A WORKING GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE ON BOX TURTLES (TERRAPENE):

Life History, Evolution, Fossil Record, External Morphology, Conservation

Compiled by: C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr.,
Florida Integrated Science Center
U.S. Geological Survey
Gainesville, Florida 32653

Last Update: April, 2008
 

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Adams, N.A., D.L. Claussen, and J. Skillings. 1989. Effects of temperature on voluntary locomotion of the eastern box turtle, Terrapene carolina carolina. Copeia 1989:905-915.

Adams, S.R. and M.C. DeCarvalho, Jr. 1984. Rates of heat exchange in the ornate box turtle, Terrapene ornata. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 79A: 359-361.

Adler, K. 1968a. Turtles from archeological sites in the Great Lakes Region. Michigan Archeologist 14:147-163.

Adler, K. 1970. The influence of prehistoric man on the distribution of the box turtle. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 41(9):263-280.

Agassiz, L. 1857. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. Vol. II. Little, Brown and Co., Boston.

Allard, H. A. 1935. The natural history of the box turtle. Sci. Monthly 41:325-338.

Allard, H. A. 1939. Mating of the box turtle ending in death to the male. Copeia 1939:109.

Allard, H. A. 1948. The eastern box turtle and its behavior. J. Tennessee Acad. Sci. 23:307-321.

Allard, H. A. 1949. The eastern box turtle and its behavior. J. Tennessee Acad. Sci. 24:146-152.

Allen, J.A. 1868. Catalogue of the reptiles and batrachians found in the vicinity of Springfield, Massachusetts, with notices of all other species known to inhabit the state. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 12:171-204.

Allen, R. and W.T. Neill. 1952. The box turtles. Florida Wildl. 5(9):16, 38.

Alsop, F.J., III. And G.O. Wallace. 1978. Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina) feeding on TV tower-killed birds. J. Tennessee Acad. Sci.53:134.

Altland, P. D. 1951. Observations on the structure of the reproductive organs of the box turtle. J. Morph. 89:599-621.

Altland, P.D., B. Highman, and B. Wood. 1951. Some effects of X-irradiation on turtles. J. Exp. Zool. 118:1-19.

Amaral, J.P.S. do, G.A. Marvin, and V.H. Hutchison. 2002. The influence of bacterial lipopolysaccharide on the thermoregulation of the box turtle Terrapene carolina. Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 75:273-282.

Anonymous. 1993. Portrait: Terrapene ornata. CITS Bull. 1:18-22. [short review adapted from Stebbins, 1985]

Anton, T.G. 1990. Predation on the house sparrow, Passer domesticus, by the Gulf Coast box turtle, Terrapene carolina major, under seminatural conditions. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 25:143-144.

Applegate, R.D. 1975. A range extension of the eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina) in Illinois. Trans. Illinois State Acad. Sci. 68:17.

Arndt, R. G. 1980. An albino eastern box turtle, Terrapene c. carolina, from North Carolina. Herp. Rev. 11:30.

Auffenberg, W. 1958. Fossil turtles of the genus Terrapene in Florida. Bull. Florida Mus. Nat. Hist., Biol. Sci. 3:53-92.

Auffenberg, W. 1959. A Pleistocene Terrapene hibernaculum, with remarks on a  second complete box turtle skull from Florida. Quart. J. Florida Acad. Sci. 22:49-53.

Auffenberg, W. 1967. Further notes on fossil box turtles of Florida. Copeia. 1967:319-325

Auffenberg, W.W. and W.W. Milstead. 1965. Reptiles in the Quaternary of North America. Pp. 557-568 In: H.E. Wright, Jr. and D.G. Frey (eds.), The Quaternary in the United States. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Avent, J.M. 1988. Initialed terrapin turns up in garden 47 years later. The Knoxville News-Sentinel, September 21.

Babbitt, L.H. and C.H. Babbitt. 1951. A herpetological study in burned-over areas in Dade County, Florida. Copeia 1951:79.

