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With more than 1,000 photographs, Snakes of Australia illustrates and describes in detail all 240 of the continent鈥檚 species and subspecies鈥攆rom file snakes, pythons, colubrids, and natricids to elapids, marine elapids, homalopsids, and blind snakes.

• Features introductions to each family, species descriptions, type locations, distribution maps, and quick-identification keys to each family and genera
• Covers English and scientific names, appearance, range, ecology, disposition, danger level, and IUCN Red List Category
• Illustrates every species and has multiple images for some species to show variation
• Presents information on habitat types, snakes in the environment, and snake-bite prevention and first aid
• Includes a checklist of all the snakes, a glossary, and a table of venom toxicity