Handbook of Salamanders : The Salamanders of the United States, of Canada, and of Lower California / Sherman C. Bishop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bishop, Sherman C., author.

Contributor:

Brodie, Edmund D.

Series:

Comstock Classic Handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salamanders--North America.

Salamanders.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 555 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Despite their abundance in many parts of North America, salamanders have generally been neglected by all but a few specialists. In this book-first published in 1943-Sherman C. Bishop discusses in a lively but authoritative manner the 126 species and subspecies of salamanders that are known to exist in the United States, Canada, and Baja California.Group by group, Bishop describes salamanders in accounts that give the common and technical names, type of locality, range, habitat, size, anatomical characteristics, color, breeding habits, and relationships-all in a uniform arrangement that makes the handbook especially convenient for studying both living animals and laboratory specimens. His brief introduction surveys the relationships and general habits of salamanders and gives information on collecting and preserving them. In his foreword to the 1994 reprint edition, Edmund D. Brodie, Jr., a specialist on salamanders, updates the taxonomy of the group.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Foreword to the 1994 Printing / Brodie, Edmund D.

Preface

PART I. INTRODUCTION

PART II. ACCOUNTS OF SPECIES

KEY TO FAMILIES (ADULTS)

Family PROTEIDAE

Family AMPHIUMIDAE

Family CRYPTOBRANCHIDAE

Family SALAMANDRIDAE

Family AMBYSTOMIDAE

Family PLETHODONTIDAE

Family SIRENIDAE

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Originally published: 1943, in series: Handbooks of American natural history ; v. 3. With new introd.

Includes bibliographical references p. (479-545) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-2101-1

OCLC:

1080551720