🐢 Diamondback Terrapin
- Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research, TAMUG – Research on terrapin habitat in Galveston Bay.
https://www.uhcl.edu/environmental-institute/research/completed-projects/distribution-demographics-diamondback-terrapin
- Texas Parks & Wildlife: Diamondback Terrapin Fact Sheet.
https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_p4504_0042a.pdf
🐇 Swamp Rabbit
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Coastal Texas Ecosystem Draft (Wildlife Analysis).
https://www.swg.usace.army.mil/Portals/26/docs/Planning/Public%20Notices-Civil%20Works/S2G%20Final%20IFR-EIS/App%20K%20Final%20CAR%20.pdf
- Texas Parks & Wildlife Mammals of Texas — Sylvilagus aquaticus
https://www.tarleton.edu/library/txfw/swamp-rabbit.html
🦔 Nine-Banded Armadillo
- Texas Parks & Wildlife — Armadillos in Texas
https://tpwd.texas.gov/education/resources/texas-junior-naturalists/armadillos
- The Mammals of Texas (Online Edition) – Dasypus novemcinctus
https://www.depts.ttu.edu/nsrl/mammals-of-texas-online-edition/
🦩 Roseate Spoonbill
- Audubon Field Guide – Platalea ajaja
https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/roseate-spoonbill
- Galveston Bay Report Card: Wading Birds
https://galvbaygrade.org/wildlife/wading-birds/
🐟 Gulf Killifish
- Texas A&M Galveston Marine Biology Department – Estuarine Fish Profiles
- FishBase entry on Fundulus grandis
https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Fundulus-grandis.html
- NOAA Fisheries – Estuarine fish resilience to oxygen and salinity fluctuation
(Research summaries and references in Gulf marsh conditions.)
🌿 Ecosystem & Habitat References
- Texas General Land Office – Coastal Marshes Overview
https://www.glo.texas.gov/coastal-grants/_documents/grant-project/21-109-ccp-salt-marsh-guidebook.pdf
- Galveston Bay Foundation – Habitat & Marsh Education
https://galvbay.org/
- NOAA Office for Coastal Management – Tidal Wetlands Definitions
https://coast.noaa.gov/data/docs/digitalcoast/tidalwetlands.pdf