Babcock, H.L. 1919. The turtles of New England. Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 8:325-431.

Babcock, H.L. 1928. The long life of turtles. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 46:9-10.

Babcock, H.L. 1939. Growth of an individual box turtle. Copeia 1939:175.

Baker, M.R. 1987. Synopsis of the nematoda parasitic in amphibians and reptiles. Mem. Univ. Newfoundland Occas. Pap. Biol. (11):1-325.

Barbour, R. 1968. The box terrapin. Kentucky Happy Hunting Ground 24(5):33.

Barbour, R. 1971. Amphibians & Reptiles of Kentucky. Univ. Press Kentucky, Lexington.

Barbour, T. and H.C. Stetson. 1931. A revision of the Pleistocene species of Terrapene of Florida. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. 72:295-299.

Barnett, S.L. and B.R. Whitaker. 2004. Indoor care of North American box turtles. Exotic Veterinary Magazine 6(1):23-29.

Barten, S.L. 1981. Shell anomaly in a three-toed box turtle, Terrapene carolina triunguis: a unilateral pattern. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 16:47-49.

Bartlett, R.D. 1979. Meet the box turtles. Trop. Fish Hobbyist 27:87-95.

Bartlett, R.D. and P.P. Bartlett. 1999. A Field Guide to Florida Reptiles and Amphibians. Gulf Publ. Co., Houston, TX.

Baur, G. 1891. American box tortoises. Science 17:190-191.

Baur, G. 1893. Further notes on American box turtles. Amer. Nat. 27:677-678.

Baur, M. and I. Jasser-Hager. 2006. Notes on captive husbandry and breeding of the Coahuilan box turtle, Terrapene coahuila (Schmidt & Owens, 1944) considering behaviour in and data from the natural habitat. Pp. 268-291 In: H. Artner, B. Farkas and V. Loehr (eds.), Turtles. Proceedings: International Turtle & Tortoise Symposium Vienna 2002. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 618 pp.

Baur, M. and I. Jasser-Hager. 2006. The Mexican aquatic box turtle, Terrapene coahuila Schmidt & Owens, 1944. Husbandry and breeding to the F2 generation. Radiata 15(4):40-49.

Baxter, G. T. and M. D. Stone. 1980. Amphibians and Reptiles of Wyoming. Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Cheyenne.

Bayless, J.W. 1984. Home range studies of the eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) using radio telemetry. Unpubl. M.S. thesis, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, Virginia.

Behler, J.L. 1971. Coahuilan box turtle Terrapene coahuila. Anim. Kingdom 74:33.

Bels, V.L., J. Davenport, and V. Delheusy. 1997. Kinematic analysis of the feeding behavior in the box turtle Terrapene carolina (L.), (Reptilia:Emydidae). J. Exp. Zool. 277:198-212.

Beltz, E. 1998. HerPet-pourri. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 33:15-17.

Belusz, L.C. and R.J. Reed. 1969. Some epizoophytes on six turtle species collected in Massachusetts and Michigan. Amer. Midl. Nat. 81:598-601.

Belzer, B. 2002. A nine year study of eastern box turtle courtship with implications for reproductive success and conservation in a translocated population. Turtle and Tortoise Newsl. 6:17-26.

Belzer, B. and M.B. Steisslinger. 1999. The box turtle. Room with a view on species decline. American Biology Teacher 61(7):510-513.

Belzer, W. 1997. Box turtle conservation issues. Reptile & Amphibian Mag. (Jul/Aug):32-35.

Belzer, W.R., S. Seibert, and B. Atkinson. 2002. Putative chipmunk predation of juvenile eastern box turtles. Turtle and Tortoise Newsl. 5:8-9.

Bentley, C.C. and J.L. Knight. 1998. Turtles (Reptilia: Testudines) of the Ardis Local Fauna Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) of South Carolina. Brimleyana 25:3-33.

