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  Regional List of References on Endangered, Threatened, and Recently Extinct Vertebrates
 
 

 

This section includes a representative sampling of state and regional publications that provide species accounts and/or status reports.

        Ashton, D., and E. Dowd
1991 Fragile Legacy: Endangered, Threatened and Rare Animals of South Dakota. South Dakota Department of Game, Fish & Parks, Pierre, South Dakota. 54 pp.
        Ashton, R.E. (Series Editor)
1992 Rare and Endangered Biota of Florida. Gainesville, University Press of Florida. Volume I: Mammals, edited by S.R. Humphrey; Volume 2: Fishes, edited by C.R. Gilbert; Volume 3, Amphibians and Reptiles, edited by P.E. Moler. (Revision and Updating of 1978 edition.)
        Brunstetter, R. and R. Kuhler
1987 to 1997 Endangered, Threatened, and Rare Fauna of North Carolina. Occasional papers of the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences and the North Carolina Biological survey No. 11. (part 1. A re-evaluation of the mammals, edited by M.K. Clark; part 2. A re-evaluation of the marine and estuarine fishes by S.W. Ross et al; part 3. A re-evaluation of the birds edited by D.S. Lee and J.F. Parnell; part 4 Reevaluation of the freshwater fishes edited by E.F. Menhinick and A.L. Braswell.)
        Campbell, L.
1995 Endangered and Threatened Animals of Texas: their life history and management. Texas Parks & Wildlife, Resource Protection Division. University of Texas Press, Austin.
        Collins, J.T.
1995 An Illustrated Guide to Endangered or Threatened Species in Kansas. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence. 140 pp.
        Eagar, D.G. and R.M. Hatcher (Editors)
1980 Tennessee's Rare Wildlife. Vol. I: the Vertebrates. Birds by F.J. Alsop III, 113 pp.; Fishes by W.C. Starnes and D.A. Etnier, 134 pp.[See Fishes Section:Etnier and Starnes]; Mammals by M.L. Kennedy and M.J. Harvey, 50 pp.; Reptiles and Amphibians introduced by A. Echternacht, 33 pp. Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, Nashville. (Available from  Tennessee Heritage Program, Dept. of Conservation, 2611 West End Ave., Nashville, Tennessee 37203.)
        Mount, R.H. (Editor)
1986 Vertebrate Animals of Alabama in Need of Special Attention. Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station Auburn University, Alabama. 124 pp. (Species accounts, photograph, and status.)
Odom, R.R. and J.W. Guthrie
1981 Proceedings of the Nongame and Endangered Wildlife Symposium, August 13-14, Athens, Georgia.  Georgia Department of Natural, Game and Fish Division, Technical Bulletin WL5. 179 pp.(Papers on the management, status, and conservation of nongame reptile, bird, and mammal species)
        Pennsylvania Biological Survey
1985 Species of Special Concern in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Biological Survey. 430 pp. (Status,life history, ecology of rare and endangered species in Pennsylvania; available from the Publication Secretary, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213.)
        Terwilliger, K (Coordinator)
l991 Virginia's Endangered Species. Proceedings of the Symposium on Virginia's Endangered Species, Virginia Tech., April 28-29. Blacksburg, Virginia. McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co. Blacksburg, Virginia. 500 pp. (Includes plants by D.M.Porter, arthropods by R. Hoffman, mollusks by R. Neves, fishes by R.E. Jenkins, amphibians and reptiles by J. Mitchell, birds by M.A. Byrd and mammals by C.O. Handley, Jr.)
        Terwilliger, K. and J. R. Tate
1995 A Guide to Endangered and Threatened Species in Virginia. Abridgement and update of Virginia's Endangered Species, 1991. McDonald & Woodward Pub., Blacksburg, Virginia. 220 pp.
         U.S. Department of the Interior
1980 Selected Vertebrate and Endangered Species of the Seacoast of the United States. Biological Services Program, National Fish and Wildlife Laboratory, Washington, D.C. (58 species accounts)
 
         White, C.
1982 Endangered & Threatened Wildlife of the Chesapeake Bay Region: Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. Tidewater Pub., Centreville, Maryland. 147 pp. (Field guide documenting the status, description, habitat, behavior and distribution of 41 federally protected species.)

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