory overview		Applied Animal Behaviour Science			51		217-241	sex ratio; tsd		
Journal Article	Harlow, Peter S.;Harlow, Mary F.	1997	Captive reproduction and longevity in the Eastern Water Dragon (Physignathus lesuerii)		Herpetofauna			27	1	14-19			
Journal Article	Harlow, Peter S.;Harlow, Mary F.	1997	Captive reproduction and longevity in the eastern water dragon (Physignathus lesueurii)		Herpetofauna			27	1	14-19		30 Station Street, Naremburn, NSW 2065, Australia	
Journal Article	Harrel, J. Brent;Allen, Charles M.;Herbert, Steve J.	1997	One year growth of subadult Macroclemys temminckii in a Louisiana Bayou		Herpetological Review			28	3	128-129	Macroclemys temminckii; growth		
Journal Article	Harrel, J. Brent;Stringer, Gary L.	1997	Feeding habits of the Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macroclemys temminckii) as indicated by teleostean otoliths		Herpetological Review			28	4	185-187			
Journal Article	Harrel, J. B.;Stringer, G. L.	1997	Feeding habitats of the alligator snapping turtle (Macroclemys temminckki) as indicated by teleostean otholiths		Herpetological Review			28	4	185-187	feeding, diet, technique		
Journal Article	Harris, Matthew B.	1997	The lizards of Redonda		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				59	30-34	Redonda		
Journal Article	Harris, Megan L.;Bogart, James P.	1997	A cage for evaluation of in situ water quality using frog eggs and tadpoles		Herpetological Review			28	3	134-135			
Journal Article	Hartdegen, Ruston	1997	Behavioral note: Basilisk lizard consumes poison-dart frog		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	2	28	Basiliscus plumifrons; Diet; Dendrobates auratus		
Journal Article	Hartdegen, Ruston	1997	Notes on the natural history and husbandry of the black tree monitor, Varanus beccari		Varanids			1	1	12-13	Varanus beccari		
Journal Article	Hartdegen, Ruston	1997	The saw-shelled turtle		Reptiles			5	5	32-35	Elseya latisternum		
Journal Article	Hartdegen, Ruston W.	1997	A review of varanid research at the Dallas Zoo		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	9	196-197	Varanus		
Book Section	Haskell, A.;T. E. Graham, C. R. Griffin, J. B. Hestbeck	1997	Evaluating the effectiveness of headstarting redbelly turtles in Massachusetts	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			146			
Journal Article	Hasumi, Masato;Sasaki, Satoshi;Hosoya, Osamu;Sato, Kazuhisa;Haraguchi, Hisashi	1997	Intersexual differences and seasonal changes in Gonadotropin-producing cells in the salamander Hynobius nigrescens		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	45-51	Hynobius nigrescens; Gonoadotropin		
Journal Article	Hatcher, Ronnie E.	1997	Breeding the pancake tortoise Malacochersus tornieri		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	June	38-43	Malacochersus tornieri		
Journal Article	Hatfield, James W.	1997	Iguanas: Report from the 77th Annual ASIH Conference		Vivarium			8	6	22-23			
Journal Article	Hatfield, James W.	1997	Encounter with the iguana mama		Iguana Times			6	2	32-35			
Journal Article	Hatfield, James W.	1997	Methods for dealing with aggression in adult Green Iguanas		Vivarium			9	1	17-18			
Journal Article	Hauschild, Andree	1997	Mit Stehkragen und Peitschenschwanz: Kragenechsen		Reptilia (German)				6	56-60			
Journal Article	Hauschild, Andree	1997	Con cuello largo y cola de látogo: Chlamydosaurus		Reptilia				12	56-60			
Journal Article	Hawgood, B. J.	1997	Mauricio Rocha e Silva MD: snake venom, bradykinin and the rise of autopharmacology		Toxicon			35	11	1569-80		Mauricio Rocha e Silva is well known as the discoverer of bradykinin, the powerful hypotensive and smooth muscle stimulating polypeptide which was first detected in plasma following the addition of Bothrops jararaca venom. The discovery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1948 was the outcome of studies on proteolytic enzymes that Rocha e Silva started in 1939 at a time when circulatory shock was considered to be mediated by histamine. This line of research was prompted by the publications of Feldberg and Kellaway which identified the release of histamine and a slow-reacting substance (SRC-C) from isolated lungs perfused with Naja venom. Rocha e Silva was interested in determining whether trypsin-like enzymes, as shown for phospholipase, had a role in the release of histamine in shock. Instead, he and his co-workers demonstrated that such an enzyme released a new autopharmacological principle, bradykinin, from a plasma globulin precursor. Studies by Ferreira and Rocha e Silva on ways of blocking plasma kinin-destroying activity led Ferreira to isolate bradykinin-potentiating peptides from B. jararaca venom. These peptides were later shown to block angiotensin-I converting enzyme and so have an effect on hypertension. The discovery of bradykinin has led to a new understanding of many physiological and pathological phenomena including circulatory shock induced by venoms and toxins.	
Journal Article	Hawgood, B. J.	1997	Sir Charles James Martin MB FRS: Australian serpents and Indian plague, one-hundred years ago		Toxicon			35	7	999-1010		In 1891 as Demonstrator in Physiology at the University of Sydney, Charles Martin began the first systematic study of the chemical and physiological properties of the venoms of the Australian elapid species, Pseudechis porphyriacus and Notechis scutatus. Two major constituents were detected: a large coagulable protein which was associated with intravascular clotting, and a small proteinaceous molecule, an albumose, associated with neurotoxicity. Martin designed and constructed a high-pressure gelatin membrane ultrafilter for fractionation of venom. His studies indicated that certain physiological actions and clinical symptoms were related to the faster rate of diffusion within the tissue space of a neurotoxic constituent relative to a clotting constituent. Extending this work to toxin-antitoxin relationships, Martin provided evidence that antitoxin was a large molecule with slow diffusibility in tissue and advised the administration of curative serum (including diphtheria antitoxin) by intravenous injection. In 1903, Martin returned to London as Director of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine. He was soon involved in the planning of scientific work to be undertaken by the Commission for Investigation of Plague in India as the disease continued to ravage the subcontinent. Detailed epidemiological studies of possible factors involved in the spread of Pasteurella pestis showed, unequivocally, that infected rat fleas were the vector of transmission from rats to humans.	
Journal Article	Hayes, William K.	1997	Decline of the Sandy Cay Iguana		Iguana Times			6	2	31			
Journal Article	Hayes, Tyrone B.	1997	Amphibian metamorphosis: An integrative approach		Amer. Zool.			37		121-123			
Journal Article	Hayes, Tyrone B.	1997	Steroids as potential modulators of thyroid hormone activity in Anuran metamorphosis		Amer. Zool.			37		185-194			
Journal Article	Hayes, Tyrone B.	1997	Steroid-mimicking environmental contaminants: their potential role in amphibian declines		Herpetologia Bonnensis					145-149			
Journal Article	Hayes, Tyrone B.;Wu, Tzu Hao;Gill, Tanya N.	1997	DDT-like effects as a result of corticosterone treatment in an anuran amphibian: is DDT a corticoid mimic or a stressor?		Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry			16	9	1948-1953			
Journal Article	Hayes, Tyrone B.	1997	Hormonal mechanisms as potential constraints on evolution: Examples from the Anura		Amer. Zool.			37		482-490			
Journal Article	Hayes-Odum, Louise;Dixon, James R.	1997	Abnormalities in embryos from a wild American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) nest		Herpetological Review			28	2	73-75	Alligator mississippiensis		
Journal Article	Hays, G.C.;Marsh, R.	1997	Estimating the age of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles in the North Atlantic		Canadian Journal of Zoology - Revue Canadienne de Zoologie			75	1	40-46	Reptilia, testudines, loggerhead sea turtles, growth, temperature	Analysis of previously published records shows that the modal size of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) found around the United Kingdom (the area north of 49 degrees N and east of 12 degrees W) is a carapace length of 20.5 cm. These turtles are believed to originate from nesting beaches in North America (principally Florida). We estimated their trans-Atlantic drift time using data from satellite-tracked buoys and from a mathematical model and, hence, estimated that the modal age of these juvenile turtles was between 1.80 and 3.75 years. GC Hays, Univ Coll Swansea, Sch Biol Sci, Singleton Pk, Swansea SA2 8PP, W Glam, Wales	
Journal Article	Häfeli, W.	1997	Virilisation of female Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni boettgeri) due to anabolic steroids Verilisierung einer weiblichen griechischen Landschildkröte (Testudo hermanni boettgeri) durch Anabolika		Verhandl. Ber. Erkrankungen der Zootiere			NF 2		65-66	Reptilia, testudines, Hermann's tortoise, Testudo hermanni boettgeri, pathology, steroid, virilisation		
Journal Article	Häfeli, W.	1997	Endoscopic sex determination in juvenile turtles Endoskopische Geschlechtsbestimmung juveniler Schildkröten		Verhandl. Ber. Erkrankungen der Zootiere			36		159 - 162	Reptilia, testudines, Testudo graeca, Testudo marginata, anatomy, sex, determination, endoscopy		
Journal Article	Heap, Sam	1997	Canadian species profile: The Northern Prairie Skink		The OphidioFile			1	4	5			
Journal Article	Heaton-Jones, T.G.;Homer, B.L.;Heaton-Jones, D.L.;Sundlof, S.F.	1997	Mercury distribution in American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) in Florida		J. Zoo Wildl. Med.			28	1	62-70	AM, disease, pollutants,	Thirty American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis), including 24 wild-caught and six control captive farm-raised alligators, were analyzed for whole body mercury contamination. Wild-caught animals were collected from Water Conservation Area 3 in the Everglades ecosystem (n = 12) and from Alachua, Brevard, and Collier counties outside the Everglades (n = 12). Using cold-vapor atomic absorption spectrophotometry, samples of brain, cervical spinal cord, liver, paired kidneys, paired testes, paired ovaries, paired oviducts, heart, lungs, spleen, bile, tail and leg muscle, and tail and leg scales were analyzed on a wet weight basis to determine mercury concentration. Mercury was consistently detected in all specimens except for bile. Farm-raised alligators, fed a commercially prepared diet, contained very low mercury concentrations in all tissues analyzed. In comparison with alligators from outside the Everglades, Everglades alligators had significantly elevated concentrations of mercury in all tissues analyzed except ovaries, oviduct, bile, tail scales, and leg scales (paired two-sample Student's t-test, P < 0.05). Muscle concentrations exceeded state (0.50-1.50 ppm) and federal (1.00 ppm) allowances for safe human consumption in alligators collected in the Everglades. No clinical signs of neurologic, hepatic, or renal toxicosis were detected. Because of the alligator's ability to bioaccumulate mercury, this species might be useful as a biomonitor for environmental mercury contamination.	
Journal Article	Heatonjones, T.G.;Homer, B.L.;Heatonjones, D.L.;Sundlof, S.F.	1997	Mercury distribution in American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) in Florida		Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine			28	1	62-70	Reptilia, sauria, crocodylia, American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, intoxication, mercury	Thirty American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis), including 24 wild-caught and six control captive farm-raised alligators, were analyzed for whole body mercury contamination. Wild-caught animals were collected from Water Conservation Area 3 in the Everglades ecosystem (n = 12) and from Alachua, Brevard, and Collier counties outside the Everglades (n = 12). Using cold-vapor atomic absorption spectrophotometry, samples of brain, cervical spinal cord, liver, paired kidneys, paired testes, paired ovaries, paired oviducts, heart, lungs, spleen, bile, tail and leg muscle, and tail and leg scales were analyzed on a wet weight basis to determine mercury concentration. Mercury was consistently detected in all specimens except for bile. Farm-raised alligators, fed a commercially prepared diet, contained very low mercury concentrations in all tissues analyzed. In comparison with alligators from outside the Everglades, Everglades alligators had significantly elevated concentrations of mercury in all tissues analyzed except ovaries, oviduct, bile, tail scales, and leg scales (paired two-sample Student's t-test, P < 0.05). Muscle concentrations exceeded state (0.50-1.50 ppm) and federal (1.00 ppm) allowances for safe human consumption in alligators collected in the Everglades. No clinical signs of neurologic, hepatic, or renal toxicosis were detected. Because of the alligator's ability to bioaccumulate mercury, this species might be useful as a biomonitor for environmental mercury contamination.  TG Heatonjones, 5656 E Silver Springs Blvd, Silver Springs, FL 34488 USA	
Book Section	Hecnar, Stephen J.	1997	Amphibian pond communities in southwestern Ontario	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			1-15			
Journal Article	Hecnar, Stephen J.;M'Closkey, Robert T.	1997	Changes in the composition of a ranid frog community following bullfrog extinction		The American Midland Naturalist			137		145-150	Point Pelee National Park, Ontario, Canada, Rana clamitans		
Journal Article	Hecnar, Stephen J.;M'Closkey, Robert T.	1997	Spatial scale and determination of species status of the green frog		Conservation Biology			11		670-682			
Journal Article	Hecnar, S. J.;M'Closkey., R. T.	1997	Patterns of nestedness and species association in a pond-dwelling amphibian fauna		Oikos			80		371-381			
Journal Article	Hecnar, S. J.;M'Closkey., R. T.	1997	Spatial scale and determination of species status of the green frog		Conservation Biology			11		670-682			
Journal Article	Heideman, Neil J. L.	1997	Comparative analysis of nematode infection in Agama aculeata and Agama planiceps, and its effects on body condition and fecundity		Copeia			1997	4	875-880			
Journal Article	Heideman, N. J. L.	1997	Agama etoshae Etosha Agama, Summer diurnal activity		African Herp News				26	26-27		Department of Herpetology, National Museum, P.O. Box 266, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa	
Journal Article	Heimes, Peter	1997	Kletternattern im nordchinesischen Bergland		DATZ			50	3	152-158	China		
Journal Article	Heimes, Peter	1997	An der Grossen Mauer		TI Magazin				136	50-54			
Journal Article	Heimpel, G.E.	1997	Extraordinary sex ratios		Trends in Ecology and Evolution			12	8	298-299	sex ratio		
Journal Article	Hein, Eric W.;Whitaker, Shayna J.	1997	Homing in Eastern Fence Lizards (Sceloporus undulatus) following short-distance translocation		Great Basin Naturalist			57	4	348-351		Sceloporus undulatus	
Journal Article	Heinen, J. T.;Hammond., G.	1997	Antipredator behaviors of newly metamorphosed green frogs (Rana clamitans) and leopard frogs (R. pipiens) in encounters with eastern garter snakes (Thamnophis s. sirtalis).		American Midland Naturalist			137		136-144			
Book Section	Helgen, Judy	1997	The frogs of Granite Falls: frogs as biological indicators	Moriarty, John J. and Jones, Delvin	Minnesota's Amphibians and Reptiles, Their Conservation and Status: Proceedings of a Symposium	Lanesboro	Serpent's tale			55-57			
Journal Article	Helin, Tobbe	1997	Alternatief voedsel voor Elaphe dione		Het Terrarium			14	10	8-9	Elaphe dione		
Journal Article	Hemens, A	1997	Mixed turtles hatch a mystery		GeoAustralia			19	1	7	hybrid; loggerhead; green		
Journal Article	Henderson, Robert W.	1997	An irascible aerialist: The common tree boa of the American tropics		Fauna			1	1	16-25	Corallus		
Journal Article	Henderson, Robert W.;Winstel, R. Allan	1997 (1998)	Daily activity in three boas (Corallus grenadensis) on Grenada		Herpetological Natural History			5	2	175-180		rh@mpm1.mpm.edu	
Journal Article	Henen, B. T.	1997	Seasonal and annual energy budgets of female desert tortoises (Gopherus aqassizii)		Ecology			78	1	283-296	energy,  tortoises, desert, season variation, annual variation		
Journal Article	Henke, Scott E.;Montemayor, Melisa	1997	Phrynosoma cornutum (Texas Horned Lizard). Growth		Herpetological Review			28	3	152			
Journal Article	Henkel, Friedrich-Wilhelm	1997	Neukaledonien aus herpetologischer Sicht		DATZ Aquarien Terrarien			50	7	448-451	New Caledonia		
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus	1997	Buchbesprechungen: Fischführer Indischer Ozean		Elaphe			5	1	64	Book review		
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus	1997	Scinax pedromedinai: An unjustified emendation of Ololygon pedromedinae Henle, 1991		Herpetological Review			28	2	67	Scinax pedromedinai; Ololygon pedromedinae		
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus	1997	Buchbesprechung: Washingtoner Artenschutzübereinkommen: Jahresstatistik 1993		Elaphe			5	2	64	Book review		
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus	1997	Buchbesprechungen: Untersuchungen zur Biologie der Erdkröte Bufo bufo L. unter besonderer berücksichtigung des Einflusses von Migrationshindernissen auf das Wanderverhalten und die Entwicklung von vier Erdkrötenpopulationen im Stadtgebiet von Osnabrück		Salamandra			33	1	93-95	Book review		
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus	1997	Buchbesprechungen: Wie pflege ich: Pfeilgiftfrösche		Salamandra			33	1	95	Book review		
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus	1997	Buchbesprechung: Der Laubfrosch		Salamandra			33	2	156-157	Book review		
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus	1997	Buchbesprechung: Unsere Amphibien		Salamandra			33	2	158	Book review		
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus	1997	Buchbesprechung: Reprint Serie, Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei		Salamandra			33	2	158-160	Book review		
Edited Book	Henle, Klaus;Veith, Michael	1997	Naturschutzrelevante Methoden der Feldherpetologie			Bonn, Germany	DGHT			392			
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus	1997	Aufgaben der Feldherpetologie im Naturschutz: Konzeptioneller Rahmen und Defizite		Mertensiella			7		1-15			
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus;Kuhn, Joachim;Podloucky, Richard;Schmidt-Loske, Katharina;Bender, Carolin	1997	Individualerkennung und Marlierung mitteleuropäischer Amphibien und Reptilien: Übersicht und bewertung der Methoden; Empfehlungen aus Natur- und Tierschutzsicht		Mertensiella			7		133-184			
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus	1997	Naturschutzrelevante Nebenwirkungen feldherpetologischer Methoden		Mertensiella			7		377-389			
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus	1997	Buchbesprechungen: Aquarama		Salamandra			33	3	223			
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus	1997	Buchbesprechungen: Exkursionsfauna von Deutschland Band 3: Wirbeltiere. 12., stark bearbeitete Auflage		Salamandra			33	3	223-224			
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus	1997	Buchbesprechungen: Wunderschöne Schmuckschildkröten		Salamandra			33	3	222-223			
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus	1997	Buchbesprechungen: A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World		Salamandra			33	3	175-176			
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus	1997	Buchbesprechungen: Chelonian Conservation and Biology 1(1)		Salamandra			33	3	176			
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus	1997	Buchbesprechungen: Die Amphibien Rußlands und angrenzender Gebiete		Salamandra			33	3	219-221			
Journal Article	Henle, Klaus	1997	Buchbesprechungen: Taggeckos. Phelsuma		Salamandra			33	3	219			
Journal Article	Hensen, Wiendert	1997	Een en ander over Costa Rica		Het Terrarium			15	7	13-19			
Journal Article	Heppell, Selina S.	1997	On the importance of eggs		Marine Turtle Newsletter				76	6-8	Sea turtles; Eggs; Conservation		
Journal Article	Herman, Dennis W.;Beane, Jeffrey C.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Clemmys muhlenbergii		Herpetological Review			28	3	156-157			
Journal Article	Herman, C. A.;Wang, X.;Gronert, K.	1997	Biosynthesis of thromboxane by snake (Elaphe obsoleta) erythrocytes and the requirement of eicosanoid production for blood clotting		Biochim Biophys Acta			1334	1	23-7	Animal; Arachidonate 5-Lipoxygenase/analysis; Blood Coagulation; Calcimycin; Eicosanoids/biosynthesis; Erythrocytes/*metabolism; Leukocytes/metabolism; Snakes/*blood; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.; Thromboxanes/*biosynthesis	Lower vertebrates provide important insights into the evolution of eicosanoid synthesis and function. Whole snake blood, purified nucleated erythrocytes, and isolated leukocytes activated by clotting or A23187 produced thromboxane, PGE2, and 5-lipoxygenase products. Indomethacin's complete inhibition of clotting suggests eicosanoids produced by these cells are important in snake blood hemostasis.	
