Bibliomania!

Today's list contains a number of dissertations. Most of these are UMI copies and are priced about half of what UMI could charge for them. There are also a couple of photocopies dissertations and a couple of originals. I have also included several non-US dissertations that are published either as books or separates. 

I also just received a new book by Brian Hubbs:

Hubbs, Brian. 2009. Common Kingsnakes: A Natural History of Lampropeltis getula. Tricolor Books, Tempe, xxiv, 412 p. Paperback. $60.00

Please let me know if you would like anything from this list.

Breck

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Aquino-Ortiz, Aida Luz. 1988. Ontogenetic food shifts and their relation to morphological changes in the crocodilian Caiman yacare. M.Sc. Thesis, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 77 p. Photocopy, loose. $10.00

Axtell, Carol Beatty. 1973. Ecological Significance of Lactate Dehydrogenase Variants in the Rana pipiens Species Complex. Ph. D. Dissertation, Washington University, Saint Louis, vi, 149 p. UMI Reproduction. $25.00

Ayala, Stephen Charles. 1970. Protozoan Parasites Associated with California Sandflies. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 99 p. UMI Reproduction. $20.00

Bayless, Laurence E. 1966. Comparative Ecology of Two Sympatric Species of Acris (Anura: Hylidae) with Emphasis on Interspecific Competition. Ph. D. Dissertation, Tulane University, New Orleans, vi, 93 p. UMI Reproduction. $30.00

Bhattacharya, Dakshina-Ranjan. 1925. Les Inclusions Cytoplasmiques dans l'Oogénèse de certains Reptiles. Dissertation, Faculte des Sciences de Paris, Paris, 102 p., 12 plates. $45.00

Blaney, Richard M. 1971. Systematics of the common kingsnake, Lampropeltis getulus (Linnaeus). Ph.D Dissertation, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, x, 137 p. UMI Copy. $25.00

Bouin, M. 1900. Histogenèse de la Glande génitale femelle chez Rana temporaria (L). Thèses présentées a la Faculté de l'Université de Nancy pour obtenir le Grade de Docteur ès Sciences Naturelles. (13): vi, 201-382, 4 plates. Wprs, Signed. $75.00

Brockelman, Warren Yalding. 1968. Natural regulation of density in tadpoles of Bufo americanus. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 78 pp. UMI copy. $20.00

Brown, Timothy Wallace. 1970. Autecology of the Sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes) at Kelso Dunes, Mojave Desert, California. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, xiv, 204 p. UMI Reproduction. $35.00

Case, Susan Maureen. 1976. Evolutionary Studies in Selected North American Frogs of the Genus Rana (Amphibia, Anura). University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. Dissertation, x, 157 p. UMI copy. $30.00

Cross, John Knight. 1979. Multivariate and Univariate Character Geography in Chionactis (Reptilia, Serpentes). Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, xxii, 517 p. UMI Reproduction. $50.00

De Bruyn, W. M. 1934. Beiträge zur kenntnis von Angusticoecum holopterum (Rud.) einem Nematoden aus Testudo graeca L. De Westertoren, Amsterdam, xii, 120 p. PB. $45.00

Duguy, Raymond. 1962. Biologie de la latence hivernale chez Vipera aspis L. Theèses présentées a la Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de Paris pour obtenir le Titre de Docteur de l'Université. Série A (969): 311-443. $55.00

Ekman, Gunnar. 1913. Experimentelle Untersuchungen über die Entwicklung der Kiemenregion (Kiemenfäden und Kiemenspalten) einiger Anuren Amphibien. Morphologischen Jahrbuch. 47: 419-592. $35.00

Fortman, Jon Richey. 1973. Characters of F1 Hybrid Tadpoles and Adults between six species of Hyla (Hylidae, Anura). Mississipi State Univeristy, Ph. D. Dissertation, 69 p. $23.00

Gillis, John Ericsen. 1975. Characterization of a Hybridizing Complex of Leopard Frogs. Ph. D. Dissertation, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, xi, 125 p. UMI Reproduction. $30.00

Glick, Robert Newby. 1974. An ultrastructural study of the seminal vesicle and its response to hormone treatment in the male frog Rana clamitans. Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University, East Lansing, vi, 92 p. UMI copy. $20.00

Goodman, Donald Eugene. 1971. Thermoregulation in the Brown Water Snake, Natrix taxisplota, with Discussion of Ecological Significance of Thermal Preferenda in the Order Squamata. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville, ix, 85 p. UMI Reproduction. $25.00

Grosse, Wolf-Rüdiger. 2009. Der Laubfrosch, Hyla arborea 2. Überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Westarp Wissenschaften, Hohenwarsleben, 236 p. $45.00

