Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of India - Softcover

Indraneil Das

9780883590560: Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of India

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0883590565 ISBN 13: 9780883590560

Publisher: Ralph Curtis Publishing, 2002

A pocket-size guide which covers 243 species of snakes, lizards, crocodiles and turtles of India. Each species account provides common and scientific names, key features for identification, natural history notes and one or more color photographs. Illustrated with full-color photographs and map.

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About the Author:

Indraneil Das studied at the Universities of Calcutta and Oxford, receiving a doctoral degree in zoology from the latter institution in 1991. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University, and a Research Fellow at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. At present, he is Associate Professor at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, and Editor of the herpetological journal, Hamadryad. Indraneil Das is author of a number of other titles including books on the turtles of India, of Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo, a work on the biogeography of the reptiles of southern Asia, and one on ethnoherpetology.

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