Poisonous Plants and Animals: Citations and References

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• Image of Chile Rose from http://www.sqsdream.demon.co.uk/, Chris Lancaster, chris@squaresum.com, August 2000. Email message.

• Images of and text about cone shells from http://grimwade.biochem.unimelb.edu.au/cone/index1.html, Dr. Bruce Livett, "Livett Family" <blivett@bigpond.net.au>, August 2000. Email message.

• Images from http://gto.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pingleto/herps/lobby.html, Mike Pingleton, pingleto@ncsa.uiuc.edu, August 2000. Email message.

• Images from http://www.vth.colostate.edu/poisonous_plants/, “Guide to Poisonous Plants”, author A. P. Knight, image support Jenger Smith, "A.P. Knight" <aknight@chimera.vth.colostate.edu>, August 2000. Email message.

• Images of Adonis vernalis, Convallaria majalis, Datura stramonium, Erythroxylon coca, Solanum truberosum, Strychnos, and Taxus baccata from •http://www.plant-pictures.com/•, Thomas Schöpke, March, 2001. Email message.

• Images of poison dart frogs from http://www.frogmasters.com/, Chris Miller & Larry Marshal, chris@mail.frogmasters.com, August 2000. Email message.

• Images of Heloderma suspectum and Heloderma horidum from http://www.applegatereptiles.com/index.html, Robert Applegate, applesnake@juno.com, August 2000. Email message.

• Article about scorpions (FAQ) and pictures of Emperor scorpion and Pandinus transvaalicus from http://wrbu.si.edu/www/stockwell/emporium/emporium.html, Scott Stockwell, stockwell@wrbu.si.edu, August 2000. Email message.

• Image of Crotalus atrox from “Brent Lindon's cool site” at http://www.venomous.com, Brent Lindon, viper@venomous.com, August 2000. Email message.

• Image of Digitalis purpurea from http://www.library.uiuc.edu/vex/toxic/foxglv/foxglv.htm, Mitzi Williams mwillms1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu. August 2000. Email message.

• Image of Datura stramonium from http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/jimsonweed/jimsonweed.html, Mitzi Williams, mwillms1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu, August 2000. Email message.

• Image of sea snake at ... from Ed Robinson's wonderful site http://www.maui.net/~robinson/, Ed Robinson, edrob@maui.net, August 2000. Email message.

• Images from “John White's perfect photography” at http://www.erols.com/reptiles/ and http://www.herp-edia.com/photography/, John White, reptiles@erols.com. August 2000. Email message.

• Images of Leiurus quinquestriatus (Gordon W, gorw@usa.net) , Scolopendra gigantea (Rene Harmsen, reneharmsen@yahoo.com), Androctonus australis ("Jeff Dawson", deathstalker@btinternet.com) from http://w1.879.telia.com/~u87900337/english.html. August 2000. Email messages.

• Images, text about tarantulas from “Lelle Pettersson's tarantula page”, http://hem.spray.se/minax/index/welcome_e.html, Lelle Pettersson, minax@spray.se. August 2000. Email message.

• Article "What is snake venom? How does it work and what can be done about it?", table of toxins and picture "milking a snake" from “Sean Thomas's great site”, http://www.web.netactive.co.za/~sean/index.html, Sean Thomas, sean@netactive.co.za, August 2000. Email message

• Table "venom types" from The Inernational venom and Toxin Database at http://www.kingsnake.com/toxinology/, maintained by Bryan Grieg Fry, b.fry@mailbox.uq.edu.au, August 2000. Email message.

• Additional plant images from “The Botanic Sorting Machine”, http://www.euronet.nl/users/mbleeker/folis/bsmain-e.html, Marco Bleeker, August 2000. Copyright notice that images can be used for educational purposes provided that the email of the author is given.

• Images of stingray and sea scorpion from the book: Karapetkova, M; Zhivkov, M; Pchelarov, G. "The fishes of Bulgaria." Sofia: Geya-Libris, 1995, p. 79 and p. 209. August. Email letter from the publishers.

• Text about Gila monsters from Dr. Mark Sewards page http://www.drseward.com, "Dr. Mark Seward", mail@drseward.com, August 2000. Email message.

• Image of lionfish from http://www.animalatlas.com, David Brough info@animalatlas.com, August 2000. Email message.

Electronic Sources > Text or Multimedia from Web Pages, FTP sites, Telnet
•   JavaScripts: Text Link Underline Remover, Cross Browser Marquee Script II, Site Logo Script (Geocities Watermark) from "Dynamic Drive DHTML (d...s html) code library!" <http://www.dynamicdrive.com>, Dynamic Drive. Public domain.
•   JavaScript DHTML Puzzle Script from "Dynamic Drive DHTML (d...s html) code library!" http://www.dynamicdrive.com, Davey Erwin, http://daverwin.homepage.com. Public domain.
•   National Geographic Society http://nationalgeographic.com
•   Spectrum Medical Arts, Bee Venom Therapy, Glenn Rothfeld, http://www2.shore.net/~spectrum/apitherapy.html

Printed Materials > Periodicals
• "How the poison from a tarantula could save heart attack victims". Daily Express. Newspaper. 5 May 2000.

Printed Materials > Part of a Book > Books in English
•   Caras, Rodger. Dangerous to man. Middlesex: Penguin Books Ltd. Harmondsworth, 1975.
•   Ellenhorn, Matthew J. Ellenhorn's Medical Toxicology: Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Poisoning. Second Edition. Baltimore: Williams S Wilkins, 1997.
•   World Health Organization. Basic Analytical Toxicology, Geneva, 1995.

Printed Materials > Part of a Book > Books in German
• Dietrich, Gerhard. Jugendlexikon Biologie 2. Auflage. Leipzig: VEB Bibliographisches Institut, 1983.
• Schlifni, I. Heilpflanzen – Lexikon Steyr: Verlag Wilhelm Ennsthaler, 1990.

Printed Materials > Part of a Book > Books in Bulgarian
•   Daskalov, Hristo. Selskostopanska entsiklopedia tom 1.,2. Sofia:
Izdatelstvo na Balgarskata Akademia na Naoukite, 1984.
•   Denkov, Vesselin. Otrovite v prirodata. Sofia: Zemizdat, 1994
•   Prof. Dr. Monov, Alexander. Clinical toxicology. Sofia: Izdatelstvo
Venel OOD, 1995.
•   Dr. Penyaechki, Hristo. Otrovni ouhapvania. Sofia: Meditsina i
Fizkoultoura, 1972.

Printed Materials > Part of a Book > Books in Russian
•   Gilyarov, M. S. Biologicheskii entsiklopedicheskii slovar.
Moskva: Sovetskaya entsiklopedia, 1986
•   Gilyarov, M. S. Zhizn zhivotnih tom 3. Moskva:
Prosveshtenie, 1984.
•   Korpachev, Vadim. Tselebnaya Fauna. Moskva: Naouka, 1989.
•   Salo, Viktor. Zelyonaye druzya cheloveka. Moskva: Naouka, 1989.

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Dr. Boriana Varbanova
M.D., Ph.D., Medical University of Varna

Dr. Donald Broadley,
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Mrs. Moira FitzPatrick,
Research Associate, Natural History Museum, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Mr. Stanislav Zhekov
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Mr. Woody Cotterill,
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