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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very fun and somewhat useful...,
This review is from: TERRALOG: Turtles of the World, Vol. 4 - East and South Asia(v. 4) (Hardcover)
This book is a visual treat, not a technical reference. Overall picture content is very nice. There is some consistency to photo format in this volume, and many of the photos are useful aids in identification. Fair use of plastral shots is made in this volume.
Range maps are provided but in many cases are inaccurate. A number of habitat photos are provided and are useful. Additional habitat photos should have taken the place of the blob-ish range maps. The senior author took the liberty to split species in the family Geoemydidae (Bataguridae/Emydidae) into many, MANY genera, making them unrecognizable to people unaware of revisions that haven't gained wide use. The scientific naming in this volume is very contrary to the objective of making animal id simpler! Husbandry information in this volume is the same as others. It's not sufficient. There is an extra section in this book that pictures the multitude of known Asian hybrid turtles. Photo quality and angles in this section are consistently fair to excellent, but the size is very small - 12 photos per page vs. 6. Regrettably, no confirmation for each hybrid's claimed parentage is given. This book will not be useful for distinguishing subspecies, but it will do a fair job supplementing a key at the species level. The book is of no use for husbandry. I found the hybrids section alone to be worth the purchase price. |
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TERRALOG: Turtles of the World, Vol. 4 - East and South Asia(v. 4) by Holger Vetter (Hardcover - May 31, 2006)
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