Author: Van Wallach Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1482208482 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 1237
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Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species-the first catalogue of its kind-covers all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 and 2012, comprising 3,509 living and 274 extinct species allocated to 539 living and 112 extinct genera. Also included are 54 genera and 302 species that are dubious or invalid, resulting in reco
Author: Mark O'Shea Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN: 9781843309727 Category : Poisonous snakes Languages : en Pages : 160
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All major and unusual venomous snakes, their range, habitats and venom, along with personal anecdotes (including snakebite stories) feature in this excellent book. Written by Mark O'Shea - one of the leading authorities on reptiles.
Author: Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc. ISBN: 162087623X Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 337
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This comprehensive reference guide explains how to recognize poisonous snakes around the world, what precautions to take to avoid being bitten and what first aid procedures and antivenoms are available in the event of a bite.
Author: Jan Sovak Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486284712 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 52
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Over 40 species. Add your colors to the king cobra, black mamba, boa constrictor, puff adder, Indian python, milk snake, garter snake, and many more. Captions.
Author: Mark O'Shea Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226832864 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 658
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Updated to reflect the most recent species classifications, a second edition of the beautifully illustrated and beloved guide to 600 members of the suborder Serpentes. For millennia, humans have regarded snakes with an exceptional combination of fascination and revulsion. Some people recoil in fear at the very suggestion of these creatures, while others happily keep them as pets. Snakes can convey both beauty and menace in a single tongue flick, and so these creatures have held a special place in our cultures. Yet, for as many meanings as we attribute to snakes—from fertility and birth to sin and death—the real-life species represent an even wider array of wonders. Now in a new edition, reflecting the most recent species classifications, The Book of Snakes presents 600 species of snakes from around the world, covering roughly one in seven of all snake species. It will bring greater understanding of a group of reptiles that have existed for more than 160 million years and that now inhabit every continent except Antarctica, as well as two of the great oceans. This volume pairs spectacular photos with easy-to-digest text. It is the first book on these creatures that combines a broad, worldwide sample with full-color, life-size accounts. Entries include close-ups of the snake’s head and a section of the snake at actual size. The detailed images allow readers to examine the intricate scale patterns and rainbow of colors as well as special features like a cobra’s hood or a rattlesnake’s rattle. The text is written for laypeople and includes a glossary of frequently used terms. Herpetologists and herpetoculturists alike will delight in this collection, and even those with a more cautious stance on snakes will find themselves drawn in by the wild diversity of the suborder Serpentes.
Author: Jeff Boundy Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 0429866453 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 797
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Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species, published in 2014, was the first catalogue of its kind and covered all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 and 2012. This new volume will be a supplement to this important herpetological reference and will include new published data on snakes named and recognized since 2012. Key Features Supplements and updates Wallach et al. – Snakes of the World – the only work to cover all living snakes in the world. Includes updates for fossil snakes named since the publication of Wallach et al. Summarizes the systematic snake literature published since the appearance of Wallach et al. Genera and species are listed alphabetically for ease of reference. Related Titles Wallach, V., K. L. Williams, and J. Boundy. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species (ISBN 978-1-138-03400-6) Aldridge, R. D. and D. M. Sever, eds. Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Snakes (ISBN 978-1-57808-701-3) Caldwell, M. W. The Origin of Snakes: Morphology and the Fossil Record (ISBN 978-1-4822-5134-0)
Author: Christopher Mattison Publisher: ISBN: 9780816010820 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 190
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Based on new research that reveals snakes as creatures more worthy of respect than fear, this book, with 127 photographs, surveys the natural history of various species and includes chapters on classification, anatomy, adaptation, and behavior
Author: Seymour Simon Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media ISBN: 1623340519 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 80
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There are more than 250 kinds of poisonous snakes, and this illustrated book tells where they live, what they eat, and how they behave. It also reveals which snakes pose no danger to humans, how snakes are "milked," how anti-venom is made, and what to do if you're bitten.
Author: Van Wallach
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Author: Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
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Author: John M. Mehrtens
Author: Mark O'Shea
Author: Jeff Boundy
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