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Title: Herpetology (2nd Edition) by F. Harvey Pough, Robin M. Andrews, John E. Cadle, Martha L. Crump, Alan H Savitzky, Kentwood D Wells ISBN: 0-13-030795-5 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 07 August, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $92.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Anurans and Squamates and Crocodylia! Oh, my!
Comment: This is easily the best herpetology text book out there. It is informative, yet not full of the boringness (if that's a word...) of many textbooks. You might say that it's...fun to read.
Rating: 3
Summary: Herp Textbook
Comment: I have just finished an undergradute course which used this book as the main text. I agree with the previous reviewer that there is considerable overlap and occasional contradiction. The early chapters tend to use a lot of technical jargon, and seem to be written for people who already understand the material. I was not so impressed with phylogenic descriptions which frequently failed to discuss unifying characteristics within families. Later sections, including locomotion, water balance, and mate selection are well written. This book would benefit from a glossary, more relevant tables and figures, and a more inclusive index. Overall, editing is rather sketchy.
Rating: 4
Summary: Best of what's available
Comment: Despite some fairly serious errors and omissions, this book is the best academic treatment of the field of herpetology yet written. It is a multi-authored text which allows people to write on what they know best, rather than making authors stretch well beyond their fields of expertise. This unfortunately means there's a lot of repetition between chapters, and some flat-out contradictions. It does a fairly good of reviewing the literature in a number of sub-fields of herpetology, and so provides more up-to-date reviews than you're likely to find in "Biology of the Reptilia". It is a good choice for a herpetology course for undergraduates--in fact I plan to use it for such a course in summer 1999. Amazing omissions: dinosaurs!! birds!! biogeography!! Notable inclusions: good chapters on foraging ecology, classification (too short), & thermoregulation.
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Title: Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles, Second Edition by George Zug, Laurie Vitt, Janalee Caldwell, Janalee P. Caldwell, Laurie J. Vitt, George R. Zug ISBN: 012782622X Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $74.95 |
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Title: Lizards : Windows to the Evolution of Diversity by Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt ISBN: 0520234014 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature by Harry W. Greene, Michael Fogden, Patricia Fogden ISBN: 0520224876 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Biology of Amphibians by William E. Duellman, Linda Trueb ISBN: 080184780X Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $48.00 |
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Title: Completely Illustrated Atlas of Reptiles and Amphibians for the Terrarium by Fritz Jurgen Obst, Udo Jacob, T F H Publications, K. Richter ISBN: 0866229582 Publisher: TFH Publications Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $129.95 |
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