Book Section	Herman, D.W.;Tryon, B. W.	1997	Land use, development, and natural succession and their effects on bog turtle habitat in the southeastern United States	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			364-371			
Book Section	Herman, T.B.	1997	Life on the edge: managing peripheral populations in a changing landscape	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			372-376			
Journal Article	Herrel, Anthony;Wauters, Ilse;Aerts, Peter;Vree, Frits de	1997	The mechanics of Ovophagy in the Beaded Lizard (Heloderma horridum)		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	383-393		Heloderma horridum; ovophagy	
Journal Article	Herrel, Anthony;Cleuren, Johan;De Vree, Frits	1997	Quantitative analysis of jaw and hyolingual muscle activity during feeding in the lizard Agama stellio		Journal of Experimental Biology			200		101-115			
Journal Article	Herrington, Bob	1997	Geographic Distribution. Hemidactylium scutatum		Herpetological Review			28	3	155			
Journal Article	Herrmann, Hans-Joachim;Schink, Rolf	1997	Froschlurche von Bredell		TI Magazin				133	42-46	South Africa		
Journal Article	Herrmann, Hans-Joachim;Schink, Rolf	1997	Vivarien im Tierpark Berlin-Friedrichsfelde		TI Magazin				133	65-69			
Journal Article	Herrmann, Jan-Matthias	1997	Haltung und Nachzucht des Buntpythons Python curtus curtus		Elaphe			5	1	16-19	Python curtus		
Journal Article	Herrmann, Jan-Matthias	1997	Haltung und Nachzucht des Schneckenskinks Tiliqua gerrardii		Elaphe			5	3	16-18	Tiliqua gerrardii		
Journal Article	Herrmann, Hans-Joachim	1997	Kletter-Salamander (I)		TI Magazin				136	39-42	Hydromantes		
Journal Article	Herrmann, Hans-Joachim	1997	Kletter-Salamander (2)		TI Magazin				137	35-41	Bolitoglossa		
Journal Article	Herrmann, Hans-Joachim	1997	Ausgestorbene Froschlurche		TI Magazin				137	42-47			
Journal Article	Herrmann, Hans-Joachim;Kabisch, Klaus;Kühnel, Klaus-Detlef	1997	Bufo gaergarizans Cantor		Sauria, Suplement			19	3	395-398			
Journal Article	Herrmann, Hans-Joachim;Kühnel, Klaus-Detlef	1997	Zwei neue Arten der Bufo bufo-Superspecies ais der Provinz Sichuan, SW-China		Sauria			19	4	31-40		China; New species	
Journal Article	Heselhaus, Ralf	1997	Von einigen Kubanischen Anolis		Terraristik Aktuell				2	13-16	Cuba; Anolis		
Journal Article	Heselhaus, Ralf	1997	Die Seychellen: Paradiese im Indischen Ozean		Terraristik Aktuell				2	18-39	Seychelles		
Journal Article	Heulin, Benoit;Osenegg-Leconte, Kirsten;Michel, David	1997	Demography of bimodal reproductive species of lizard (Lacerta vivipara): survival and density characteristics of oviparous populations		Herpetologica			53	4	432-444			
Journal Article	Heulin, B.;Osenegg-Leconte, K.;Michel, D.	1997	Demography of a bimodal reproductive species of lizard (Lacerta vivipara): survival and density characteristics of oviparous populations		Herpetoologica			53	4	432-444	Lacerta vivipara, reproductive bimodality, oviparity, viviparity, demography		
Journal Article	Heyer, W. Ronald	1997	Geographic variation in the frog genus Vanzolinius (Anura: Leptodactylidae)		Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington			110	3	338-365			
Journal Article	Hibbitts, Toby J.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Cnemidophorus sexlineatus viridis		Herpetological Review			28	4	210			
Journal Article	Hibbitts, Toby J.;Malone, John H.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Storeria occipitomaculata obscura		Herpetological Review			28	4	211			
Journal Article	Hiduke, Joe;Gaines, Meadow	1997	Central American Banded Geckos (Coleonyx mitratus)		Reptiles			5	10	76-87	Coleonyx mitratus		
Journal Article	Highton, Richard	1997	Geographic protein variation and speciation in the Plethodon dorsalis complex		Herpetologica			53	3	345-356	Plethodon dorsalis Complex; Allozymes; Hybridization; Speciation; Plethodon ventralis n. sp.; New Species		
Journal Article	Highton, Thomas G.;Fledderman, Peter D.;Lovich, Jeffrey E.;Congdon, Justin D.;Gibbons, J. Whitfield	1997	Radiographic determination of fecundity: is the technique safe for developing turtle embryos?		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	409-414			
Journal Article	Hill, Ben;Bergman, Enoch;Montgomery, Chad;Hobert, Justin;Boback, Scott;Mackessy, Stephen P.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Rhinocheilus lecontei tessellatus		Herpetological Review			28	1	52			
Journal Article	Hill, B.D.;Green, P.E.;Lucke, H.A.	1997	Hepatitis in the green tree frog (Litoria caerulea) associated with infection by a species of Myxidium		Australian Veterinary Journal			75	12	910-911	Amphibia, anura, green tree frog, Litoria caerulea, infection protozoa, Myxosporea, Myxidium		
Journal Article	Hingley, Kevin J.	1997	Book review: The Dangerous Snakes of Africa		Herptile: Journal of the International Herpetological Society			22	2	95			
Journal Article	Hinton, Thomas G.;Fledderman, Peter D.;Lovich, Jeffrey E.;Congdon, Justin D.;Gibbons, J. Whitfield	1997	Radiographic determination of fecundity: is the technique safe for developing turtle embryos?		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	409-414	Fecundity; X-ray; Radiography; Turtle embryos		
Journal Article	Hinton, T.G.;Fledderman, P.;Lovich, J.;Congdon, J.D.;Gibbons, J.W.	1997	Radiographic determination of fecundity: is the technique safe for developing turtle embryos?		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	409-414			
Journal Article	Hirth, H. F.	1997	Synopsis of biological data on the green turtle Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758)		U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Biological Report			1		1-120	green; sex ratio; population; eggs		
Journal Article	Hnizdo, Jan;Krug, Philipp	1997	Drei Baumschnüfflerarten (Ahaetulla Link, 1807) - Haltung und Probleme		Sauria			19	4	3-12		Ecology; Behavior; Parasites	
Journal Article	Hobert, Justin;Boback, Scott;Montgomery, Chad;bergman, Enoch;Hill, Ben;Mackessy, Stephen P.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Sistrurus catenatus edwardsii		Herpetological Review			28	1	52-53			
Journal Article	Hoegh-Guldberg, O.;Emlet, R. B.	1997	Energy use during the development of a lecithotrophic and a planktotrophic echinoid		Biological Bulletin			192		27-30			
Journal Article	Hoffman, J.;Katz, U.	1997	Salt and water balance in the toad Bufo viridis during recovery from two different osmotically stressful conditions		Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A - Physiology			117	1	147-154	Amphibia, anura, toad, Bufo viridis, physiology, stress, osmosis, salt, water balance	Toads, Bufo viridis, were subjected to two modes of osmotic stress: on soil of water potential similar to 5 arm and continuous partial immersion in 250 mmol, l NaCl solution. In both conditions, plasma osmolality was greatly elevated involving a large increase in urea concentration and was maintained hyperosmotic to the external environment. After acclimation to either condition, toads were allowed access to tap water, and the concentrations of body fluids and gross body weight were Followed over a 7-day period. The toads bathed only until preacclimation gross weight was regained, although plasma osmolality remained elevated. Weight remained stable thereafter. Excess plasma Na+ and Cl- were eliminated within a few days, whereas the urea level diminished very slowly. K+ was closely controlled throughout, both juring acclimation and recovery. The results suggest that B. viridis is equipped with a series of set points for osmotic pressure that enable it to maintain different steady states according to the prevailing conditions, the magnitude of the shift depending on the level of the imposed osmotic stress. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Inc. J Hoffman, Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Biol, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel	
Journal Article	Hogan, Kevin D.;Smith, Donald D.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Kinosternon flavescens flavescens		Herpetological Review			28	2	94			
Journal Article	Hogeback, Ludger	1997	Ein Jahr mit Verrückten		Reptilia (German)				6	80			
Journal Article	Hokit, D. G.;Blaustein., A. R.	1997	The effects of kinship on interactions between tadpoles of Rana cascadae		Ecology			78		1722-1735			
Journal Article	Holden, Andrew	1997	The importance of finding a "herp. competent" vet		Reptilian			4	10	14-15			
Journal Article	Holfert, Tino	1997	Coleonyx elegans Gray, 1845 (Sauria: Gekkonidae) - Haltung und Zucht im Terrarium		Sauria			19	3	41-45		Coleonyx elegans	
Journal Article	Hollingsworth, Bradford D.;Mahrdt, Clark R.;Grismer, L. Lee;Banta, Benjamin H.;Sylber, Charles K.	1997	The occurence of Sauromalus varius on a satellite islet of Isla Salsipuedes, Gulf of California, México		Herpetological Review			28	1	26-28	Sauromalus varius; Gulf of California; Isla Salsipuedes; Mexico		
Journal Article	Hollingsworth, Bradford D.;gergus, Erik W. A.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Crotaphytus bicinctores		Herpetological Review			28	1	49-50			
Journal Article	Hollingsworth, Bradford D.;Gergus, Erik W. A.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Crotaphytus nebrius		Herpetological Review			28	1	50			
Journal Article	Hollingsworth, Bradford D.;Grismer, L. Lee;Wong, Humberto;Cryder, Michael R.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Sauromalus ater ater		Herpetological Review			28	1	51			
Journal Article	Hollingsworth, Bradford D.;Prosser, Todd R.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Thamnophis marcianus marcianus		Herpetological Review			28	4	211			
Journal Article	Hollister, John	1997	Some notes on a captive breeding of the Savu Python (Liasis m. savuensis)		East Texas Herpetological Society Newsletter			9	5	4-5	Liasis m. savuensis		
Journal Article	Holmes, Hannah	1997	The lizard wizard		Wildlife Conservation			100	2	22-29	Madagascar		
Journal Article	Holomuzki, Joseph R.	1997	Habitat-specific life-histories and foraging by stream-dwelling American toads		Herpetologica			53	4	445-453			
Journal Article	Holycross, Andrew T.;Smith, Sam W.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Crotalus willardi obscurus		Herpetological Review			28	2	97			
Journal Article	Holz, P.;Barker, I.K.;Crawshaw, G.J.;Dobson, H.	1997	The anatomy and perfusion of the renal portal system in the red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)		Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine			28	4	378-385	Reptilia, testudines, red-eared slider, Trachemys scripta elegans, anatomy, renal portal system, kidney, anatomy, perfusion, valve		
Journal Article	Holz, P.;Barker, I.K.;Burger, J.P.;Crawshaw, G.J.;Conlon, P.D.	1997	The effect of the renal portal system on pharmacokinetic parameters in the red-fared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)		Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine			28	4	386-393	Reptilia, testudines, red-eared slider, Trachemys scripta elegans, anatomy, renal portal system, drug pharmacokinetics, gentamicin, carbenicillin		
Journal Article	Honda, Masanao;Hikida, Tsutomu;Araya, Kunio;Ota, Hidetoshi;Nabjitabhata, Jarujin;Hoi-Sen, Yong	1997	Cosymbotus craspedotus (Frilly Gecko) and C. platyurus (Flat-tailed Gecko). Gliding behavior		Herpetological Review			28	1	42-43			
Journal Article	Honda, Masanao;Nabhitabhata, Jarujin;Ota, Hidetoshi;Hikida, Tsutomu	1997	A new species of Dibamus (Squamata Dibamidae) from Thailand		Raffles Bulletin of Zoology			45	2	275-279			
Journal Article	Hoogmoed, Marinus S.	1997	Book review: The Herpetological Contributions of Whilhelm C. H. Peters (1815-1883)		Copeia			1997	2	469-471	Book review		
Journal Article	Hook-Merdes, Taryn L.	1997	The Scales of Justice		Reptiles			5	11	74-77			
Journal Article	Hopkins, William A.;Medonca, Mary T.;Congdon, Justin D.	1997	Increased circulating levels of testosterone and corticosterone in southern toads, Bufo terrestris, exposed to coal combustion waste		General and Comparative Endocrinology			108		237-246			
Journal Article	Hopkins, W. A.;Mendonca, M. T.;Congdon, J. D.	1997	Increased circulating levels of testerone and corticosterone in southen toads, Bufo terrestris, exposed to coal combustion waste		General and comparative Endocrinology			108		237-246	behavior, coal combustion waste, habitat, management, pollution		
Journal Article	Hopkins, W. A.;Mendonca, M. T.;Congdon, J. D.	1997	Increased circulating levels of testerone and corticosterone in southern toads, Bufo terrestris, exposed to coal combustion waste		General and Comparative Endocrinology			108		237-246	hormone levels, amphibians, waste management		
Book Section	Hoppe, David M.;McKinnell, Robert G.	1997	Observations on the status of Minnesota leopard frog populations	Moriarty, John J. and Jones, Delvin	Minnesota's Amphibians and Reptiles, Their Conservation and Status: Proceedings of a Symposium	Lanesboro	Serpent's tale			38-42			
Journal Article	Horwich, Jill	1997	Creatures of habitat: Lincoln Park Zoo's new small mammal and reptile house		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	5	111-112			
Journal Article	Hoser, Raymond T.	1997	Smuggled-2 exerpts. Part 3: Queensland - bureaucracy before conservation		Reptilian			4	10	19-25			
Journal Article	Hoser, Raymond;Simpson, Neil	1997	Sperm storage in an eastern blue-tongued skink, Tiliqua scincoides (Hunter, 1790)		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	4	84	Sperm storage; Tiliqua scincoides		
Journal Article	Hoser, Raymond T.	1997	Smuggled - 2 exerpts. Part 4. The continuing struggle involving Australia's wildlife		Reptilian			5	1	19-25			
Journal Article	Hoser, Raymond	1997	Smugled-2 excerpts: Part 5: the ace to extermnate Australa's wldlife		Reptilian			5	2	6-8			
Journal Article	Hoser, Raymond	1997	The Reptilian Bearded Dragon special edition. Part One: Pogona - from an Australan perspective		Reptilian			5	2	27-41	Pogona		
Journal Article	Hoser, Raymond	1997	the mating behaviour and breeding of Australian death adders, Genus: Acanthophis (Serpentes: Elapidae)		Monitor: Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society			8	3	135-144	Acanthophis		
Journal Article	Hoser, Raymond	1997	Smuggled-2 excerpts Part 6: The saga of wildlife conservation in Australia		Reptilian			5	3	6-11			
Journal Article	Hoser, Raymond	1997	Book review: Living Dragons: A Natural History of the World's Monitor Lizards		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	12	255-256			
Journal Article	Houchmandzadeh, B.;Marko, J. F.;Chatenay, D.;Libchaber, A.	1997	Elasticity and structure of eukaryote chromosomes studied by micromanipulation and micropipette aspiration		J Cell Biol			139	1	1-12	Anaphase; Animal; Chromatids; Chromosomes/*physiology; Elasticity; Lung/cytology; Metaphase; Micromanipulation/*instrumentation/*methods; Microscopy, Interference/instrumentation/methods; Mitotic Spindle Apparatus; Notophthalmus viridescens; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.	The structure of mitotic chromosomes in cultured newt lung cells was investigated by a quantitative study of their deformability, using micropipettes. Metaphase chromosomes are highly extensible objects that return to their native shape after being stretched up to 10 times their normal length. Larger deformations of 10 to 100 times irreversibly and progressively transform the chromosomes into a "thin filament," parts of which display a helical organization. Chromosomes break for elongations of the order of 100 times, at which time the applied force is around 100 nanonewtons. We have also observed that as mitosis proceeds from nuclear envelope breakdown to metaphase, the native chromosomes progressively become more flexible. (The elastic Young modulus drops from 5,000 +/- 1,000 to 1,000 +/- 200 Pa.) These observations and measurements are in agreement with a helix-hierarchy model of chromosome structure. Knowing the Young modulus allows us to estimate that the force exerted by the spindle on a newt chromosome at anaphase is roughly one nanonewton.	
Journal Article	Houston, A. I.;Gasson, C. E.;McNamara, J. M.	1997	Female choice of matings to maximize parental care		Proc. R. Soc. Lon. B			264		173-179	parental care, sexual selection, models,		
Journal Article	Hovingh, Peter	1997 (1998)	Amphibians in the Eastern Great Basin (Nevada and Utah, USA): A geographical study with Paleozoological models and conservation implications		Herpetological Natural History			5	2	97-134		Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA	
Journal Article	How, R. A.;Kitchner, D. J.	1997	Biogeography of Indonesian snakes		Journal of Biogeography			24	725-735				
Journal Article	Howard, Amy K.;Forester, James D.;Ruder, Jennifer M.;Powell, Robert	1997	Diets of two syntopic frogs: Eleutherodactylus abbotti and E. armstrongi (Leptodactylidae) from the Sierra de Baoruco, Hispaniola		Herpetological Natural History			5	1	66-72			
Journal Article	Howard, R. D.;Moorman, R.  S.;Whiteman, H. H.	1997	Differential effects of mate competition and mate choice on estern tiger salamanders		Animal Behavior			53		1345-1356	ambystoma tigrinum		
Journal Article	Howard, R. D.;Moorman, R. S.;Whiteman, H. H.	1997	Differential effects of mate competition and mate choice on eastern tiger salamanders		Animal Behaviour			53		1345-1356			
Journal Article	Hödl, Walter	1997	25 Jahre tropenbiologische Forschung und Lehre in Lateinamerika		20. Int. Symp. f. Vivaristik, Wien, Dokumentationen			1996		23-32			
Book Section	Hödl, Walter	1997	Einleitung	Hödl, Walter;Jehle, R. and Gollmann, G.	Populationsbiologie von Amphibien: Eine Langzeitstudie auf der Wiener Donauinsel	Stapfiz 51	Land Öberösterreich OÖ Landesmuseum			9-12			
Edited Book	Hödl, Walter;Jehle, R.;Gollmann, G.	1997	Populationsbiologie von Amphibien: Eine Langzeitstudie auf der Wiener Donauinsel			Linz	Land Öberösterreich OÖ Landesmuseum			270			
Journal Article	Huang, Wen-San	1997	Reproductive cycle of the oviparious lizard Japalura brevipes (Agamidae: Reptilia) in Taiwan, Republic of China		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	22-29	Reproductive cycle; Japalura brevipes; Taiwan		
Journal Article	Huang, Wen-San	1997	Reproductive cycle of the skink, Sphenomorphus taiwanensis, in Central Taiwan		Journal of Herpetology			31	2	287-290	Sphenomorphus taiwanensis; Reproductive cycle		
Journal Article	Huang, W-S.	1997	Reproductive cycle of the skink, Sphenomorphus taiwanensis, in central Taiwan		Journal of Herpetology			31		287-290	temperate, Scincidae, viviparity, embryo, reproduction		
Journal Article	Huang, W-S.;Lin, J-Y.;Yu, J. Y-L.	1997	Male reproductive cycle of the toad Bufo melanostictus in Taiwan		Zoological Science			14		497-503			
Journal Article	Huang, W-S.	1997	Sexual size dimorphism in seven species of colubrid snakes in Taiwan		Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan			9		107-116			
Journal Article	Huang, W-S.	1997	Reproductive cycle of the oviparous lizard Japalura brevipes (Agamidae: Reptilia) in Taiwan, Republic of China		Journal of Herpetology			31		22-29	temperate		
Journal Article	Huchzermeyer, Fritz	1997	Do crocodile hatchlings imprint on their parents?		Crocodile Specialist group Newsletter			16	1	21-22			
Journal Article	Hughes, B.	1997	Dasypeltis scabra and Lamprophis fuliginosus - two pan-African snakes in the Horn of Africa: A tribute to Don Broadley		African Journal of Herpetology			46	2	68-77		57 Snaresbrook Road, London E11 1PQ, Great Britain	
Journal Article	Ibañez D., Roberto;Jaramillo, Cesar A.;Fuenmayor, Querube	1997	Geographic Distribution. Dendrobates granuliferus		Herpetological Review			28	4	207			
Journal Article	Ibáñez D., Roberto;Jaramillo, Cesar A.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Hyalinobatrachim chirripoi		Herpetological Review			28	1	48			
Journal Article	Iglauer, F.;Willmann, F.;Hilken, G.;Huisinga, E.;Dimigen, J.	1997	Anthelmintic treatment to eradicate cutaneous capillariasis in a colony of South African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis)		Laboratory Animal Science			47	5	477-482	Amphibia, anura, South African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, infection, helminth, capillaris, skin, therapy	The nematode Capillaria xenopodis (Pseudocapillaroides xenopi), a skin parasite of South African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis), is quite common in laboratory animal facilities. It causes serious skin changes and may further lead to wasting and death of affected frogs. Various treatment protocols, using the anthelmintics ivermectin and levamisole, were successively tested for practicability of elimination of the parasite from a colony of clawed frogs. Nematodes were reduced below diagnostic levels by various methods of application of ivermectin (orally or by injection into the dorsal lymph sac, twice at intervals of 10 to 14 days). However, nematodes were found again in the treated animals 1 to 3 months later. Treatment by use of ivermectin-medicated tank water is not feasible due to its low water solubility. Elimination of the parasite was reliably achieved by use of levamisole-medicated tank water. Relapses were not seen during the 18-month post treatment observation period. Levamisole concentration was 12 mg  L of water, with 4.17, 5.00, or 6.25 L of tank water  frog, and 50, 60, or 75 mg of levamisole available  frog, for at least 4 days, with treatments repeated after 10 to 14 days. Results were reproducible in two trials each with five tanks containing, in turn, four or five frogs each. A treatment trial carried out with a group of 20 adult frogs exposed to 12 mg of levamisole  L of tank water, but with only 2.5 L of tank water  frog (i.e., only 30 mg of levamisole available  animal), was not effective in eradicating the parasites. Not only the drug concentration, but also the amount of drug available per animal seems to be of importance. In contrast to thiabendazole, which is often reported in literature as treatment for cutaneous capillariasis, negative side effects were not observed with use of levamisole. F Iglauer  Univ Hamburg  Hosp Eppendorf  Lab Anim Facil  Martinistr 52  D-20246 Hamburg, Germany	
Book	Ilynsky, Tu.	1997	[Travels for Venomous Snakes]			Moscow	Armadea			426 (6)			
Book	Ilynsky, Tu.	1997	In Search of venomous snakes: Notes of a snake catcher			Moscow	Armadea			426 p. (6)			
Journal Article	Ineich, Ivan	1997	Emoia impar (Blue-tailed Pacific Copper-striped Skink). Reproduction		Herpetological Review			28	1	43			
Journal Article	Ineich, Ivan;Massary, Jean-Christophe de	1997	Geographic Distribution. Gehyra mutilata		Herpetological Review			28	2	95			
Journal Article	Ineich, Ivan;Dia, Amadou Tidiane;Alphaly, Bocar;Girard, Francis;Colas, Francois	1997	Geckonia chazaliae (Helmeted Gecko). Maximum Size)		Herpetological Review			28	4	202-203			
Journal Article	Ineich, Ivan;Zug, George R.	1997	Tachygyia, the giant tongan skink: extinct or extant?		Cryptozoology			12		30-35			
Journal Article	Inger, Robert F.;Lakim, Maklarin;Bjun, Alim;Yambun, Paul	1997	A new species of Leptolalax (Anura: Megophrynidae) from Borneo		Asiatic Herpetological Research			7		48-50	New species; Borneo; Salientia; Amphibia; Leptolalax maurus sp. nov.		
