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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