Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species, published in 2014, was the
first catalogue of its kind and covered all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 …

Providing thorough descriptions of almost 200 species, this guide presents thousands of
facts and figures that will help you identify, understand, and appreciate these important and …

Snakes are among the most charismatic and highly-studied organisms (Greene 1997), yet
our understanding of their early evolution and phylogeny remains in a state of flux. Extensive …

Given the absence of a current source on snake diversity and nomenclature and the
expressed global need to understand better the diversity of our biota, we think that a …

This chapter arrives at an interesting and exciting time in the study of snake systematics. The
last part of the 20th century and the early part of the 21st century might ultimately be …

This book presents perspectives on the past and present state of the understanding of snake
origins. It reviews and critiques data and ideas from paleontology and neontology …

Snakes of United States and Canada by Albert Hazen and Anna Allen Wright (reviewed in
The Canadian Field-Naturalist 71 (4): 201-202 by JS Bleakney, 1957). Those volumes …

For millennia, humans have regarded snakes with an exceptional combination of fascination
and revulsion. Some people recoil in fear at the very suggestion of these creatures, while …

Snakes are one of the most extraordinary groups of terrestrial vertebrates, with numerous
specializations distinguishing them from other squamates (lizards and their allies). Their …

The species accounts begin with two lizards (the Gila Monster and the Mexican Beaded
Lizard, genus Heloderma), the sole members of their family and the only venomous reptiles …