Handbook of Salamanders: The Salamanders of the United States, of Canada, and of Lower California (Comstock Classic Handbooks) - Softcover

Bishop, Sherman C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801482135 ISBN 13: 9780801482137

Publisher: Comstock Publishing Associates, 1994

Synopsis

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, Edmund D. Brodie, Jr., a specialist on salamanders, updates the taxonomy of the group.

About this title

About the Author

Sherman C. Bishop was Professor of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of Rochester.

From the Back Cover

Despite their abundance in many parts of North America, salamanders have generally been neglected by all but a few specialists. In this book, 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 Lower California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Comstock Publishing Associates
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801482135
• ISBN 13: 9780801482137
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576