This book is a great help in Identifying Reptiles and Amphibians of the Amazon rainforest. Of course not all
That species finden Sie are listed. Personally, I believe thatthey only included species thatthey have found Themselves.
THUS, even species are rather common fact can be missing. HOWEVER, I appreciate thatthey only use first-hand information.
The Pictures They use are in most of the cases great. Of course there are exceptions (eg the Sanguine poison frog's picture is way too small or some pictures show the animals head). HOWEVER, in most cases even color variations, gender differences or the underside of the animals are Displayed.
The texts Describing the appearance of the animals are so great. HOWEVER, some texts Could just be left out,: such as the frog sound descriptions. Personally, I could not make use of These descriptions. Natural language is just not good for that.
Whether some species identifications are wrong, as some of my fellow critics have said, I can not judge. To me, HOWEVER,
no error jumped out. The only thing being indeed the common name 'Fer-de-Lance' which assigned to the wrong lancehead. But did
'S no big deal.
Improvements:
The pictures of the animals are all clustered in the middle of the book. While this is great for Quickly looking at all pictures to
Identify an animal, I would have preferred one page / animal Including the picture. That way one Could have gotten to overview of all species and would shut havebeen able to read Whether the animal occured in the area of the sigthing.
Which brings me to my second point for improvement: the habitat description. The book Describes the range a species lives in
EC as the 'Northern Amazon Basin'. I really would have liked some rough maps of the Amazon showing where the animal can occur.
Overall, the book is good for identification and one of the few did covers Reptiles and Amphibians of the Amazon.
