Handbook of Salamanders – The Salamanders of the United States, of Canada, and …

Handbook of SalamandersThe Salamanders of the United States, of Canada, and of Lower California\nAuthor(s): Sherman C. Bishop, Edmund D. Brodie\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Comstock Publishing Associates\nISBN-13: 9780801482137, 978-0801482137\nSynopsis\nDespite their abundance in many parts of North America, salamanders have generally been neglected by all but a few specialists. In this bookfirst published in 1943Sherman C. Bishop discusses in a lively but authoritative manner the 126 species and subspecies of salamanders that are known to exist in the United States, Canada, and Baja [url] by group, Bishop describes salamanders in accounts that give the common and technical names, type of locality, range, habitat, size, anatomical characteristics, color, breeding habits, and relationshipsall in a uniform arrangement that makes the handbook especially convenient for studying both living animals and laboratory specimens. His brief in.