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The care of reptiles and amphibians in captivity

Christopher Mattison

London Blandford New York, N.Y. Distributed in the U.S. by Sterling Pub. Co. 1992

Localização: ICB - Inst. Ciências Biomédicas    (SF997 M44c 1992 )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    The care of reptiles and amphibians in captivity
  • Autor: Christopher Mattison
  • Assuntos: Captive reptiles; Captive amphibians; Reptiles; Amphibia; ANFÍBIOS; Pets Amphibians; Pets Reptiles
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-306) and indexes
  • Descrição: General care -- Some biological considerations -- Thermoregulation; social behaviour -- Obtaining specimens and making a start -- Selecting species; legal aspects; selecting specimens; preparations -- Accommodation -- Cages; eq uipment -- 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; environmen tal diseases; nutritional diseases; bacterial infections; protozoan infections; endoparasites; ectoparasites; fungal infections; miscellaneous disorders -- Handling -- Descriptions of species and their maintenance -- Caudata: n ewts 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 snappin g turtles -- Emydidae: freshwater turtles -- Testudinidae: land tortoises -- Trionychidae: soft-shelled turtles -- Squamata: sub-order lacertilia: lizards -- Gekkonidae: geckos -- Eublepharinae -- Sphaerodactylinae -- Gekkonina e -- 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 am phibians -- Herpetological societies; Apendices; Glossário p. 301-302
  • Editor: London Blandford New York, N.Y. Distributed in the U.S. by Sterling Pub. Co.
  • Data de criação/publicação: 1992
  • Formato: 317 p., [16] p. of plates ill. (some col.) 22 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês
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