Includes glossary. Includes bibliographical references (P. 109).
Contents:
What are snakes? -- How to use this book -- Blind snakes and thread snakes -- Brahminy blind snake -- Hook-snouted thread snake -- Schlegel's giant blind snake -- Texas thread snake -- Heavy-bodied constrictors -- Ball python -- Boa constrictor -- Burmese python -- Emerald tree boa -- Green anaconda -- Green tree python -- Reticulated python -- Rubber boa -- Pipe snakes and shield-tailed snakes -- Bombay shield-snake -- Red-tailed pipe snake -- File snakes -- Arafura file snake -- Dragon snake -- Colubroids: nonvenomous colubroids -- Beauty snake -- California king snake -- California mountain king snake -- Corn snake -- Eastern milk snake -- Eastern rat snake -- Egg-eating snake -- Gopher snake -- Leaf-nosed snake -- Shovel-nosed snake -- Colubroids: racers and whip snakes -- Aesculapian snake -- Caspian whip snake -- Coachwhip -- Eastern indigo snake -- Long-tailed false coral snake -- Racer -- Colubroids: garter and water snakes -- Common garter snake -- Common grass snake -- Common water snake -- Graham's crayfish snake -- Red-bellied mud snake -- Western ribbon snake -- Colubroids: rear-fanged water snakes -- Crab eater -- Puff-faced water snake -- Tentacled snake -- Tiger keelback -- Colubroids: goo-eaters -- Catesby's snail-eater -- Coffee-bean snake -- Dekay's brown snake -- Northern cat-eyed snake -- Ring-necked snake -- Variegated false coral snake -- Colubroids: tree snakes and vine snakes -- Blunt-headed tree snake -- Boomslang -- Brown tree snake -- False tree coral snake -- Green vine snake -- Long-nosed tree snake -- Oriental whip snake -- Paradise flying snake -- Vipers: non-pit vipers -- Adder -- African bush viper -- Desert horned viper -- Fea's viper -- Gaboon viper -- Puff adder -- Russell's viper -- Saw-scaled viper -- Vipers: pit vipers -- Bushmaster -- Common lancehead -- Copperhead -- Eastern diamondback -- Rattlesnake -- Eyelash viper -- Jumping pit viper -- Northern cottonmouth -- Pygmy rattlesnake -- Sidewinder -- Timber rattlesnake -- Wagler's pit viper -- Western diamondback rattlesnake -- Terrestrial elapoids -- Amazonian coral snake -- Banded krait -- Black mamba -- Blue Malaysian coral snake -- Desert death adder -- Eastern bandy-bandy -- Eastern coral snake -- Egyptian cobra -- Indian cobra -- Inland taipan -- King brown snake -- King cobra -- Many-banded krait -- Mozambique spitting cobra -- Sand racer -- Sonoran coral snake -- Stiletto snake -- Tiger snake -- Marine elapoids -- Banded sea krait -- Elegant sea snake -- Olive-brown sea snake -- Short-nosed sea snake -- Small-headed sea snake -- Yellow-bellied sea snake.
Summary:
"This field guide highlights 100 snakes found throughout the world. Readers will gain a greater understanding of these creatures and will be able to identify them in the wild. Features include a helpful introduction to the topic, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Provided by the publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.