"This profusely illustrated comprehensive key for identifying amphibians and reptiles from the continental United States and Canada incorporates a wealth of scientific findings.Since the first edition was published in 1998 and the second in 2012, the number of currently recognized species of native amphibians and reptiles in the area covered by this key has increased from 545 to 634 to 685, and the number of established non-native specie ..."
"This profusely illustrated comprehensive key for identifying herpetofaunal specimens from the continental United States and Canada incorporates a wealth of scientific findings. Since the first edition was published in 1998, the number of currently recognized species of native salamanders, frogs, turtles, lizards, amphisbaenians (wormlike lizards), snakes, and crocodilians in this area has increased from 545 to 634, and the number of est ..."
"The third edition of this classic, definitive guide to the reptiles and amphibians of eastern and central Noth America features new color plates, an updated text, and painstakingly researched maps. With increasing focus on endangered species as indicators of environmental problems, this guide will be an essential reference for anyone concerned about the state of the natural world. 48 full-color plates, 333 maps."
Snakes Ecology and Behavior by JosephT. Collins, Richard A. Seigel Paperback, 414 Pages, Published 2002 by The Blackburn Press ISBN-13: 978-1-930665-14-9, ISBN: 1-930665-14-8
"This book, first published in 1993 and here reprinted with a new foreword by the authors, is still the most comprehensive survey of snake biology available in a single volume. Authoritative and comprehensive in scope, this important book offers herpetologists, biologists and others interested in the study of snakes a broad survey of snake ecology and behavior, as well as extensive coverage of the literature in bibliographic form. ..."
"(2010) The most extensive and most current information ever assembled for a state herpetological field guide. 497 full-color photos, 65 illustrations, 95 distribution maps, identification maps. Hardcover w/Dustjacket"
"An extensive update, this edition of "Amphibians and Reptiles in Kansas" includes, for the first time, 96 colour photographs of salamanders, frogs and toads, turtles, lizards and snakes, as well as a collection of black-and-white photographs. Also new in this edition is information on a snake recently discovered in Kansas, the Cottonmouth, and three more amphibians and reptiles. For each amphibian and reptile, the guide lists the standa ..."
"The variety will surprise you. Because of its central location, Kansas is a meeting ground for North American animals. Six hundred ten species of land animals--birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians--live in or pass through Kansas. Boreal animals from the colder northern climes traverse the state on their way south; western creatures migrate east from the Rockies or reside in our arid grasslands; southern wildlife pushes north into Ka ..."
Natural Kansas(1st Edition) by JosephT. Collins Hardcover, 226 Pages, Published 1985 by Univ Pr Of Kansas ISBN-13: 978-0-7006-0258-2, ISBN: 0-7006-0258-5
Peterson Field Guides Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Fourth Edition by Robert Powell, JosephT. Collins, Roger Conant 608 Pages, Published 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN-13: 978-0-544-66249-0, ISBN: 0-544-66249-0
"Bauer, Brian I. Crother, C. Kenneth Dodd Jr., Darrel R. Frost, H. Carl Gerhardt Jr.,
Matthew E. Gifford, S. Blair Hedges, Robert W. Henderson, John B. Iverson,
Kenneth L. Krysko, Peter V. Lindeman, Jeffrey E. Lovich, John R. MacGregor,
Walter E. Meshaka Jr., Leroy Nuñez, Sara Ruane, Laurie ... For their contributions
, we are grateful to Aaron M. Bauer, Russell A. Blaine, Jeff Boundy, Jeffrey T.
Briggler, Donald J. Brown, Gary S. Ca ..."