A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North AmericaUsing both photographs & hundreds of maps, 574 species & subspecies are identified & described. A companion volume is A Field Guide to Western Reptiles & Amphibians (1985). |
Contents
What About the Snakebite Problem? | 30 |
Turtles | 37 |
Snakes | 136 |
Copyright | |
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adults amphibians anal divided areas belly black spots blotches carapace Carolina CHORUS FROG Coastal Coral Snake crossbands dark brown dark spots dark stripe dorsal scales dorsolateral dorsum EARLESS LIZARD EASTERN extr females Florida GARTER GECKO genus GLASS LIZARD gray green greenish ground color Gulf habitats hatching head head-body max Identification intergrades keeled scales Kingsnake labials lateral stripe legs light line light spots light stripes males MAP TURTLE markings Mexican subspecies Mexico middorsal stripe Milk Snakes Mississippi Mole Salamanders neck neotenic NORTHERN orange pale pattern pigment plain plastron Plate prairies Range RAT SNAKE record reddish Reptiles River row of scales scale rows Scales keeled Scales smooth scutes side of body Similar species SKINK snout SOFTSHELL southern specimens subspecies tail Texas throat toads toes TREEFROG usually variable venter ventral WATER SNAKE Western WHIPTAIL whitish Woodland Salamanders yellow yellowish Young