Snakes of Australia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780691269931)

A comprehensive and user-friendly photographic field guide

With more than 1,000 photographs, Snakes of Australia illustrates and describes in detail all 240 of the continent's species and subspecies--from file snakes, pythons, colubrids, and natricids to elapids, marine elapids, homalopsids, and blind snakes.

• Features introductions to each family, species descriptions, type locations, distribution maps, and quick-identification keys to each family and genera
• Covers English and scientific names, appearance, range, ecology, disposition, danger level, and IUCN Red List Category
• Illustrates every species and has multiple images for some species to show variation
• Presents information on habitat types, snakes in the environment, and snake-bite prevention and first aid
• Includes a checklist of all the snakes, a glossary, and a table of venom toxicity

Author: Tie Eipper, Scott Eipper
ISBN-10: 0691269939
ISBN-13: 9780691269931
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2025
Pages: 364
Format: Hardcover