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- ↑ "Minutes of the Board of Trustees Meeting of the Herpetologists' League" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
- ↑ Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection "Dr. Lee Fitzgerald" Archived 2012-05-04 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 2 October 2011.
- ↑ Student Lineage ties Dr Fitzgerald to Dr Snell
- ↑ THS Lizard Symposium Schedule
- ↑ Distance sampling underestimates population densities of dune-dwelling lizards
- ↑ Texas A&M "Lab Publications" Retrieved on 2 October 2011.