REPTILES OF VIRGINIA PB [Paperback]

Joseph C. Mitchell (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Smithsonian (August 17, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560987545
• ISBN-13: 978-1560987543
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,841,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joseph C. (Joe) Mitchell (1948-) lived in Richmond, VA most of his life but is now a resident of Florida. He was an award-winning wood craftsman in high school, served in the US Marine Corps (1966-1970), attended VA Commonwealth Univ. (BS Biology), Arizona St. Univ. (MS Zoology), and Univ. Tennessee Knoxville (PhD Ecology). He is a herpetologist and a certified Senior Ecologist with the Ecological Society of America. He is independent and makes his living on contracts and consulting as a herpetologist and conservation biologist. His books thus far have all been on reptiles and amphibians.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A review, June 16, 2000

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This review is from: REPTILES OF VIRGINIA PB (Paperback)

Excellent photographs, maps and text, but uses the tongue-twisting common names devised by academics in the first half of the last century. Common names for North American amphibians, turtles, reptiles and crocodilians have been standardized since 1978, and have generally been adopted nationwide. Unfortunately, this book will cause much confusion about name usage. The publisher should have had this book reviewed by herpetologists of a younger generation; they would have caught the out-dated common names, and saved the publisher some embarrassment.