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Easy to use and filled with addictive-and highly useful-infromation, The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles is a handy and fun book for professional and amateur herpetologists alike. -- Ian Paulsen Birdbooker Report 2011 This is a fun and interesting book for herpetologists and students wanting to know the backgrounds of the pioneers in their field. Wildlife Activist 2011 The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles does precisely what it says on the box. It's a dictionary of names appended in various species of reptiles, contemporary and recently extinct alike, with a brief overview of the discoverer and the namesake (since one isn't necessarily the other), plus a list of all that person's eponymous species. a remarkably fun book for dipping into or to skate through looking for notable names. -- Andrew P Street Time Out Sydney 2012

Easy to use and filled with addictive-and highly useful-information... The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles is a handy and fun book for professional and amateur herpetologists alike. -- Ian Paulsen Birdbooker Report 2011 Investigates the person behind the names attached to many reptiles... A fun and interesting book for herpetologists and students wanting to know the backgrounds of the pioneers in their field. Wildlife Activist 2011 The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles does precisely what it says on the box. It's a dictionary of names appended in various species of reptiles, contemporary and recently extinct alike, with a brief overview of the discoverer and the namesake (since one isn't necessarily the other), plus a list of all that person's eponymous species... A remarkably fun book for dipping into or to skate through looking for notable names. -- Andrew P Street Time Out Sydney 2012 This dictionary provides concise information on the 2,330 persons who have had reptiles named after them... An interesting, informative, and easy-to-read book. -- Edmund D. Keiser, Jr. American Reference Books Annual 2012 Beolens and co-authors have produced a great book that is fun to read. Notably, they have already published similar books on birds and mammals... and reportedly have a companion volume on amphibians in press. If they live long enough to work through the 30,000 species of fish, a future eponym dictionary of vertebrates may keep saving biologists from buying People magazine for years to come. Herpetological Review 2012 It will be useful in all biological collections as the most convenient reference on the subject. Choice 2012

Easy to use and filled with addictive-and highly useful-infromation, The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles is a handy and fun book for professional and amateur herpetologists alike. -- Ian Paulsen Birdbooker Report 2011 This is a fun and interesting book for herpetologists and students wanting to know the backgrounds of the pioneers in their field. Wildlife Activist 2011

Easy to use and filled with addictive-and highly useful-infromation, The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles is a handy and fun book for professional and amateur herpetologists alike. -- Ian Paulsen Birdbooker Report 2011 This is a fun and interesting book for herpetologists and students wanting to know the backgrounds of the pioneers in their field. Wildlife Activist 2011 The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles does precisely what it says on the box. It's a dictionary of names appended in various species of reptiles, contemporary and recently extinct alike, with a brief overview of the discoverer and the namesake (since one isn't necessarily the other), plus a list of all that person's eponymous species. a remarkably fun book for dipping into or to skate through looking for notable names. -- Andrew P Street Time Out Sydney 2012 This is an interesting, informative, and easy-to-read book. -- Edmund D. Keiser, Jr. American Reference Books Annual 2012 Beolens and co-authors have produced a great book that is fun to read. Notably, they have already published similar books on birds and mammals (Beolens and Watkins 2003; Beolens et al. 2009) and reportedly have a companion volume on amphibians in press. If they live long enoughto work through the 30,000 species of fish, a future eponym dictionary of vertebrates may keep saving biologists from buying People magazine for years to come. Herpetological Review 2012

Easy to use and filled with addictive-and highly useful-infromation, The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles is a handy and fun book for professional and amateur herpetologists alike. -- Ian Paulsen Birdbooker Report 2011

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Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson are the coauthors of The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals, also published by Johns Hopkins.

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