Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians

Roger Conant, Joseph T. Collins

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 15, 1998 - 616 pages

This newly designed field guides features detailed descriptions of 595 species and subspecies. The 656 full-color illustrations and 384 drawings show key details for accurate identification. More than 100 color photographs and 333 color photographs and 333 color distribution maps accompany the species descriptions.

What people are saying

Review: A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians: Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guides #12)

User Review  - Alan - Goodreads

love it love it love it. All that information on all those southern endemics! Biogeography the same as the plants! I've known this book since its first edition. It just keeps getting better... arguably the best of all the Peterson field guides.

Review: A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians: Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guides #12)

User Review  - Jessie (saxgrl1) - Goodreads

Not my favorite field guide, but there are few Reptile and Amphibian guides out there. The description of Mudpuppies is slightly offensive to the southerner. "...but southerners, not to be outdone in ...

Contents

• III: xviii
• IV: xxxiii
• V: xlii
• VI: l
• VII: liv

About the author

Collins is the director of the Center for North American Amphibians and Reptiles.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians; Volume 12 of Peterson field guide series
• Authors: Roger Conant, Joseph T. Collins
• Edition: 3, revised, illustrated
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998
• ISBN: 0395904528, 9780395904527
• Length: 616 pages
• Subjects: Amphibians; Amphibians - Canada - Identification; Amphibians - United States - Identification; Amphibians Canada Identification; Amphibians United States Identification; Amphibians/ United States/ Identification; Nature / Animals / Reptiles & Amphibians; Reptiles; Reptiles - Canada - Identification; Reptiles - United States - Identification; Reptiles Canada Identification; Reptiles United States Identification; Reptiles/ Canada/ Identification; Reptiles/ United States/ Identification; Science / Life Sciences / Ecology