Hardy, Laurence McNeil. 1969. Systematic Revisions of the Genera Pseudoficimia, Gyalopion, and Ficimia (Serpentes: Colubridae). Ph. D. Dissertation, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 207 p. UMI reproduction. $35.00

Hillis, David M. 1985. Evolutionary Genetics and Systematics of New World Frogs of the Genus Rana: An Analysis of Ribosomal DNA, Allozymes, and Morphology. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Kansas, Lawrence, vi, 304 p. . UMI Reproduction. $40.00

Hranitz, John M. 1993. Ontogenetic changes in the expression of isozymes, population genetic structure and heterozygosity-growth relationships in Bufo woodhousii fowleri (Anura: Bufonidae). Ph. D. Dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, xi, 172 p. $45.00

Hubbs, Brian. 2004. Mountain Kings: A Collective Natural History of California, Sonoran, Durango and Queretaro Mountain Kingsnakes. Tricolor Books, Tempe, AZ, xxiv, 324 p., 2 folding maps, 16 plates. PB. $45.00

Hubbs, Brian. 2009. Common Kingsnakes: A Natural History of Lampropeltis getula. Tricolor Books, Tempe, xxiv, 412 p. Paperback. $60.00

Johnson, Oliver W. 1965. Early development, Embryonic Temperature Tolerance and Rate of Development in Rana pretiosa luteiventris Thompson. Ph. D. Dissertation, Oregon State University, Corvallis, 74 p. UMI Reproduction. $25.00

Johnson, Jerry Douglas. 1984. A Biogeographical Analysis of the Herpetofauna of Northwestern Nuclear Central America. Ph. D. Dissertation, Texas A & M University, College Station, x, 127 p. . UMI Reproduction. $30.00

Keiser, Edmund D. 1967. A Monographic Study of the Neotropical Vine Snake, Oxybelis aeneus (Wagler). Ph. D. Dissertation, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, viii, 157 p. UMI Reproduction. $35.00

Landreth, Hobart F. 1966. A study of the Orientational Behavior of Fowler's Toad, Bufo woodhousei fowleri. Ph.D. Dissertation, Mississippi State University, State College, vi, 62 p. Original copy with committee signatures in ink. $40.00

Larsen, John Herbert. 1963. The cranial osteology of neotenic and transformed salamanders and its bearing on interfamilial relationships. University of Washington, Ph.D. Dissertation, 205 p. UMI copy. $25.00

Lichtenheld, Richard W. 1966. Effect of Light, Termperature, and Gamma Radiation on the Locomotor Activity of Juvenile Steelhead Trout (Salmo gairdneri). University of Washington, Seattle, 237 p. UMI Dissertation copy. $30.00

Lieberkind, Ingvald. 1937. Vergleichende Studien über die Morphologie und Histogenese der larvalen Haftorgane bei den Amphibien. C.A. Reitzels Forlag, København, 180 p., 28 plates. Orig. wprs. $45.00

Liem, Sioe Sing. 1969. The Morphlogy, Systematics, and Evolution of the Old World Treefrogs (Rhacophoridae and Hyperoliidae). University of Illinois, Urbana, 258 p. Doctoral Dissertation unbound, but in a dissertation folder. $50.00

Lowichik, Amy. 1988. Life Cycle and Immunological Studies of Hepatozoon mocassini and Other Louisiana Snake Hemogregarines. Ph. D. Dissertation, Tulane University, New Orleans, xiv, 141 p. UMI Reproduction. $25.00

Malmgren, Jan C. 2001. Evolutionary Ecology of Newts. Örebro Studies in Biology. 1: 1-68, + 5 additional papers. Doctoral Dissertation from Örebro University. $36.00

Manteuffel, Christiane. 1985. Verbindungen des Prätectum und des Basalen Optischen systems beim Feuersalamander (Salamandra salamandra): eine Meerrettichperoxidase-Studie. Ph.D. Dissertation, Technischen Hochschule Darmstadt, Darmstadt, vi, 108 p. $30.00

Matsui, M. 1974. On intraspecific variation in the parotoid gland secretion of the Japanese Toad, Bufo bufo japonicus (English abs.). Zoological Magazine. 83 (1): 91-95. $3.00

Matsui, Masafumi. 1980. Karyology of Eurasian toads of the Bufo bufo complex. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses. 53 (1): 56-68. $3.00

