Download Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Fourth Edition (Peterson Field Guides)

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Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Fourth Edition (Peterson Field Guides)

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Peterson The best-selling field guides of all time  This new edition reflects 25 years of changes in our knowledge of the reptiles and amphibians of eastern and central North America. It includes descriptions of 122 newly recognized or recently established non-native species, updated maps, and new figures and photos. Color illustrations and drawings show key details for accurate identification. More than 100 color photographs and 322 color distribution maps accompany the species descriptions. Clear and concise species accounts provide key characteristics, comparisons with similar species, and descriptions of habitats and ranges. Some also list subspecies, describe “voices,” and note conservation status. This edition is a crucial resource for professional and amateur herpetologists, naturalists, outdoor enthusiasts, and students.  Sponsored by the National Audubon Society, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute DR. ROBERT POWELL is professor of biology at Avila University in Kansas City, Missouri. The late ROGER CONANT was director and curator of reptiles at the Philadelphia Zoo. The late JOSEPH T. COLLINS was founder and director of the Center for North American Herpetology.

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About the Author

ROBERT POWELL is professor of biology at Avila University in Kansas City, Missouri. The late ROGER CONANT was director and curator of reptiles at the Philadelphia Zoo. The late JOSEPH T. COLLINS was founder and director of the Center for North American Herpetology.  

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Product details

Series: Peterson Field Guides

Paperback: 512 pages

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 4 edition (April 12, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0544129970

ISBN-13: 978-0544129979

Product Dimensions:

4.5 x 1.1 x 7.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.5 out of 5 stars

80 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#51,885 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

This guide has been one of my favorite herp books for many decades. The previous edition, first published in 1991, included a few recently discovered native species (for example, the Pigeon Mountain salamander) and various established exotics (mainly lizards) not yet known when the 1975 edition was published, and also introduced clearer, more colorful and detailed range maps included with each species account rather than placing them in a section at the back. This latest edition includes all that but also incorporates many recent taxonomic changes, even more detailed range maps, and adds some newly discovered native species (one notable case is the patch-nosed salamander, a small species found in a tiny part of northeastern Georgia that somehow evaded discovery until 2009), and many newly differentiated cryptic look-alike species, as well as many more established non-native species that have been recently recorded, in large part from Florida. I was very excited to see this long awaited 4th edition and the impressive wealth of new information it contains, and so considering this as well as the way I feel about this book in general, I am giving it 4 stars, though I had really hoped to make it 5. One major disappointment for me is that, apparently to reduce the number of pages, many of the old species accounts have been condensed, and some material from the previous edition, like the chapters on field herping, care in captivity, etc., has been omitted. Also, the classic illustrations on the color plates have been reduced in scale for some reason, apparently in order to accommodate the new color tabs along the margins without increasing the number of plates. I am rather puzzled by some of the tinkering that has taken place in this regard, and think some errors were made. For example, on Plate 6, the Yonahlossee salamander, which is the largest of the woodland salamander group, now looks only about the same size as its cousins like the slimy and red-cheeked. (By the way, it should be mentioned that no new illustrations were added to the existing plates, although many of the old illustrations were shuffled around. The newly discovered species are represented under their accounts in photographs.) I personally would have preferred for these omissions not to have been made, even if the book would have been 100 pages longer (as was the 3rd edition). But I still feel that this new edition is a must-have for the library of any herp enthusiast, and heartily recommend it if you want the latest cutting edge information about our herpetofauna, although if you are like me, you will still want to keep the previous edition handy as well.

This is a must have book for anyone interested in the herpetofauna of eastern North America and probably still the best guide to the region. However, the 4th edition has really had the life sucked out of it with 122 less pages than the 3rd edition, all the information on natural history and behavior removed, and the color plates reduced in size. The publisher and layout designers are probably responsible for most of the downgrades rather than the author. Allegedly the behavioral text “fell victim to the huge increase in the number of species and the need to keep this book small enough to take into the field”. However they could add 100 pages of behavioral text and still keep it under 600 pages, shorter that the 3rd ed. and other guides in the series (Freshwater Fishes, 663 pp). Perhaps amphibians and reptiles should be covered in separate volumes in the future allowing for some natural history information to be included. Or maybe the publishers should put substance over style and make more economical use of page space.Error: The two subspecies of the Four-lined Skink (Plestiodon tetragrammus) are confused (page 312). The correct arrangement is -Long-lined Skink or Four-lined Skink, Plestiodon tetragrammus tetragrammus Baird, 1858 in south Texas and Tamaulipas, Mexico (type locality Matamoros, Mexico).Short-lined Skink, Plestiodon tetragrammus brevilineatus (Cope, 1880) in central and west Texas (type locality Near Helotes Creek…twenty miles northwest of San Antonio).Illustrations: This edition has been reformatted from previous editions with amphibians first, followed by reptiles. The classic color plates by Isabelle Conant have been reduced in size to make room for color coded page margins and divided into six groups preceding the species accounts for each order. Although the color coded page margins are admittedly useful, this could have been accomplished with smaller color margins at the bottom like the other new editions of Peterson Field Guides, or a much thinner margin down the side, without reducing to size of the plates. The smaller plates are a significant decline in the usefulness and overall appeal of the book. New species and recent invasive species not in earlier editions are illustrated here with photographs appearing throughout the accounts.Maps: The maps have been updated and revised. Generally they appear more precise and accurate although several seem to be too fussy for such a small scale (e.g. crawfish frogs, page 149; slender glass lizard, page 255). The grouping of different species on one map can often be informative, not just for distribution, but for expediting identifications by quickly ruling out similar species that do not occur in your area. They can also illuminate relationships of closely related species (species groups or sister taxa) when shown together on a single map (e. g. neotenic brook salamanders page 61; American toad with the Houston toad page 118). Several opportunities to map closely related and similar looking species in meaningful combinations were missed and instead appear in seemingly arbitrary combinations with other members of their genus. Examples include the crevice spiny lizard (Sceloporus poinsetti) and the blue spiny lizard (S. cyanogenys), two large, collared, blue bellied lizards, both members of the torquatus species group occurring in Texas, although their ranges do not overlap. Another is the twin-spotted spiny lizard (S. bimaculosus) and the Texas spiny lizard (S. olivaceus), similar appearing members of the spinosus group with non-overlapping distributions. The 3rd ed. had all four mapped separately, but thoughtfully, side by side (230 & 231) for useful reference.A few other errors have been pointed out by other reviewers here. I would not want to underestimate what a monumental undertaking revising a volume like this would be, but it could be better.

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