SNAKES OF AUSTRALIA

With 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 genera; Covers English and scientific names, appearance, range, ecology, disposition, danger level, and IUCN Red List Category; Illustrates every species and has multiple images for some species to show variation; Presents information on habitat types, snakes in the environment, and snake-bite prevention and first aid; Includes a checklist of all the snakes, a glossary, and a table of venom toxicity.