Matsui, M. 1986. Geographic variation in toads of the Bufo bufo complex from the Far East, with a description of a new subspecies. Copeia. 1986 (3): 561-579. Bufo andrewsi, Bufo asiaticus, Bufo bankorensis, Bufo bufo complex, Bufo bufo wrighti, Bufo gargarizans, Bufo gargarizans popei spp. nov., Bufo minshanicus, Bufo tibetanus,. $1.50

Matsui, Masafumi and Hidetoshi Ota. 1995. Book Review: On Chinese Herpetology. Herpetologica. 51 (2): 234-250. $2.00

Matsui, Masafumi, Hidetoshi Ota, Michael W. Lau and Anthony Bogadek. 1995. Cytotaxonomic studies of three ranid species (Amphibia: Anura) from Hong Kong. Japanese Journal of Herpetology. 16 (1): 12-18. $3.00

Matthes-Greifswald, E. 1929. Versuche über das Geruchsvermögen der Molche. Mitteilunger aus dem Naturwissensch. Verein für Neuborpommern und Rügen 52-56: 39-47. $4.00

Matthews, Terry C. 1975. Biochemical polymorphism in populations of the Argentine toad, Bufo arenarum. Copeia. 1975 (3): 454-465. $1.00

Matz, Gilbert. 1964. Sur la biologie et la repartition de la salamandre et de quelques amphibiens rares en Alsace. Bulletin de L'Association Philomathique d'Alsace et de Lorraine. 11 (6): 326-331. $3.00

Matz, Gilbert. 1970. Ambystoma mexicanum: l'Axolotl. Aquarama. 4 (9): 41-43. $2.00

Matz, Gilbert. 1989. An axial duplication with double body in the lizard Egernia striolata (Peters). Herpetopathologia. 1 (1): 57-59. $2.00

Mausfeld, Patrick and Wolfgang Böhme. 2002. A new Mabuya from Java, Indonesia. Salamandra. 38 (3): 135-144. Mabuya macrophthalma sp. nov. $2.00

Maxson, Linda R. and Allan C. Wilson. 1974. Convergent morphological evolution detected by studying proteins of tree frogs in the Hyla eximia species group. Science. 185: 66-68. $1.25

Maxson, Linda R. 1976. The phylogenetic status of Phyllomedusine frogs (Hylidae) as evidenced from immunological studies of the serum albumins. Experientia. 32: 1149-1150. Upper corner missing with slight loss of text. $1.00

Maxson, Linda R., Ellendee Pepper and R. D. Maxson. 1977. Immunological resolution of a diploid-tetraploid species complex of tree frogs. Science. 197: 1012-1013. $1.00

Maxson, Linda R., Richard Highton and David B. Wake. 1979. Albumin evolution and its phylogenetic implications in the plethodontid salamander genera Plethodon and Ensatina. Copeia. 1979 (3): 502-508. $1.00

Maxson, L. R. and C. H. Daugherty. 1980. Evolutionary relationships of the monotypic toad family Rhinophrynidae: a biochemical perspective. Herpetologica. 36 (3): 275-280. $1.00

Maxson, L. R. and D. B. Wake. 1981. Albumin evolution and its phylogenetic implications in the plethodontid salamander genera Pseudoeurycea and Chiropterotriton. Herpetologica. 37 (2): 109-117. $1.00

Maxson, Linda R. and W. Ronald Heyer. 1982. Leptodactylid frogs and the Brasilian Shield: an old and continuing adaptive relationship. Biotropica. 14 (1): 10-15. $3.00

Maxson, Linda R., Micheal J. Tyler and Richard D. Maxson. 1982. Phylogenetic relationships of Cyclorana and Litoria aurea species-group (Anura : Hylidae): a molecular perspective. Australian Journal of Zoology. 30: 643-651. Amphibia, anura, hylidae, systematics, phylogeny, genetic distances, electrophoresis, cyclorana, litoria. $3.00

Maxson, Linda R. and J. Dale Roberts. 1984. Albumin and Australian frogs: molecular data a challenge to speciation model. Science. 225: 957-958. $1.00

Maxson, Linda. R. 1984. Molecular probes of phylogeny and biogeography in toads of the widespread genus Bufo. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 1: 345-356. $2.00

Maxson, Linda R. and Charles W. Myers. 1985. Albumin evolution in tropical poison frogs (Dendrobatidae): A preliminary report. Biotropica. 17 (1): 50-56. $2.00

Maxson, R. D., K. D. Moberg and L. R. Maxson. 1987. Letter to the Editor: Data from hybrid species sup;porting the MC'F assortment-exclusion hypothesis. Mol. Biol. Evo. 4 (1): 70-73. $1.00