Beresford, W.A., M.P. Donovan, J.H. Henninger, and M.P. Waalkes. 1981. Lead in the bone and soft tissues of box turtles caught near smelters. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 27:349-352.

Bernstein, N.P. and R.W. Black. 2005. Thermal environment of overwintering ornate box turtles, Terrapene ornata ornata, in Iowa. Amer. Midl. Nat. 153:370-377.

Bernstein, N.P., R.J. Richtsmeier, R.W. Black and B.R. Mongomery.  2007. Home range and philopatry in the ornate box turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata, in Iowa. Am. Midl. Nat. 157: 162-174.

Bethea, N.J. 1972. Effects of temperature on heart rate and rates of cooling and warming in Terrapene ornata. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 41A:301-305.

Bigham, S.R., J.L. Hepworth and R.P. Martin. 1965. A casuality count following a fire. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 45:47-50.

Black, J.H. 1987. Do ornate box turtles prey on birds? Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 23:130-132.

Blair, W. F. 1976. Some aspects of the biology of the ornate box turtle, Terrapene ornata. Southwest. Nat. 21:89-104.

Blanchard, S.E. and L.H. Princen. 1976. Survey on the occurrence of reptiles and amphibians in central Illinois. Peoria Acad. Sci. Proc. 9:29-35.

Blaney, R. M. 1968. Hybridization of the box turtles Terrapene carolina and T. ornata in western Louisiana. Proc. Louisiana Acad. Sci. 31:54-57.

Blaney, R.M. 1971. An annotated checklist and biogeographic analysis of the insular herpetofauna of the Apalachicola region, Florida. Herpetologica 27:407-430.

Bleakney, S. 1958. The significance of turtle bones from archeological sites in southern Ontario and Quebec. Can. Field-Nat. 72:1-5.

Bogert, C.M. 1943. A new box turtle from southeastern Sonora, Mexico. Amer. Mus. Novitates No. 1226, 7 pp.

Bogert, C.M. and R.B. Cowles. 1947. Moisture loss in relation to habitat selection in some Floridian reptiles. Amer. Mus. Novitates (1358):1-34.

Boice, R. 1970. Competitive feeding behaviours in captive Terrapene c. carolina. Anim. Behav. 18:703-710.

Boice, R., C.B. Quanty, and R.C. Williams. 1974. Competition and possible dominance in turtles, toads, and frogs. J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 86:1116-1131.

Bonin, F., J. Buskirk, and B. Devaux. 2003. Carnets du Mexique. La Tortue 61:22-37.

Bonnemains, J. and R. Bour. 1996. Les chéloniens de la collection Lesueur du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle du Havre. Bull. Trim. Soc. Géol. Normandie et Amis Muséum du Havre 83:5-45.

Boucher, T.P. 1999. Population, growth, and thermal ecology of the eastern box turtle, Terrapene carolina carolina (L), in Fairfax County, Virginia. PhD diss., George Mason Univ., Fairfax, Virginia.

Boucher, T. P. and C. H. Ernst. 2004. Life history notes. Terrapene carolina carolina (Eastern Box Turtle). Injuries. Herpetol. Rev. 35:56-57.

Bowen, K.D., P.L. Colbert, and F.J. Janzen. 2004. Survival and recruitment in a human-impacted population of ornate box turtles, Terrapene ornata, with recommendations for conservation and management. J. Herpetol. 38:562-568.

Boyer, T. H. 1992. Common problems of box turtles (Terrapene sp.) in captivity. Bull. Assoc. Rept. Amphib. Vet. 2(1):9-14.

Boyer, T. H. 1996. Hypovitaminosis A and hypervitaminosis A. In D. R. Mader (ed.), Reptile  Medicine and Surgery, pp. 382-385. W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Bramble, D.M. 1974. Emydid shell kinesis: biomechanics and evolution. Copeia 1974:707-727.

