Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia,9780787657833

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780787657833
ISBN10: 0787657832
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-06-01
Publisher(s): Gale / Cengage Learning
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Summary

Covers various aspects of zoology, including the behavior, class, and physiology of wild and domestic animals.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
How to use this book x
Advisory boards xiii
Contributing writers xv
Contributing illustrators xvi
Volume 7: Reptiles
What is a reptile?
3(9)
Evolution of the reptiles
12(11)
Structure and function
23(11)
Behavior
34(13)
Reptiles and humans
47(12)
Conservation
59(6)
Order TESTUDINES
Turtles and tortoises
65(92)
Family: Pig-nose turtles
75(2)
Family: Australo-American sideneck turtles
77(8)
Family: Seaturtles
85(8)
Family: Snapping turtles
93(6)
Family: Central American river turtles
99(2)
Family: Leatherback seaturtles
101(4)
Family: New World pond turtles
105(10)
Family: Eurasian pond and river turtles, and Neotropical wood turtles
115(6)
Family: American mud and musk turtles
121(8)
Family: African sideneck turtles
129(6)
Family: Big-headed turtles
135(2)
Family: Afro-American river turtles
137(6)
Family: Tortoises
143(8)
Family: Softshell turtles
151(6)
Order CROCODILIANS
Crocodiles, alligators, caimans, and gharials
157(38)
Family: Gharials
167(4)
Family: Alligators and caimans
171(8)
Family: Crocodiles and false gharials
179(10)
Order SPHENODONTIA
Tuatara
Family: Tuatara
189(6)
Order SQUAMATA
Lizards and snakes
195(306)
Family: Angleheads, calotes, dragon lizards, and relatives
209(14)
Family: Chameleons
223(20)
Family: Anoles, iguanas, and relatives
243(16)
Family: Geckos and pygopods
259(12)
Family: Blindskinks
271(2)
Family: Wormlizards
273(6)
Family: Mole-limbed wormlizards
279(4)
Family: Florida wormlizards
283(4)
Family: Spade-headed wormlizards
287(4)
Family: Night lizards
291(6)
Family: Wall lizards, rock lizards, and relatives
297(6)
Family: Microteiids
303(6)
Family: Whiptail lizards, tegus, and relatives
309(10)
Family: Girdled and plated lizards
319(8)
Family: Skinks
327(12)
Family: Alligator lizards, galliwasps, glass lizards, and relatives
339(8)
Family: Knob-scaled lizards
347(6)
Family: Gila monsters and Mexican beaded lizards
353
Family: Monitors, goannas, and earless monitors
315(54)
Family: Early blindsnakes
369(4)
Family: Slender blindsnakes
373(6)
Family: Blindsnakes
379(8)
Family: False blindsnakes
387(4)
Family: Shieldtail snakes
391(4)
Family: Pipe snakes
395(4)
Family: False coral snakes
399(2)
Family: Sunbeam snakes
401(4)
Family: Neotropical sunbeam snakes
405(4)
Family: Boas
409(10)
Family: Pythons
419(10)
Family: Splitjaw snakes
429(4)
Family: Woodsnakes and spinejaw snakes
433(6)
Family: File snakes
439(6)
Family: Vipers and pitvipers
445(16)
Family: African burrowing snakes
461(4)
Family: Colubrids
465(18)
Family: Cobras, kraits, seasnakes, death adders, and relatives
483(18)
For further reading 501(6)
Organizations 507(2)
Contributors to the first edition 509(7)
Glossary 516(4)
Reptiles species list 520(51)
Geologic time scale 571(2)
Index 573

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