Overview

The """"Bartletts' Guide"""" to the alligators, crocodiles, turtles, and lizards of eastern and central North America features all 207 species inhabiting the region from west Texas, to western Manitoba, to the eastern seaboard. Each species account is accompanied by a color photo, distribution map, and description including appearance, behavior, range, habitat, and prey. Some introduced species covered in the """"Guide"""", such as the large and predatory Nile monitor and spectacled caiman, illuminate ever-worsening environmental and ecological conditions, particularly in Florida and Texas. This authoritative and user-friendly reference will appeal to hobbyists, amateur naturalists, biologists, and herpetologists seeking a focused, detailed, well-organized, and richly illustrated field guide.

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My choice as an effective primer for budding naturalists and young naturalists at heart wishing to become acquainted with this interesting segment of North America's natural legacy. -- Walter Meshaka Jr.

The Bartletts have completed a monumental undertaking in compiling information on and photographing all the diverse amphibian and reptile taxa of eastern and central North America. -- Kevin M. Enge My choice as an effective primer for budding naturalists and young naturalists at heart wishing to become acquainted with this interesting segment of North America's natural legacy. -- Walter Meshaka Jr.

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R. D. Bartlett is a veteran herpetologist and herpetoculturist with more than four decades’ experience writing, photographing, and educating people about reptiles and amphibians.<.p>

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