Braun, J. and G.R. Brooks, Jr. 1987. Box turtles (Terrapene carolina) as potential agents for seed dispersal. Amer. Midl. Nat. 117:312-318.

Breder, R.B. 1924. Notes on the drinking habits of Terrapene carolina (Linnaeus). Copeia (131):63-64.

Breder, R.B. 1927. Turtle trailing: A new technique for studying the life habits of certain testudinata. Zoologica 9(4):231-243.

Brennan, T.C. and M.J. Feldner. 2003. Natural history notes: Terrepene ornata luteola (Desert Box Turtle). High elevation record. Herpetol. Rev. 34: 59.

Brimley, C.S. 1904. The box tortoises of southeastern North America. J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 20:1-8.

Brimley, C.S. 1943. Reptiles and Amphibians of North Carolina. Carolina Tips 6:2-3, 6-7, 10-11, 14-15, 18-19.

Brisbin, I.L., Jr. 1972. Seasonal variations in the live weights and major body components of captive box turtles. Herpetologica 28:70-75.

Brodman, R. 2001.  New county records of amphibians and reptiles from Indiana. Herpetol.  Rev. 32:282-284.

Brodman, R. 2003. Amphibians and reptiles from twenty-three counties of Indiana. Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 112:43-54.

Brown, E.E. 1992. Notes on amphibians and reptiles of the western Piedmont of North Carolina. J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 108:38-54.

Brown, W.D.  2002. Living Legends: The Box Turtles of Patuxent Research Refuge. Fauna 3(1):8-13.

Brown, W.D. 2004. Life history notes. Terrapene carolina carolina (Eastern Box Turtle). Post mortem involuntary response. Herpetol. Rev. 35:56.

Brown, W.D. 2004. Life history notes. Terrapene carolina carolina (Eastern Box Turtle). Diet. Herpetol. Rev. 35:56.

Brown, W.S. 1971. Morphometrics of Terrapene coahuila (Chelonia, Emydidae), with comments on its evolutionary status. Southwest. Nat. 16:171-184.

Brown, W.S. 1974. Ecology of the aquatic box turtle, Terrapene coahuila (Chelonia, Emydidae) in northern Mexico. Bull. Florida St. Mus., Biol. Sci. 19:1-67.

Brumwell, M.J. 1940. Notes on the courtship of the turtle, Terrapene ornata. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 43:391-392.

Budischak, S.A., J.M. Hester, M.E. Dorcas and S.J. Price. 2005. The natural history of box turtles (Terrapene carolina) in an urbanized landscape. SE Biol. 52: 191-192. (Abstract)

Budischak, S.A., J.M. Hester, S.J. Price and M.E. Dorcas. 2006. Natural history of Terrapene carolina (Box Turtles) in an urbanized landscape. Southeastern Naturalist 5:191-204.

Burt, C.E. and W.L. Hoyle. 1934. Additional records of the reptiles of the Central Prairie Region of the United States. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 37:193-216.

Busby, T. 2004. A two-year survey of box turtles in Lake Needwood Park, Maryland. Pp. 53-54 In C.W. Swarth, W.M. Roosenburg and E. Kiviat (eds.), Conservation and Ecology of Turtles of the Mid-Atlantic Region. A Symposium. Bibliomania, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Bush, F.M. 1959. Foods of some Kentucky herptiles. Herpetologica 15:73-77.

Buskirk, J.R. 1993. Yucatan box turtle Terrapene carolina yucatana. Tortuga Gazette 29(5):1-4.

Buskirk, J.R. 2002.  The mysterious Mexican spotted box turtle, Terrapene nelsoni Stejneger, 1925. Radiata 11(1):3-11.

Cahn, A.R. 1937. The turtles of Illinois. Illinois Biol. Monogr. 16:1-218.
 
Cahn, A.R. and E. Conder. 1932. Mating of the box turtles. Copeia 1932:86-88.

