| Description |
160 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 32 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-155) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Anatomy of snakes -- Venomous snake diversity and distribution -- Snake venoms and their actions -- Life in the sea -- Conservation -- Venomous lizards -- Americas -- American elapids -- True coralsnakes -- False coralsnakes -- American Pitvipers -- Copperheads, cottonmouths and cantils -- Lanceheads -- Forest-pitvipers -- Palm-pitvipers -- Jumping and hognosed pitvipers -- Bushmasters -- North American rattlesnakes -- South American rattlesnakes -- Pigmy rattlesnakes -- Venomous snakes of the Caribbean -- South American rear-fanged colubrids -- Eurasia -- Eurasian true vipers -- Adders and vipers -- European nose-horned vipers -- Middle Eastern mountain vipers -- Blunt-nosed vipers -- Palestine viper -- Middle Eastern desert vipers -- Eurasian Pitvipers -- Mamushis -- Eurasian Cobras -- Arabian burrowing asps -- European rear-fanged colubrids -- Africa -- African Cobras -- African non-spitting cobras -- Rinkhals and other African spitting cobras -- Special cobras -- Other African elapids -- Shieldnose and African coralsnakes -- African garter and harlequin snakes -- Mambas -- African Vipers -- Night adders -- Carpet and horned vipers -- Bushvipers -- Specialist vipers -- Big African vipers -- Small African vipers -- North African vipers -- African burrowing asps -- African rear-fanged colubrids -- Tropical Asia -- Asian cobras -- Common cobras -- King cobras -- Other Asian elapids -- Kraits -- Oriental coralsnakes -- Asian true vipers -- Fea's viper -- Asian pitvipers -- Terrestrial Asian pitvipers -- Asian and bamboo pitvipers -- Australasia -- Australian elapids -- Whipsnakes -- Brownsnakes -- Taipans -- Blacksnakes -- Australian copperheads -- Slender crowned snakes -- Marsh snakes -- Tigersnakes -- Death adders -- Small Australian elapids -- Naped snakes -- Desert burrowers -- Broadhead snakes -- Snakes of Melanesia -- New Guinea endemics -- Highland and island rarities -- Solomon island endemics -- Bougainville and Fiji endemics -- Australasian rear-fanged colubrids -- The oceans -- Sea kraits -- True seasnakes. |
| Subject |
Poisonous snakes.
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| ISBN |
0691124361 |
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