Comprehensive Australian Reference

Nature Writing & Wildlife

Snakes of Australia

by Tie Eipper and Scott Eipper

A comprehensive and user-friendly photographic field guide 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. Each species entry covers English and scientific names, appearance, range, ecology, disposition, danger level, and IUCN Red List Category, with multiple images for some species to show variation. The guide features introductions to each family, species descriptions, type locations, distribution maps, and quick-identification keys to each family and genera. Also included is essential information on habitat types, snakes in the environment, and snake-bite prevention and first aid, along with a complete checklist of all the snakes, a glossary, and a table of venom toxicity.

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