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| I am taking a hands-on herpetology course this spring and I need an excellent field guide. I currently own the Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians, but it doesn't have any pictures of skulls. Who here knows of a field guide with good skulls pictures, or even illustrations?
My herps:
2.3.0. Leopard geckos
(High Yellow X Albino), named Kirby
(Tangerine Tornado), named Esmerelda
(Rainwater Patternless Albino), named Kiwi
(Regular Jungle), named Pongo rescued
(?), named Maria rescued
1.0.0. Red Eye Tree Frog
(Heterozygous Xantic), named Rufus
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there is this book in my local library that is named: reptiles and here to find them. I know a lot abut herps so I never checked it out. I look under every rock.
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Not really sure about the skulls, but the Peterson's field guides are really nice. They have one for Eastern and Western reptiles. Good luck in your class, sounds fun!
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Field guides are for identifying herps. Illustrations of skulls are not really needed for that. What might serve your purposes is a reptile anatomy book, herpetology college textbook or veterinary book on reptiles. These might be a challenge to find, as interest in this topic is somewhat limited.
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| Well, there are a few points would like to touch on. First, there are a couple reasons why one might wont a feild guuid. If you wont to study herps from far away lands, then a exotic book with herps around the world might help. And if you wont to go herping anfd you need a refrence, then a U.S feild guide would be better. So it depends on your use for the book. Since you are takeing a course, then a world wide guid would help. Hope this helps.
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| Well, our professors' here at the awesome Shawnee State University (it really isn't that awesome) want us to identify carcasses as well as live specimens. There are small, but significant differences in skulls of some reptiles. But yeah, unfortunately, we are gearing our main focus to native species. I am in Ohio, which is not reptile and amphibian rich. So yeah, that is the main downside.
My herps:
2.3.0. Leopard geckos
(High Yellow X Albino), named Kirby
(Tangerine Tornado), named Esmerelda
(Rainwater Patternless Albino), named Kiwi
(Regular Jungle), named Pongo rescued
(?), named Maria rescued
1.0.0. Red Eye Tree Frog
(Heterozygous Xantic), named Rufus
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well, have fun. A anatomy book would be good for identifying carcasses. But skulls you might be able identifiy from just looking at a live herps head. Herpetology books and such cna be expensive
My Herps 1.2.0 fire belly toads: Bombina Orientalis pair, one Bombina Bombina Coming: Jan. 30-31 2010 a pair of blue D. auratus poison dart frogs vote for Cricket at: http://www.reptilechannel.com/blog/viewbio.aspx?apid=117170 post replies there
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