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 appearance areas band belly blotches blue body bordered broad carapace colonies costal dark brown dark spots divided dorsal EASTERN edges extends extr females fields Florida FROG genus gray green grooves ground color Gulf habitats hatching head head-body IDENTIFICATION isolated keeled lack lateral legs length less light light stripes LIZARD lower males markings Mexican Mexico middorsal MOUNTAIN narrow neck normally North NORTHERN occur orange pale pattern pigment plain plastron PLATE Prairie races RANGE Rat Snake record reddish region reptiles ridges River rows SALAMANDER scales scutes shell side SIMILAR SPECIES single Skink smooth snout sometimes southern specimens spring streams stripe strongly subspecies tail Texas throat Toad toes TURTLE upper usually variable variation varies ventral WATER SNAKE Western 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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