Maxson, Linda R. and W. Ronald Heyer. 1988. Molecular systematics of the frog genus Leptodactylus (Amphibia: Leptodactylidae). Fieldiana Zoolology. (1384): 1-13. Amphibia, anura, Leptodactylidae, south america, systematics, phylogeny, genetic distances, electrophoresis,. $3.00

Maxwell, W. Robert and Stephen D. Busack. 1971. An English translation of the diagnostic keys appearing in Les Salamandres d'Europe d'Asie et d'Afrique du Nord Editions P. Lechevalier, Paris. Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society. 7 (4): 99-111. $3.00

Mayet, Valéry. 1903. Catalogue Raisonné des Reptiles et Batraciens de la Tunisie. Pp. 32 p.,. In: (eds.) Exploration Scientifique de la Tunisie.Zoologie: Reptiles et Batraciens. Imprimerie Nationale, Paris. $20.00

Mayorga, Horacio. 1967. Informe sobre una coleccion de anfibios (Salientia) procedentes de Nicaragua. Caribbean Journal of Science. 7 (1-2): 69-77. $3.00

Mayr, Ernst. 1981. Biological classification: toward a synthesis of opposing methodologies. Science. 214: 510-516. $2.00

Mazáková-Stefanová, Zdenka. 1965. Gene-dosage effects in hybrids of Triturus. Acta Universitatis Carolinae-Biologica. (2): 151-164. $3.00

Mazur, T. 1968. Costs of maintenance in Rana arvalis Nilss. at different ambient temperatures. Ekologia Polska. 16: 699-704. $3.00

Mazzotti, Frank J. and William A. Dunson. 1984. Adaptations of Crocodylus acutus and Alligator for life in saline water. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. 79A (4): 641-646. $1.50

McAfee, Robert D. 1972. Survival of Rana pipiens in deionized water. Science. 178: 183-186. $1.00

McAlister, Wayne H. 1961. Artificial hybridization between Rana a. areolata and Rana p. pipiens from Texas. The Texas Journal of Science. 13 (4): 423-426. $1.00

McAlister, Wayne H. 1961. The mechanics of sound production in North American Bufo. Copeia. 1961 (1): 86-95. $1.00

McAlister, Wayne H. 1962. Variation in Rana pipiens Schreber in Texas. The American Midland Naturalist. 67 (2): 334-363. $4.00

McAllister, D. E. 1971. Old fourlegs: A "living fossil". National Museums of Canada, 25 p. An account of the coelacanth fish, Latimeria chalumnae. $3.50

McAllister, Pamela Kay. 1973. The Morphology, Histology and Function of the seminal vesicles in the adult male frog, Rana pipiens. Michigan State University, Ph.D. Dissertation, vii, 59 p. UMI copy. $20.00

McAllister, Chris T., Aaron M. Bauer and Anthony P. Russell. 1995. Nonproliferous tetrahyridia of Mesocestoides sp. (Eucestoda: Mesocestoididae) in Ptenopus garrulus maculatus (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Namibia, South West Africa, with a summary of the genus from Old World lizards. Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington. 62 (1): 94-98. $2.00

McAlpine, Donald F. 1980. Nesting behaviour of the leatherback turtle, (Dermochelys coriacea) on the Caribbean Coast of Panama. Journal of the New Brunswick Museum. 1980: 32-40. $3.00

McAlpine, Donald F. . 1983. Correlated physiological color change and activity patterns in an Indian Ocean boa (Casarea dussumeri). Journal of Herpetology. 17 (2): 198-201. $1.00

McAlpine, Donald F. and Timothy G. Dilworth. 1988. Microhabitat and prey size among three species of Rana (Anura: Ranidae) sympatric in eastern Canada. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 67: 2244-2252. $2.00

McAlpine, Donald F., Timothy J. Fletcher, Stanley W. gorhamn and Irenie T. Gorhamn. 1991. Distribution and habitat of the tetraploid gray treefrog, Hyla versicolor, in New Brunswick and Eastern Maine. Canadian Field-Naturalist. 105: 526-529. $2.00

McAlpine, Donald F. and Michael D. B. Burt. 1998. Taxonomic status of Halipegus spp. (Digenea: Derogenidae) parasitic in the mouth and eustachian tubes of North American and Mexican amphibians. Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington. 65 (1): 10-15. $1.50

Pace, Ann E. 1974. Systematic and biological studies of the Leopard Frogs (Rana pipiens complex) of the United States. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 362 p. UMI Reproduction. $40.00

Parmalee, Jeffrey Robert. 1998. Trophic Ecology of a Tropical Anuran Assemblage. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Kansas, Lawrence, xiv, 196 p. UMI Reproduction. $35.00