Book	Inger, Robert F.;Stuebing, Robert B.	1997	A Field Guide to the Frogs of Borneo			Sabah	Natural History Publications			x, 208			
Journal Article	Inozemtsev, Alexander A.	1997	Ecological distribution and population dynamics of the Mediterranean tortoise, Testudo graeca nikolskii, in xerophytic forests of the Western Caucasus, Southern Russia		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	567-572			
Journal Article	Ioannidis, Y.;Bousbouras, D.	1997	The space utilization by the reptiles in Prespa National Park		Hydrobiologia			351		135-142			
Journal Article	Iordansky, Nikolai N.	1997	Jaw apparatus and feeding mechanics of Typhlops (Ophidia: Typhlopidae): a reconsideration		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	2	120-127		Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Prospect pr. 33, Moscow 117071, Russia	
Journal Article	Iordansky, N. N.	1997	[Cranial kinesis of Anguis fragilis and evolution of palate in lacertilia]		Russian Journal of Zoology			76	1	74-82			
Journal Article	Irschick, Duncan J.;Shaffer, H. Bradley	1997	The polytypic species revisited: Morphological differentiation among tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum) (Amphibia: Caudata)		Herpetologica			53	1	30-49	Ambystoma tigrinum Complex; Polytypic species; Ambystoma; Morphometric variation; Subspecies; Gill raker number; Larvae;		
Journal Article	Irschick, D. J.;Vitt, L. J.;Zani, P. A.;Losos, J. B.	1997	A comparison of evolutionary radiations in mainland and Caribbean Anolis lizards		Ecology			78		2191-2203	tropics, ecomorph, Polychrotidae, South America, Central America, Lizard ecology		
Journal Article	Irschick, D. J.;Vitt, L. J.;Zani, P. A.;Losos, J. B.	1997	A comparison of evolutionary radiations in mainland and caribban Anolis  lizards		Ecology			78	7	2191-2203	Anolis, lizards Caribbean Sea, ecomorphology, evolutionary radiations, mainlandisland comparison, South America		
Journal Article	Irwin, Steve	1997	Courtship, mating and egg deposition by the captive perentie Varanus giganteus (Gray, 1845)		Vivarium			8	4	26-31;56	Varanus giganteus		
Book	Ishii, Susumu	1997	[Noses of frogs]			Tokyo	Yasaka-shebou			191			
Journal Article	Ishiwata, K.;Nakao, H.;Nose, R.;Komiya, M.;Hanada, S.;Enomoto, Y.;Nawa, Y.	1997	Gnathostomiasis in frog-eating snakes from Japan		Journal of Wildlife Diseases			33	4	877-879	Reptilia, serpentes, Agkistrodon halys, Elaphe quadrivirgata, infection, helminth, Gnathostoma doloresi, Rhabdophis tigrinus, transmission	Gnathostoma doloresi parasitizes the gastric wall of wild (boars) and domestic (pigs) swine (Sus scrofa). Its larvae cause cutaneous larva migrans in humans. Amphibians, reptiles and a freshwater fish are infected with the advanced 3rd stage larvae. Prevalence of C. doloresi larvae were surveyed in several snakes, especially in a common frog-eating snake (Rhabdophis tigrinus). All species of snakes examined were infected with G. doloresi larvae suggesting that snakes are important reservoir hosts. Prevalence of G. doloresi larvae in frog eating snakes was lower than that found in mammal-eating snakes. Thus, as a source of infection to snakes, small mammals may be more important than frogs in the natural life cycle of G. doloresi in Japan.  K Ishiwata  Miyazaki Med Coll  Dept Parasitol  Kiyotake  Miyazaki 88916, Japan	
Journal Article	IUCN/SSC/MTSG	1997	Biology and status of the hawksbill in the Caribbean								hawksbill		
Journal Article	Iverson, John B.;Higgins, Heather;Sirulnik, Abby;Griffiths, Christopher	1997	Local and geographic variation in the reproductive biology of the snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina)		Herpetologica			53	1	96-117	Geographic variation; Life history; Testudines; Reproductive effort; Egg size; Clutch size; Clutch mass; Optimal egg size; Chelydra serpentina		
Journal Article	Iverson, John B.;McCord, William P.	1997	Redescription of the Arakan Forest Turtle Geoemyda depressa Anderson 1875 (Testudines: Bataguridae)		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	384-389	Bataguridae; Geoemyda depressa; Taxonomy; Redescription; China; Burma; Myanmar		
Journal Article	Iverson, John B.;Moler, Paul E.	1997	The female reproductive cycle of the Florida softshell turtle (Apalone ferox)		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	399-409		Apalone ferox	
Journal Article	Iverson, John B.;McCord, William P.	1997	A new species of Cyclemys (Testudines: Bataguridae) from Southeast Asia		Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington			110	4	629-639			
Journal Article	Iwanaga, Setsuko;Toda, Mamoru;Ota, Hidetoshi	1997	The first successful incubation of eggs of the endemic Ryukyu keelback, Amphiesma pryeri (Colubridae: Squmata)		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	1	79-80	Amphiesma pryeri		
Journal Article	Jackman, Todd R.;Applebaum, Geoffrey;Wake, David B.	1997	Phylogenetic relationships of bolitoglossine salamanders: A demonstration of the effects of combining morphological and molecular data sets		Mol. Biol. Evol.			14	8	883-891			
Book Section	Jackman, Todd R.;Losos, Jonathan B.;Larson, Allan;De Queiroz, Kevin	1997	Phylogenetic studies of convergent radiations in Caribbean Anolis lizards	Givnish, T. J. and Sytsma, K. J.	Molecuar Evolution and Adaptative Radiation	Cambridge	Cambridge University Press			535-557			
Book Section	Jackman, Todd;Losos, Jonathan B.;Larson, Allan;Queiroz, Kevin de	1997	Phylogenetic studies of convergent adaptive radiations in Caribbean Anolis lizards	Givinish, T. J. and Sytsma, K. J.	Molecular Evolution and Adaptive Radiation		Cambridge University Publishers			535-557			
Journal Article	Jackman, Todd R.;Applebaum, Geoffrey;Wake, David B.	1997	Phylogenetic relationships of Bolitoglossine salamanders: a demonstration of effetcs of combining morphological and molecular data sets		Molecular Biology and Evolution			14	8	883-891			
Journal Article	Jackson, Kate	1997	Scanning electron microscopy of high resolution casts for the study of tooth surface morphology in snakes		Herpetological Review			28	2	75-76	Tooth surface morphology		
Journal Article	Jackson, Dale R.;Ewert, Michael A.	1997	Chelydra serpentina (Snapping Turtle). Reproduction		Herpetological Review			28	2	87			
Journal Article	Jackson, Dale R.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Pseudemys concinna suwanniensis		Herpetological Review			28	2	94			
Journal Article	Jackson, Dale R.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Sternotherus minor minor		Herpetological Review			28	2	94-95			
Journal Article	Jackson, J. Andrew	1997	Geographic Distribution. Elaphe obsoleta spilotes		Herpetological Review			28	2	97			
Journal Article	Jackson, D.C.	1997	Lactate accumulation in the shell of the turtle Chrysemys picta bellii during anoxia at 3 degrees C and 10 degrees C		Journal of Experimental Biology			200	17	2295-2300	Reptilia, testudines, Western painted turtle,  Chrysemys picta bellii, physiology, acid-base balance, bone, submergence	Lactate concentrations were measured in the shell and plasma of the turtle Chrysemys picta bellii after 3 months of submergence anoxia at 3 degrees C and during and after 9 days of submergence anoxia at 10 degrees C. Liver and skeletal muscle lactate levels were also measured in control and anoxic animals at each temperature, At 3 degrees C, mean shell lactate concentration (N=4) reached 133 mmol kg(-1) shell mass and plasma lactate levels were 144 mmol l(-1); at 10 degrees C, shell and plasma lactate concentrations (N=5) rose in parallel during anoxic exposure, to 70.8 mmol kg(-1) shell mass and 78.9 mmol l(-1), respectively, and returned in parallel to control levels during 9 days of recovery, At the end of the anoxic periods, an estimated 44% of the total body lactate resided in the shell at 3 degrees C and 43% at 10 degrees C, and indirect evidence suggests that the shell buffered these same fractions of the acid load, Because of the high lactate concentration per kilogram of shell water (416 mmol kg(-1) at 3 degrees C; 221 mmol kg(-1) at 10 degrees C) and the known formation of calcium lactate complexes, it is postulated that most of the lactate existed in the shell in combined form. I conclude that sequestration of lactate within the shell represents a potentially major adaptation to anoxic acidosis for this animal and, together with the previously described release of shell carbonates, may account for up to two-thirds of the total lactic acid buffering in this animal. DC Jackson, Brown Univ, Dept Mol Pharmacol Physiol & Biotechnol, Providence, RI 02912 USA	
Journal Article	Jackson, Dale R.;Walker, Robert N.	1997	Reproduction in the Suwannee cooter, Pseudemys concinna suwanniensis		Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History			41	2	69-167			
Journal Article	Jacobson, Elliot;Homer, Bruce	1997	Ophidian Paramyxovirus (OPMV)		Litteratura Serpentium			17	4	70-72			
Conference Proceedings	Jacobson, E.R.	1997	Diseases of the respiratory tract of chelonians	NF2		1-6	E.R. Jacobson, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesvile, FL 32610 USA	
Journal Article	Jacobson, E.R.;Adams, H.P.;Geisbert, T.W.;Tucker, S.J.;Hall, B.J.;Homer, B.L.	1997	Pulmonary lesions in experimental ophidian paramyxovirus pneumonia of Aruba Island rattlesnakes, Crotalus unicolor		Veterinary Pathology			34	5	450-459	Reptilia, serpentes, Aruba Island rattlesnakes, Crotalus unicolor, infection, virus, paramyxovirus, pathology, pneumonia	Histologic and ultrastructural changes were observed in the respiratory portions of lung in five 29-40-month-old Aruba Island rattlesnakes, Crotalus unicolor; that were inoculated with an Aruba Island Rattlesnake virus (AIV) strain of ophidian paramyxovirus (OPMV) isolated from an Aruba Island rattlesnake. Lungs from one non-infected and three mock-infected Aruba Island rattlesnakes were examined also. From 4 to 22 days following intratracheal inoculation, progressive microscopic changes were seen in the lung. Initially, increased numbers of heterophils were observed in the interstitium followed by proliferation and vacuolation of epithelial cells lining faveoli. The changes appeared to progress from cranial to caudal portions of the respiratory lung following inoculation. Beginning at 4 days postinoculation, viral antigen was demonstrated in epithelial cells lining faveoli with an immunofluorescent technique using a rabbit anti-AN polyclonal antibody. Electron microscopy revealed loss of type I cells, hyperplasia of type II cells, and interstitial infiltrates of heterophils and mononuclear cells. Viral nucleocapsid material was seen within the cytoplasm and mature virus was seen budding from cytoplasmic membranes of infected type I and type II cells from 8 to 19 days after infection. A virus consistent with AN was isolated from lung tissues of infected rattlesnakes, thus fulfilling Koch's postulates. ER Jacobson, Univ Florida, Coll Vet Med, Dept Small Anim Clin Sci, Box 100126, Gainesville, FL 32610 USA	
Journal Article	Jacobson, E.;Homer, B.	1997	Ophidian paramyxovirus		Litteratura serpentium			17	4	70-73	Reptilia, serpentes, infection, virus, paramyxovirus		
Book Section	Jacobson, E.R.	1997	Diseases in wild populations of turtles and tortoises: the chelonian charisma vs. coincidence conundrum	Abbema, Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			87-90			
Journal Article	Jahn, Petra;Jahn, Karen	1997	Vergleich quantitativer und halbquantitativer Erfassungsmethoden bei verschiedenen Amphibienarten im Laichgewässer		Mertensiella			7		61-69			
Journal Article	Jahn, Karen	1997	Beobachtungen zur Eingrabtiefe von Pelobates fuscus wUahrend der Laichzeit [Observations on the digging depth in Pelobates fuscus during breeding time]		Zeitschrift für Feldherpetologie			4		165-172		Kjahn@hum.de	
Journal Article	Jamieson, B.G.M.;Scheltinga, D.M.;Tucker, A.D.	1997	The ultrastructure of spermatozoa of the Australian freshwater crocodile, Crocodylus johnstoni Krefft, 1873 (Crocodylidae, Reptilia)		J. Submicrosc. Cytol. Pathol.			29	2	265-274	CJ, reproduction, anatomy,	Mature spermatozoa of Crocodylus johnstoni are filiform with a curved head, consisting, of acrosome complex (length 5.6 mu m) and nucleus (length 10.7 mu m); midpiece (length 4.8 mu m); and elongate tail (length 43-61 mu m). The acrosome vesicle and underlying subacrosomal material form a conical sheath around the anterior tapered nuclear rostrum. One to three endonuclear canals, each containing putative perforatorial material, extend posteriorly from the tip of the nuclear rostrum for approximately 5 mu m, nearly half the length of the nucleus. The midpiece is composed of 11 oblique rings of varying regularity each usually of six mitochondria, surrounding the elongate distal centriole. The mitochondria are subspheroidal to slightly elongate and possess few septate to (more externally) concentric cristae; a central dense body reported for Caiman crocodilus is questionably present. Nine peripheral dense fibres, closely associated with the triplets of the distal centriole, are lost within the anterior principal piece; those at doublets 3 and 8 are the longest and are separated from their doublers in the principal piece, as in other reptiles. A well defined annulus separates the midpiece from the principal piece. The principal piece consists of a 9+2 axoneme, investing fibrous sheath and plasma membrane and is followed by the endpiece which lacks the fibrous sheath. The spermatozoon of C. johnstoni is apomorphic relative to Chelonia and Sphenodon in reduction of concentric mitochondrial cristae but is less similar to that of ratites than is that of Caiman crocodilus, differing from ratites in the longer, multiplied perforatoria. The compact dense sheath around the central singlets of the distal centriole is a possible crocodilian autapomorphy.	
Journal Article	Jancovich, J.K.;Davidson, E.W.;Morado, J.F.;Jacobs, B.L.;Collins, J.P.	1997	Isolation of a lethal virus from the endangered tiger salamander Ambystoma tigrinum stebbinsi		Diseases of Aquatic Organisms			31	3	161-167	Amphibia, urodela, salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum slebbinsi, infection, virus, iridovirus	The Sonora tiger salamander Ambystoma tigrin um stebbinsi Lowe is a genetically distinct race restricted to about 30 small ponds in the San Rafael Valley in southern Arizona, USA, which was added recently to the USA Federal List of Endangered Species. Populations of these salamanders periodically experience decimating epizootics. Virus was isolated from diseased salamanders using fish cell cultures, injected into healthy laboratory-reared salamanders, and then reisolated in cell culture. Electron microscopy of thin sections from dying salamanders revealed abundant enveloped and nonenveloped icosahedral virus particles approximately 160 to 180 nm in diameter in the cytoplasm of skin and liver cells and free in the intercellular spaces. This virus, believed to be an iridovirus based on viral morphology and host pathology, was demonstrated to be the primary pathogen in these epizootics, and is the first lethal epizootic virus reported from salamanders. We have named the virus Ambystoma tigrinum Virus (ATV). Hemolytic bacteria were isolated from sick individuals, but we were unable to induce the disease by exposing salamanders to isolated bacteria at concentrations up to 10(8) ml(-1). EW Davidson, Arizona State Univ, Dept Biol, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA	
Journal Article	Janke, A.;Arnason, U.	1997	The complete mitochondrial genome of Alligator mississippiensis and the separation between recent archosauria (birds and crocodiles)		Mol Biol Evol			14	12	1266-72		The complete mitochondrial genome of the alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, was sequenced. The size of the molecule is 16,642 nucleotides. Previously reported rearrangements of tRNAs in crocodile mitochondrial genomes were confirmed and, relative to mammals, no other deviations of gene order were observed. The analysis of protein-coding genes of the alligator showed an evolutionary rate that is roughly the same as in mammals. Thus, the evolutionary rate in the alligator is faster than that in birds as well as that in cold-blooded vertebrates. This contradicts hypotheses of constant body temperatures or high metabolic rate being correlated with elevated molecular evolutionary rates. It is commonly acknowledged that birds are the closest living relatives to crocodiles. Birds and crocodiles represent the only archosaurian survivors of the mass extinction at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. On the basis of mitochondrial protein-coding genes, the Haemothermia hypothesis, which defines birds and mammals as sister groups and thus challenges the traditional view, could be rejected. Maximum-likelihood branch length data of amino acid sequences suggest that the divergence between the avian and crocodilian lineages took place at approximately equal to 254 MYA.	
Journal Article	Janzen, Frederic J.;Hoover, Stacia L.;Shaffer, H. Bradley	1997	Molecular phylogeography of the Western Pond Turtle (Clemmys marmorata): preliminary results.		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	623-626			
Journal Article	Jaramillo, Cesar;Rand, A. Stanley;Ibanez, Roberto;Dudley, Robert	1997	Elastic structures in the vocalization apparatus of the Tungara frog, Physalaemus pustulosus (Leptodactylidae)		Journal of Morphology			233		287-295			
Journal Article	Jaramillo, César;Rand, A. Stanley;Ibánez, Roberto;Dudley, Robert	1997	Elastic structures in the vocalization apparatus of the Túngara frog Physalaemus pustulosus (Leptodactylidae)		Journal of Morphology			233					
Journal Article	Jared, Carlos;Antoniazzi, Marta M.;Almeida-Santos, Selma M.	1997	Leposternon infraorbitale (Two-headed snake). Reproduction		Herpetological Review			28	1	44-45			
Journal Article	Jayawardena, Jayantha	1997	Record of a large Geochelone elgans (Schoepff, 1795) from Sri Lanka		Lyriocephalus			3	1	34-35		615/32 Rajagiriya Gardens, Nawala Road, Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka	
Journal Article	Jayawickrama, Ashoka	1997	Note on Chrysopela taprobanica Smith, 1943		Lyriocephalus			3	1	37		156, Rathmalkaduwa, Gampola, Sri Lanka	
Book Section	Jehle, Robert;Ellinger, Norbert;Hödl, Walter	1997	Der Endelteich der Wiener Donauinsel und seine Fangzaunanlage für Amphibien: ein sekundäres Gewässer für populationsbiologie Studien	Hödl, Walter;Jehle, R. and Gollmann, G.	Populationsbiologie von Amphibien: Eine Langzeitstudie auf der Wiener Donauinsel	Stapfiz 51	Land Öberösterreich OÖ Landesmuseum			85-102			
Book Section	Jehle, Robert;Pauli-Thonke, Ameli;Tamnig, Jutta;Hödl, Walter	1997	Phänologie und Wanderaktivität des Donaukammolches (Triturus dobrogicus) an einem Geswässer auf der Wiener Donauinsel	Hödl, Walter;Jehle, R. and Gollmann, G.	Populationsbiologie von Amphibien: Eine Langzeitstudie auf der Wiener Donauinsel	Stapfiz 51	Land Öberösterreich OÖ Landesmuseum			119-132			
Book Section	Jehle, Robert	1997	Markierung und Individualerkennung metamorphosierter Amphibien, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der im Rahmen des "Amphibienprojekts Donauinsel (Wien)" verwendeten Methodik	Hödl, Walter;Jehle, R. and Gollmann, G.	Populationsbiologie von Amphibien: Eine Langzeitstudie auf der Wiener Donauinsel	Stapfiz 51	Land Öberösterreich OÖ Landesmuseum			103-118			
Book Section	Jehle, Robert	1997	Langzeitstudien zur Dynamik von Amphibienpopulationen: ein Überblick	Hödl, Walter;Jehle, R. and Gollmann, G.	Populationsbiologie von Amphibien: Eine Langzeitstudie auf der Wiener Donauinsel	Stapfiz 51	Land Öberösterreich OÖ Landesmuseum			73-83			
Journal Article	Jelden, D.	1997	New CITES Wildlife Trade legislation in the European Union		Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter			16	3	10-11			
Journal Article	Jennings, Mary;Anderson, Art	1997	The Wyoming Toad		Endangered Species Bulletin			22	4	16-17	Bufo hemiophrys		
Journal Article	Jennings, Mark R.	1997	Pituophis melanoleucus annectens (San Diego Gopher Snake) and Masticophis lateralis lateralis (California Striped Racer). Predation		Herpetological Review			28	4	205-206			
Book Section	Jennings, W.B.	1997	Habitat use and food preferences of the desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii, in the western Mojave Desert and impacts of off-road vehicles	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			42-45			
Book Section	Jennings, W.B.	1997	Invasions of exotic plants: implications for the desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii, and its habitat in the western Mojave Desert	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			10-12			
Journal Article	Jensen, John B.;Moulis, Robert A.	1997	Early rewards from the Georgia Herp Atlas		Herpetological Review			28	4	212-214			
Journal Article	Jensen, Allan Wilken;Graff, Henrik	1997	Møn, en feltherpetologisk perle		Nordisk Herpetologisk Forening			40	2	64-66		Cellovej 13, 2730 Herlev, Denmark	
Journal Article	Jensen, J. B.;Moulis, R. A.	1997	Early rewards from the Georgia herp atlas		Herpetological Review			28	4	212-214	surveys, atlas		
Journal Article	Jewell, Tony	1997	Low voluntary minimum temperature for activity in an alpine gecko from New Zealand		Herpetofauna			27	2	49-50		64 Janet Street, Invercargill, New Zealand	
Journal Article	Jeyasuria, P.;Place, A.R.	1997	Temperature-dependent aromatase expression in developing diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) embryos		Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology			61	3-6	415-425	aromatase; tsd; sex determination; turtle; incubation		
Journal Article	Ji, Xiang;Sun, Ping-Yue;Fu, Shui-Yu;Zhang, Hua-Song	1997	Utilization of energy and nutrients in incubating eggs and post-hatching yolk in a colubrid snake, Elaphe carinata		Herpetological journal			7	1	7-12	Elaphe carinata; Energy metabolism		
Journal Article	Ji, Xiang;Sun, Ping-Yue;Zhang, Hua-Song;Fu, Shui-Yu	1997	Incubation and utilization of energy and material during embryonic development in eggs of Naja naja atra		Journal of Herpetology			31	2	302-306	Incubation; Energy utilization; Naja naja atra		
Journal Article	Ji, Xiang;Xie, Yue-Ying;Sun, Ping-Yue;Zheng, Xiang-Zhong	1997	Sexual dimorphism and female reproduction in a viviparous snake, Elaphe rufodorsata		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	420-422		Elaphe rufodorsata	
Journal Article	Jia, X. X.;Burggren., W. W.	1997	Developmental changes in chemoreceptive control of gill ventilation in larval bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana). I. Reflex ventilatory responses to ambient hyperoxia, hypoxia and NaCN. 		Journal of Experimental Biology			200		2229-2236			
Journal Article	Jia, X. X.;Burggren., W. W.	1997	Developmental changes in chemoreceptive control of gill ventilation in larval bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana). II. Site of O2-sensitive chemoreceptors.		Journal of Experimental Biology			200		2237-2248			
Journal Article	Jia, X. X.;Burggren., W. W.	1997	Developmental changes in chemoreceptive control of gill ventilation in larval bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana). I. Reflex ventilatory responses to ambient hyperoxia, hypoxia, and NaCn.		Journal of Experimental Biology			200		2229-2236			
Book Section	Joanen, T.;McNease, L.;Elsey, R.;Staton, M.	1997	The commercial consumptive use of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) in Louisiana  Its effects on conservation	Freese, C.	Harvesting Wild Species, Implications for Biodiversity.	Baltimore	The Johns Hopkins Press			465-506, Chapter 13.	AM, utilization, farming, management,		
Journal Article	Jockusch, Elizabeth L.;Mahoney, Meredith J.	1997	Communal oviposition and lack of parental care in Batrachoseps nigriventris (Caudata: Plethodontidae) with a discussion of the evolution of breeding behavior in Plethodontid salamanders		Copeia			1997	4	697-705			
Journal Article	Jockusch, Elizabeth L.	1997	An evolutionary correlate of genome size change in plethodontid salamanders		Proc. R. Soc. Lond.			264		597-604			
Journal Article	Jockusch, Elizabeth	1997	Geographic variation and phenotypic plasticity of number of trunk vertebrate in slender salamanders, Batrachoseps (Caudata: Plethodontidae)		Evolution			51	6	1966-1982	elongation		
Journal Article	Jockusch, Elizabeth L.	1997	Geographic variation and phenotypic plasticity of number of trunk vertebrae in slender salamanders, Batrachoseps (Caudata: Plethodontidae)		Evolution			51	6	1966-1982			
Journal Article	Joger, Ulrich;Gray, Randall	1997	Sexualdimorphismus und Fortpflanzungsbiologie von Uromastyx maliensis Joger & Lambert, 1996		Elaphe			5	2	13-19	Uromastyx malienis		
Journal Article	Joger, Ulrich	1997	Buchbesprechungen: Endoglyphs and Other Major Venomous Snakes of the World - A Checklist		Salamandra			33	1	92-93	Book review		
Journal Article	Joger, Ulrich;Lenk, Peter	1997	Entnahme und Behandlung von Blutproben für molekulargenetische Untersuchungen in der Feldherpetologie		Mertensiella			7		329-340			
Journal Article	Johnson, Glenn;Wills, Todd	1997	Geographic Distribution. Emydoidea blandingii		Herpetological Review			28	4	209			
Journal Article	Johnson, J.H.;Jensen, J.M.;Brumbaugh, G.W.;Boothe, D.M.	1997	Amikacin pharmacokinetics and the effects of ambient temperature on the dosage regimen in ball pythons (Python regius)		Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine			28	1	80-88	Reptilia, serpentes, ball python, Python regius, pharmacokinetics, amikacin, dosage regimen	The serum concentration of amikacin following intracardiac and i.m. administration of amikacin (3.48 mg, kg) in 12 ball pythons (Python regius) housed at 25 degrees C and 37 degrees C was studied. Blood samples were collected by cardiocentesis at intervals up to 144 hr after administration of amikacin. Drug concentration-versus-time curves following intracardiac administration at both temperatures best fit a two-compartment open model. For snakes housed at 37 degrees C, the extrapolated time 0 concentration ((x) over bar +, - SD) was 17.64 +, - 3.52 mu g, ml with a median elimination half-life of 4.5 days. The maximum concentrations were 11.98 +, - 1.67 mu g, ml and 13.87 +, - 2.61 mu g, ml for snakes housed at 25 degrees C and 37 degrees C respectively. There were no significant pharmacokinetic differences among the snakes housed at 25 degrees C and 37 degrees C. Model-independent parameters were area under the curve, 69,900 +, - 0.011 mu g.min, ml. apparent volume of distribution at steady state, 410 +, - 106 ml, kg, clearance, 0.036 +, - 0.009 ml, min, kg, and mean residence time, 3,530 +, - 273.7 minutes, Mean serum amikacin concentrations did not reach the recommended therapeutic peak concentrations for mammals (25 mu g, ml). In addition, the amikacin serum concentration did not fall below the recommended therapeutic trough concentrations (2 mu g, ml) by 6 days. The serum amikacin concentrations were efficacious based on the area under the curve. Therefore, amikacin (3.48 mg, kg) administered i.m. to ball pythons should produce maximum serum concentrations against most pathogenic bacteria. In this study, it would have taken another half-life, or 4.5 days, before trough concentrations of 2 mu g, ml were achieved. To prevent accumulation, a one-time administration of amikacin may be appropriate. JH Johnson, Texas A&M Univ, Coll Vet Med, Dept Large Anim Med & Surg, Zool Med Serv, College Stn, TX 77843 USA	
Journal Article	Johnsrude, J.D.;Raskin, R.E.;Hoge, A.Y.A.;Erdos, G.W.	1997	Intraerythrocytic inclusions associated with iridoviral infection in a fer de lance (Bothrops moojeni) snake		Veterinary Pathology			34	3	235-238	Reptilia, serpentes, fer de lance viper, Bothrops moojeni, infection, virus, intraerythrocytic inclusions, iridovirus	Intraerythrocytic inclusions associated with infection by an iridovirus were observed in a fer de lance (Bothrops moojeni) snake that was being evaluated for the presence of renal carcinoma. The erythrocytes contained two types of inclusions, one viral and one crystalline, usually concomitantly. The snake was markedly anemic and exhibited a marked regenerative response. Ultrastructural analysis identified the virus to be an iridovirus consistent with snake erythrocyte virus and the crystalline structures to be of a different nature than hemoglobin. RE Raskin, Univ Florida, Coll Vet Med, POB 100144, Gainesville, FL 32610 USA	
Journal Article	Jones, Brian	1997	Book Review: Green Iguana: The Ultimate Owner's Manual		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	1	7	Book review		
Journal Article	Jones, Brian	1997	Book review: Komodo, The Living Dragon (revised edition)		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	7	153	Book review		
Journal Article	Jones, Arthur	1997	Big Reptiles, Big Lies		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Nov./Dec.	22-27			
Journal Article	Jones, Lennie	1997	Gator glory?		Reptiles			5	2	32-39	Alligator mississippiensis		
Journal Article	Jones, J.M.;Gamperl, A.K.;Farrell, A.P.;Toews, D.P.	1997	Direct measurement of flow from the posterior lymph hearts of hydrated and dehydrated toads (Bufo marinus)		Journal of Experimental Biology			200	11	1695-1702	amphibia, anura, toad, Bufo marinus, anatomy, physiology, lymph heart, lymph flow, dehydration		
Book Section	Jones, Delvin	1997	Herpetology in Minnesota and the history of Minnesota Herpetological Society	Moriarty, John J. and Jones, Delvin	Minnesota's Amphibians and Reptiles, Their Conservation and Status: Proceedings of a Symposium	Lanesboro	Serpent's tale			72-75			
Journal Article	Jones, K.E.;Purvis, A.	1997	An optimum body size for mammals? Comparative evidence from bats		Functional Ecology			11		751-756	phylogeny; CAIC; bats		
Journal Article	Jorge, M. T.;Sano Martins, I. S.;Tomy, S. C.;Castro, S. C.;Ferrari, R. A.;Ribeiro, L. A.;Warrell, D. A.	1997	Snakebite by the bushmaster (Lachesis muta) in Brazil: case report and review of the literature		Toxicon			35	4	545-54		The bushmaster (Lachesis muta) of Central and South America, the world's longest pit viper, is capable of injecting a large dose of potent venom when it bites. A 28-year-old man, bitten by a 1.82 m long L. m. muta in Brazil, developed pain and oedema at the bite site, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and sweating. There was peripheral neutrophil leucocytosis and evidence of fibrinogen consumption with secondary activation of the fibrinolytic system. Two hours after the bite, eight ampoules of Instituto Butantan Lachesis antivenom was administered, and haemostasis was normal 24 hr later. A review of reports of 20 cases of bites in humans reliably attributed to this snake in Costa Rica, French Guiana, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela confirms a syndrome of nausea, vomiting, abdominal colic, diarrhoea, sweating, hypotension, bradycardia and shock, possibly autopharmacological or autonomic in origin, not seen in victims of other American crotaline snakes. These, and other symptoms of bushmaster envenoming, are explained by haemorrhagic, coagulant and neurotoxic venom activities. The therapeutic efficacy of non-specific Bothrops/Crotalus polyvalent antivenoms in these cases has been unimpressive. For the treatment of bites by a snake which potentially injects a large dose (> 300 mg dry weight) of venom with a range of life-threatening activities, there is an urgent need to develop more potent specific antivenoms and to treat the dramatic and life-threatening cardiovascular symptoms.	
