Handbook of Salamanders : : The Salamanders of the United States, of Canada, and of Lower California / / Sherman C. Bishop.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Bishop, Sherman C.,
• MitwirkendeR: Brodie, Edmund D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Comstock Classic Handbooks
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (576 p.) :; 56 maps, 144 figures

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword to the 1994 Printing -- Preface -- PART I. INTRODUCTION -- PART II. ACCOUNTS OF SPECIES -- KEY TO FAMILIES (ADULTS) -- Family PROTEIDAE -- Family AMPHIUMIDAE -- Family CRYPTOBRANCHIDAE -- Family SALAMANDRIDAE -- Family AMBYSTOMIDAE -- Family PLETHODONTIDAE -- Family SIRENIDAE -- Bibliography -- Index