Harvey B. Lillywhite

personal site

Professor & Director of Seahorse Key
Ph.D.  University of
California at Los Angeles, 1970

123 Bartram
Box 118525
Gainesville, FL
32611-8525
Voice: (352) 392-1101
Fax: (352) 392-3704
hbl@zoology.ufl.edu

Research Interests

Physiology and ecology of vertebrates, especially amphibians and reptiles. Current interests in cardiovascular adaptations, gravitational physiology, functional morphology of integument, water balance and distribution of sea snakes, comparative aspects of energetics and temperature regulation, animal coloration, and fire ecology. I also have long-term studies in progress relating to the physiology and ecology of insular cottonmouth snakes.

Students Currently Supervised

Leslie Babonis (PHD.)
http://www.zoology.ufl.edu/babonis/
Physiological and behavioral ecology of marine snakes.

Ryan McCleary (PhD, co-sponsored with M. J. Cohn)
http://www.zoology.ufl.edu/rmccleary/
Evolutionary and developmental studies of snake venoms.

Representative Publications

2009.  H. LILLYWHITE.  Physiological ecology: Field methods and perspective.  Chapter 20 In K. Dodd (ed.), Amphibian Ecology and Conservation.  A Handbook of Techniques.  Oxford University Press series in Techniques in Ecology and Conservation (in press).

2008.  H. LILLYWHITE and J. ALBERT.  Evolutionary physiology, comparative data, and phylogenetic methods.  4th CBP Meeting in Africa: MARA 2008, “Molecules to Migration: The Pressures of Life.”  International Proceedings, Medimond S.r.l. Monduzzi Editore International, Bologna, Italy. (in press)

2008.  CONKLIN, D.J., H.B. LILLYWHITE, B. BISHOP, A. HARGENS and K. OLSON.  Rythmic contractions in the portal “corkscrew” vein of a colubrid snake.  Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.11.013  (printed journal in press)

2008.  LILLYWHITE, H.B., C.M. SHEEHY III, F. ZAIDAN III.  Scavenging by reptiles at the intertidal: Evolutionary scenario for invasion of the sea.  BioScience 58:947-955.

2008.  LILLYWHITE, H.B., L.S. BABONIS, C.M. SHEEHY III, and M.-C. TU.  Sea snakes (Laticauda spp.) require fresh drinking water: Implication for the distribution and persistence of populations.  Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 81:785-796.

2008.  LILLYWHITE, H.B. and R.J.R. McCLEARY.  Trophic ecology of insular cottonmouth snakes: Review and perspective.  South Amer. J. Herpetol. 3:175-185.

2008.  LILLYWHITE, H.B.  Dictionary of Herpetology.  Krieger Publishing Inc., Malabar, Florida.  376 pp.

2006.  LILLYWHITE, H.B.  and C.A. NAVAS.  Animals, energy and water in extreme environments: Perspectives from Ithala 2004.  Physiol. Biochem. Zool. 79(2):265-273.

2006.  LILLYWHITE, H.B.  Water relations of tetrapod skin.  J. Exp. Biol. 209:202-226.