Journal Article	Jorgensen, C. B.	1997	Urea and amphibian water economy		Comp Biochem Physiol A Physiol			117	2	161-70		Accumulation of urea in the body fluids enables some amphibians to tolerate high ambient salinities (Bufo viridis, Xenopus laevis, Rana cancrivora, Ambystoma tigrinum, Batrachoseps spp.) or to estivate in soil with low water potentials (Scaphiopus spp.). These species are assumed not only to accumulate urea produced in the normal metabolism, but to synthesize urea in response to water shortage. Re-examination of the data did not support the view of an osmoregulatory urea synthesis. Increased urea synthesis on exposure to high salinities in X. laevis, R. cancrivora and Batrachoseps spp. seemed to reflect reactions to an adverse environment. It is suggested that in amphibians, solute concentration in the plasma and rate of excretion of urea are coordinated so that at a certain plasma concentration, urea is excreted at the same rate at which it is produced. The higher the level of urea in the body fluids at balance between production and excretion, the higher the tolerance of the species of low external water potentials. The mechanisms that integrate the relationship between plasma solute concentration and handling of urea by the kidneys are not known.	
Journal Article	Jorgensen, C. Barker	1997	200 Years of amphibian water economy: From Robert Townson to the present		Biol. Rev.			72		153-237	amphibian water economy, Robert Townsend		
Journal Article	Joy, J.E.;Bunten, C.A.	1997	Cosmocercoides variabilis (Nematoda: Cosmocercoidea) populations in the Eastern American toad, Bufo a americanus (Salienta: Bufonidae), from western West Virginia		Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington			64	1	102-105	Amphibia, anura, Salienta, Bufonidae, Eastern American toad, Bufo a. americanus, infection, helminth, Cosmocercoides variabilis	Cosmocercoides variabilis was recovered from the small and large intestines of Bufo a. americanus in western West Virginia. Toads were collected from 2 different sites during the April breeding seasons of 1994 and 1995 (Cabell Co.) and 1993 and 1995 (Wayne Co.). Prevalence was 100% in both host sexes from Cabell Co. (25 of 25 females; 48 of 48 males). Prevalences in Wayne Co. toads were 87.5% for females (14 of 16) and 57.1% for males (28 of 49). A total of 3,114 C. variabilis were collected: 2,878 from 73 Cabell Co. hosts and 236 from 42 Wayne Co. hosts. The 3,114 nematodes were distributed as 1,852 females, 1,196 males, and 66 juveniles. Specific mean intensities, and numbers and sex of nematodes collected by host sex and collection site, are reported. JE Joy Marshall Univ Dept Biol Sci Huntington, WV 25755 USA	
Journal Article	Jørgensen, Kurt	1997	To sider af samme sag - om ynglesucces hos grønbroget tudse i Greve og (benløse skrubtudser) i Avedøre		Nordisk Herpetologisk Forening			40	2	68-76		Egen 22, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark	
Journal Article	Juarez, Ricardo;Muccio, Colum	1997	Sea turtle conservation in Guatemala		Marine Turtle Newsletter				77	15-17	Guatemala; Sea turtles; Conservation		
Book Section	Juvik, J.O.;A. R. Kiester, D. Reid, B. Coblentz, J. Hoffman	1997	The conservation biology of the angonoka, Geochelone yniphora, in northwestern Madagascar: progress report	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society?			
Journal Article	Kabisch, Klaus	1997	Zur Verbreitung des Nilkrokodils in Ägypten		TI Magazin				133	64	Crocodylus niloticus; Egypt		
Journal Article	Kabisch, Klaus	1997	Ein ungewöhnlich großer Knochenpanzer von Chelus fimbriatus (Schneider, 1783)		Sauria			19	1	45-46	Chelus fimbriatus; Maximum size		
Journal Article	Kabisch, Klaus	1997	Tortugero		TI Magazin				136	55-59			
Journal Article	Kabisch, Klaus;Grainger, John	1997	Nile Crocodile recovery in Lake Nasser		Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter			16	3	5-6			
Journal Article	Kaiser, Hinrich	1997	Book review: Amphibians and Reptiles of Trinidad and Tobago		Herpetological Natural History			5	1	92-93			
Journal Article	Kaiser, J.	1997	Deformed frogs leap into spotlight at health workshop		Science			278		2051-2052	malformation, amphibians		
Journal Article	Kalaiarasan, V.;Rajarathinam, R.	1997	Food habits of captive snakes		Cobra			29		33-36		Chennai Snake Park, Chennai 600 022, India	
Journal Article	Kalezic, Milos L.;Dzukic, Georg;Mesaros, G.;Crnobrnja-Isailovic, Jelka	1997	The crested newt (Triturus cristatus superspecies) in ex-Yugoslavia: morphological structuring and distribution patterns		University Thought, Nat. Sci.			4	1	39-46		ljkaca@ibiss.bg.ac.yu	
Journal Article	Kamelin, Eugeny R.;Lukin, Yuri A.;Mil'to, Konstantin D.	1997	Hybridization of Vipera schweizeri (Werner, 1935) and Vipera lebetina obtusa, Dvigubsky 1832		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	1	75-78	Vipera schweizeri; Vipera lebetina; Hybridization		
Journal Article	Kamezaki, Naoki;Matsui, Masafumi	1997	Allometry in the loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	421-425	Caretta caretta; Allometry		
Journal Article	Kamezaki, Naoki;Matsui, Masafumi	1997	A review of biological studies on sea turtles in Japan		Japanese Journal of Herpetology			17	1	16-32	Sea turtles; Japan; Natural history; Review		
Journal Article	Kamezaki, N.;Miyawaki, I.;Suganuma, H.;Omuta, K.;Nakajima, Y.;Goto, K.;Sato, K.;Matsuzawa, Y.;Samejima, M.;Ishii, M.;Iwamoto, T.	1997	Post-nesting migration of Japanese loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta		Wildlife Conservation Japan			3	1	29-39	loggerhead; migration		
Journal Article	Kaminsky, Stefan K.	1997	Bufo americanus (American Toad). Reproduction		Herpetological Review			28	2	84			
Journal Article	Kandamby, DharmaSri	1997	Herpetological types reposed in the National Museum Colombo, Sri Lanka		Lyriocephalus			3	1	31-33		Curator in Zoology, National Museum, Colombo, Sri Lanka	
Journal Article	Kannan, P.;Bhupathy, S.	1997	Breeding data of some agamid lizards from the Western Ghats		Hamadryad			22	1	56-57			
Journal Article	Kannan, P.;Bhupathy, S.	1997	Occurrence of the Elliot's Shieldtail snake (Uropeltis ellioti) in Anaikatty Hills, Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve		Cobra			28		34-35		Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology & natural History, Kalampalayam (P.O.) Coimbatore 641010, India	
Journal Article	Kaplan, Robert H.;King, Elizabeth G.	1997	Egg size is a developmentally plastic trait: evidence from long term studies in the frog Bombina orientalis		Herpetologica			53	2	149-165	Developmental plasticity; Maternal effects; Korea; Bombina orientalis; Egg size variation; Life history; Tadpole		
Journal Article	Kaplan, Moises;Ruíz, Pedro M.	1997	Two new species of Hyla from the Andes of Central Colombia and their relationships to other small Andean Hyla		Journal of Herpetology			31	2	230-244	Hyla padreluns n. sp.; New species; Colombia; Hyla virolinensis n. sp.;		
Journal Article	Kaplan, Melissa	1997	Inside the labyrinth: Why numbers of iguana imports do not add up		Iguana Times			6	1	16-18			
Journal Article	Kaplan, Moises	1997	A new species of Colostethus from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia) with comments on Intergeneric relationships within the Dendrobatidae		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	369-375		Colostethus ruthveni sp. nov.; Dendrobatidae	
Journal Article	Kaplan, Moises	1997	On the status of Hyla bogerti Cochran and Goin		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	536-541			
Journal Article	Kaplan, Melissa	1997	Book review: Green Iguana: The Ultimate Owner's Manual		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Jan./Feb.	30-33	Book review		
Journal Article	Kardon, Alan	1997	The tale of the ugly snakeling: The Northern Mexican pine snake		Reptiles			5	1	40-43	Pituophis deppei jani		
Journal Article	Kardong, Kenneth V.;Kiene, Tammy L.;Johnson, E. K.	1997	Proximate factors affecting the predatory behavior of the red spitting cobra, Naja mossambica pallida		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	66-71	Naja mossambica pallida; Predatory behavior		
Journal Article	Kardong, K. V.;Kiene, T. L.;Bels, V.	1997	Evolution of trophic systems in squamates		Netherlands Journal of Zoology			47	4	411-427			
Journal Article	Kark, Salit;Warburg, Ittai;Werner, Yehudah	1997	Polymorphism in the snake Psammophis schokari on both sides of the desert edge in Israel and Sinai		Journal of Arid Environment			37		513-527	coloration, eco-geographic gradient		
Journal Article	Kasahara, Sanae;Haddad, Célio F. B.	1997	Karyotypes of two Brazilian microhylid frogs of the genus Chiasmocleis, including a new case of polyploidy		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	139-142	Karyotype; Polyploidy; Chiasmocleis schubarti; Chiasmocleis leucosticta		
Journal Article	Kasper, Stephen;Kasper, Stephanie N.	1997	Thamnophis elegans vagrans (Wandering Garter Snake). Paralysis		Herpetological Review			28	1	46			
Journal Article	Katsikaros, K.;Shine, R.	1997	Sexual dimorphism in the tusked frog, Adelotus brevis (Anura: Myobatrachidae): the roles of natural and sexual selection		Biological Journal of the Linnean Society			60		39-51	morphology, diet, mating success, reproductive success		
Journal Article	Katz, U.;Gil, Nira	1997	Different temperature relations of two species of toads that coexist at the border of their geographical distributions		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	3	259-268	Bufo viridis; Bufo regularis		
Journal Article	Katz, U.;Hoffman, Joy;Gil, Nira	1997	What is the ecological significance of laboratory temperature selection in anuran Amphibia?		Alytes			15	2	91-81			
Journal Article	Kauffmann, J. L. D.;Brady, L. D.;Jenkins, R. K. B.	1997	Behavioural observations of the chameleon Calumma oshaughnessyi oshaughnessyi in Madagascar		Herpetological Journal			7	2	77-80	Calumma oshaughnessyi		
Journal Article	Kehr, Arturo I.	1997	Stage-frequency and habitat selection of a cohort of Pseudacris ocularis tadpoles (Hylidae: Anura) in a Florida temporary pond		Herpetological Journal			7	3	103-109	Pseudacris ocularis		
Journal Article	Kekäläinen, Eeva	1997	Tarantilat terraariossa		Herpetomania			6	6	22-24			
Journal Article	Keller, Claudia	1997	Discriminat analysis for sex determination in juvenile Mauremys leprosa		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	456-459		Mauremys leprosa	
Book	Kend, Brian A.	1997	Pythons of Australia			Sandy, Utah	Canyonlands Publishing			208			
Journal Article	Kenigfest, N.;Martinez Marcos, A.;Belekhova, M.;Font, C.;Lanuza, E.;Desfilis, E.;Martinez Garcia, F.	1997	A lacertilian dorsal retinorecipient thalamus: a re-investigation in the old-world lizard Podarcis hispanica		Brain Behav Evol			50	6	313-34		The aim of this work is to delineate the retinorecipient cell groups of the dorsal thalamus of lizards and to study some of the differential connections in order to help to understand the evolution of the visual system in tetrapods. Tract-tracing and immunohistochemical techniques were applied to the retinorecipient dorsal thalamus of the lizard Podarcis hispanica. The retina of Podarcis projects to four areas of the dorsal thalamus: nucleus ovalis (Ov), intergeniculate leaflet (IGL), dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (GLD) and dorsolateral anterior nucleus (DLA). Nucleus ovalis shows a clear cell plate/neuropile organization and projects to the ventral thalamus. Thus, it seems to belong to the ventral rather than to the dorsal thalamus. The IGL contains large cells reactive for GABA and/or NPY immunohistochemistry. It is interconnected with the supra/retrochiasmatic hypothalamus and projects to the opposite thalamus and to the ipsilateral tectum. The caudal DLA, which lacks both GABA- and NPY-like immunoreactive cells, is reached by a few thin retinal fibers, although distal dendrites of DLA cells enter the GLD, suggesting an important retinal input. The DLA projects to the medial and dorsal telencephalic cortices. The GLD is the main retinorecipient thalamic structure that projects to the telencephalon. It shows a crude laminar organization in which cell plate neurons project to the ipsilateral pallial thickening, but it does not receive a descending projection from the visual telencephalon and thus differs from the GLD of other amniotic vertebrates. In the context of present knowledge, these results suggest that an IGL homologue is present in all tetrapods studied, whereas Ov seems to be restricted to diapsid vertebrates. Moreover, our data suggest that a unimodal visual projection to the telencephalon (arising from the GLD) first appeared in reptiles by segregation from a limbic (multimodal) thalamo-telencephalic pathway.	
Journal Article	Kern, M.D.;Ferguson, M.W.J.	1997	Gas permeability of American alligator eggs and its anatomical basis		Physiological Zoology			70	5	530-546	Reptilia, sauria, crocodylia, American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, physiology, propagation, egg, incubation	The barrier to gas Bur across the eggs of American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) consists of a calcareous shell and an underlying shell membrane of two layers, a limiting membrane facing the embryo and a fibrous membrane facing the shell. The limiting membrane is penetrated by an immense population (averaging 341,188 cm(-2)) of tiny pores (averaging 0.51 mu m in diameter) and a small population (averaging 190 cm(-2)) of large pores (averaging 34.6 mu m in diameter). An estimated 6% of these pores are open at the onset of incubation, and 22%-24% are open near hatch. The shell membrane is 2.6-10 times less permeable to O-2 than the shell, Its permeability nearly quadruples during incubation, is higher at the equator than elsewhere, increases more rapidly when eggs are incubated at 33 degrees 0C as opposed to 30 degrees C, and appears to depend primarily on its water content. In contrast, the shell's permeability to O-2, as well as its water vapor conductance and the number of open pores in it, does not change significantly during incubation. MD Kern Coll Wooster Dept Biol Wooster, OH 44691 USA	
Journal Article	Kern, M.D.;Ferguson, M.W.J.	1997	Gas-permeability of American alligator eggs and its anatomical basis		Physiol. Zool.			70	5	530-546	AM, egg, reproduction, gas, respiration, metabolism,	The barrier to gas Bur across the eggs of American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) consists of a calcareous shell and an underlying shell membrane of two layers, a limiting membrane facing the embryo and a fibrous membrane facing the shell. The limiting membrane is penetrated by an immense population (averaging 341,188 cm(-2)) of tiny pores (averaging 0.51 mu m in diameter) and a small population (averaging 190 cm(-2)) of large pores (averaging 34.6 mu m in diameter). An estimated 6% of these pores are open at the onset of incubation, and 22%-24% are open near hatch. The shell membrane is 2.6-10 times less permeable to O-2 than the shell, Its permeability nearly quadruples during incubation, is higher at the equator than elsewhere, increases more rapidly when eggs are incubated at 33 degrees C as opposed to 30 degrees C, and appears to depend primarily on its water content. In contrast, the shell's permeability to O-2, as well as its water vapor conductance and the number of open pores in it, does not change significantly during incubation.	
Journal Article	Kessler, Eric M.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Virginia valeriae		Herpetological Review			28	2	99			
Journal Article	Keys, Susann;Hansen, Eric	1997	Turtletown, U.S.A.		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine				May	68-70			
Journal Article	Khan, Muhammad S.	1997	Taxonomic notes on Pakistani snakes of the Coluber karelini-rhodorachis-ventromaculatus species complex: a new approach to the problem		Asiatic Herpetological Research			7		51-60	Taxonomy; Coluber karelini; Coluber rhodorachis; Coluber ventromaculatus; Pakistan; Coluber ravergieri; Key		
Journal Article	Khan, Muhammad S.;Khan, Muhammad R. Z.	1997	A new skink from the Thal Desert of Pakistan		Asiatic Herpetological Research			7		61-67	Eumeces indothalensis sp. nov.; New species; description; Sauria; Scincidae; Pakistan		
Journal Article	Khan, Muhamad Sharif	1997	Validity, generic redesignation, and taxonomy of western rock gecko Gymnodactylus ingoldbyi Procter, 1923		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	2	83-88		Herp Laboratory, 15/16 Darul Saddar North, Rabwah 35460, Pakistan	
Journal Article	Khosatzky, L. I.	1997	Big turtle of the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	2	148-154			
Journal Article	Kiesecker, J. M.;Blaustein, A. R.	1997	Population differences in responses of redlegged frogs (Rana aurora) to itnroduce bullfrogs		Ecology			78	6	1752-1760	antipredator behavior, bullfrogs, chemical cues, endangered species, introduced organisms, population differences, predator avoidance, Rana catesbeiana, red-legged frogs		
Journal Article	Kiesecker, J. M.;Blaustein., A. R.	1997	Population differences in response of red-legged frogs (Rana aurora) to introduced bullfrogs		Ecology			78		1752-1760			
Journal Article	Kiesecker, J. M.;Blaustein., A. R.	1997	Influences of egg laying behavior on pathogenic infection of amphibian eggs		Conservation Biology			11		214-220			
Journal Article	King, Richard B.;Lawson, Robin	1997	Microevolution in island water Snakes		BioScience			47	5	279-286	Nerodia; Population genetics		
Journal Article	King, Elizabeth G.;Kaplan, Robert H.	1997	Estimating ovum size in amphibians: egg size increases differently among species during early development		Journal of Herpetology			31	2	299-302	Egg size		
Journal Article	King, Richard B.;Turmo, James R.	1997	The effects of ecdysis on feeding frequency and behavior of the common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis)		Journal of Herpetology			31	2	310-312	Thamnophis sirtalis		
Journal Article	King, Richard B.	1997	Variation in Brown Snake (Storeria dekayi) morphology and scalation: Sex, family, and microgeographic differences		Journal of Herpetology			31	3	335-346		Storeria dekayi	
Journal Article	King, Richard B.;Lawson, Robin	1997	Microevolution in Island water snakes. What processes influence color pattern differences in lake Erie island and mainland water snakes?		Bioscience			46	5	279-286			
Journal Article	King, R. B.;Lawson, R.	1997	Microevolution in island water snakes		BioScience			47	5	279-286	microevolution, gene flow, Nerodia sipedon, Northern water snake		
Journal Article	Kinkaid, John	1997	Iguanas of the South Pacific		Reptiles			5	8	12-16	Brachylophus		
Journal Article	Kinkaid, John	1997	captive Breeding of the Fijian Banded Iguana at the San Diego Zoo		Vivarium			8	5	26-31	Brachylophus fasciatus		
Journal Article	Kinkead, Richard	1997	Episodic breathing in frogs: converging hypotheses on neural control of respiration in air breathing vertebrates		American Zoologist			37		31-40			
Journal Article	Kinsel, M.J.;Barbiers, R.B.;Manharth, A.;Murnane, R.D.	1997	Small intestinal adeno-like virus in a mountain chameleon (Chameleo montium)		Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine			28	4	498-500	Reptilia, sauria, mountain chameleon, Chameleo montium, adenovirus, intestine	An adult male mountain chameleon (Chameleo montium), one of 92 individuals recently caught in the wild and transported, died after a 28-day history of anorexia. Gross examination revealed marked emaciation and enteric nematodiasis. Histopathologic examination of the small intestine revealed moderate numbers of enterocytes containing 2-15 mu m-diameter round to ellipsoid, basophilic, intranuclear inclusions. Ultrastructurally, the inclusions consisted of crystalline arrays of hexagonal viral particles 67-76 nm in diameter with electron-dense cores. The viral particles were consistent with an adenovirus. No pathologic changes were associated with the adenoviral infection. MJ Kinsel, Univ Illinois, Coll Vet Med, Zool Pathol Program, Suite 400, Bldg 120, Maywood, IL 60153 USA	
Journal Article	Kirchhoff, H.;Mohan, K.;Schmidt, R.;Runge, M.;Brown, D.R.;Brown, M.B.;Foggin, C.M.;Muvavarirwa, P.;Lehmann, H.;Flossdorf, J.	1997	Mycoplasma crocodyli sp nov, a new species from crocodiles		Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol.			47	3	742-746	CNL, disease, Mycoplasma, farm,	Organisms with the typical characteristics of mycoplasmas were isolated from joints and lungs of crocodiles. The results of growth inhibition tests and immunobinding assays showed that the 24 mycoplasma strains isolated were identical and distinct from previously described Mycoplasma, Entomoplasma, Mesoplasma, and Acholeplasma species. These organisms represent a new species, for which the name Mycoplasma crocodyli is proposed. M. crocodyli ferments glucose and maltose, does not produce films and spots, does not hydrolyze arginine, esculin, and urea, reduces tetrazolium chloride, and possesses phosphatase activity. It lyses and adsorbs bovine, ovine, and rabbit erythrocytes. Cholesterol or serum is required for growth. The optimum growth temperature is 37 degrees C. The G + C content of the DNA is 27.6 mol%. This organism causes exudative polyarthritis in crocodiles. The type strain of M. crocodyli is strain MP145 (= ATCC 51981).	
