Despite their abundance in many parts of North America, salamanders have generally been neglected by all but a few specialists. In this book first published in 1943 Sherman C. Bishop discusses in a lively but authoritative manner the 126 species and subspecies of salamanders that are known to exist in the United States, Canada, and Baja California.
Group by group, Bishop describes salamanders in accounts that give the common and technical names, type of locality, range, habitat, size, anatomical characteristics, color, breeding habits, and relationships all in a uniform arrangement...
Despite their abundance in many parts of North America, salamanders have generally been neglected by all but a few specialists. In this book first ...