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Western Reptiles and Amphibians (Peterson Field Guides) | 
| Author: Robert C. Stebbins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 3981090
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Subsequent
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
ISBN: 0618331646
Dewey Decimal Number: 597
UPC: 046442331647
EAN: 9780618331642
ASIN: 0618331646
Publication Date: March 2003
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Product Description
With more than 500 species and subspecies, this guide offers the most comprehensive treatment of reptiles and amphibians of western North America ever published. It includes 36 new species not found in the previous edition and is illustrated with 56 plates that contain 166 new full-color illustrations and with all-new, updated range maps. Each description provides information to help with identification. Topics covered include habitat, habits, breeding information, and survival status of threatened species. All the information found in this guide is based on the author’s firsthand knowledge and experience gathered during more than sixty years in the field and the laboratory.
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 I would like to see it to be able to review it. July 13, 2007
0 out of 18 found this review helpful
I have never received these books. They were due on June 1-5, 07. It is now July 13th. I placed the order the first week in May. This is slo even for Mexico mail. However, I know the Peterson series and they are usually excellent.
 I love this November 24, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love this book because I have the National Audubon Society First Field Guide for reptiles and I would often run in to reptile that the I couldn't Identify. I knew that I needed a bigger better book. So I bought the western and eastern Peterson Field guide for reptiles and amphibians and it had a lot more reptiles and it had amphibians which I never had a book that had information about them before, it has a lot more reptiles and it's shows you were they are each located. It give you a detailed description of each animal and a detailed drawing of each animal. Because of this I have been able to identify reptiles and amphibian that I couldn't before. I don't like that they use drawing of the animals instead of pictures and the drawings just show the heads of the snakes.
must have March 19, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
great detail & pictures are in color this edition! Maps are in color also! This is helpful when out in the field looking for your "herps". Thanks to Robert Stebbins & all involved in compling all the data needed for the updated guide
A very complete and well illustrated guide August 2, 2005
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This field guide is very well organized and illustrated. It is quite complete. With over 300 pages of information this is a must for westerners.
Great update to a great field guide March 27, 2003
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
Stebbins does it again. As a biologist who works throughout southern California I find this book indispensable. It is a vast improvement to the last edition (which was very good to begin with) with lots of color photos, many more color plates and the range maps are great too, again with color. It has revised the taxonomy of many species and included a many of the lastest subspecies designations. This book is easy to use from the novice to the advanced and should be in any nature enthusiasts library.
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