Journal Article	Kirk, William G.	1997	Rhyacotriton kezeri (Columbia Torrent Salamander). Behavior		Herpetological Review			28	1	40			
Journal Article	Kirkpatrick, David T.	1997	Book review: Practical Encyclopedia of Keeping and Breeding Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine				May	32-35	Book review		
Journal Article	Kirkpatrick, David T.	1997	Pancake tortoises (Malacochersus tornieri)		Reptiles			5	2	76-81	Malacochersus tornieri		
Book	Kirsche, Walter	1997	Die Landschildkröten Europas: Biologie, Pflege, Zucht und Schutz			Melle, Germany	Mergus			104			
Journal Article	Kirsche, Walter	1997	Buchbesprechung: Inkubation von Reptilieneiern - Grundlagen, Anleitungen, Erfahrungen		Elaphe			5	3	67-68	Book review		
Journal Article	Kirschner, Andreas	1997	Anmerkungen zu Python curtus curtus		Elaphe			5	2	11-12	Python curtus		
Journal Article	Kiseleva, Elena I.	1997	Aspects of the chemical Ecology and chemosensory guided behavioral reactions in anuran tadpoles		Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union			2		95-101			
Book Section	Kiviat, E.	1997	Blanding's turtle habitat requirements and implications for conservation in Dutchess County, New York	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			377-382			
Journal Article	Kjer, Karl M.	1997	Conserved primary and secondary structural motifs of amphibian 12S rRNZ, Domain III		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	599-604			
Journal Article	Klaas, Peter	1997	Tarantulas		Reptilia (Spain)				10	17-22			
Journal Article	Klaas, Peter	1997	Mantenimiento y cria de tarantulas		Reptilia (Spain)				10	23-25			
Journal Article	Klarsfeld, Jonathan D.	1997	Observations of a wild population of Oceelated Geckos, Sphaerodactylus argus		Vivarium			8	3	32-34	Sphaerodactylus argus		
Journal Article	Klarsfeld, Jonathan D.	1997	How to culture the wax moth (Galleria mellonella)		Reptiles			5	12	76-83			
Journal Article	Klaver, Charles J. J.;Böhme, Wolfgang	1997	Chamaeleonidae		Das Tierreich			112		i-xvi, 1-85 (3)			
Journal Article	Klein, Manfred;Veith, Michael	1997	Metapopulationen - ein sinnvolles Konzept für den Amphibienschutz?		Mertensiella			7		17-28			
Journal Article	Klembara, Jozef	1997	The cranial anatomy of Discosauriscus Kuhn, a seymouriamorph tetrapod from the Lower Permian of the Boskovice Furrow (Czech Republic)		Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B			352		257-302			
Book Section	Klemens, M.W.;B. L. Raphael, W. B. Karesh, P. D. Moehlman, R. T. Mwaya	1997	Baseline health parameters of free-ranging pancake tortoises, Malacochersus tornieri, in Tanzania (summary report)	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			83			
Book Section	Klemens, M.W.	1997	A new paradigm for conservation (foreword)	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			xv-xvii			
Book Section	Klemmens, Michael W.	1997	Conserving Clemmys	Tyning, Thomas F.	Status and Conservation of Turtles of the Northeastern United States: A Symposium	Lanesboro, MN	Serpent's Tale			23-24	Clemmys; Conservation		
Journal Article	Klinenberg, Roger	1997	Pinworms: friend or foe?		Vivarium			8	5	23-24			
Journal Article	Klinge, Gerardo Abadia	1997	Reintroduction of C. acutus		Crocodile Specialist group Newsletter			16	1	17	Crocodylus acutus		
Journal Article	Klingenberg, Roger	1997	in search of It		Vivarium			8	3	56-57			
Journal Article	Klingenberg, Roger	1997	IBD: coming to your collection next?		Vivarium			8	4	38-41			
Journal Article	Klingenberg, Roger	1997	Reptile parenting: Hazards facing free-roaming reptiles		Vivarium			8	6	8-10			
Journal Article	Klingenberg, Roger	1997	Winter cool down - Keeping box turtles safe		Vivarium			9	1	20-22			
Journal Article	Klingenberg, Roger	1997	Winter cool down - Keeping box turtles safe		Vivarium			9	1	20-22			
Journal Article	Klinger, Ruthellen C.;George, Robert H.;Musick, John A.	1997	A bone biopsy technique for determining age and growth in sea turtles		Herpetological Review			28	1	31-32	Bone biopsy; Age determination; Bone rings; Growth determination		
Journal Article	Kloas, Werner;Reinecke, Manfred;Hanke, Wilfried	1997	Stage-dependent changes in adrenal steroids and catecholamines during development in Xenopus laevis		General and Comparative Endocrinology			108		416-426			
Journal Article	Knapp, Rosemary;Moore, Michael C.	1997	A non-invasive method for sustained elevation of steroid hormone levels reptiles		Herpetological Review			28	1	33-36	Steroid hormones; Techniques		
Journal Article	Knight, Mathew	1997	Keeping corn snakes as a beginner		Reptilian			5	1	12-13	Elaphe guttata		
Journal Article	Knight, Clayton	1997	Intestinal diverticulum in a jungle python (Morelia spilota cheynei)		Herpetofauna			27	2	51		Deception Bay Veterinary Clinic, 175-181 Deception Bay Road, Deception bay, QLD 4508, Australia	
Journal Article	Kodjo, A.;Villard, L.;Prave, M.;Ray, S.;Grezel, D.;Lacheretz, A.;Bonneau, M.;Richard, Y.	1997	Isolation and identification of Salmonella species from chelonians using combined selective media, serotyping and ribotyping		Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B - Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health			44	10	625-629	Reptilia, testudines, infection, bacteria, salmonella, identification, serotyping, ribotyping	Thirty-two faecal samples from various pet chelonians were bacteriologically examined using various combinations of selective media for Salmonella detection. Strains identified as Salmonella were clustered by rRNA gene restriction pattern (ribotyping) analysis prior to serological typing. The combination of selenite broth and Rambach or Salmonella-Shigella agars gave the maximum rate of Salmonella recovery. Of the 32 samples examined, 13 (40%), were positive for Salmonella. Five serovars were identified, Muenchen, Rubislaw, Newport, Ferruch and a non-motile O:4,5,12, with Salmonella Muenchen the most common. This result indicates that biochemical characterization combined with ribotyping prior to serotyping can contribute to Salmonella detection on a large scale. A Kodjo, Ecole Natl Vet Lyon, Dept Sante Publ Vet, 1 AV Bourgelat, F-69280 Marcy Letoile, France	
Journal Article	Koevoets, Ruud	1997	Winterslaapactie Culture-facts		Het Terrarium			15	5	15-18			
Journal Article	Kogo, Naoki;Perry, Steven F.;Remmers, John E.	1997	Laryngeal motor control in frogs: Role of vagal and laryngeal feedback		J. Neurobiol.			33		213-222			
Book Section	Kogoj, Eva	1997	Populationsdynamik von Amphibien an einem Sekundärgeswässer der Wiener Donauinsel (Österreich): Ein vergleich von zwölf taxa und neun Untersuchungsjahren (1986-1987, 1989-1995)	Hödl, Walter;Jehle, R. and Gollmann, G.	Populationsbiologie von Amphibien: Eine Langzeitstudie auf der Wiener Donauinsel	Stapfiz 51	Land Öberösterreich OÖ Landesmuseum			183-214			
Book Section	Kogoj, Eva	1997	Die Amphibien der Wiener Donauinsel	Hödl, Walter;Jehle, R. and Gollmann, G.	Populationsbiologie von Amphibien: Eine Langzeitstudie auf der Wiener Donauinsel	Stapfiz 51	Land Öberösterreich OÖ Landesmuseum			45-65			
Edited Book	Kohl, Michael F.;McIntosh, John S.	1997	Discovering Dinosaurs in the Old West: the Field Journals of Arthur Lakes			Washington, DC	Smithsonian Institution Press			xviii, 198 p.			
Journal Article	Kohmoto, T.;Argenziano, M.;Yamamoto, N.;Vliet, K.A.;Gu, A.;DeRosa, C.;Fisher, P.E.;Spotnitz, H.M.;Burkhoff, D.;Smith, C.R.	1997	Assessment of transmyocardial perfusion in Alligator hearts.		Circulation			95	6	1585-1591	Reptilia, sauria, crocodylia, anatomy, physiology, heart		
Journal Article	Kohmoto, T;Argenziano, M.;Yamamoto, N.;Vliet, K.A.;Gu, A.G.;DeRosa, C.;Fisher, P.E.;Spotnitz, H.M.;Burkhoff, D.;Smith, C.R.	1997	Assessment of transmyocardial perfusion in alligator hearts		Circulation			95	6	1585-1591	AM, heart, anatomy, circulation,	Background Techniques for achieving myocardial perfusion directly from the left ventricular chamber are currently under investigation. Although originally based on the anatomy of reptilian hearts, which are rich in transmural channels and reported to have a poorly developed coronary vasculature, the blood Bow capacity of a transmyocardial blood supply has not been studied in these hearts. With the ultimate goal of providing insight into the potential for achieving transmyocardial perfusion in human hearts, we studied the relative contribution of transmyocardial and coronary perfusion in alligator hearts. Methods and Results After explantation from six American alligators, the left ventricle was instrumented, and coronary arteries were perfused with oxygenated physiological solution. Using microspheres to estimate regional myocardial perfusion in the beating hearts, we show that although the epicardium was well perfused by the coronary arteries (0.20 +/- 0.08 versus 0.07 +/- 0.01 mL . min(-1). g(-1) owing to flow from the ventricular chamber), a significant proportion of endocardial perfusion was from the ventricular chamber (0.21 +/- 0.07 mL . min(-1). g(-1) from the left ventricle versus 0.13 +/- 0.04 mL . min(-1). g(-1) from coronary arteries). Conclusions A significant amount of direct transmyocardial perfusion is present in alligator hearts. The conditions that apparently permit this situation in reptilian hearts are reviewed, and their implications for aiding in the optimization of techniques for achieving transmyocardial flow in humans are discussed.	
Journal Article	Kohmoto, T;Argenziano, M.;Vliet, K.A.;Gu, A.G.;DeRosa, C.;Fisher, P.E.;Spotnitz, H.M.;Smith, C.R.	1997	Assessment of transmyocardial perfusion in alligator hearts (Abstract only)		Circulation			94	Suppl. 8	1717	AM, heart, anatomy, circulation,		
Journal Article	Koivu, Tuomas	1997	Koti sarvisammakolle		Herpetomania			6	1	14-16	Ceratophrys		
Journal Article	Koivu, Tuomas	1997	Book review: Field Guide and Key to the Frogs & Toads of the Free State		Herpetomania			6	1	35-36	Book review		
Journal Article	Koivu, Tuomas	1997	Book review: Newts and salamanders of Europe		Herpetomania			6	1	37-38	Book review		
Journal Article	Koivu, Tuomas	1997	Turun herpetokohtaaminen II		Herpetomania			6	2	53			
Journal Article	Koivu, Tuomas	1997	Elämäni herpetokevät		Herpetomania			6	4	3			
Journal Article	Koivu, Tuomas	1997	Turkkilaisen torin kilpikonnat		Herpetomania			6	4	25-29			
Journal Article	Koivu, Tuomas	1997	Hoitopäiväkirja - Terraarioharrastajan välttämätön apuväline: Terraarioharrastuksen perusteita, osa I		Herpetomania			6	4	35-36			
Journal Article	Koivu, Tuomas	1997	Matelijat ja sammakkoeläimet medioissa 1997		Herpetomania			6	6	38-39			
Journal Article	Komdeur, J.;Daan, S.;Tinbergen, J.;Mateman, C.	1997	Extreme adaptive modification in sex ratio of the Seychelles warbler's eggs		Nature			385		522-525	sex ratio		
Book Section	Konrad, Jim	1997	Commercial use of Minnesota's reptiles and amphibians	Moriarty, John J. and Jones, Delvin	Minnesota's Amphibians and Reptiles, Their Conservation and Status: Proceedings of a Symposium	Lanesboro	Serpent's tale			4-5			
Journal Article	Kopetsch, Jochen	1997	Salamandra salamandra bernadezi - Lebensraum in Oviedo, Spamiem		Elaphe			5	3	78-80	Salamandra salamandra		
Journal Article	Kornacker, Paul M.	1997	Notes on the biology, keeping and breeding of Elaphe helena helena (Daudin, 1802)		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				59	19-29	Elaphe helena		
Journal Article	Kornacker, Paul M.;Dederichs, Ursula	1997	Herpetologische Eindrücke einer Venezuelareise		Elaphe			5	3	87-96			
Journal Article	Kostka, V.M.;Hoffmann, L.;Balks, E.;Eskens, U.;Wimmershof, N.	1997	Review of the literature and investigations on the prevalence and consequences of yeasts in reptiles		Veterinary Record			140	11	282-287	Reptilia, sauria, serpentes, testudines, infecton, fungus, yeast	Ninety-one reptiles were examined for the presence of yeasts by standard protocols and pathohistological methods, Yeasts were isolated from 42 of the animals. Representatives of herbivorous families (Testudinidae and Iguanidae) carried yeasts more often than animals belonging to carnivorous taxa (Boidae and Emydidae), Yeasts were most often isolated from the gastrointestinal tract, and in 24.6 per cent of cases they could be cultured from the oral cavity and, or cloaca of living animals. Postmortem examination revealed that the intestines of 80.6 per cent of the animals carried yeasts. In all, 56 isolates, belonging to the genera Candida (32), Trichosporon (11), Torulopsis (9) and Rhodotorula (3), and one perfect yeast were obtained, The species included taxa potentially pathogenic to man. However, no sufficiently reliable criteria could be established to prove that positive culture results were associated with disease. In the reptiles examined postmortem, three cases of dermatomycosis were detected histologically. No case of organ mycosis was identified. VM Kostka, Univ Giessen, Inst Geflugelkrankheiten, Frankfurter Str 87, D-35392 Giessen, Germany	
Journal Article	Kotova, Elena L.	1997	Reproduction and morphometrics of anurans in the southwestern part of the Russian Far East		Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union			2		147-155			
Journal Article	Kovacs, T.;Torok, J.	1997	Determination of minimum sample to estimate diet diversity in anuran species		Herpetological Journal			7		43-47	Hungary, Bombina, niche overlap		
Journal Article	Kovács, T.;Török, J.	1997	Determination of minimum sample size to estimate diet diversity in anuran species		Herpetological Journal			7	2	43-47	Diet diversity		
Journal Article	Kowalski, Miriam	1997	Varanus (Varanus) varius (Shaw)		Sauria			19	3	2			
Journal Article	Köhler, Gunther	1997	Triprion petastus (Cope)		Sauria			19	1	2	Triprion petastus		
Journal Article	Köhler, Jörn;Ziegler, Thomas	1997	Amphibien und Reptilien aus Costa Rica		DATZ			50	4	239-243	Costa Rica		
Book	Köhler, Gunther	1997	Inkubation von Reptilieneiern: Grundlagen, Anleitungen, Erafrungen			Offenbach, Germany	Herpeton			205			
Journal Article	Köhler, Gunther	1997	Schutz- und Forschungsprojekt Utila-Schwarzleguan		Elaphe			5	2	73-76	Ctenosaura bakeri		
Journal Article	Köhler, Gunther	1997	Eine neue Unterart des Wickelschwanzskinkes Corucia zebrata von Bougainville, Papua-Neuguinea [A new subspecies of the prehensile-tailed skink Corucia zebrata from Bougainville, Papua New Guinea]		Salamandra			33	1	61-68	Corucia zebrata alfredschmidt ssp. nov.		
Journal Article	Köhler, Jörn	1997	Geographic Distribution. Chacophrys pierotti		Herpetological Review			28	3	155-156			
Journal Article	Köhler, Jörn	1997	Geographic Distribution. Lapidobatrachus laevis		Herpetological Review			28	3	156			
Journal Article	Köhler, Gunther	1997	Buchbesprechung: Anolis		Reptilia (German)				6	77	Book review		
Journal Article	Köhler, Gunther	1997	Fünf jahre Alfred-A.-Schmidt-Preis für herausragende Nachzuchterfolge		Elaphe			5	3	29			
Journal Article	Köhler, Gunther	1997	Conservation and research project: Utila iguana		Iguana Times			6	1	10-13			
Journal Article	Köhler, Gunther	1997	Geographic Distribution. Ungaliophis continentalis		Herpetological Review			28	4	211			
Journal Article	Köhler, Jörn;Glaw, Frank;Vences, Miguel	1997	Notes on the reproduction of Rhombophryne  (Anura: Microhylidae) at Nosy Be, northern Madagascar		Revue fr. Aquariol			24	1-2	53-54			
Journal Article	Köhler, Jörn;Glaw, Frank;Vences, Miguel	1997	First record of Mabuya comorensis (Reptilia: Scincidae) for the Madagascan fauna, with notes on the reptile fauna of the offshore island Nosy Tanikely		Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali - Torino			15	1	75-82			
Journal Article	Köpke, Hans J.	1997	Aquaristische Erinnerungen		DATZ			50	8	530-532			
Journal Article	Krackow, S.	1997	Further evaluation of the developmental asynchrony hypothesis of sex ratio variation		Applied Animal Behaviour Science			51		243-250	tsd; sex ratio		
Journal Article	Kranich, Douglas	1997	Mail-order memories		Reptiles			5	6	82-85			
Journal Article	Krause, Peter	1997	Der Ornament-Taggecko: Schmuckstücke im terrarium - Phelsuma ornata		TI Magazin				133	38-41	Phelsuma ornata		
Journal Article	Krause, W. J.;Freeman, R. H.;Eber, S. L.;Hamra, F. K.;Currie, M. G.;Forte, L. R.	1997	Guanylyl cyclase receptors and guanylin-like peptides in reptilian intestine		Gen Comp Endocrinol			107	2	229-39	Amino Acid Sequence; Animal; Bacterial Toxins/metabolism; Cyclic GMP/metabolism; Enterotoxins/metabolism; Guanylate Cyclase/*analysis; Intestinal Mucosa/chemistry; Intestines/*chemistry; Iodine Radioisotopes; Molecular Sequence Data; Peptides/*analysis; Receptors, Peptide/*analysis; *Reptiles; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.; Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.	Receptors for guanylin and uroguanylin were identified on the mucosal surface of enterocytes lining the intestine of the bobtail skink (Tiliqua rugosa), king's skink (Egernia kingii), and knight anole (Anolis equestris) by receptor autoradiography using 125I-ST (Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin) as the radioligand. Specific, high-affinity binding of 125I-ST to receptors was found on the microvillus border of enterocytes and little or no specific binding of 125I-ST was observed in other strata comprising the gut wall. The American alligator (Alligator mississippensis) also exhibited receptor binding, but unlike the other three species had relatively high levels of apparent nonspecific binding. A comparison of intestinal cGMP accumulation responses between the American alligator and the knight anole demonstrated a greater magnitude of cGMP responses to ST and guanylin in vitro in the knight anole relative to the tissue cGMP accumulation responses of alligators. Treatment with ST resulted in markedly greater tissue cGMP accumulation responses in both species compared to treatment with guanylin. To complete a paracrine signaling pathway in reptilian intestine, guanylin-like peptides that stimulated cGMP accumulation in human T84 intestinal cells were isolated from the intestinal mucosa of alligators. We conclude that functional receptor- guanylyl cyclases and one or more endogenous guanylin/uroguanylin-like peptides occur in the intestinal tract of reptiles as well as in the intestines of mammals and birds. Thus, higher vertebrates have a conserved signaling pathway that regulates intestinal function through the first-messenger peptides, guanylin and/or uroguanylin, and the intracellular second messenger, cGMP.	
Journal Article	Krintler, Karsten	1997	Die Pfeilgiftfrösche der Familie Dendrobatidae im Terrarium Teil II: Bemerkungen zur Haltung und Zucht von Phyllobates vittatus Cope, 1893 (Amphibia: Anura: Dendrobatidae)		Jahrbuch für den Terarianer			4		5-9	Phyllobates vittatus; Distribution; Feeding; Captive breeding; Larval development		
Journal Article	Krishnamurthy, S. V.	1997	Nyctibatrachus major in Malnad, India		Froglog				20	2	Nyctibatrachus major; India		
Journal Article	Krishnamurthy, S. V.;Shakuntala, Katre	1997	Rana curtipes (Bicolored Frog). Reproduction		Herpetological Review			28	4	200-201			
Journal Article	Krizmanic, I.;Mesaros, G.;Dzukic, Georg;Kalezic, Milos L.	1997	Morphology of the smooth newt (Triturus vulgaris) in former Yugoslavia: Taxonomical implications and distribution patterns		Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae			43	4	345-357		GD: georg@ibiss.bg.ac.yu	
Journal Article	Krone, Andreas;Kühnel, Klaus Detlef	1997	Erfahrungen mit dem Einsatz von Lichtfallen beim Nachweis von Molchen und Amphibienlarven		Mertensiella			7		29-33			
Journal Article	Krüger, Jens	1997	Die madagassischen Geckoniden Teil I: Die Geckos der Gattung Homopholis Boulenger, 1885 (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae)		Jahrbuch für den Terarianer			4		39-44	Madagascar: Homopholis; Taxonomy; Distribution; Captive care; Captive breeding		
Book Section	Krzysik, A.J.	1997	Desert tortoise populations in the Mojave Desert and a half-century of military training activities	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			61-73			
Journal Article	Kuch, Ulrich	1997	Mimikry bei Schlangen		Reptilia (German)				6	25-32			
Journal Article	Kuchling, Gerald	1997	Restoration of Epidermal scute patterns during regeneration of the chelonian carapace		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	500-506			
Book Section	Kuchling, G.	1997	Managing the last survivors: integration of in situ and ex situ conservation of Pseudemydura umbrina	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			339-344			
Book Section	Kuchling, G.	1997	Patterns of exploitation, decline, and extinction of Erymnochelys madagascariensis: implications for conservation	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			113-117			
Journal Article	Kuhn, Joachim;Igelmann, Ewald	1997	Knie-Ringetiketten - eine Methode der Anurenmarkierung für Verhaltensstudien		Mertensiella			7		111-119			
Journal Article	Kuhn, Joachim	1997	Standardisierte Messung der Kopf-Rumpf-Länge von Anuren		Mertensiella			7		307-314			
Journal Article	Kula, Veari	1997	Crocodile program overcomes setbacks		Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter			16	2	13-15			
Journal Article	Kularatne, S. A. M.	1997	Bungarus caeruleus envenoming: some postmortem findings		Lyriocephalus			3	2	30		General Hospital Aburadhapura, Sri Lanka	
Journal Article	Kumar, Ajit	1997	Conservation Assessment and Management Plan (CAMP) Workshop on Indian Amphibians, Bhubaneswar, 22-26 April, 1997		Cobra			29		37-40		Endangered Species Prioritisation Project, Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology & Natural History, Coimbatore 641 010, India	
Journal Article	Kupfer, Alexander	1997	Phänologie und Metamorphosegrößen juveniler Kammolche, Triturus cristatus: ein Verleich von zwei benachbarten Populationen [Phenology and sizes at metamorphosis of juvenile great crested newts, Triturus cristatus: a comparison between two neighbouring populations]		Zeitschrift für Feldherpetologie			4		141-155		Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Sektion Herpetologie, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113 Bonn, Germany	
Journal Article	Kupferberg, Sarah J.	1997	The role of larval diet in anuran metamorphisis		Amer. Zool.			37		146-159	R. Catesbeiana, Hyla Regilla, Rana boylii		
Journal Article	Kupferberg, Sarah	1997	Facilitation of periphyton production by tadpole grazing: Functional differences between species		Freshwater Biology			37		427-439	Cladophora glomerata, Rana boylii, Hyla regilla, Centroptilum, Chironomidae		
Journal Article	Kupferberg, Sarah	1997	Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) invasion of a California river: The role of larval competition		Ecology			78	6	1736-1751	Algae, biological invasions, California, grazing, Hyla regilla, Rana boylii, Rana catesbeiana, rivers, size-structured competition		
Journal Article	Kupferberg, S. J.	1997	Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) invasion of a California river: the role of larval competition		Ecology			78	6	1736-1751	algae, biological invasions, California, Hyla regilla, Rana boylii, Rana catesbeiana, rivers, size-structured competition		
Journal Article	Kupferberg, S. J.	1997	Facilitation of periphyton production by tadpole grazing: functional differences between species		Freshw. Biol.			37		427-439			
Journal Article	Kupferberg, S. J.	1997	The role of larval diet in anuran metamorphosis		American Zoologist			37		146-159			
Journal Article	Kupperberg, Sarah J.	1997	Bullfrog (Rana catesbieana) invasion of a California river: the role of larval competition		Ecology			78	6	1736-1751			
Journal Article	Kuramoto, Mitsuru	1997	Relationships of the Palau frog Platymantis pelewensis (Anura: Ranidae): Morphological, karyological, and acoustic evidence		Copeia			1997	1	183-187	Platymantis pelewensis; Morphology; Karyotype; Call characteristics; Palau		
Journal Article	Kuramoto, Mitsuru	1997	Further studies on sperm morphology of Japanese salamanders, with special reference to geographic and individual variation in sperm size		Japanese Journal of Herpetology			17	1	1-10	Spermatozoa; Sperm size; Salamander; Geographic variation		
Journal Article	Kuramoto, Mitsuru;Tanaka, Satoshi	1997	Sperm morphology of Echinotriton andersoni (Caudata: Salamandridae)		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	3	308-313	Echinotriton andersoni		
Journal Article	Kuranova, Valentina N.;Saveliev, Sergei V.	1997	The effect of radiation and chemicals on amphibian ontogeny		Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union			2		167-168			
Journal Article	Kutenkov, Anatoly P.	1997	Distribution of anuran amphibians in the Karelia-Kola Region		Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union			2		133-136			
Journal Article	Kuzmin, Sergej L.;Thiesmeier, Burkhard	1997	Salamander in Sibirien: Winkelzahnmolche auf Dauerfrostboden		TI Magazin				133	57-63	Salamandrella keyserlingii; Siberia		
Journal Article	Kuzmin, Sergius L.	1997	Feeding of amphibians during metamorphosis		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	2	121-131	Tadpoles		
Journal Article	Kuzmin, Sergius L.	1997	Skeletochronology of Bufo raddei from the Gobi Desert		Journal of Herpetology			31	2	306-309	Bufo raddei; Skeletochronology		
Journal Article	Kuzmin, Sergius L.;Tarkhnishvili, David N.	1997	Feeding in some anuran species from Vietnam		Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union			2		103-109			
Journal Article	Kühnel, Klaus-Detlef	1997	Buchbesprechung: Die Gelbbauchunke (Bombina v. variegata), Biologie, Gefährdung, Schultz		Sauria			19	3	8		Book review	
Journal Article	Kühnel, Klaus-Detlef;Herrmann, Hans-Joachim;Kabisch, Klaus	1997	Bombina (Grobina) maxima (Boulenger)		Sauria, Suplement			19	3	409-412			
Journal Article	Kühnel, Klaus Detlef	1997	Im Gareten Italiens: Amphibien- und Reptilienbeobachtungen in der Toskana		TI Magazin				138	54-58			
Journal Article	Kyek, Martin;Winding, Norbert;Palzenberger, Margit	1997	Habitatpräferenzen der Erdkröte (Bufo bufo) - eine telemetrische Untersuchung		Mertensiella			7		185-202			
Journal Article	Kyriakopoulou-Sklavounou, Pasqualina;Karakousis, Yiannis;Vasara, Eleni	1997	Genetic variation in Greek populations of the alpine newt Triturus alpestris		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	3	303-307	Triturus alpestris		
Journal Article	La Marca, Enrique;Puppo, Jesús Manzanilla	1997	Geographic Distribution. Bufo sternosignatus		Herpetological Review			28	4	207			
Journal Article	La Marca, Enrique ;Lotters, Stefan	1997	Monitoring of declines in Venezuelan Atelopus (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae)		Herpetologia Bonnensis					207-213	harlequin frogs, biodiverstiy crisis		
Journal Article	Lacy, Gregory B.	1997	New county records fo amphibans and reptiles from Georgia		Herpetological Review			28	3	163-164			
Journal Article	Lada, Georgy A.;Nedosekin, V. Y.	1997	The first record of Tesselated Snake, Natrix tesselata  Laurenti, 1768 in the Central Chernozem Territory of Russia and some other results of the Herpetological research in the Upper Don		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	2	192-194		Tambov State University, Tambov, Russia	
Journal Article	Lading, Engkamat;Stuebing, Rob	1997	Nest of a False Gharial from Sarawak		Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter			16	2	12-13			
Journal Article	Lading, E.	1997	Nest of a false gharial from Sarawak		Croc. Spec. Group Newslet.			16	2	12-13	TS, nest, egg, reproduction,		
Journal Article	LaDuc, Travis J.;Harrison, Christopher R.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Coluber constrictor flaviventris		Herpetological Review			28	3	159			
Journal Article	LaDuc, Travis J.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Diadophis punctatus regalis		Herpetological Review			28	3	159			
Journal Article	Laerm, Joshua;Maidens, Denise A.;Lewis, Lyn	1997	Geographic Distribution. Hemidactylium scutatum		Herpetological Review			28	3	155			
Journal Article	Laerm, Joshua;Hopkins, Arthur S., Jr	1997	Status of possible disjunct populations of the Southern Toad, Bufo terrestris, in the Piedmont and Blue Ridge of Georgia		Herpetological Review			28	3	162-163			
Journal Article	Lafferty, Kevin D.;Page, Carl J.	1997	Predation on the endangered tidewater goby, Eucyclogobius newberryi, by the introduced African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis, with notes on the frog's parasites		Copeia			1997	3	589-592	Xenopus laevis; diet		
Journal Article	Lamar, William W.	1997	CITES: Boon or Boondoggle?		Herpetological Review			28	1	10	CITES		
Journal Article	Lamar, William W.	1997	Rustlers! A excerpt from the filed journals of William W. Lamar		Fauna			1	1	34-39			
Journal Article	Lamar, William W.	1997	Response to Orenstein		Herpetological Review			28	2	66-67	CITES		
Journal Article	Lamar, William W.	1997	Book review: A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World		Herpetological Review			28	2	102-103	Book review		
Journal Article	Lamar, William W.	1997	Duck Soup: An excerpt from the field journals of William W. lamar		Fauna			1	2	34-41			
Journal Article	Lamar, William W.	1997	Checklist and common names of the reptiles of the Peruvian Lower Amazon		Herpetological Natural History			5	1	73-76			
Book	Lamar, William W.	1997	The World's Most Spectacular Reptiles & Amphibians			Tampa, FL	World Publications			208			
Journal Article	Lamb, Trip;Osentoski, Matthew F.	1997	On the paraphyly of Malaclemys: A molecular genetic assessment		Journal of Herpetology			31	2	258-265	Malaclemmys; Evolution; Paraphyly; Phylogeny		
Journal Article	Lambert, M. R. K.	1997	Book review: Amphibians and Reptiles of North Africa		Herpetological Journal			7	3	125-126	Book review		
Journal Article	Lambert, Michael R. K.	1997	The British Herpetological Society: The first 50 years, 1947-1997		Herpetological Journal			7	4	129-141			
Journal Article	Lambrechts, Wim	1997	Ziekten bij kikkers [Diseases of frogs]		Terra			33	2	53-56			
Journal Article	Lance, V.A.	1997	Sex determination in reptiles: an update		American Zoologist			37		504-513	sex ratio; tsd		
Journal Article	Laney, E.L.;Shabanowitz, J.;King, G.;Hunt, D.F.;Nelson, D.J.	1997	The isolation of parvalbumin isoforms from the tail muscle of the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)		J. Inorg. Biochem.			66	1	67-76	AM, biochemistry, reproduction,	Multiple parvalbumin isoforms have been detected in the tail (skeletal) muscle of the American alligator (Alligator mississipiensis). One of these isoforms (APV-1) has been highly purified and partially characterized. Protein purification involved mainly gelfiltration and anion exchange chromatography, and characterization included gel electrophoresis, amino acid composition analysis, metal ion analysis, MALDI-TOF and ESI mass spectrometry, ultraviolet and fluorescence spectroscopy, and one- and two-dimensional 500 MHz proton NMR spectroscopy. The alligator isoforms are rich in phenylalanine and deficient in the other aromatic residues as is typical for parvalbumins. In fact, the one highly purified isoform that forms the basis of this study has only phenyl-alanine as an aromatic residue. ion exchange chromatography further indicates that this isoform has a relatively high isoelectric point (pl similar to 5.0), indicating that it is an alpha-lineage parvalbumin. This alligator parvalbumin isoform is unusual in that it has an atypically high Ca2+ content (almost 3.0 mole of Ca2+ per mole of protein) following purification, a fact supported by terbium fluorescence titration experiments. Preliminary comparative analysis of the highly purified alligator parvalbumin isoform (in the Ca-2-loaded state) by two-dimensional H-1-NMR (2D H-1 TOCSY and 2D H-1 NOESY) indicates that there is considerable similarity in structure between the alligator protein and a homologous protein obtained from the silver hake (a saltwater fish species).	
