Customer Reviews

Turtles of the World (World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series)

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
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This book provides an excellent key to identify any turtle you
may come across and provides consise and acurate natural
history information. There are lots of good pictures too.
I wish there were books like this for more taxa!

A great book if you are seriously interested in turtles and a bit sick of the kiddie stuff. Natural history is what reptile care MUST be based on, you can believe me I'm a herpetologist, and that is what this book is all about. Good species keys, hard to find elsewhere, Ernst knows what he's talking about.

...any book that references me (snake-necked turtles) can't be all bad. Same goes for John Cann's turtles from down under. :-)

A green, cloth-bound hardback with a sewn binding. Over 175 b&w illustrations & 16 color plates. Preface and Introduction. 20 p Bibliography. Glossary and Index.

The book arrived very fast for an international shipping and it was in a very good condition.

Despite the publication date of this book, it's remains very actual an usefull for most turtles enthusiastic's and grade students.

A fantastic book for anyone with even a passing interest in learning about most of the world's living species (and I am only slightly moved to say so because the authors cite me for my observations regarding snake-necked turtles!).

This is a great book probably a 5 stars, but the photos are in black and white and because of this I decided to give it 4 stars, there isn't anything on the internal anatomy of turtles as well. But it's a must have if you are seriously interested in turtles