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Alcuni critici denominano l'enciclopedia sulla vita degli animali del Grzimek la migliore opera di riferimento con taglio enciclopedico mai pubblicata.
L'enciclopedia si compone di 16 volumi più l'indice e prende spunto dall'edizione tedesca degli anni 60, concepita in tredici volumi.
Il volume 7, rettili, è forse il migliore di questi eccellenti volumi. La conoscenza approfondita e l'amore dei curatori di questo volume sono evidenti. L'Ordine: I "crocodilians " è particolarmente suggestivo e splendidamente scritto.
Historia Naturae propone un'enciclopedia che è un'ineguagliabile risorsa per studenti e ricercatori.
SOMMARIO DEL VOLUME 7 REPTILES
Foreword...........................................
How to use this book................................
Advisory board......................................
Contributing writers.................................
Contributing illustrators.............................
Volume 7: Reptiles
What Is a reptile?...................................
Evolution of the reptiles.............................
Structure and function...............................
Behavior............................................
Reptiles and humans ................................
Conservation .......................................
Order TESTUDINES
Turtles and Tortoises...............................
Family: Pig-nose turtle..........................
Family: Australo-American sideneck turtles........
Family: Seaturtles...............................
Family: Snapping turtles.........................
Family: Central American river turtle .............
Family: Leatherback seaturtle....................
Family: New World pond turtles.................
Family: Eurasian pond and river turtles, and neotropi
cal wood turtles.................................
Family: American mud and musk turtles ..........
Family: African sideneck turtles ..................
Family: Big-headed turtle........................
Family: Afro-American river turtles...............
Family: Tortoises ...............................
Family: Softshell turtles..........................
Order CROCODILIANS
Crocodiles, alligators, caimans, and gharials ...........
Family: Gharials ................................
Family: Alligators and caimans...................
Family: Crocodiles and false gharials..............
Order SPHENODONTIA
Tuatara
Family: Tuatara.................................
Order SQUAMATA
Lizards and Snakes..................................
Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia
Family: Angleheads, calotes, dragon lizards, and
relatives......................................
Family: Chameleons.............................
Family: Anoles, iguanas, and relatives .............
Family: Geckos and pygopods....................
Family: Blindskinks..............................
Family: Wormlizards............................
Family: Mole-limbed wormlizards................
Family: Florida wormlizards......................
Family: Spade-headed wormlizards ...............
Family: Night lizards............................
Family: Wall lizards, rock lizards, and relatives ....
Family: Microteiids..............................
Family: Whiptail lizards, tegus, and relatives ......
Family: Girdled and plated lizards................
Family: Skinks..................................
Family: Alligator lizards, galliwasps, glass lizards,
and relatives..................................
Family: Knob-scaled lizards......................
Family: Gila monster and Mexican beaded lizards. . .
Family: Monitors, goannas, and earless monitors . . .
Family: Early blindsnakes........................
Family: Slender blindsnakes, threadsnakes, or
wormsnakes ..................................
Family: Blindsnakes .............................
Family: False blindsnakes........................
Family: Shieldtail snakes.........................
Family: Pipe snakes..............................
Family: False coralsnake.........................
Family: Sunbeam snakes.........................
Family: Neotropical sunbeam snakes..............
Family: Boas....................................
Family: Pythons.................................
Family: Splitjaw snakes..........................
Family: Neotropical woodsnakes .................
Family: Wart snakes or file snakes................
Family: Vipers and pitvipers......................
Family: African burrowing snakes.................
Family: Colubrids...............................
Family: Cobras, kraits, seasnakes, death adders,
and relatives..................................
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