A Field Guide to Reptiles & Amphibians: Eastern and Central North America

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998 - Nature - 616 pages
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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.
 

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A Field Guide to Reptiles & Amphibians: Eastern and Central North America
Roger Conant,Joseph T. Collins
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adults amphibians anal divided areas belly black spots blotches blue carapace chin Chorus Frog Cooter Coral Snake Costal grooves crossbands dark brown dark spots dark stripes dorsal scales dorsolateral dorsum Earless Lizard EASTERN extr females Florida Garter GECKO genus Glass Lizard gray green greenish ground color habitats hatching head head-body max hind IDENTIFIcATION intergrades isolated colonies isolated record keeled scales Kingsnake labials lateral stripe legs light line light spots light stripes males MAP TURTLE Mexico middorsal stripe Milk Snakes neck Northern Okla orange pale parotoid glands pattern pigment plain plastron PLATE Prairie RANGE Rat Snake reddish reptiles ridges scale rows Scales keeled Scales smooth scutes shell side of body SIMILAR SPECIES Skink snout SOFTSHELL southern specimens subspecies tail Texas throat Toad toes Treefrog usually variable Water Snakes Western Whiptail whitish yellow yellowish Young

About the author (1998)


Roger Tory Peterson, one of the world's greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars.

The late JOSEPH T. COLLINS was the herpetologist with the Kansas Biological Survey and emeritus at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum, where he worked for thirty years. He was founder and director of the Center for North American Herpetology and author of many articles and books, most recently Amphibians, Reptiles, and Turtles in Kansas (2010; with Suzanne L. Collins and Travis W. Taggart).

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TitleA Field Guide to Reptiles & Amphibians: Eastern and Central North America
Volume 12 of Peterson field guide series
AuthorsRoger Conant, Joseph T. Collins
EditorRoger Tory Peterson
Illustrated byIsabelle Hunt Conant, Tom R. Johnson
ContributorsNational Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Roger Tory Peterson Institute
Editionillustrated, reprint, revised
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998
ISBN0395904528, 9780395904527
Length616 pages
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