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Description: |
2 volumes (xviii, 870 pages, 28 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 32 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, pages 775-870) and indexes. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Summary: Since the publication of The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America by Cornell University Press in 1989, scientific discoveries and taxonomic changes have resulted in the addition of many taxa and species to the herpetology of the Western Hemisphere. This updated, heavily rewritten, and greatly expanded version of that book now includes accounts of all 192 species of venomous snakes and lizards found in the Western Hemisphere. Volume I includes a table of contents, list of tables, preface, introduction, and regional/country accounts with related bilingual identification keys and vegetation and topographic maps. Genus and species accounts in this volume treat all of the lizards, coralsnakes, and seasnakes; these accounts are accompanied by color photographs of individual species. Volume II begins with the pitvipers, including all known species of rattlesnakes. This volume features four chapters by experts on mimicry, evolution, and snakebite treatment in tropical and temperate America. A glossary, literaturecited section, and index serve both volumes. Color photographs portray pitvipers, including rattlesnakes, and the damage done by snakebite. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Volume I: Introduction -- Canada and the United States -- Mexico and Central America -- The Caribbean Islands -- South America -- Venomous lizards, family Helodermatidae -- Gila monster and beaded lizard, genus Heloderma Wiegmann, 1829 -- Coralsnakes and seasnakes, family Elapidae -- Coralsnakes -- slender coralsnakes, genus Leptomicrurus Schmidt -- Sonoran coralsnake, genus Micruroides Schmidt -- Coralsnakes, genus Micrurus Wagler, 1824 -- The monadal group -- The Central American triad-bearing group -- The bicolored group -- The South American triad-bearing group -- Seasnakes -- Yellow-bellied seasnake, genus Pelamis Daudin, 1803 -- Pitvipers, family Viperidae -- Cantils, copperheads, and cottonmouth, genus Agkistrodon Palisot de Beauvois, 1799 -- Jumping pitvipers, genus Atropoides Werman, 1992 -- Palm-pitvipers, genus Bothriechis Peters, 1859 -- Forest-pitvipers, genus Bothriopsis Peters, 1861 -- Toadheaded pitvipers, genus Bothrocophias Gutberlet and Campbell, 2001 -- Lanceheads, genus Bothrops Wagler, 1824 -- The Bothrops neuwiedi complex by Vinícius Xavier da Silva -- Montane pitvipers, genus Cerrophidion Campbell and Lamar, 1992 -- Bushmasters, genus Lachesis Daudin, 1803 -- Mexican horned pitvipers, genus Ophryacus Cope, 1887 -- Hognosed pitvipers, genus Porthidium Cope, 1871 -- Volume II: Rattlesnakes -- Rattlesnakes, genus Crotalus Linnaeus, 1758 -- Massasauga and pygmy rattlesnake, genus Sistrurus Garman, 1884 -- Venomous snake mimicry -- The evolution of new world venomous snakes -- Venom poisoning by North American reptiles -- Snakebites in Central and South America: epidemiology, clinical features, and clinical management. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Campbell, Jonathan A. Venomous reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. Ithaca : Comstock Pub. Associates, 2004 (OCoLC)752875045 |