Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia

by Murphy, James B.; Schlager, Neil; Trumpey, Joseph E.

• ISBN13: 9780787657833
• ISBN10: 0787657832
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

Summary

Covers various aspects of zoology, including the behavior, class, and physiology of wild and domestic animals.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
How to use this book	x
Advisory boards	xiii
Contributing writers	xv
Contributing illustrators	xvi
Volume 7: Reptiles
What is a reptile?	3	(9)
Evolution of the reptiles	12	(11)
Structure and function	23	(11)
Behavior	34	(13)
Reptiles and humans	47	(12)
Conservation	59	(6)
Order TESTUDINES
Turtles and tortoises	65	(92)
Family: Pig-nose turtles	75	(2)
Family: Australo-American sideneck turtles	77	(8)
Family: Seaturtles	85	(8)
Family: Snapping turtles	93	(6)
Family: Central American river turtles	99	(2)
Family: Leatherback seaturtles	101	(4)
Family: New World pond turtles	105	(10)
Family: Eurasian pond and river turtles, and Neotropical wood turtles	115	(6)
Family: American mud and musk turtles	121	(8)
Family: African sideneck turtles	129	(6)
Family: Big-headed turtles	135	(2)
Family: Afro-American river turtles	137	(6)
Family: Tortoises	143	(8)
Family: Softshell turtles	151	(6)
Order CROCODILIANS
Crocodiles, alligators, caimans, and gharials	157	(38)
Family: Gharials	167	(4)
Family: Alligators and caimans	171	(8)
Family: Crocodiles and false gharials	179	(10)
Order SPHENODONTIA
Tuatara
Family: Tuatara	189	(6)
Order SQUAMATA
Lizards and snakes	195	(306)
Family: Angleheads, calotes, dragon lizards, and relatives	209	(14)
Family: Chameleons	223	(20)
Family: Anoles, iguanas, and relatives	243	(16)
Family: Geckos and pygopods	259	(12)
Family: Blindskinks	271	(2)
Family: Wormlizards	273	(6)
Family: Mole-limbed wormlizards	279	(4)
Family: Florida wormlizards	283	(4)
Family: Spade-headed wormlizards	287	(4)
Family: Night lizards	291	(6)
Family: Wall lizards, rock lizards, and relatives	297	(6)
Family: Microteiids	303	(6)
Family: Whiptail lizards, tegus, and relatives	309	(10)
Family: Girdled and plated lizards	319	(8)
Family: Skinks	327	(12)
Family: Alligator lizards, galliwasps, glass lizards, and relatives	339	(8)
Family: Knob-scaled lizards	347	(6)
Family: Gila monsters and Mexican beaded lizards	353
Family: Monitors, goannas, and earless monitors	315	(54)
Family: Early blindsnakes	369	(4)
Family: Slender blindsnakes	373	(6)
Family: Blindsnakes	379	(8)
Family: False blindsnakes	387	(4)
Family: Shieldtail snakes	391	(4)
Family: Pipe snakes	395	(4)
Family: False coral snakes	399	(2)
Family: Sunbeam snakes	401	(4)
Family: Neotropical sunbeam snakes	405	(4)
Family: Boas	409	(10)
Family: Pythons	419	(10)
Family: Splitjaw snakes	429	(4)
Family: Woodsnakes and spinejaw snakes	433	(6)
Family: File snakes	439	(6)
Family: Vipers and pitvipers	445	(16)
Family: African burrowing snakes	461	(4)
Family: Colubrids	465	(18)
Family: Cobras, kraits, seasnakes, death adders, and relatives	483	(18)
For further reading	501	(6)
Organizations	507	(2)
Contributors to the first edition	509	(7)
Glossary	516	(4)
Reptiles species list	520	(51)
Geologic time scale	571	(2)
Index	573