A comprehensive and user-friendly photographic field guideWith 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 generaCovers English and scientific names, appearance, range, ecology, disposition, danger level, and IUCN Red List CategoryIllustrates every species and has multiple images for some species to show variationPresents information on habitat types, snakes in the environment, and snake-bite prevention and first aidIncludes a checklist of all the snakes, a glossary, and a table of venom toxicity
