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Caiman crocodilus (reptile)

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24 references found for Caiman crocodilus:

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1. Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission (GSMFC) 2005. Non-Native Aquatic Species in the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic Regions: Caiman crocodilus (Linnaeus)
Summary: Available from: http://nis.gsmfc.org/nis_factsheet.php?toc_id=207 [Accessed 19 November 2007]

2. Somma, Louis A., 2008. Caiman crocodilus. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL.
Summary: Available from: http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=222 [Accessed 19 November 2007]

3. Witmer, Gary W., Patrick W. Burke, Will C. Pitt, Michael L. Avery ., 2007. Management of Invasive Vertebrates in the United States: An Overview. USDA National Wildlife Research Center Symposia Managing Vertebrate Invasive Species University of Nebraska - Lincoln Year 2007
Summary: Available from: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1055&context=nwrcinvasive [Accessed 10 September 2008]

General references

4. Behler, J.L. 1979. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Retiles and Amphibians. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. New York. 743 pp.

5. Brochua, Christopher A., ,Ángel M. Nieves-Rivera, Jorge Vélez-Juarbe, Juan D. Daza-Vaca and Hernán Santos., 2007. Tertiary crocodylians from Puerto Rico: Evidence for Late Tertiary endemic crocodylians in the West Indies? [Crocodiliens tertiaires de Porto Rico : preuve de l’existence de crocodiliens endémiques dans les Antilles ?Cocodrilos terciarios de Puerto Rico: ¿prueba de la existencia de cocodrilos endémico en las Antillas?] Geobios Volume 40, Issue 1, January-February 2007, Pages 51-59

6. Conant, R., and J.T. Collins. 1991. Reptiles And Amphibians. Eastern/Central North America. Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston. 450 Pp.

7. Crocodile Specialist Group 1996. Crocodylus rhombifer. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Summary: Available from: http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/5670/all [Accessed 10 September 2008]

8. Crocodilian Biology Database 2002. Caiman crocodilus (LINNAEUS, 1758) hosted by the IUCN SSC Crocodile Specialist Group (CSG)
Summary: Available from: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/cnhc/csp_ccro.htm [Accessed 19 November 2007]

9. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission., undated. Checklist of Florida's Amphibians and Reptiles.
Summary: Available from: http://www.fs.fed.us/outdoors/naturewatch/implementation/Wildlife/chcklst-florida%20amphibs-reptiles.pdf [Accessed 10 September 2008]

10. Forero-Medina, German; Castano-Mora, Olga Victoria; Rodriguez-Melo, Miguel., 2006. Ecology of Caiman crocodilus fuscus on San Andres Island, Colombia: A preliminary study. Caldasia. 28(1). JUN 30 2006. 115-123
Summary: Fulltext in Spanish.
Available from: http://www.scielo.org.co/pdf/cal/v28n1/v28n1a11.pdf [Accessed 8 September 2008]

11. Hertner, George, 2006. Caiman bite. Wilderness & Environmental Medicine. 17(4). WIN 2006. 267-270.

12. ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System), 2005. Online Database Caiman crocodilus
Summary: An online database that provides taxonomic information, common names, synonyms and geographical jurisdiction of a species. In addition links are provided to retrieve biological records and collection information from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Data Portal and bioscience articles from BioOne journals.
Available from: http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=174370 [Accessed20 November 2007]

13. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) undated. Taxonomy Browser Caiman crocodilus
Summary: Available from: hhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=8499&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock [Accessed 19 November 2007]

14. Rivero, J. A. 1998. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Puerto Rico. 2nd Ed. Univ Puerto Rico Editorial. 369-371

15. Ross, 1998 J.P. Ross, Crocodiles. Status survey and conservation action plan (Second Edition), International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland (1998).
Summary: Available from: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/act-plan/plan1998a.htm#Contents [Accessed 10 September 2008]

16. Schwartz, A & Henderson, R.W., 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, distributions and natural history, University of Florida Press, Gainesville (1991).

17. Smith, Hobart M.& Anthony J. Kohler., 1977. A Survey of Herpetological Introductions in the United States and Canada. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science (1903-), Vol. 80, No. 1/2 (Spring - Summer, 1977), pp. 1-24 Published by: Kansas Academy

18. Smithsonian National Zoological Park., 2000. Cuban Crocodile Crocodylus rhombifer. Friends of the National Zoo.
Summary: Available from: http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Amazonia/Facts/fact-cubancrocodile.cfm [Accessed 10 September 2008]

19. The Reptile Database, 2007. Caiman crocodilus Linnaeus, 1758
Summary: Available from: http://www.tigr.org/reptiles/species.php?genus=Caiman&species=crocodilus [Accessed 20 November 2007]

20. UNEP-WCMC Species Database., 2008. Caiman crocodilus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Summary: Available from: http://www.unep-wcmc.org/isdb/Taxonomy/tax-species-result.cfm?Genus=Caiman&species=crocodilus&source=animals&tabname=distribution [Accessed 10 September 2008]

21. Vidthayanon, Chavalit., Country reports Aquatic alien species in Thailand (Part 1): Biodiversity
Summary: Available from: ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/008/a0113e/a0113e11.pdf [Accessed 10 September 2008]

22. Williams, E. H. 1995. Parasites of caimans in Puerto Rico. Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter (IUCN). 14(4):18-19.
Summary: Available from: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpetology/newsletter/news144c.htm [Accessed 19 November 2007]

23. Witmer, Gary W. & Jeffrey C. Lewis., 2001. Introduced Wildlife of Oregon and Washington. Wildlife Damage Management, Internet Center for USDA National Wildlife Research Center - Staff Publications. University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Summary: Available from: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1652&context=icwdm_usdanwrc [Accessed 10 September 2008]

24. Ximena, Bernal, E., 2006. Caiman crocodilus (spectacled caiman). Predation/eavesdropper. Herpetological Review. 37(4). DEC 2006. 460-461.
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