Pogany, Gilbert C. 1966. Blood serum electrophoretic characterization of Rana pipiens. Ph. D. Dissertation, Tulane University, New Orleans, iii, 68 p. UMI copy. $20.00

Post, Douglas Delray. 1972. Species Differentiation in the Rana pipiens Complex. Ph. D. Dissertation, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, x, 137 p. UMI Reproduction. $30.00

Regal, Philip J. 1968. An analysis of heat-seeking in a lizard. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, xiii, 139. University Microfilms copy. $30.00

Rondeau-Luzeau, (Madame). 1902. Action des Chlorures en Dissolution sur le Développement des œufs de Batraciens. Thèses présentées a la Faculté des Sciences de Paris pour obtenir le Grade de Docteur és-Sciences Naturelles. Série. A, 423 (1103): iv, 62, 5 plates. Missing plate 5. Front wrapper only. $40.00

Sage, Richard David. 1974. The Structure of Lizard Faunas: Comparative Biologies of Lizards in Two Argentina Deserts. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Texas, Austin, 342 p. UMI reproduction. $45.00

Schuierer, Frederick W. 1966. Environmental Effects on the Plasma Proteins of Bufo boreas. Ph. D. Dissertation, Stanford University, Palo Alto, 126 p. UMI Reproduction. $25.00

Sherman, Cynthia Kagarise. 1980. A Comparison of the Natural History and Mating System of Two Anurans: Yosemite Toads (Bufo canorus) and Black Toads (Bufo exsul). Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, xiv, 394 p. UMI Reproduction. $45.00

Sype, William Evans. 1975. Breeding habits, embryonic thermal requirements and embryonic and larval developmnt of the cascade frog, Rana cascadae (Slater). Oregon State University, Ph.D. Dissertation, 113 p. UMI copy. $25.00

Tarr, Robert S. 1971. A neuroethological study of ritualized aggressive behavior in the western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois, Urbana, iv, 141. University Microfilms copy. $30.00

Terlou, M. 1974. Hypothalamic Monoaminergic Centres and the Regulation of Pars Intermedia Activity in Xenopus laevis tadpoles. Ph.D. Dissertation, Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht, xxii, 521-540, 261-275, 229-238, 1-10, 2. Compilation of papers by Terlou and co-authors making up Terlou's dissertation. $20.00

Valatour, Martial. 1861. Recherches sur les glandes gastriques et les tuniques musculaires du tube digestif dans les poissons osseux et les batraciens. Thèses présentees a la Faculté des Sciences de Paris. 1-71, 1 plate, (4). $35.00

Van der Steen, Johannes Christiaan. 1930. De Ontwikkeling van de Occipito-vertebrale Streek van Microhyla. N.V. Boek- en Steendrukkerij Eduard Ijdo, Leiden, x, 160 p. $45.00

van Dongen, Wilhelmus Jacobus. 1960. Over het Mechanisme van de Spermiatie bij de Bruine Kikker (Rana temporaria) [Spermiation in the common frog, Rana temporaria]. N.V. Grafische Kunstinrichting, Roosendaal, 64 p., 9 plates. 2.5 page English Summary. Spermiation; Rana temporaria; Male reproductive cycle. $20.00

van Seters, W. H. 1921. De ontwikkeling van het chondrocranium van Alytes obstetricians voor de metamorphose. het Klaverblad, 'S-gravenhage, 1-133, 3 plates. Orig. Wprs. $45.00

Wake, David B. 1964. Comparative osteology and evolution of the lungless salamanders, family Plethodontidae. University of Southern California, Ph.D. Dissertation, 443 p. UMI copy. $45.00

Williams, Kenneth L. 1970. Systematics of the Colubrid Snake Lampropeltis triangulum Lecepede. Ph.D. Dissertation, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, xiii, 371 p. UMI copy. $40.00

Woods, John. 1968. The Ecology and Natural History of Mississippi Populations of Aneides aeneus and Associated Salamanders. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, vii, 91 p. UMI Reproduction. $25.00

Wu, Sheng-Hai. 1994. Phylogenetic Relationships, Higher Classification, and Historical Biogeography of the Microhylid Frogs (Lissamphibia: Anura). Ph.D dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, xii, 284 p. UMI copy. $30.00

Zenisek, Cyril J. 1963. A Study of the Natural History and Ecology of the Leopard Frog. Ph. D. Dissertation, Ohio State University, vii, 153 p. UMI Reproduction. $30.00

Zundel, Guy. 1947. Action Physio-pathologique des venins de serpent sur le système nerveux cérébro-spinal. Dissertation, École Nationale Vétérinaaire d-Alfort, Paris, 148 p. $55.00