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- ↑ Donnelly, Maureen A. (2013). "Jay M. Savage". Copeia . 2013 (4): 757–767. doi:10.1643/OT-13-008. S2CID 86307298.
- 1 2 Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Savage", p. 233).
