Handbook of Frogs and Toads of the United States and Canada / / Anna Allen Wright, Albert Hazen Wright.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Wright, Albert Hazen,; Wright, Anna Allen,
• TeilnehmendeR: McDiarmid, Roy W.
• MitwirkendeR: McDiarmid, Roy W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: Third Edition
• Language: English
• Series: Comstock Classic Handbooks
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (670 p.) :; 37 maps, 126 black-and-white photos
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword to the 1995 Printing --; Preface --; General Account --; Keys --; Accounts of Species --; Ribbed toads, Ascaphidae --; Spadefoots, Scaphiopodidae --; Toads, Bufonidae --; Tree frogs, Hylidae --; Tree frogs, Hyla --; Robber frogs, Leptodactylidae --; Frogs, Ranidae --; Narrow-mouth toads, Brevicipitidae --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501738098; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501738098
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Anna Allen Wright, Albert Hazen Wright.

The preeminent naturalists Albert Hazen Wright and Anna Allen Wright spent years assembling the wealth of material on frogs and toads appearing in this widely used handbook, the third edition of which was originally published in 1949. With abundant black-and-white photographs, colorful descriptions, journal notes from the field, and excerpts from the literature, their personalized natural history emphasizes amphibians observed in the wild. In a foreword to the 1995 paperback edition, Roy McDiarmid, a foremost specialist on frogs and toads, brings the book into historical perspective and supplies information to bring it up to date. Accounts of more than 100 species and subspecies cover such topics as common and scientific names, range, habitat, size, and general appearance, as well as color, structure, voice, and breeding. Separate keys are given for secondary sexual characteristics, eggs, tadpoles, families, and species. Generous "ations from the Wrights' field journals give the reader a sense of the problems and satisfactions of their work.