Book Recommendations

Virginia Specific Resources

  • Kleopfer, J.D., Mitchell, J.C., Pinder, M.J. and Watson, S.H. 2017. A Guide to The Snake and Lizards of Virginia. Special Publication Number 6, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Richmond, VA. 72 pages.
  • Kleopfer, J.D. and C.S. Hobson. 2011. A Guide to the Frogs and Toads of Virginia. Bureau of Wildlife Resources Special Publication Number 3, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Richmond, VA. 44 pages.
  • Kleopfer, J.D., T.S.B. Akre, S. H. Watson and R. Boettcher. 2014. A Guide to the Turtles of Virginia. Bureau of Wildlife Resources Special Publication Number 4, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Richmond, VA. 44 pages.
  • Linzey, Donald W. and Michael J. Clifford. 2002. Snakes of Virginia. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. 173 pages.
  • Mitchell, Joseph C. 1994. The Reptiles of Virginia. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 352 pages.
  • Jeffrey C. Beane, Alvin L. Braswell, Joseph C. Mitchell, William M. Palmer, and Julian R. Harrison III. 2010. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Carolinas and Virginia. 2nd Ed, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC. 288 pages.
  • Pinder, M.J. and J.C. Mitchell. 2001. A Guide to the Snakes of Virginia. Wildlife Diversity Special Publication Number 2, Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries. Richmond, VA. 32 pages.

General Resources

Frogs & Toads

  • Gibbons, Whit. 2008. Frogs and Toads of the Southeast. University of Georgia Press. 264 pages.
  • Wright, Albert H. & Anna A, Wright. 1933. Handbook of Frogs and Toads of the United States and Canada. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. 640 pages.

Salamanders

  • Mitchell, Joe & Gibbons, Whit. 2010. Salamanders of the Southeast. University of Georgia Press. 336 pages.
  • Petranka, James W. 1998. Salamanders of the United States and Canada. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 587 pages.
  • Bishop, Sherman C. 1943. Handbook of Salamanders. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. 555 pages.

Snakes

  • Ernst, C.H. and G.R. Zug. 2004. Snakes in Question. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. 177 pages.
  • Ernst, Carl H. and Ernst, Evelyn M. 2003. Snakes of the United States and Canada. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. 668 pages.
  • Gibbons, Whit & 2005. Snakes of the Southeast. University of Georgia Press. 253 pages.
  • Gibbons, J. Whitfield 2004. North American Watersnakes - A Natural History. University of Oklahoma Press. 438 pages.
  • Gloyd, Howard K. & Conant, Roger. 1990. Snakes of the Agkistrodon Complex. Oxford, Ohio. 614 pages.
  • Tennant, Alan and R.D. Bartlett. 2000. Snakes of North America Eastern and Central Regions. Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, TX. 588 pages.

Turtles

  • Buhlmann, Kurt, Tuberville, Tracey & Gibbons, Whit. 2008. Turtles of the Southeast. University of Georgia Press.252 pages.
  • Ernst, C.H., J.E. Lovich and R.W Barbour. 1994. Turtles of the United States and Canada. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 578 pages.

Reptiles & Amphibians

  • Behler, John L., King, F. Wayne. 1979. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles & Amphibians. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, NY. 743 pages.
  • Conant, R. and J.T. Collins. 1998. A Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles, Eastern and Central North America. Expanded, Third Edition. Houghton Mifflin, Co., Boston, MA. 616 pages.
  • Green, N. Bayard and Thomas K. Pauley. 1987. Amphibians & Reptiles in West Virginia. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA. 241 pages.
  • Hulse, Authur C., McCoy C. J., Censky, Ellen. 2001. Amphibians and Reptiles of Pennsylvania and the Northeast. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. 419 pages.
  • Jensen, John B. 2008. Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia. University of Georgia Press. 575 pages.
  • White, James F. Jr. and White, Amy Wendt. 2002. Amphibians and Reptiles of DELMARVA. Tidewater Publishers, Centreville, MD. 248 pages.

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