Journal Article	Langerwerf, Bert;Paris, Mark	1997	Outdoor vivaria		Vivarium			8	4	57-60			
Journal Article	Langerwerf, Bert	1997	Het houden en kweken van de Argentijnse zwart-witte teju, Tupinambis teguixin [Keeping and breeding the Argentine black and white tegu, Tupinambis teguixin]		Terra			33	2	46-52	Tupinambis teguixin		
Journal Article	Langlois, Cherie	1997	Joshua Tree National Park: Land of the lizards		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Nov./Dec.	64-69			
Journal Article	Lannoo, Michael J.	1997	USA National Coordinator's report		Froglog				20	3-4			
Journal Article	Lannoo, Michael J.	1997	Book review: Geographic Distributions of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Wisconsin		Copeia			1997	1	240-241	Book review		
Book Section	Lannoo, Michael J.	1997	A fish fry: the role of exotic species and aquacultural practices in producing amphibian declines in the upper Midwest	Moriarty, John J. and Jones, Delvin	Minnesota's Amphibians and Reptiles, Their Conservation and Status: Proceedings of a Symposium	Lanesboro	Serpent's tale			27-29			
Journal Article	Lanuza, E.;Halpern, M.	1997	Afferent and efferent connections of the nucleus sphericus in the snake Thamnophis sirtalis: convergence of olfactory and vomeronasal information in the lateral cortex and the amygdala		J Comp Neurol			385	4	627-40	Afferent Pathways/physiology; Amygdaloid Body/*physiology; Animal; Brain Mapping; Efferent Pathways/physiology; Female; Male; Olfactory Pathways/*physiology; Snakes/*physiology; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.; Vomeronasal Organ/*innervation	This paper is an account of the afferent and efferent projections of the nucleus sphericus (NS), which is the major secondary vomeronasal structure in the brain of the snake Thamnophis sirtalis. There are four major efferent pathways from the NS: 1) a bilateral projection that courses, surrounding the accessory olfactory tract, and innervates several amygdaloid nuclei (nucleus of the accessory olfactory tract, dorsolateral amygdala, external amygdala, and ventral anterior amygdala), the rostral parts of the dorsal and lateral cortices, and the accessory olfactory bulb; 2) a bilateral projection that courses through the medial forebrain bundle and innervates the olfactostriatum (rostral and ventral striatum); 3) a commissural projection that courses through the anterior commissure and innervates mainly the contralateral NS; and 4) a meager bilateral projection to the lateral hypothalamus. On the other hand, important afferent projections to the NS arise solely in the accessory olfactory bulb, the nucleus of the accessory olfactory tract, and the contralateral NS. This pattern of connections has three important implications: first, the lateral cortex probably integrates olfactory and vomeronasal information. Second, because the NS projection to the hypothalamus is meager and does not reach the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus, vomeronasal information from the NS is not relayed directly to that nucleus, as previously reported. Finally, a structure located in the rostral and ventral telencephalon, the olfactostriatum, stands as the major tertiary vomeronasal center in the snake brain. These three conclusions change to an important extent our previous picture of how vomeronasal information is processed in the brain of reptiles.	
Journal Article	Lara, O. F.;Rosales, L.;Chavez, B.;Catañeda, F.	1997	A new recorded locality and information on Morelet's crocodile		Crocodile Specialist group Newsletter			16	1	19-20	Crocodylus moreletii		
Journal Article	Larsen, E.;Monks, S.;Stone, J.R.;Marques, F.;Godfrey, M.H.;Pearson, R.;Brooks, D.R.	1997	Shared domains of interest for developmental biologists and phylogeneticists		Journal of Comparative Biology			2	2	137-141	hox; hoax		
Journal Article	Lathrop, Amy	1997	Taxonomic review of the Megophryid frogs (Anura: Pelobatoidea)		Asiatic Herpetological Research			7		68-79	Amphibia; Anura; Pelobatoidea; Megophryidae; Taxonomy; Megophrys; Leptobrachium		
Journal Article	Lathrop, Amy	1997	Taxonomic review of the megophryid frogs (Anura: Pelobatidae)		Asiatic Herpetological Research			7		68-79			
Journal Article	Lau, Michael W.;Ota, Hidetoshi;Bogadek, Anthony	1997	Chromosome polymorphism and karyotype of Gekko chinensis (Gekkonidae: Reptilia) from Hong Kong		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	137-139	Gekko chinensis; Chromosome polymorphism; Karyotype		
Journal Article	Laube, Andreas	1997	Diplodactylus tessellatus (Günther)		Sauria, Suplement			19	3	413-416			
Journal Article	Laube, Andreas	1997	Bemerkungen zur erstmaligen Nachzucht und zum Abwehrverhalten des Juwelengeckos Diplodactylus (Strophurus) elderi Stirling & Zietz, 1893		Sauria			19	4	41-44			
Journal Article	Laufer, Hubert	1997	Methodik bei Untersuchungen von Amphibien wanderungen zum Laichgewässer im Rahmen von Straßenausbaverfahren - am Beispiel der Erdkröte (Bufo bufo L.)		Mertensiella			7		35-60			
Journal Article	Laurent, Luc;Bradai, Mohamed N.;Hadoud, Dau A.;El Gomati, Hisham M.	1997	Assessment of sea turtle nesting activity in Libya		Marine Turtle Newsletter				76	2-6	Nesting activity; Libya; Sea turtles; Caretta caretta; Chelonia mydas		
Journal Article	Laurila, A.;Aho., T.	1997	Do female common frogs choose their breeding habitat to avoid predation on tadpoles?		Oikos			78		585-591			
Journal Article	Laurila, A.;Kujasalo, J.;Ranta., E.	1997	Different antipredator behavior in two anuran tadpoles: effects of predator diet		Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology			40		329-336			
Journal Article	Lavilla, E. O.;de Sá, Rafael O.;De la Riva, Ignacio	1997	Description of the tadpole of Atelopus tricolor		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	121-124	Atelopus tricolor; Tadpole description		
Journal Article	Lavilla, E. O.;Vaira, Marcos	1997	La larva de Melanophryniscus rubiventris rubiventris (Vellard, 1947) (Anura, Bufonidae)		Alytes			15	1	19-25	Melanophryniscus rubiventris		
Journal Article	Lawler, K. L.;Hero., J. M.	1997	Palatability of Bufo marinus tadpoles to a predatory fish decreases with development		Wildlife Research			24		327-334			
Journal Article	Lawler, K. L.;Hero., J.-M.	1997	Palatability of Bufo marinus tadpoles to a predatory fish decreases with development		Wildlife Research			24		327-334			
Journal Article	Layne, Jack R., Jr;Kefauver, Joseph	1997	Freeze tolerance and postfreeze recovery in the frog Pseudacris crucifer		Copeia			1997	2	260-264	Freeze tolerance; Pseudacris crucifer		
Book Section	Lazell, James	1997	Turtle taxonomy: how can such a small, simple group enable such chaos?	Tyning, Thomas F.	Status and Conservation of Turtles of the Northeastern United States: A Symposium	Lanesboro, MN	Serpent's Tale			47-50	Taxonomy; Evolution		
Journal Article	Lazell, James;Lau, Michael;Lu, Wenhua	1997	A brief herpetological excursion to Wai Ling Ding, Wanshan Islands, South China Sea		Asiatic Herpetological Research			7		80-84	Biogeography; Wanshan; Hong Kong; Anura; Kaloula; Rhacophorus; Polypedates; Squamata; Hemidactylus; Eumeces; Scincella modesta		
Journal Article	Lazell, James;Perry, Gad	1997	Anolis cristatellus wileyae (Virgin Islands cresten Anole). Frugivory		Herpetological Review			28	3	150			
Journal Article	Leal, Manuel;Rodríguez-Robles, Javier A.	1997	Signalling displays during predator-prey interactions in a Puerto Rican anole, Anolis cristatellus		Anim. Behav.			54		1147-1154			
Journal Article	Leal, Manuel;Rodríguez-Robles, Javier A.	1997	Antipredator responses of the Puerto Rican giant anole, Anolis cuvieri (Squamata: Polychrotidae)		Biotropica			29	3	372-375			
Journal Article	Leasure, Michelle	1997	The snake lady		Reptiles			5	9	100			
Book Section	Leclair, Raymond, Jr;Caetano, Maria Helena	1997	Population characteristics of the Red-Spotted Newt, Notophthalmus viridescens, at the Mastigouche Reserve, Québec	Green, David M.	Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem	ST. Louis, MO	SSAR			27-36			
Journal Article	Lederle, P.E.;Rautenstrauch, K.R.;Rakestraw, D.L.;Zander, K.K.;Boone, J.L.	1997	Upper respiratory tract disease and mycoplasmosis in desert tortoises from Nevada		Journal of Wildlife Diseases			33	4	759-765	Reptilia, testudines, desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii, infection, Mycoplasma agassizii, mycoplasmosis, upper respiratory tract disease	A population of desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) at Yucca Mountain (Nevada, USA) was monitored during four sampling periods using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) to determine the percentage of individuals that had been exposed to Mycoplasma agassizii, a causative agent of upper respiratory tract disease. Respiratory tract disease has been considered a significant factor in the decline of desert tortoise populations in the Mojave Desert (USA). Few differences between sexes in ELISA values or percentages testing positive were noted. From 15 to 23% of samples per period tested positive for exposure to the mycoplasma. However, we noted few clinical signs of upper respiratory tract disease. This is in contrast to an earlier study which reported a similar proportion of seropositive tortoises as well as a high percentage of tortoises with clinical signs. However, our results are consistent with that study's conclusion that seropositivity for M. agassizii was a poor predictor of the likelihood to exhibit clinical signs of upper respiratory tract disease. Earlier reported epizootics of mycoplasma-associated respiratory disease occurred mainly during times of drought. Our samples were collected during a period of average to above-average rainfall, suggesting that manifestation of clinical signs of the disease may depend upon the physiological condition of tortoises which, in turn, is related to environmental conditions.  PE Lederle  Sci Applicat Int Corp  1180 Town Ctr Dr  Las Vegas, NV 89134 USA	
Journal Article	Lee, John R.;Burke, Vincent J.;Gibbons, J. Whitfield	1997	Behavior of hatchling Alligator mississippiensis exposed to ice		Copeia			1997	1	224-226	Alligator mississippiensis; Ice; behavior		
Journal Article	Lee, Russell	1997	The four-horned chameleon Chamaeleo quadricornis		Reptilian			4	10	32-37	Chamaeleo quadricornis		
Journal Article	Lee, Michael S. Y.	1997	Phylogenetic relationships among Australian elapid snakes: the soft anatomical data reconsidered		Herpetological Journal			7	3	93-102	Australian Elapids; Phylogeny		
Journal Article	Lee, Hei-Yung;Oh, Se-Jo;Yang, Dong-Eun;Kim, Yu-Ri;Yang, Suh-Yung	1997	Genetic differentiation between 2 species in the genus rana of Korea		Korean Journal of Genetics			19	4	317-324			
Journal Article	Lefcort, H.;Hancock, K. A.;Maur, K. M.;Rostal, D. C.	1997	The effects of used motor oil, silt, and the water mold Saprolegnia parasitica on the growth and survival of mole salamanders (genus Ambystoma)		Arch Environ Contam Toxicol			32	4	383-8	Ambystoma/*growth & development/microbiology; Animal; Motor Vehicles; Oils/*toxicity; Oomycetes/*pathogenicity; Soil Pollutants/*toxicity; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; *Survival Rate	Amphibians appear to be declining worldwide. One cause of their decline may be used crankcase oil which leaks from motor vehicles and washes into ponds. Once in ponds, the oil may either be directly toxic to amphibians, or may indirectly affect them by disrupting food chains. The effects of oil may also be compounded by naturally occurring materials in the water column such as silt. Silt may interfere with respiration across gill surfaces. This study examined the effects of oil and silt on the growth and metamorphosis of larval mole salamanders, Ambystoma opacum and A. tigrinum tigrinum. In Experiment One it examined ponds with and without silty water and oil pollution to determine their suitability as habitats for salamander larvae. In Experiment Two it studied the effects of low levels of oil combined with silt on animals raised in the laboratory and fed prey items not raised in oil. In Experiment Three, it explored the effects of oil at an ecosystem level by raising the salamanders in the field in plastic micromesocosms that mimicked small ponds. Finally, in Experiment Four, in the laboratory, it examined the short-term survival of salamanders in high concentrations of oil. This study found that ponds containing oil and silt produce salamanders of reduced size and weight. Furthermore, while salamanders are relatively robust to the short term effects of large concentrations of used motor oil, oil has deleterious effects on the community and therefore exerts an indirect negative effect on salamanders. In the mi- cro-mesocosms containing oil, salamanders were smaller and weighed less than animals not raised in oil. Furthermore, silt results in reduced growth, earlier metamorphosis, and increased susceptibility to the water mold Saprolegnia parasitica.	
