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Snakes Of The Americas.


Snakes Of The Americas

Bob L. Tipton

Krieger Publishing Company

PO Box 9542, Melbourne, FL 32902-9542

157524215X $94.50 1-800-724-0025 www.krieger-publishing.com

Snakes Of The Americas: Checklist And Lexicon is a book/CD combination compiled and written by herpetologist her·pe·tol·o·gy  
n.
The branch of zoology that deals with reptiles and amphibians.



[Greek herpeton, reptile (from herpein, to creep) + -logy.
 Bob L. Tipton that provides a single volume comprehensive checklist of all known snakes found in North American North American

named after North America.


North American blastomycosis
see North American blastomycosis.

North American cattle tick
see boophilusannulatus.
, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. This seminal work also serves as a lexicon listing all the common names (in several languages) of these snakes. The information covers the subspecies subspecies, also called race, a genetically distinct geographical subunit of a species. See also classification.  level, as well as citations and distribution information. The lexicon (on an easy-to-use, searchable, compact disk) includes common names in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Guarani gua·ra·ni  
n. pl. guarani or gua·ra·nis
See Table at currency.



[Spanish guaraní, Guarani; see Guarani.]

Noun 1.
, and other languages of the Americas, along with references. An extensive bibliography is included. A superb work of impeccable research, expertise, and scholarship, Snakes Of The Americas will serve as an indispensable, standard, "user friendly" reference for professional herpetologists This is a list of herpetologists who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. A-D
  • Charles M. Bogert
  • Archie Carr
  • Roger Conant
  • Jeff Corwin
E-H
  • Howard K.
 and is especially recommended as a core addition to all academic library reference collections.
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Title Annotation:Snakes of the Americas: Checklist and Lexicon
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Date:Sep 1, 2005
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