In addition to covering all species of turtles occuring in Venezuela, this book covers half of the turtles species of South America. 48 color plates (25 watercolors by Giorgio Voltolina and 165 photographs of turtles and habitats)
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For centuries, the literature on the herpetology of South America was a haphazard body of writings composed of travellers' accounts and morphological or taxonomic descriptions by herpetologists of specimens that arrived from various sources in the major museums of Europe and North America. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plastral view, intercostal fontanelles, see generic account, anterior plastral lobe, nuchal bone, posterior plastral lobe, intergular scute, interpectoral seam, neural bones, interanal notch, interanal seams, interfemoral seam, longitud del carapacho, emydid genera, interabdominal seam, plastral length, scripta chichiriviche, suprapygal bone, nuchal scute, scorpioides scorpioides, chelid genera, interparietal scale, scripta group, inguinal scutes, plastral figure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South America, French Guiana, Costa Rica, Rio Negro, North America, United States, Central America, Indian Ocean, Isla Aves, Smithsonian Inst, Rio Xingu, Mosqueira Manso, Isla Margarita, Harvard Univ, West Indies, Recent of Asia, Alarcon Pardo, New York, Sao Paulo, South Africa, Ascension Island, Shell Beach, Solomon Islands, Delta Amacuro, Mato Grosso New!
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For centuries, the literature on the herpetology of South America was a haphazard body of writings composed of travellers' accounts and morphological or taxonomic descriptions by herpetologists of specimens that arrived from various sources in the major museums of Europe and North America. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plastral view, intercostal fontanelles, see generic account, anterior plastral lobe, nuchal bone, posterior plastral lobe, intergular scute, interpectoral seam, neural bones, interanal notch, interanal seams, interfemoral seam, longitud del carapacho, emydid genera, interabdominal seam, plastral length, scripta chichiriviche, suprapygal bone, nuchal scute, scorpioides scorpioides, chelid genera, interparietal scale, scripta group, inguinal scutes, plastral figure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South America, French Guiana, Costa Rica, Rio Negro, North America, United States, Central America, Indian Ocean, Isla Aves, Smithsonian Inst, Rio Xingu, Mosqueira Manso, Isla Margarita, Harvard Univ, West Indies, Recent of Asia, Alarcon Pardo, New York, Sao Paulo, South Africa, Ascension Island, Shell Beach, Solomon Islands, Delta Amacuro, Mato Grosso New!
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- Biology of Sea Turtles, Vol. 1 by Peter L. Lutz on 4 pages
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- The Ecology, Exploitation and Conservation of River Turtles (Enviromental Science) by Don Moll on page 323, and Back Matter
- Firefly Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians by Tim Halliday in Back Matter
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