Journal Article	Lehr, Edgar	1997	Microlophus thoracicus thoracicus (Tschudi)		Sauria			19	4	2			
Journal Article	Lehto, Timo	1997	Ruusukuorianien Pachnoda peregrina		Herpetomania			6	1	17-18			
Journal Article	Lehtonen, Mikko	1997	Mukavasti sujunut kaliforniankuningaskäärmeen kasvatusprojekti		Herpetomania			6	6	5-10			
Journal Article	Leitch, Kelvin;Kennett, Rod	1997	The Yolngu people of Northeast Arnhem Land (Australia) say "no" to beach cleaners		Marine Turtle Newsletter				77	19-20			
Journal Article	Lemckert, Francis;Potter, Mathew;Smith, Brian;Bruest, Tony	1997	Recent records of the southern Barred Frog (Mixophyes balbus) from the south coast of NSW		Herpetofauna			27	1	43-45			
Journal Article	Lemm, Jeff;Alberts, Allison	1997	Guided by nature: conservation research and captive husbandry of the Cuban Iguana		Reptiles			5	8	76-87	Cyclura nubila		
Journal Article	Lemm, Jeff	1997	Reptile dreamtime		Reptiles			5	9	32-45			
Journal Article	Lemos-Espinal, Julio A.;Smith, Geoffrey R.;Ballinger, Royce E.	1997	Neonate-female associations in Xenosaurus newmanorum: A case of parental care in a lizard?		Herpetological Review			28	1	22-23	Parental care; Xenosaurus newmanorum		
Journal Article	Lemos-Espinal, Julio A.;Smith, Geoffrey R.;Ballinger, Royce E.	1997	Temperature relationships of the tropical tree lizard (Urosaurus bicarinatus ) from the Cañón del Zopilote, Guerrero, México		Herpetological journal			7	1	26-27	Urosaurus bicarinatus; Mexico; Temperature relations		
Journal Article	Lemos-Espinal, Julio A.;Smith, Geoffrey R.;Ballinger, Royce E.	1997	Body temperatures of the Mexican lizard Sceloporus ochoteranae from two populations in Guerrero, México		Herpetological Journal			7	2	74-76	Sceloporus ochoteranae		
Journal Article	Lemos-Espinal, Julio A.;Ballinger, Royce E.;Sarabia, Susy Sanoja;Smith, Geoffrey R.	1997	Aggregation behavior of the lizard Sceloporus mucronatus mucronatus in Sierra del Ajusco, México		Herpetological Review			28	3	126-127	Sceloporus mucronatus; Aggregation behavior		
Journal Article	Lemos-Espinal, Julio A.;Smith, Hobart M.;Ballanger, Royce E.;Smith, Geoffrey R.;Chiszar, David	1997	A herpetological collection from Northern Chihuahua, Mexico		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	9	198-201	Chihuahua; Mexico		
Journal Article	Lemos-Espinal, Julio A.;Smith, Geoffrey R.;Ballinger, Royce E.	1997	Temperature relationships of the tropical tree lizard (Urosaurus bicarinatus) from the Canon del Zopilote, Guerrero, Mexico		Herpetological Journal			7		26-27			
Journal Article	Lemos-Espinal, Julio A.;Smith, Geoffrey R.;Ballinger, Royce E.	1997	Thermal ecology of the lizard, Sceloporus gadoviae, in an arid tropical scrub forest		Journal of Arid Environments			35		311-319			
Journal Article	Lemos-Espinal, Julio A.;Smith, Geoffrey R.;Ballinger, Royce E.	1997	Body temperatures of the Mexican lizard Sceloporus ochoteranae from two populations in Guerrero, Mexico		Herpetological Journal			7		74-76			
Journal Article	Lemos-Espinal, Julio A.;Ballinger, Royce E.;Sanoja Sarabia, Susy;Smith, Geoffrey R.	1997	Thermal ecology of the lizard Sceloporus mucronatus mucrontus in Sierra del Ajusco, Mexico		Southwestern Naturalist			42	3	344-347			
Journal Article	Lemos-Espinal, Julio A.;Smith, Geoffrey R.;Ballinger, Royce E.	1997	Observations on the body temperatures and natural history of some Mexican reptiles		Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society			33	4	159-164			
Journal Article	Lemos-Espinal, Julio A.;Smith, Geoffrey R.;Ballinger, Royce E.	1997 (1998)	Natural history of Xenosaurus platyceps, a crevice-dwelling lizard from Tamaulipas, México		Herpetological Natural History			5	2	181-186		GRS: smithg@william.jewell.edu	
Journal Article	Leonard, William P.	1997	Book review: frog and toad calls of the Pacific Coast: Vanishing Voices		Herpetological Review			28	1	56	Book review; CD review		
Journal Article	Leonard, William P.;Hallock, Lisa A.;McCallister, Kelly R.	1997	Rana pretiosa (Spotted Frog). Behavior and Reproduction		Herpetological Review			28	2	86			
Journal Article	Leonard, William P.;McAllister, Kelly R.;Hallock, Lisa A.	1997	Autumn vocalizations by the red-legged frog (Rana aurora) and the Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa)		Northwest Naturalist			78		73-74			
Journal Article	Leontyeva, Olga A.;Semenov, Dmitry V.;Esenin, Aleksei V.	1997	Brown frogs as bioindicator of heavy metal contamination: preliminary results on the common frog (Rana temporaria) in Moscow Province		Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union			2		125-131			
Journal Article	Leptien, Rolf;Lui, Wai	1997	Ein gecko von der alten Seidenstraße im Nordwesten Chinas, Teratoscincus roborowskii Von Bedriaga, 1906		Sauria			19	2	3-6	Teratoscincus roborowskii; Gekkonidae; Distribution; Husbandry; Breeding; Juveniles		
Journal Article	Leptien, Rolf	1997	Omanosaura - die Eidechsen der Omanberge		DATZ			50	12	788-791			
Journal Article	Lerner, Achim;Krause, Peter	1997	Die Taggeckos der Gattung Phelsuma Gray, 1825 auf Mauritius mit Bemerkungen zur begleitenden Herpetofauna		Jahrbuch für den Terarianer			4		46-52	Mauritius; Phelsuma; Herpetofauna; Field observations; Distribution; Habitat; behavior		
Journal Article	Lescheid, D. W.;Rosen, G. J.;Bridge, Aea;Jones, R. E.;Warby, C. M.;Sherwood, N. M.	1997	Immunoreactive gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is detected only in the form of chicken GnRH-II within the brain of the green anole, anolis carolinensis [In Process Citation]		Gen Comp Endocrinol			108	2	247-57		The presence of multiple forms of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) within a single brain is common among vertebrate species. In previous studies of reptiles, two forms of GnRH were isolated from the brain of alligators and the primary structure was determined to be that of chicken (c)GnRH-I and cGnRH-II. GnRH has also been detected by indirect methods in other reptiles including turtles, lizards, and snakes. We used a combination of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and radioimmunoassay to determine the number and molecular form(s) of GnRH in the brain of a lizard, Anolis carolinensis, that was reported to lack GnRH cells in the forebrain. Immunoreactivity was detected in the same HPLC elution position in which synthetic cGnRH-II elutes, but not in any other position. Detection was based on five antisera that among them detect the 12 known forms of GnRH; these antisera include ones that are specific to cGnRH-I and cGnRH-II. We conclude that the lizard A. carolinensis contains cGnRH-II, but not cGnRH-I or another known form of GnRH. These data, coupled with our earlier immunocytochemical study, suggest that the lizard studied here lacks cGnRH-I, the form that is found in the terminal nerve, olfactory bulb, and forebrain in nonsquamate reptiles and in birds. Our hypothesis is that the presence of both cGnRH-I and cGnRH-II in the brain is ancestral in the reptilian lineage and retained in the orders that include turtles (Chelonia) or alligators (Crocodilia). However, the pattern in the order Squamata varies: in A. carolinensis, only cGnRH-II is present in the brain and cGnRH-I is absent, whereas in the snake Thamnophilis sirtalis, cGnRH-I is retained and cGnRH-II is absent in the brain, as recently reported. This raises the question of how reproduction is controlled in reptiles that lack one form of GnRH. Copyright 1997 Academic Press. Copyright 1997 Academic Press	
Book Section	Lescure, J.	1997	Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758)		Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles in Europe		Soc. Europaea Herpetol., and Mus. Nat. d'Hist. Naturelle, Paris			162-163			
Journal Article	Leutscher, Alfred	1997	Liberating reptiles and amphibia		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				61	24-26			
Journal Article	Levell, John P.	1997	Book review: Coral Snakes of the Americas: Biology, Identification, and venoms		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Mar./Apr.	32-34	Book review		
Journal Article	Levell, John P.	1997	Book review: The Natural History of Monitor Lizards; and Living Dragons, A Natural History of the World's Monitor Lizards		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	June	32-34	Book review		
Journal Article	Levell, John P.	1997	Book review: Amphibians and Reptiles of Trinidad and Tobago		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Nov./Dec.	28-30			
Book	Levell, John P.	1997	A Field Guide to Reptiles and the Law (2nd Edition)			Lanesboro, MN	Serpent's Tale			270			
Book Section	Levell, John P.	1997	Preliminary herpetological survey of the Kasota Prairie Area, Le Sueur County, Minnesota	Moriarty, John J. and Jones, Delvin	Minnesota's Amphibians and Reptiles, Their Conservation and Status: Proceedings of a Symposium	Lanesboro	Serpent's tale			64-67			
Book Section	Levell, John P.	1997	Model regulations: developing fair and effective amphibians and reptile legislation	Moriarty, John J. and Jones, Delvin	Minnesota's Amphibians and Reptiles, Their Conservation and Status: Proceedings of a Symposium	Lanesboro	Serpent's tale			6-10			
Journal Article	Levin, Ted	1997	Vernal rites, the salamanders' spring mating ritual is movement for the frogs' songs		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Mar./Apr.	58-62			
Journal Article	Lewejohann, Lars;Wistuba, Jochen	1997	Mimikry: Tarnkappen und Hochstapler		Reptilia (German)				6	16-21			
Journal Article	Lewejohann, Lars;Wistuba, Jochen	1997	Mimetismo: camuflaje e impostura		Reptilia				12	16-21			
Journal Article	Lewin, J.;Grabdakazubska, B.	1997	Parasites of Vipera berus L in Poland		Acta Parasitologica			42	2	92-96	Reptilia, serpentes, Vipera berus, infection, helminth, trematode, nematode, cestode	As many as 152 specimens of Vipera berus from various localities in Poland, examined for parasites, yielded 21 species including 4 adult trematodes, 5 meso- and metacercariae, 1 larval cestode, 5 adult nematodes, 2 nematode larvae, 1 adult and 1 larval acanthocephalan, 1 tick and 1 mite. No one of these species might have been regarded as specific of the viper. All adults were common parasites of other reptiles and amphibians, the larvae used the viper as paratenic hosts. Some differences have been observed in infection of vipers from various regions of Poland, as well as differences dependent on sex and age of the vipers. The latter are considered as related to host behaviour. J Lewin, Polish Acad Sci, W Stefanski Inst Parasitol, Twarda 51-55, PL-00818 Warsaw, Poland	
Journal Article	Lewis, Timothy L.;Ritzenthaler, John	1997	Characteristics of Hibernacula use by spotted turtles, Clemmys guttata, in Ohio		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	611-615			
Book Section	Licata, L.;Elguezabal, X.	1997	Management plan for the giant amazonian turtle, Podocnemis expansa, in De La Tortuga Arrau Wildlife Refuge, Orinoco River, Venezuela	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			171-173			
Journal Article	Licht, L. E.;Grant, K. P.	1997	The effects of ultraviolet radiation on the biology of amphibians		American Zoology			37		137-145	radiation, biology, amphibians, growth, abundance		
Journal Article	Lichtenbelt, W. D. Van Marken;Vogel, J. T.;Wesselingh, R. A.	1997	Energetic consequences of field body temperatures in the green iguana		Ecology			78	1	297-307	temperature, field body temperature, energy, iguana		
Journal Article	Liley, J. G.	1997	A herpetological rummage in the Haute Vienne, Southern France		Reptilian			5	3	47-49			
Journal Article	Lillywhite, H. B.;Mittal, A.K.;Garg, T.K.;Agrawal, N.	1997	Wiping behavior and its ecophysiological significance in the Indian tree frog Polypedates maculatus		Copeia			1997	1	88-90	Polypedates maculatus; Wiping behavior		
Book Section	Linck, Madeleine;Moriarty, John J.	1997	The effects of habitat fragmentation on Blanding's turtles in Minnesota	Moriarty, John J. and Jones, Delvin	Minnesota's Amphibians and Reptiles, Their Conservation and Status: Proceedings of a Symposium	Lanesboro	Serpent's tale			30-37			
Journal Article	Lindeman, Peter V.	1997	Does life-history variation in the turtle Chrysemys picta have a subspecific component?		Journal of Herpetology			31	1	155-161	Life history variation; Chrysemys picta		
Journal Article	Lindeman, Peter V.	1997	Contributions toward improvment of model fit in nonlinear regression modelling of turtle growth		Herpetologica			53	2	179-191	Growth; Nonlinear modelling; Chrysemys picta; Seasonal growth		
Journal Article	Lindeman, Peter V.	1997	A comparative spotting-scope study of the distribution and relative abundance of River Cooters (Pseudemys concinna) in Western Kentucky and Southern Mississippi		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	378-383	Pseudemys concinna; Trachemys scripta; Ecology; Status; Distribution; Methodology; Kentucky; Mississippi; Louisiana		
Journal Article	Lindquist, Erik D.;Swihart, David W.	1997	Atelopus chiriquiensis (Chiriquí Harlequin Frog). Mating behavior and egg laying		Herpetological Review			28	3	145-146			
Journal Article	Lindstrom, Jeanie Raith	1997	Catching the reptile fever		Reptiles			5	2	100			
Journal Article	Liner, Ernest A.	1997	Bibliography and scientific name index to amphibians and reptiles in the Great Basin Naturalist volume 1-50, 1939-1990		Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service				115	1-35	Bibliography; Index		
Journal Article	Liner, Ernest A.;Walley, Harlan D.	1997	Bibliography and scientific name index to amphibians and reptiles in the Southwestern Naturalist volumes 1-40, 1956-1995		Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service				117	1-69	Bibliography		
Journal Article	Liner, Ernest A.	1997	Elaphe obsoleta lindheimeri (Texas Rat Snake). Prey		Herpetological Review			28	2	90			
Journal Article	Liner, Ernest A.	1997	Book review: A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World		Herpetological Review			28	2	103	Book review		
Journal Article	Liner, Ernest A.	1997	Book review: Recopilacion de Claves para la Determinacion de Anfibios y Reptiles de Mexico		Herpetological Review			28	3	168	Book review		
Journal Article	Liner, Ernie	1997	Book review: Snakes in Question		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine				Sept./Oct.	32-37	Book review		
Journal Article	Liner, Ernest A.	1997	Addendum and correction to Liner's Herpetofauna of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	12	253			
Journal Article	Liner, Ernest A.	1997	Bibliography and scientific name index to the amphibians and reptiles of the Florida Academy of Sciences, volume 1-55, 1937-1992. The Florida Field Naturalist. volume 1-20, 1973-1992, and The Florida Naturalist, volume 1-65, 1926-1992		Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service				113	1-39			
Journal Article	Linnell, Michael A.;Rodriguez, Daniel V.;mauldin, Richard E.;Engeman, Richard M.	1997	Boiga irregularis (Brown Tree Snake). Incubation and diet		Herpetological Review			28	3	153			
Journal Article	Lintermans, Mark	1997	First record of the Murray Turtle, Emydura macquarii (Gray) (Testudines: Chelidae) from the Australian Capital Territory		Herpetofauna			27	1	38-40			
Journal Article	Lions, Maria Luisa;Alvarez, Blanca Beatriz	1997	Geographic Distribution. Psomophis genimaculatus		Herpetological Review			28	1	52			
Journal Article	Lips, Karen R.	1997	Recent amphibian declines in Lower Central America		Froglog				22	2-3	Amphibian decline		
Journal Article	Liu, Hao;Wassersug, Richard;Kawachi, Keiji	1997	The tree-dimensional hydrodynamics of tadpole locomotion		The Journal of Experimental Biology			200		2807-2819	tadpole, hydrodynamics, kinematics, undulatory, swimming, morphology		
Journal Article	Liu, H.;Wassersug, R.;Kawachi., K.	1997	The three-dimensional hydrodynamics of tadpole locomotion		Journal of Experimental Biology			200		2807-2819			
Journal Article	Livo, Lauren J.;Yeakley, Darryl	1997	Comparison of current with historical elevational range in the boreal toad, Bufo boreas		Herpetological Review			28	3	143-144	Bufo boreas		
Journal Article	Livo, Lauren J.;Chiszar, David;Smith, Hobart M.	1997	Spea multiplicata (New Mexico Spadefoot). Defensive posture		Herpetological Review			28	3	148			
Journal Article	Lizana, Miguel	1997	Aplicación de las nuevas categorías de la UICN (Unión Inernacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza) a la herpetofauna Ibérica		Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española				8	46-51			
Journal Article	Llewellyn, Robin	1997	Geographic Distribution. Spea intermontana		Herpetological Review			28	2	94			
Journal Article	Loben Sels, Richard C. van;Congdon, Justin D.;Austin, Josiah T.	1997	Life history and ecology of the Sonoran mud turtle (Kinosternon sonoriense) in southeastern Arizona: A preliminary report		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	338-344	Kinosternon sonoriense; kinosternidae; Arizona; Ecology; Life history; Reproduction; Morphometrics; Eggs		
Journal Article	Lockhart, Bill	1997	Pinky-on-a-mouse-tail: forse-feeding baby snakes		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	June	56-60			
Journal Article	Loehr, V. J. T.	1997	Homopus signatus signatus Namaqualand Speckled Padloper, Captive Breeding		African Herp News				26	23		v.j.t.loehr@bwd.rws.minvenw.nl	
Journal Article	Lohmann, K.J.;Swartz, A.W.;Lohmann, C.M.F.	1997	Perception of ocean wave direction by sea turtles		Journal of Experimental Biology			198		1079-1085	green; loggerhead; orientation		
Journal Article	Lohmann, K. J.;Witherington, B.E.;Lohmann, C. M. F.;Salmon, M.	1997	Orientation, Navigation, and natal beach homing in sea turtles		Biology of Sea Turtles					109-136	orientation		
Journal Article	Long, David R.;Suter, Brian P.	1997	Temperature influence on red-eyed treefrog (Agalychnis callidryas) developmental success and metamorph physical condition		Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society			32	10	209-211			
Journal Article	Losos, Jonathan B.;De Queiroz, Kevin	1997	Evolutionary consequences of ecological release in Caribbean Anolis lizards		Biological Journal of the Linnean Society			61		459-483			
Journal Article	Losos, Jonathan B.;Warhelt, Kenneth I.;Schoener, Thomas W.	1997	Adaptive differentaition following experimental island colonization in Anolis lizards		Nature			387		70-73			
Journal Article	Losos, Jonathan B.;Queiro, Kevin de	1997	Evolutionary consequences of ecological relaease in Caribbean Anolis lizards		Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society			61		459-483			
Journal Article	Losos, Jonathan B.	1997	Evolutionary consequences of ecological release in Caribbean Anolis lizards		Biological Journal of the Linnean Society			61		459-483			
Journal Article	Losos, J. B.;Warheit, K. I.;Schoener, T. W.	1997	Adaptive differentiation following experimental island colonization in Anolis lizards		Nature			387		70-73	ecomorphology, evolution, caribbean, tropics, lizard ecology, morphology, polychrotidae		
Journal Article	Louis, Manuel Siñeriz	1997	Geographic Distribution. Bufo fernandezae		Herpetological Review			28	4	206-207			
Journal Article	Lourenco, Wilson R.;Glaw, Frank;Cloudsley-Thompson, John L.;Vences, Miguel	1997	The Madagascan frog Plethodantohyla inguinalis eats scorpions		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				60	26-28			
Journal Article	Love, Bill	1997	Madagascar revisited		Reptiles			5	5	10-31	Madagascar		
Journal Article	Love, Bill	1997	Madagascar revisited: part two		Reptiles			5	6	8-27	Madagascar		
Journal Article	Love, Bill	1997	Importation from Madagascar		Reptiles			5	6	86-88	Madagascar		
Journal Article	Love, Bill	1997	Experiences of travelling in search of herps		Vivarium			8	4	61-62			
Journal Article	Love, Bill	1997	Domestication of Iguanas		Reptiles			5	8	36-38			
Journal Article	Love, Bill	1997	Western herp perspectives		Reptilia (German)				5	12-13			
Journal Article	Love, Bill	1997	Travel trepidation prepping mentally, Part 1		Vivarium			8	5	77-78			
Journal Article	Love, Bill	1997	Learning not to assume: Field experiences with Uroplatus		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine				Sept./Oct.	21-23	Uroplatus		
Journal Article	Love, Kathy	1997	Colubrid communiqué		Vivarium			8	6	25;66			
Journal Article	Love, Bill	1997	What'll it be like over there? Prepping mentally part 2		Vivarium			8	6	78			
Journal Article	Love, Bill	1997	Gold Dust day geckos		Reptiles			5	12	24			
Journal Article	Love, Kathy	1997	Hypomelanism in Colubrids		Vivarium			9	1	32-36			
Journal Article	Love, Bill	1997	Equipping yourself for field herping		Vivarium			9	1	77-78			
Journal Article	Lovich, Jeff	1997	Book review: The Galápagos Tortoises: Nomenclatural and Survival Status		Copeia			1997	3	638-639	Book review		
Book Section	Lovich, J.E.;Gibbons, J.W.	1997	Conservation of covert species: protecting species we don't even know	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society?			
Journal Article	Low, Jim	1997	The serpentine gestalt		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Jan./Feb.	51-55			
Journal Article	Lowe, Petra	1997	Desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii wild and captive		Vivarium			8	3	58-62	Gopherus agassizii		
Journal Article	Lowe, Petra	1997	Redfoot tortoises: South American treasure		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine			1997	Mar./Apr.	36-43	geochelone carbonaria		
Journal Article	Lowe, Petra	1997	Captive care of the Veiled Chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus)		Reptiles			5	7	48-61;64-65	Chamaeleo calytratus		
Journal Article	Lowe, Dave	1997	Keeping and breeding common kingsnakes (Lampropeltis getulus and its various subsepecies)		The Herptile			22	1	26-37	Lampropeltis getlua		
Journal Article	Lowe, Dave	1997	Keeping and breeding the western hognose snake (Heterodon nasicus)		Herptile: Journal of the International Herpetological Society			22	2	89-92			
Journal Article	Lowe, Dave	1997	Protect you hobby or see it die		The Herptile			22	3	137-140			
Journal Article	Lötters, Stefan;Castro Herrera, Fernando;Köhler, Jörn;Richter, Reinhard	1997	Notes on the distribution and color variation of poison frogs of the genus Phyllobates  from western Colombia (Anura: Dendrobatidae)		Revue fr. Aquariol.			24	1-2	55-58			
Journal Article	Lötters, Stefan;Debold, Peter;Henle, Klaus;Glaw, Frank;Kneller, Mathias	1997	Ein neur pfeilgiftfrosch aus der Epipedobates pictus-gruppe vom osthang der Cordillera Azul in Perú		Herpetofauna			19	110	25-34			
Book Section	Lötters, Stefan;Widmer, Alexander	1997	Bioacoustic comparisons of the advertisement calls of the poison frgos Dendrobates histrionicus and Dendrobates lehmanni from northwestern South America	Böhme, W.;Bischoff, W. and Ziegler, T.	Herpetologica Bonnensis					237-245			
Journal Article	Lötters, Stefan;Herrera, Fernando Castro;Köhler, Jörn;Richter, Reinhard	1997	Notes on the distribution and color variation of poison frogs of the genus Phyllobates  from western Colombia (Anura: Dendrobatidae)		Revue fr. Aquariol.			24	1-2	55-58	Phyllobates bicolor, Phyllobates terribilis		
Journal Article	López del Castillo, Carles	1997	Enfermedades no infecciosas en reptiles		Reptilia (Spain)				11	9-15			
Journal Article	López del Castillo, Carlos	1997	Presencia en España del Lagarto ágil		Reptilia				13	54-59			
Journal Article	López-Jurado, Luis F.;Mateo, José A.	1997	La predación de Crocidura canariensis sobre Gallotia atlantica		Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española				8	16-17			
Journal Article	Lubkin, S.R.	1997	On pattern formation in reptilian dentition		J. Theor. Biol.			186		13	teeth, anatomy,	Pattern formation of placode initiation in reptilian dental development is modeled with a generalized function, which may represent chemical concentrations, strain energy of mechanically deforming tissues, or other quantities representing a local inhibition of placode formation. The conditions on the generalized model which are necessary to account for all experimental observations are examined in detail. Minimal conditions for the correct sequencing of the tooth primordia are determined, and it is found that all known initial reptilian sequences can be accounted for with the same mechanism, with merely a different choice of parameters. An implication of the modeling results is that the lower jaw of the tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) has a greater growth rate in its anterior portion than in its posterior portion, whereas the opposite is true of all other reptiles studied. Sequences of tooth initiation are observed robustly in the model which have not hitherto been documented in vivo, suggesting the as yet undocumented occurrence of such a sequence in a living or extinct reptile. (C) 1997 Academic Press Limited.	
Journal Article	Luciën	1997	Breeding report Morelia spilota mcdowelli		Litteratura Serpentium			17	2	32-34	Morelia spilota		
Journal Article	Luedemann, Gustavo;Colli, Guarino Rinaldi;Brandão, Reuber Albuquerque	1997	Polychrus acutirostris (Bicho-preguiça). Reproduction		Herpetological Review			28	1	43			
Book Section	Luiijf, W.	1997	CITES and the tortoise and turtle trade	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			125-134			
Journal Article	Luiselli, Luca;Capula, Massimo;Capizzi, Dario;Filippi, Ernesto;Jesus, Veronica Trujillo;Anibaldi, Claudio	1997	Problems for conservation of pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) in Central Italy: is the introduced Red-Eared Turtle (Trachemys scripta) a serious threat?		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	3	417-419	Conservation; Emys orbicularis; trachemys scripta; Introduced species		
Journal Article	Luiselli, Luca;Bikikoro, Lynett;Ude, Linda Chiyere	1997	Fish-eating by the cobras, Naja melanoleuca and Naja nigricollis (Elapidae) in the Niger Delta (Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria)		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				59	13-14	Diet; Naja melanoleuca; Naja nigricollis		
Journal Article	Luiselli, Luca;Zimmermann, Petra	1997	Thermal ecology and reproductive cyclicity of the snake Natrix tessellata in south-eastern Austria and central Italy: a comparative study		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	4	383-396			
Journal Article	Luiselli, L.;Capula, M.;Shine, R.	1997	Food habits, growth rates, and reproductive biology of grass snakes, Natrix natrix (Colubridae) in the Italian Alps		Journal of Zoology			241	Part 2	371-380	Reptilia, serpentes, grass snake, Natrix natrix, behaviour, growth,	A five-year mark-recapture study at Sella Nevea, a montane (1100 m a.s.l.) site in the Carnic Alps, provided information on diets, growth rates, and reproductive output in an Italian population of the wide-ranging grass snake, Natrix natrix. Our snakes resembled a previously studied population in lowland Sweden in terms of body size at sexual maturation in females (70 cm) and mean adult female body length (82 cm). However, growth rates were lower in our population, and sexual maturation was delayed (6-8 years, versus 4-5 years in Sweden), perhaps because of the cool climate and relatively brief growing period each year. Females produced a single clutch of 4-24 eggs in late July each year. Larger females produced larger clutches, but clutch size relative to maternal size was lower than in Swedish grass snakes. Hatchling sizes and Relative Clutch Masses (RCMs) did not shift with increasing female size. RCMs may provide a useful index of 'costs of reproduction' in this population, because females with high RCMs were very emaciated after oviposition, and hence may experience a greater risk of mortality, as well as a high energy expenditure. Prolonged incubation gave rise to longer, thinner hatchlings, but the low environmental temperatures at the study site may favour early hatching (and hence, result in a shorter fatter hatchling emerging from the egg, with more of its energy stores unused). Compared to sympatric viviparous snakes (Coronella austriaca and Vipera berus), the oviparous grass snakes can achieve a much higher reproductive output owing to a larger clutch size and more frequent reproduction (annual, rather than biennial or triennial). The abundant prey resource used by grass snakes (amphibians) may also enable them to recoup energy more rapidly after reproduction; dietary composition shifts ontogenetically in both sexes, with the largest prey (mice and adult toads) taken primarily by large female snakes. L Luiselli, Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dept Anim & Human Biol, Via a Borelli 50, I-00161 Rome, Italy	
Book Section	Lutcavage, M.E.;Plotkin, P.;Witherington, B.E.;Lutz, P.L.	1997	Thermal Biology	Lutz, P.L. and Musick, J.A.	The Biology of Sea Turtles	Boca Raton, FL	CRC Press			387-409	green; ridley; leatherback; pollution; accidental capture		
Book Section	Lutcavage, Molly E.;Plotkin, Pamela;Witherington, Blair;Lutz, Peter L.	1997	Human impacts on sea turtle survival	Lutz, P. L. and Musick, J. A.	The Biology of Sea Turtles	Boca Raton	CRC Press			387-409			
Book	Lutz, Dick;Lutz, J. Marie	1997	Komodo: The Living Dragon			Salem, OR	Dimi Press			195	Varanus komodensis		
Edited Book	Lutz, Peter L.;Musick, John A.	1997	the Biology of Sea Turtles			Boca Raton	CRC Press			xii, 432 p.			
Journal Article	Lutzmann, Nicolá	1997	Albinismus beim Bergmolch (Triturus alpestris alpestris [Laurenti, 1815])		Elaphe			5	1	90-91	Albino; Triturus alpestris		
Journal Article	Lüddecke, Horst	1997	Besiedlungsgeschichte der kolumbianischen Ostanden durch Anuren: Hinweise aus naturgeschichtlichen daten von Hyla labialis [Colonization of the eastern Andes of Colombia by anurans: Evidence from natural history data of Hyla labialis		Salamandra			33	2	111-132	Hyla labialis; Andes; Colombia; Colonization history; Body size; Temperature biology; Oxygen consumption; Reproductive cost		
Journal Article	Lüddecke, Horst	1997	Field reproductive potential of tropical high mountain Hyla labialis females: direct and indirect evidence from mark-recapture data		Amphibia-Reptilia			18	4	357-368			
Journal Article	Lüddecke, Horst	1997	Colonization of the eastern Andes of Colombia by anurans: Evidence from natural history data of Hyla labialis		Salamandra			33	2	111-132			
Journal Article	Lüddecke, Horst	1997	Field reproductive potential of tropical high mountain Hyla labialis  females: Direct and indirect evidence from mark-recapture data		Amphibia-Reptilia			18		357-368			
Journal Article	Lyman-Henley, Lani P.	1997	Book review: The Garter Snakes: Evolution and Ecology		Herpetological Review			28	2	108-109	Book review		
Journal Article	Lynch, John D.;Duellman, William E.	1997	Frogs of the genus Eleutherodactylus in Western Ecuador: Systematics, ecology, and biogeography		The University of Kansas, Natural History Museum, Special Publication				23	iv + 236 + 8 plates	Ecuador; Eleutherodactylus; New species; Ecology; Systematics; Biogeography; Eleutherodactylus colomai n. sp.; Eleutherodactylus degener n. sp.; Eleutherodactylus dissimulatus n. sp; Eleutherodactylus eugeniae n. sp.; Eleutherodactylus floridus n. sp.; Eleutherodactylus gentryi n. sp.; Eleutherodactylus illotus n. sp.; Eleutherodactylus pteridophilus n. sp.; Eleutherodactylus truebae n. sp.		
