Book Recommendations

Home | Frogs & Toads | Salamanders | Lizards | Snakes | Turtles | Conservation | Membership

Virginia Specific Resources

• Linzey, Donald W. and Michael J. Clifford. 2002. Snakes of Virginia. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. 173 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.
• Mitchell, Joseph C. and Reay, Karen K. 1999. Atlas of Amphibians & Reptiles in Virginia. Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Special Publication Number 1, Wildlife Diversity Division, Richmond, VA. 122 pages.
• Mitchell, Joseph C. 1994. The Reptiles of Virginia. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 352 pages.
• Martof, B.S., W.M. Palmer, J.R. Bailey, J.R. Harrison III and J. Dermid. 1980. Amphibians and Reptiles of the Carolinas and Virginia. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC. 264 pages.

General Resources

Frogs & Toads

• Dorcas, Mike & 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

• 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

• Gibbons, Whit & Dorcas, Mike. 2005. Snakes of the Southeast. University of Georgia Press. 253 pages.
• Gibbons, J. Whitfield & Dorcas, Michael E. 2004. North American Watersnakes - A Natural History. University of Oklahoma Press. 438 pages.
• 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.
  
• Tennant, Alan and R.D. Bartlett. 2000. Snakes of North America Eastern and Central Regions. Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, TX. 588 pages.
• Gloyd, Howard K. & Conant, Roger. 1990. Snakes of the Agkistrodon Complex. Oxford, Ohio. 614 pages.

Turtles

• Buhlmann, Kurt, Tuberville, Tracey & Gibbons, Whit. 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

• 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.
• Hulse, Authur C., McCoy C. J., Censky, Ellen. 2001. Amphibians and Reptiles of Pennsylvania and the Northeast. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. 419 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.
• 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.