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USGS Staff Profile
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center

Education

BS-Biology, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA, 1982.
MS-Biology, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA, 1988.

Responsibilities and Research Interests

Care, management, and curation of the Amphibian and Reptile Collections and associated data.  Participate in field surveys of amphibian and reptile biodiversity.

Selected Publications

Reynolds, R. P., S. W. Gotte, and C. H. Ernst. 2007. Catalog of Type Specimens of Recent Crocodilia and Testudines in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 626, Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington, DC. 56pp. http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/Zoology/pdf_hi/SCtZ-0626.pdf

Gotte, Steve W. and Larry David Wilson.  2005.  Commentary on the type material of Tantilla gracilis Baird and Girard, 1853, and Tantilla nigriceps Kennicott, 1860(Reptilia Squamata), with a neotype designation for T. nigriceps.  Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 118(3):596-604.

Wilson, Larry David, James R. McCranie, Steve Gotte, and Josiah H. Townsend.  2003. Distributional comments on some members of the herpetofauna of the Mosquitia, Honduras.  Herpetological Bulletin 84:15-19.

McCranie, James R., Larry David Wilson and Steve W. Gotte. 2001.  Three new country records for Honduran snakes. Herpetological Review. 32(1):62-3. [PDF]

Rodda, Gordon H., Thomas H. Fritts, Craig S. Clark, Steve W. Gotte, and David Chiszar. 1999.  A State-of-the-Art Trap for the Brown Treesnake. Pp. 268-284. IN Rodda, G., Y. Sawai, D. Chiszar, and H. Tanaka (Eds.), Problem Snake Management: The Habu and the Brown Treesnake.  Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, N. Y. 534 pp.

Gotte, Steve W. and Robert P. Reynolds. 1998. Observations on the Effects of Alcohol vs. Formalin Storage of Amphibian Larvae.  www.pwrc.nbs.gov/resshow/reynld1rs/amphlarv.htm. (Text of a talk presented at the  Preservation and curation of early life history stages of fishes, amphibians, and reptiles workshop at the 1997 ASIH meetings).
 
Reynolds, Robert, Thomas Fritts, Steve Gotte, Javier Icochea, and Guillermo Tello. 1997. Amphibians and Reptiles I: Biodiversity assessment in the Lower Urubamba Region. Pp. 213-221 IN F. Dallmeier and A. Alonso (Eds.), Biodiversity Assessment and Long-term Monitoring, Lower Urubamba Region, San Martin-3 and Cashiriari-2 Well Sites. SI/MAB Series # 1. Smithsonian Institution/MAB Biodiversity Program, Washington, D. C. 368 pp.

Lovich, Jeffery E., Steve W. Gotte, Carl H. Ernst, John Harshbarger, Arndt F. Laemmerzahl and J. Whitfield Gibbons. 1996. Prevalence and histopatholgy of shell disease in turtles from Lake Blackshear, Georgia. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 32(2):259-265.

Seifert, William E., Jr., Steve W. Gotte, Thomas L. Leto, and Paul J. Weldon. 1994.  Lipids and proteins in the Rathke's gland secretions of the North American Mud Turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 109B(2/3):459-463.

Gotte, Steve W., Roy W. McDiarmid, and Robert P. Reynolds. 1994. The snapping turtle: An important component of North American Wetlands. National Biological Survey Research Information Bulletin (32): 1-3 pp.