Journal Article	Lynch, John D.	1997	Intrageneric relationships of mainland Eleutherodactylus II. A review of the Eleutherodactylus sulcatus group		Revista de la Academia Comombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales			21		353-372	Amphibia, biogeography, cladistics, osteology		
Journal Article	Lynch, John D.;Rueda-Almonacid, José Vicente	1997	Three new frogs (Eleutherodactylus: Leptodactylidae) from Cloud Forests in Eastern Departmento Caldas, Colombia		Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales			21		131-142	biodiverstiy		
Journal Article	Lynch, John D.;Ruiz-Carranza, Pedro M.;Ardila-Robayo, María Cristina	1997	Biogeographic patterns of Colombian frogs and toads		Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales			21		237-248	Anuran, biodiversity, biogeography, allopatric speciation		
Journal Article	Lynch, John D.;Ruenda-Almonacid, José Vicente	1997	Three new frogs (Eleutherodactylus: Leptodactylidae) from cloud forests in eastern Departamento Caldas, Colombia		Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc.			21	79	131-142	Eleutherodactylus lichenoides n. sp.; Eleutherodactylus tribulosus n. sp.; Eleutherodactylus veletis n. sp.		
Journal Article	M'Closkey, Robert T.;Hecnar, Stephen J.;Chalcraft, David R.;Cotter, Jill E.;Johnston, Jodi;Poulin, Raymond	1997	Colonization and saturation of habitats by lizards		Oikos			78	2	283-290	Sceloporus; Uta; Urosaurus; Colonization		
Journal Article	Mable, Barbara K.;Roberts, J. Dale	1997	Mitochondrial DNA evolution of tetraploids in the genus Neobatrachus (Anura: Myobatrachidae)		Copeia			1997	4	680-689			
Journal Article	MacCulloch, Ross D.;Darevsky, Ilya S.;Murphy, Robert W.;Fu, Jinzhong	1997	Allozyme variation and population substructuring in the Caucasian ground lizards Lacerta derjugini and Lacerta praticola		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	2	115-119		rossm@rom.on.ca	
Journal Article	Macey, J. Robert;Ananjeva, Natalia B.;Wang, Yuezhao;Papenfuss, Theodore J.	1997	A taxonomic reevaluation of the gekkonid lizard genus Teratoscincus in China		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	1	8-16	Gekkonidae; Teratoscincus; Taxonomy; China		
Journal Article	Macey, J. R.;Larson, A.;Ananjeva, N. B.;Papenfuss, T. J.	1997	Replication slippage may cause parallel evolution in the secondary structures of mitochondrial transfer RNAs		Mol Biol Evol			14	1	30-9		Presence of the dihydrouridine (D) stem in the mitochondrial cysteine tRNA is unusually variable among lepidosaurian reptiles. Phylogenetic and comparative analyses of cysteine tRNA gene sequences identify eight parallel losses of the D-stem, resulting in D-arm replacement loops. Sampling within the monophyletic Acrodonta provides no evidence for reversal. Slipped-strand mispairing of noncontiguous repeated sequences during replication or direct replication slippage can explain repeats observed within cysteine tRNAs that contain a D-arm replacement loop. These two mechanisms involving replication slippage can account for the loss of the cysteine tRNA D-stem in several lepidosaurian lineages, and may represent general mechanisms by which the secondary structures of mitochondrial tRNAs are altered.	
Journal Article	Macey, J. R.;Larson, A.;Ananjeva, N. B.;Fang, Z.;Papenfuss, T. J.	1997	Two novel gene orders and the role of light-strand replication in rearrangement of the vertebrate mitochondrial genome		Mol Biol Evol			14	1	91-104		Two novel mitochondrial gene arrangements are identified in an agamid lizard and a ranid frog. Statistical tests incorporating phylogeny indicate a link between novel vertebrate mitochondrial gene orders and movement of the origin of light-strand replication. A mechanism involving errors in light-strand replication and tandem duplication of genes is proposed for rearrangement of vertebrate mitochondrial genes. A second mechanism involving small direct repeats also is identified. These mechanisms implicate gene order as a reliable phylogenetic character. Shifts in gene order define major lineages without evidence of parallelism or reversal. The loss of the origin of light-strand replication from its typical vertebrate position evolves in parallel and, therefore, is a less reliable phylogenetic character. Gene junctions also evolve in parallel. Sequencing across multigenic regions, in particular transfer RNA genes, should be a major focus of future systematic studies to locate novel gene orders and to provide a better understanding of the evolution of the vertebrate mitochondrial genome.	
Journal Article	Macey, J. Robert;Larson, Allan;Ananjeva, Natalia B.;Papenfuss, Theodore J.	1997	Evolutionary shifts in three major structural features of the mitochondrial genome among iguanian lizards		Journal of Molecular Evolution			44		660-674			
Journal Article	Macey, J. Robert;Verma, Alok	1997	Homology in phylogenetic analysis: alignment of transfer RNA genes and the phylogenetic position of snakes		Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution			7	2	272-279			
Journal Article	Machado Pellegrino, Katia Cristina ;Kasahara, Sanae;Trefaut Rodrigues, Miguel;Yonenaga-Yassuda, Yatiyo	1997	Pericentric inversion events in karyotypic distinction of Brazilian lizards of genus Phyllopezus (Squamata, Gekkonidae) detected by chromosomal banding patterns		Hereditas			127		255-262			
Journal Article	Mader, Douglas	1997	Boa neck pain		Reptiles			5	5	36-37	Madagascar		
Journal Article	Mader, Douglas	1997	Becoming a herp vet		Reptiles			5	4	38			
Journal Article	Mader, Douglas	1997	Vitamin A treatment		Reptiles			5	6	48-67			
Journal Article	Mader, Douglas R.	1997	Thermal burns: A hot topic		Reptiles			5	11	32-41			
Journal Article	Mader, Douglas	1997	Chameleons and Vitamin A		Reptiles			5	12	30-31			
Journal Article	Mader, Douglas	1997	Green iguana tail necrosis		Reptiles			5	1	64-65			
Journal Article	Mader, Douglas	1997	Bumps on Uromastyx		Reptiles			5	3	20-23	Uromastyx		
Journal Article	Madison, Dale M.	1997	The emigration of radio-implanted spotted salamanders, Ambystoma maculatum		Journal of Herpetology			31	4	542-551			
Book	Maeda, Norio	1997	The Night of the Frog			Tokyo	Takeshi Okumura			60			
Journal Article	Maerevoet, Mike	1997	Eryx colubrinus loveridgei de Kenyaanse zandboa		Het Terrarium			15	2	29-30			
Journal Article	Magnusson, William	1997	Where are the ranches?		Crocodile Specialist group Newsletter			16	1	3-4			
Journal Article	Magnusson, William E.;Lima, Albertina P.;Costa, Valdenise Lopes da;Lima, Aldeniza Cardoso de;Araújo, Mariz Carmozina de	1997	Growth during middle age in a Schneider's dwarf caiman, Paleosuchus trigonatus		Herpetological Review			28	4	183			
Journal Article	Magnusson, William E.;Cardoso de Lima, Aldeniza;Lopes de Costa, Valdenise;Vogt, Richard C.	1997	Home range of the turtle, Phrynops rufipes, in an isolated reserve in Central Amazônia, Brazil		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	494-499			
Journal Article	Magnusson, William E.;Cardoso de Lima, Aldeniza;Lopes de Costa, Valdenise;Pimentel de Lima, Odilon	1997	Growth of the turtle, Phrynops rufipes, in Central Amazônia, Brazil		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	576-581			
Journal Article	Magnusson, William E.	1997	Biogeography of frogs: History as the magic bullet		Journal of Biogeography			24		251-252			
Journal Article	Magnusson, W.E.;de Lima, A.D.;da Costa, V.L.;Vogt, R. C.	1997	Home range of the turtle, Phrynops rufipes, in an isolated reserve in Central Amazônia, Brazil		Chelonian Conservation and Biology			2	4	494-499	migration; movement; transmitter		
Journal Article	Mahaney, Patricia A.	1997	Crotalus pricei (Twin-spotted Rattlesnake). Reproduction		Herpetological Review			28	4	205			
Journal Article	Mahmoud, Z. N.;Abdel Halim, A. I.;Babiker, E. M.	1997	Al Hamdab Dam: A checklist of amphibians and reptiles, prior to construction		British Herpetological Society Bulletin				61	10-13			
Journal Article	Mahrdt, Clark R.;Banta, Benjamin H.	1997	Aneides lugubris (Arboreal Salamander). Predation		Herpetological Review			28	2	81			
Journal Article	Mahsberg, Dieter	1997	Fósiles supervivientes: Escorpiones cómo aseguran su reproducción		Reptilia			3	9	43-48			
Journal Article	Mailloux, Robert	1997	The future of Bearded Dragons		Vivarium			9	1	49			
Book Section	Makeyev, V.M.;S. Shammakov, A. T. Bozhanskii, R. W. Marlow, K. von Seckendorff Hoff	1997	Agricultural development and grazing as the major causes of population declines in Horsfield's tortoise in the Turkmen Republic (abstract)	Abbema, J. Van	Proceedings: Conservation, Restoration, and Management of Tortoises and Turtles - An International Conference	State University of New York, Purchase	New York Turtle and Tortoise Society			20			
Journal Article	Malacinski, G. M.;Bessho, T.;Yokota, C.;Fukui, A.;Asashima, M.	1997	An essay on the similarities and differences between inductive interactions in anuran and urodele embryos		Cell Mol Life Sci			53	4	410-7		As a first step towards providing a conceptual approach to understanding similarities and differences in the mechanisms which guide inductive interactions among related organisms (e.g. various amphibia), a set of five principles is offered here. These principles were formulated by analyzing literature examples of classical embryological phenomena and by performing experiments with activin, a peptide growth factor which is currently suspected to play for a role in mesoderm induction. Mechanisms which account, at least in part, for the observed differences between anuran and urodele inductive processes can be derived from these principles.	
Book Section	Malashichev, Yegor B.	1997	Qualitative analysis of sacrum variability in some Bombina species	Böhme, W.;Bischoff, W. and Ziegler, T.	Herpetologia Bonnensis					257-263			
Journal Article	Malhotra, Anita;Thorpe, Roger S.	1997	Microgeographic variation in scalation of Anolis oculatus (Dominica, West Indies): a multivariate analysis		Herpetologica			53	1	49-62	Anolis ocularis; Dominica; Microgeographic variation; Scalation; Hypothesis testing; Ordination analysis; Partial Mantel tests		
Journal Article	Malhotra, Anita	1997	Book review: Contributions to West Indian Herpetology. A Tribute to Albert Schwartz		Herpetological Journal			7	2	83	Book review		
Journal Article	Malkmus, Rudolf;Matsui, Masafumi	1997	Megophrys kobayashii, ein neuer pelobatider Frosch vom Mount Kinabalu		Sauria			19	1	31-37	Mount Kinabalu; Megophrys kobayashii n. sp. New species; Borneo; Morphology; call; Distribution; Ecology		
Journal Article	Malkmus, Rudolf	1997	Verbreitung und Biotopwahl von Rana perezi auf den Azoren, Madeira und den Kanaren		Elaphe			5	2	77-80	Rana perezi		
Journal Article	Malkmus, Rudolf	1997	In Portugals Dünen		TI Magazin				137	61-63			
Journal Article	Malkmus, Rudolf	1997	Melanocephalie bei der Iberischen Kapuzennatter Macroprotodon cucullatus ibericus Busack & McCoy, 1990		Sauria			19	3	37-38		Macroprotodon cucullatus	
Journal Article	Malkmus, Rudolf	1997	Partieller Albinismus bei der Netzwühle, Blanus cinereus (Vandelli, 1797) in Portugal (Reptilia: Amphisbaenidae)		Sauria			19	4	45-46			
Journal Article	Malkmus, Rudolf	1997	Die Verbreitung der Amphibien und Reptilien in der Serra de São Mamede, Portugal [The distribution of the amphibians and reptiles in the Serra de São Mamede, Portugal]		Zeitschrift für Feldherpetologie			4		63-92		Schulstraße 4, D-97859 Wiesthal, Germany	
Journal Article	Malkmus, Rudolf	1997	Neue Daten zur Höhenverbreitung des Mittelmeerlaubfrosches, Hyla meridionalis Boettger, 1874, in Portugal (Anura: Hylidae) [New data on the vertical distribution of Hyla meridionalis, Boettger, 1874 in Portugal (Anura: Hylidae)]		Herpetozoa			10	3/4	169-171		Schulstraße 4, D-97859 Wiesthal, Germany	
Journal Article	Malkmus, Rudolf;Sauer, Horst	1997	Bemerkungen zur Verbrietung von Macroprotodon cucullatus ibericus Busack & McCoy, 1990 in Portugal nörlich des Rio Tejo (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae) [Remarks on the distribution of Macroprotodon cucullatus ibericus Busack & McCoy, 1990 in Portugal north of the river Tejo (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae)]		Herpetozoa			10	3/4	157-161		Schulstraße 4, D-97859 Wiesthal, Germany	
Journal Article	Malley, D.	1997	Reptile anaesthesia and the practising veterinarian		In Practice			19	7	351 - 368	Reptilia, serpentes, sauria, testudines, anaesthesia, survey		
Journal Article	Mallick, Pranab Kumar	1997	Courtship of Bufo melanstictus Schneider		Cobra			30		21-22		Reserach Centre on Natural Science, Duillya 711 302, Howrah, West Bengal, India	
Journal Article	Malone, John H.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Rana clamitans clamitans		Herpetological Review			28	2	93			
Journal Article	Mamet, Sergei;Kudryavtsev, Sergei	1997	Captive propagation of the Mandarin rat snake (Elaphe mandarina) at Moscow Zoo		Asiatic Herpetological Research			7		85-86	Elaphe mandarina; Reproduction		
Journal Article	Mamet, Sergei V.;Kudryavtsev, Sergei V.	1997	Caucasian viper: husbandry and reproduction in captivity		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	2	198-199		Dept. of Herpetology, Moscow Zoo, B. Gruzinskaya 1, Moscow 123242, Russia	
Journal Article	Mamet, Sergei V.;Kudryavtsev, Sergei V.	1997	Notes on the reproductive biology of rare Asian ratsnake Elaphe persica		Russian Journal of Herpetology			4	2	200-202		Dept. of Herpetology, Moscow Zoo, B. Gruzinskaya 1, Moscow 123242, Russia	
Book	Manaster, Jane	1997	Horned Lizards			Austin, TX	University of Texas Press			81	Phrynosoma		
Journal Article	Maniero, G.D.;Carey, C.	1997	Changes in selected aspects of immune function in the leopard frog, Rana pipiens, associated with exposure to cold		Journal of Comparative Physiology B - Biochemical Systemic and Environmental Physiology			167	4	256-263	amphibia, anura, leopard frog, rana pipiens, immune response, cold temperature, lymphocyte proliferation, complement	The effect of exposure to low temperatures (5 degrees C) on lymphocyte proliferation, leukocyte populations, and serum complement levels was examined in the northern leopard frog, Rana pipiens. Proliferation of T lymphocytes in response to phytohemagglutinin stimulation was significantly decreased in frogs kept for 2, 3, and 5 months at 5 degrees C compared to that of animals kept at 22 degrees C. A significant increase in the average percentage of neutrophils and a decrease in the mean percentage of eosinophils was observed in the blood of frogs held for 5 months in the cold compared to animals held at 22 degrees C for the same length of time. Mean serum complement activity after 1 month at 5 degrees C was significantly reduced in comparison to animals held at 22 degrees C and was not detectable after 5 months in the cold. Recovery of complement levels at room temperature (22 degrees C) was also examined after cold exposure. Complement levels were significantly higher than controls (at 22 degrees C) in frogs returned to 22 degrees C for 7 and 14 days after 5 months in the cold. After frogs were held at 5 degrees C for 1 month, serum complement levels increased significantly within 2 days after returning to 22 degrees C and continued to rise 5 and 9 days after warming. Injections with Aeromonas hydrophila following a 5-week exposure to 5 degrees C failed to cause death or observable symptoms of disease in frogs that were returned to 22 degrees C. GD Maniero, Univ Colorado, Dept EPO Biol, Boulder, CO 80309 USA	
Journal Article	Mannen, H.;Tsoi, S. C.;Krushkal, J. S.;Li, W. H.;Li, S. S.	1997	The cDNA cloning and molecular evolution of reptile and pigeon lactate dehydrogenase isozymes [In Process Citation]		Mol Biol Evol			14	11	1081-7		The cDNAs encoding lactate dehydrogenase isozymes LDH-A (muscle) and LDH-B (heart) from alligator and turtle and LDH-A, LDH-B, and LDH-C (testis) from pigeon were cloned and sequenced. The evolutionary relationships among vertebrate LDH isozymes were analyzed. Contrary to the traditional belief that the turtle lineage branched off before the divergence between the lizard/alligator and bird lineages, the turtle lineage was found to be clustered with either the alligator lineage or the alligator-bird clade, while the lizard lineage was found to have branched off before the divergence between the alligator/turtle and bird lineages. The pigeon testicular LDH-C isozyme was evidently duplicated from LDH-B (heart), so it is not orthologous to the mammalian testicular LDH-C isozymes.	
Journal Article	Manning, Ben;Grigg, Gordon C.	1997	Basking is not of thermoregulatory significance in the "basking" freshwater turtle, Emydura signata		Copeia			1997	3	579-584	Emydura signata		
Journal Article	Manning, B.;Grigg, G.C.	1997	Basking is not of thermoregulatory significance in the ''basking'' freshwater turtle Emydura signata		Copeia				3	579-584	Reptilia, testudines, Emydura signata, behavior, basking, thermoregulation	We measured body temperatures of free-ranging Brisbane River Turtles, Emydura signata with radiotelemetry. These and other species of freshwater turtle are commonly observed ''basking'' on logs or other elevated sites, a behavior which is usually interpreted as thermoregulatory. However, body temperatures of eight E. signata monitored for more than 112 turtle days in winter, spring, and summer showed a striking thermoconformity with the water and provided no data showing that this species routinely elevates its body temperature above water temperature. The biological, significance of basking: is obscure in this population of E. signata, and the study highlights the need for direct measurements of body temperature in free-ranging individuals of other freshwater turtle species. GC Grigg, Univ Queensland, Dept Zool, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia	
Journal Article	Manning, E.L.;Cate, H.S.;Lohmann, K.J.	1997	Discrimination of ocean waves features by hatchling loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta		Marine Biology			127		539-544	loggerhead; orientation; behaviour		
Book	Manthey, Ulrich;Grossmann, Wolfgang	1997	Amphibien & Reptilien Südostasiens			Berlin	Natur und Tier - Verlag			512	South East Asia		
Journal Article	Manzamilla, Jesus;Rivero, Ramon;Natra, Marco	1997	Geographic Distribution. Kentropix striata		Herpetological Review			28	1	50			
Journal Article	Manzani, Paulo Roberto;Sazima, Ivan	1997	Geographic Distribution. Colobodactylus dalcyanus		Herpetological Review			28	2	95			
Journal Article	Manzani, Paulo Roberto;Cardoso, Adão José	1997	Imantodes cenchoa (Chunk-Headed Snake). Reproduction		Herpetological Review			28	3	154			
Journal Article	Manzani, Paulo Roberto;Moreno, Ronilson Agnaldo;Mattar, Miguel Nassif	1997	Geographic Distribution. Bothrops fonsecai		Herpetological Review			28	4	210			
Journal Article	Manzani, Paulo Roberto;Abe, Augusto Shinya	1997	A new species ofTupinambis Daudin, 1802 (Squamata, Teiidae) from central Brazil		Boletim Do Museu Nacional, Nova Série, Rio De Janeiro, Brasil				382	1-10			
Journal Article	Mara, W. P.	1997	Keeping the marbled salamander (Ambystoma opacum) in captivity		Reptile & Amphibian Magazine				May	50-55	Ambystoma opacum		
Book Section	Maragou, Panagiota;Valakos, Efstratios D.;Chondropoulos, Basil P.	1997	Comparative ecology of two sympatric lizard species, Lacerta graeca and Podarcis peloponnesiaca endemic to Peloponnisos (Greece)	Böhme, Wolfgang and Ziegler, Thomas	Herpetologia Bonnensis	Bonn				265-271			
Book	Marais, Johan	1997	Snakes			London	Grange Books			144			
Journal Article	Marc, Vervest	1997	Snakesteak: worstjes om slangen, hagedissen, schildpadden, amfibieën en spinnen te voederen		Terra			3	3	90-91			
Journal Article	Marcovaldi, M.A.;M.H. Godfrey, N. Mrosovsky	1997	Estimating sex ratios of loggerhead turtles in Brazil from pivotal incubation durations		Can. J. Zool.			75		755-770			
Journal Article	Marcovaldi, M.A.;Godfrey, M.H.;Mrosovsky, N.	1997	Estimating sex ratios of loggerhead turtles in Brazil from pivotal incubation durations		Canadian Journal of Zoology			75		755-770	sex ratio; tsd; loggerhead; incubation		
Journal Article	Marinho Lima, Almira Claudia	1997	Geographic Distribution. Prionodactylus argulus		Herpetological Review			28	3	157			
Journal Article	Marinho Lima, Almira Claudia	1997	Geographic Distribution. Prionodactylus eigenmanni		Herpetological Review			28	3	157-158			
Journal Article	Markezich, Allan L.;Cole, Charles J.;Dessauer, Herbert C.	1997	The Blue and Green Whiptail Lizards (Squamata: Teiidae: Cnemidophorus ) of the Peninsula de Paraguana, Venezuela: Systematics, Ecology, Descriptions of Two New Taxa, and Relationships to Whiptails of the Guianas		American Museum Novitates				3207	1-60			
Journal Article	Markezich, Allan L.;Cole, Charles J.;Dessauer, Herbert C.	1997	The blue and green whiptail lizards (Squamata: Teiidae: Cnemidophorus) of the Peninsula de Paraguana, Venezuela: Systematics, ecology, descriptions of two new taxa, and relationships to whiptails of the Guianas		American Museum Novitates				3207	1-60			
Journal Article	Marnell, Ferdia	1997	The use of phalanges for age determination in the smooth newt, Triturus vulgaris L.		Herpetological journal			7	1	28-30	Age determination; Triturus vulgaris		
Journal Article	Maronde, Manfred	1997	Herpetologische Eindrücke von "La Grande Ile"		DATZ			50	6	350-353	Madagascar		
Journal Article	Marques, Otavio A. V.;Calleffo, Myriam E.	1997	Geographic Distribution. Pseustes sulphureus		Herpetological Review			28	3	160			
Journal Article	Marques, Otavio A. V.;Sazima, Ivan	1997	Diet and feeding behavior of the Coral Snake, Micrurus corallinus, from the Atlantic forest of Brazil		Herpetological Natural History			5	1	88-93			
Journal Article	Marques, E.J.;Monteiro, E.L.	1997	Perspectivas de criacao de jacares emcautiveiro		A Hora Veterinaria			16	95	73-76	CCR, CY, captive breeding, farming,		
Journal Article	Marschang, R.E.;Gravendyk, M.;Kaleta, E.F.	1997	New investigations on herpesvirus in tortoises		Verhandl. Ber. Erkrankungen der Zootiere			NF 2		29-34	Reptilia, testudines, infection, virus, herpes		
Journal Article	Marschang, R.E.;Gravendyck, M.;Kaleta, E.F.	1997	Herpesviruses in tortoises: Investigations into virus isolation and the treatment of viral stomatitis in Testudo hermanni and T-graeca		Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series B - Zentralblatt Fur Veterinarmedizin Reihe B - Infectious Diseases and Veterinary Public Health			44	7	385-394	Reptilia, testudines, Testudo graeca, infection, virus, herpes, therapy, aciclovir, ganciclovir	Various studies were done during a spontaneous outbreak of stomatitis-rhinitis-complex (mouth rot) in a collection of Mediterranean land tortoises (21 Testudo