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Description: |
480 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Summary: Offers facts about the habitat, geographic range, and natural history of the world's serpents. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Primitive snakes. Boa constrictors and anacondas -- Specialized boas -- The pythons -- The acrochordidae -- Colubrids, the "typical snakes". The ratsnakes -- Bullsnakes, pine snakes, and gopher snakes -- The kingsnakes -- Indigo snakes, cribos, whipsnakes, and racers -- Water snakes and their allies -- Other colubrids -- Opisthoglyphous colubrids, the rear-fanged snakes -- Venomous snakes. Venom and antivenom -- Proteroglyphous snakes, the elapids -- The sea snakes, Laticaudinae and hydrophiinae -- Solenoglyphous snakes, the viperids -- Pit vipers, the crotalids -- Asian pit vipers, trimeresurus -- Neo-tropical pit vipers -- Rattlesnakes. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Mehrtens, John M. Living snakes of the world in color. New York : Sterling Pub. Co., ©1987 (OCoLC)755421584 |