Publisher's Synopsis
A comprehensive and user-friendly photographic field guide
With more than 1,000 photographs, Snakes of Australia illustrates and describes in detail all 240 of the continent's species and subspecies-from file snakes, pythons, colubrids, and natricids to elapids, marine elapids, homalopsids, and blind snakes.
- Features introductions to each family, species descriptions, type locations, distribution maps, and quick-identification keys to each family and genera
- Covers English and scientific names, appearance, range, ecology, disposition, danger level, and IUCN Red List Category
- Illustrates every species and has multiple images for some species to show variation
- Presents information on habitat types, snakes in the environment, and snake-bite prevention and first aid
- Includes a checklist of all the snakes, a glossary, and a table of venom toxicity
