Snakes of Central and Western Africa
"This book is the first and only comprehensive guide to the snakes of Central and Western Africa. In North America, field guides are taken for granted, but for much of the world these guides don't exist. In many high biodiversity areas of the third world, even the specialist is stumped by...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2019.
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| Online Access: | https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/1916449.pdf |
Table of Contents:
- Identification of African snakes
- Evolution of African snakes
- Biogeography of African snakes
- Snakebite in sub-Saharan Africa
- Families Typhlopidae and Leptotyphlopidae
- Families Boidae and Pythonidae
- Family Viperidae
- Family Elapidae
- Family Lamprophiidae: subfamilies Atractaspidinae and Aparallactinae
- Family Lamprophiidae: subfamilies Lamprophiinae, Pseudoxyrhophiinae, Pseudaspidinae
- Family Lamprophiidae: Subfamilies Psammophiinae and Prosymninae
- Family Colubridae: Subfamily Natricinae
- Family Colubridae: Subfamilies Colubrinae, Grayiinae.