Venomous snakes of the world /

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Author / Creator:O'Shea, Mark.
Imprint:Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2005.
Description:160 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 33 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5841611
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ISBN:0691124361
Notes:"First published in 2005 by New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd."--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-155) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Anatomy of snakes
  • Venomous snake diversity and distribution
  • Snake venoms and their actions
  • Life in the sea
  • Conservation
  • Venomous lizards
  • Americas
  • American elapids
  • American pitvipers
  • Venomous snakes of the Caribbean
  • South American rear-fanged colubrids
  • Eurasia
  • Eurasian true vipers
  • Eurasian pitvipers
  • Eurasian cobras
  • Arabian burrowing asps
  • European rear-fanged colubrids
  • Africa
  • African cobras
  • Other African elapids
  • African vipers
  • African burrowing ASPS
  • African rear-fanged colubrids
  • Tropical Asia
  • Asian cobras
  • Other Asian elapids
  • Asian true vipers
  • Fea's viper
  • Asian pitvipers
  • Australasia
  • Australian elapids
  • Snakes of Melanesia
  • Australasian rear-fanged colubrids
  • The oceans
  • Sea kraits
  • True seasnakes
  • Map global distribution of venomous snakes
  • Antivenom.