Sources for: BOI Galveston's Wildest Natives

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🐢 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