Carpenter, C.C. 1956. Carapace pits in the three-toed box turtle, Terrapene carolina triunguis (Chelonia-Emydidae). Southwest. Nat. 1:83-86.

Carpenter, C.C. 1957. Hibernation, hibernacula and associated behavior of the three-toed box turtle (Terrapene carolina triunguis). Copeia 1957:278-282.

Carpenter, C.C. and J.J. Krupa. 1989. Oklahoma Herpetology. An Annotated Bibliography. Univ. Oklahoma Press, Norman.

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Carr, A.F. 1994. A Naturalist in Florida. A Celebration of Eden. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, Connecticut.

Carr, J.L. and T.W. Houseal. 1981. Post hibernation behavior in Terrapene carolina triunguis (Emydidae). Southwest. Nat. 26:199-200.

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C.D. Rittenhouse, Millspaugh, J.J., M.W. Hubbard and S.L. Sheriff. 2007. Movements of translocated and resident three-toed box turtles. J. Herpetol. 41:115-121.

Cerda, A. and D. Waugh. 1992. Status and management of the Mexican box terrapin Terrapene coahuila at the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. Dodo, J. Jersey Wildl. Preserv. Trust 28:126-142.

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Clark, H. W. 1935. On the occurrence of a probable hybrid between the eastern and western box turtles, Terrapene carolina and T. ornata, near Lake Maxinkuckee, Indiana. Copeia 1935:148-150.

Clark, W.S. 1982. Turtles as a food source of nesting bald eagles in the Chesapeake Bay region. J. Field Ornithol. 53:49-51.

Clarke, R.F. 1950. Notes on the ornate box turtle. Herpetologica 6:54.

Clarke, R.F. 1956. A case of possible overwintering of Terrapene o. ornata in a well. Herpetologica 12:131.

Claussen, D.L., P.M. Daniel, S. Jiang, and N.A. Adams. 1991. Hibernation in the eastern box turtle, Terrapene c. carolina. J. Herpetol. 25:334-341.

Claussen, D.L., M.S. Finkler, and M.M. Smith. 1997. Thread trailing of turtles: methods for evaluating spatial movements and pathway structure. Can. J. Zool. 75:2120-2128.

Claussen, D.L., M.S. Finkler, and M.M. Smith. 1998. Erratum: thread trailing of turtles: methods for evaluating spatial movements and pathway structure. Can. J. Zool. 76:387-389.

Claussen, D.L., R. Lim, M. Kurz, and K. Wren. 2002. Effects of slope, substrate, and temperature on the locomotion of the ornate box turtle, Terrapene ornata. Copeia 2002:411-418.

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Congdon, J.D., R.E. Gatten, Jr., and S.J. Morreale. 1989. Overwintering activity of box turtles (Terrapene carolina) in South Carolina. J. Herpetol. 23:179-181.

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Dixon, J.R. 1987. Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas. Texas A&M Univ. Press, College Station, Texas.

Dodd, C.K., Jr. 1997a. Clutch size and frequency in Florida box turtles (Terrapene carolina bauri): Implications for conservation. Chel. Conserv. Biol. 2(3):370-377.

Dodd, C.K., Jr. 1997b. Population structure and the evolution of sexual size dimorphism and sex ratios in an insular population of Florida box turtles (Terrapene carolina bauri). Can. J. Zool. 75:1495-1507.

Dodd, C.K., Jr. 1998. Biomass of an island population of Florida box turtles (Terrapene carolina bauri). J. Herpetol. 32:150-152.

Dodd, C. K., Jr. 2001. North American Box Turtles. A Natural History. Univ. Oklahoma Press, Norman. 231 pp.

Dodd, C. K., Jr. 2003. Etude sur la Tortue-boîte de Floride (Terrapene carolina bauri) à Egmont Key, Floride. Manouria (20): 26-34.

Dodd, C.K., Jr. 2005. Dilemma of the common species: Florida Box Turtles. Iguana 12(3): 152-159.

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