R. D Bartlett

If you want basic and reliable information on the lizard in your backyard or the snake you encountered on a hike in the mountains, this handy field guide is invaluable. Both complete and concise, it includes species accounts, maps, photographs, and black-and-white drawings to help you identify the species you have encountered.

From Back Cover Of Book: Reptiles, Amphibians, and Invertebrates an identification and card guide. Hundreds of color illustrations. Snake, lizards, insects, turtles and tortoises, frogs and toads, salamanders and newts, and arachnids are all featured in this book. It's a pictorial identification guide and husbandry manual covering more than 250 species, subspecies, and color morphs. The authors tell you what to look for when purchasing these animals...

Everything about the purchase, care, nutrition, and diseases of snakes.

To keep a lizard active and healthy in captivity, you need to know about its habitat, diet, and special requirements. Describing differ- ing dietary needs for herbivorous, insectivorous and omnivorous lizards. Advice on indoor & outdoor caging, how to create habitat.