The care of reptiles and amphibians in captivity / Chris Mattison.
Record details
- ISBN: 0713723386
- Physical Description: 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- Edition: Revised third edition.
- Publisher: London : Blandford, 1992.
- Distributor: New York, N.Y. : Distributed in the U.S. by Sterling Pub. Co..
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-306) and indexes. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | General care -- Some biological considerations -- Thermoregulation; social behaviour -- Obtaining specimens and making a start -- Selecting species; legal aspects; selecting specimens; preparations -- Accommodation -- Cages; equipment -- Creating the right environment -- Temperature control; lighting control; humidity control; control of biological factors; the planted vivarium -- Foods and feeding -- Vegetable food; animal food; supplements; methods of feeding; water; overfeeding -- Breeding -- Sex determination; conditioning; stimuli; mating; pregnancy; parturition; egg-laying; incubation; rearing young; breeding programmes -- Diseases -- Controlling diseases; environmental diseases; nutritional diseases; bacterial infections; protozoan infections; endoparasites; ectoparasites; fungal infections; miscellaneous disorders -- Handling -- Descriptions of species and their maintenance -- Caudata: newts and salamanders -- Ambystomidae: Mole salamanders -- Salamandridae -- Plethodontidae: Woodland salamanders -- Anura: frogs and toads -- Pipidae: tongueless frogs. (cont) Discoglossidae: fire-bellied toads, painted frog and midwife toad -- Pelobatidae: spadefoot toads -- Ranidae -- Raninae: true frogs -- Mantellinae -- Dendrobatidae: poison arrow frogs -- Rhacophoridae -- Microhylidae -- Bufonidae: true toads -- Hylidae: tree-frogs -- Leptodactylidae -- Crocodilia: crocodiles and alligators -- Chelonia: turtles and tortoises -- Pelomedusidae -- Chelidae: side-necked turtles -- Chelydridae: mud, musk and snapping turtles -- Emydidae: freshwater turtles -- Testudinidae: land tortoises -- Trionychidae: soft-shelled turtles -- Squamata: sub-order lacertilia: lizards -- Gekkonidae: geckos -- Eublepharinae -- Sphaerodactylinae -- Gekkoninae -- Xantusidae: night lizards -- Iguanidae: iguanas -- Agamidae: agamas -- Chamaeleontidae: chameleons -- Scincidae: skinks -- Cordylidae: zonures -- Gerrhosauridae: plated lizards -- Lacertidae -- Teiidae: tegus and whiptails -- Anguidae: slow-worms, glass lizards and alligator lizards -- Varanidae: monitors -- Amphisbaenidae -- Squamata: sub-order serpentes: snakes -- Typhlopidae and leptotyphlopidae: blind snakes. (cont) Boidae: boas and pythons -- Colubridae: typical snakes -- Venomous snakes -- Colubridae -- Elapidae: cobras -- Viperidae: vipers -- Viperinae -- Crotalinae: pit vipers -- Laws pertaining to the keeping of reptiles and amphibians -- Herpetological societies. |
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| Subject: | Captive reptiles. Captive amphibians. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Harnett County Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Dunn Public Library | 639.39 Mat (Text) | 33436000963642 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
