Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia

Covers various aspects of zoology, including the behavior, class, and physiology of wild and domestic animals.

Foreword

vii

How to use this book

x

Advisory boards

xiii

Contributing writers

xv

Contributing illustrators

xvi

Volume 7: Reptiles

What is a reptile?

3

(9)

Evolution of the reptiles

12

(11)

Structure and function

23

(11)

Behavior

34

(13)

Reptiles and humans

47

(12)

Conservation

59

(6)

Order TESTUDINES

Turtles and tortoises

65

(92)

Family: Pig-nose turtles

75

(2)

Family: Australo-American sideneck turtles

77

(8)

Family: Seaturtles

85

(8)

Family: Snapping turtles

93

(6)

Family: Central American river turtles

99

(2)

Family: Leatherback seaturtles

101

(4)

Family: New World pond turtles

105

(10)

Family: Eurasian pond and river turtles, and Neotropical wood turtles

115

(6)

Family: American mud and musk turtles

121

(8)

Family: African sideneck turtles

129

(6)

Family: Big-headed turtles

135

(2)

Family: Afro-American river turtles

137

(6)

Family: Tortoises

143

(8)

Family: Softshell turtles

151

(6)

Order CROCODILIANS

Crocodiles, alligators, caimans, and gharials

157

(38)

Family: Gharials

167

(4)

Family: Alligators and caimans

171

(8)

Family: Crocodiles and false gharials

179

(10)

Order SPHENODONTIA

Tuatara

Family: Tuatara

189

(6)

Order SQUAMATA

Lizards and snakes

195

(306)

Family: Angleheads, calotes, dragon lizards, and relatives

209

(14)

Family: Chameleons

223

(20)

Family: Anoles, iguanas, and relatives

243

(16)

Family: Geckos and pygopods

259

(12)

Family: Blindskinks

271

(2)

Family: Wormlizards

273

(6)

Family: Mole-limbed wormlizards

279

(4)

Family: Florida wormlizards

283

(4)

Family: Spade-headed wormlizards

287

(4)

Family: Night lizards

291

(6)

Family: Wall lizards, rock lizards, and relatives

297

(6)

Family: Microteiids

303

(6)

Family: Whiptail lizards, tegus, and relatives

309

(10)

Family: Girdled and plated lizards

319

(8)

Family: Skinks

327

(12)

Family: Alligator lizards, galliwasps, glass lizards, and relatives

339

(8)

Family: Knob-scaled lizards

347

(6)

Family: Gila monsters and Mexican beaded lizards

353

Family: Monitors, goannas, and earless monitors

315

(54)

Family: Early blindsnakes

369

(4)

Family: Slender blindsnakes

373

(6)

Family: Blindsnakes

379

(8)

Family: False blindsnakes

387

(4)

Family: Shieldtail snakes

391

(4)

Family: Pipe snakes

395

(4)

Family: False coral snakes

399

(2)

Family: Sunbeam snakes

401

(4)

Family: Neotropical sunbeam snakes

405

(4)

Family: Boas

409

(10)

Family: Pythons

419

(10)

Family: Splitjaw snakes

429

(4)

Family: Woodsnakes and spinejaw snakes

433

(6)

Family: File snakes

439

(6)

Family: Vipers and pitvipers

445

(16)

Family: African burrowing snakes

461

(4)

Family: Colubrids

465

(18)

Family: Cobras, kraits, seasnakes, death adders, and relatives

483

(18)

For further reading

501

(6)

Organizations

507

(2)

Contributors to the first edition

509

(7)

Glossary

516

(4)

Reptiles species list

520

(51)

Geologic time scale

571

(2)

Index

573

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