Alligator Snapping Turtle Publications
Thomas TM, Enge KM, Suarez E, Schueller P, Bankovich B, et al. 2024. Home range and habitat selection of the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys suwanniensis) in the Suwannee River, Florida. Chelonian Conserv Biol. 22(2):146-155. Order Publication.
Carr, J. L., T. Jerry, D. B. Ligon, K. M. Enge, C. J. Krueger, T. M. Thomas, G. Brashear, G. R. Johnston, M. Gordon, G. Lloyd, E. P. Hill, D. J. Stevenson, and D. A. Steen. 2023. Nesting emergences and other terrestrial movements of Macrochelys (Testudines: Chelydridae). Southeastern Naturalist 22(sp12):378-387. Request Publication.
Enge, K. M., J. D. Mays, T. M. Thomas, E. P. Hill, E. T. Stonecypher, and M. T. Fedler. 2023. Distribution and relative abundance of Macrochelys (alligator snapping turtles) in the Florida Panhandle. Southeastern Naturalist 22(sp12):84-99. Request Publication.
K. M. Enge, T. M. Thomas, G. Brashear, and J. R. Willmott. 2023. Observations of male combat in alligator snapping turtles in Florida and Georgia. Southeastern Naturalist 22(sp12):388-392. Request Publication.
Johnston, G. R., J. S. Geiger, T. M. Thomas, K. M. Enge, E. Suarez, and B. Davis. 2023. Maximum body size of the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys suwanniensis). Southeastern Naturalist 22(sp12):418-428. Request Publication.
Shook, A. K., C. D. Battaglia, K. M. Enge, C. J. Franklin, J. C. Godwin, A. C. Johnson, E. J. Kessler, E. Munscher, K. Norrid, L. Pearson, V. Ricardez, D. J. Stevenson, T. M. Thomas, and J. L. Carr. 2023. Anthropogenic threats to alligator snapping turtles (Chelydridae: Macrochelys). Southeastern Naturalist 22(sp12):25-55. Request Publication.
Thomas, T. M., K. M. Enge, E. Suarez, S. C. Barry, and S. A. Johnson. 2023. Variation in relative abundance, population structure, and body size of the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys suwanniensis) in the Suwannee River. Southeastern Naturalist 22(sp12):264-274. Request Publication.
Enge, K. M., T. M. Thomas, and G. R. Johnston. 2022. Macrochelys suwanniensis (Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle). Kyphosis. Herpetological Review 53(1):122-123. Access Publication.
Thomas, T. M., K. M. Enge, E. Suarez, and G. R. Johnston. 2022. Population status of the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys suwanniensis) in the Suwannee River, Florida. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 21(1):2-10. Request Publication.
Threadgill, M. and K. M. Enge. 2022. Macrochelys apalachicolae (Apalachicola Alligator Snapping Turtle). Unusual Juvenile Movement. Herpetological Review 53(2):312-313. Request Publication.
Enge, K. M. and J. R. Murray. 2021. Macrochelys suwanniensis (Suwannee alligator snapping turtle). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 52(2):392-393. Access Publication.
Enge, K. M., B. Smith, B. Talley, T. Cannon, T. Thomas, and D. Catizone. 2021. Coastal observations of alligator snapping turtles in the Florida panhandle. Florida Field Naturalist 49(3):138-147. Request Publication.
Enge, K. M., D. J. Stevenson, T. M. Thomas, G. R. Johnston, J. B. Jensen, B. S. Stegenga, H. C. Chandler, and P. E. Moler. 2021. Distribution and relative abundance of the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys suwanniensis). Chelonian Conservation and Biology 20(2):184-199. Request Publication.
Enge, K. M., E. D. Stonecypher, E. P. Hill, M. T. Fedler, and J. D. Mays. 2019. Status and distribution of the alligator snapping turtle in Florida’s Panhandle. Final Report, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Wildlife Research Section, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 44pp.
Enge, K. M., D. R. Jackson, P. A. Meylan, P. E. Moler, and T. M. Thomas. 2017. Alligator snapping turtle species biological status review report. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 49pp.
Mays, J. D., and E. P. Hill. 2015. Macrochelys apalachicolae (Apalachicola alligator snapping turtle). Aerial basking. Herpetological Review 46:425. Request Publication.
Mays, J., T. Thomas, and K. Enge. 2015. Alligator snapping turtle survey. Final Report, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Wildlife Research Section, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 22pp. Access Publication.
Enge, K. M., P. E. Moler, and T. M. Thomas. 2014. Distributional survey of the alligator snapping turtle. Final Report, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Wildlife Research Laboratory, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 4pp.
Enge, K. M., T. M. Thomas, and E. Suarez. 2014. Population status, distribution, and movements of the alligator snapping turtle in the Suwannee River, Florida. Final Report, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Wildlife Research Laboratory, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 47pp.
Thomas, T. M., M. C. Granatosky, J. R. Bourque, K. L. Krysko, P. E. Moler, T. Gamble, E. Suarez, E. Leone, and J. Roman. 2014. Taxonomic assessment of alligator snapping turtles (Chelydridae: Macrochelys), with the description of two new species from the southeastern United States. Zootaxa 3786(2);141-165. Request Publication.
Enge, K. M., T. M. Thomas, and E. Suarez. 2013. Population status and distribution of the alligator snapping turtle in the Suwannee River, Florida. Final Report, Conserve Wildlife Tag Grants Project No. CWT 1112-04. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Wildlife Research Laboratory, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 39pp. Access Publication.
Telford, S. R., Jr., T. M. Norton, P. E. Moler, and J. B. Jensen. 2009. A new haemogregarina species of the alligator snapping turtle, Macrochelys temminckii (Testudines:Chelydridae), in Georgia and Florida that produces macromeronts in circulating erythrocytes. Journal of Parasitology 95:208–214.
Ewert, M.A., D.R. Jackson, and P.E. Moler. 2006. Macrochelys temminckii – alligator snapping turtle. Pages 58–71 in P.A. Meylan, editor. Biology and conservation of Florida turtles. Chelonian Research Monographs No. 3.
Jackson, D.R. 2002. Survey of an important distribution gap in the Florida range of the river cooter and other freshwater turtles. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Final Report, Tallahassee, Florida. 27 pp. Access Publication.
Moler, P E. 1996. Alligator snapping turtle distribution and relative abundance. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission Final Report Study No. 7544, Tallahassee, Florida. 21 pp.
Moler, P.E. 1996. Forensic identification of alligator snapping turtle meat. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Statewide Wildlife Research Final Performance Report Study No. 7545, Tallahassee, Florida. 9 pp.
Ewert, M.A. and D.R. Jackson. 1994. Nesting ecology of the alligator snapping turtle (Macroclemys temminkii), along the lower Apalachicola River, Florida. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission Nongame Project Report NG89-020, Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Tallahassee. 45 pp. Access Publication.
Roman, J., S.D. Santhuff, P.E. Moler, and B.W. Bowen. 1999. Population structure and cryptic evolutionary units in the alligator snapping turtle. Conservation Biology 13(1):135-142. Access publication.