Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands: A by George R. Zug

By George R. Zug

The Pacific isn't just the world’s biggest physique of water; its significant expanse additionally comprises a rare quantity and variety of oceanic islands, from Palau and the Marianas east of the Philippines to Cocos Island and the Galápagos west of the Americas. The isolation of those islands and the intense distances among them lengthy avoided scientists from learning their floras and faunas in a comparative context.

But now George R. Zug, one of many world's ideal specialists at the varied reptiles and amphibians of the Pacific Basin, deals the 1st such systematic evaluation in additional than part a century. Reptiles and Amphibians of the Pacific Islands is a compendium of frogs, lizards, snakes, and turtles dwelling on those lands and within the adjoining waters of the oceanic islands within the tropical Pacific.

The ability to spot every one species is integrated, besides entries that describe every one animal's shape, color, habitat, distribution, reproductive biology, and normal historical past. colour plates of greater than seventy five percentage of the species additionally support to facilitate visible id. This available and informative advisor is the main finished box consultant on hand and should entice either beginner sightseers naturalists.

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