num_pages: 368
description: Generously illustrated this essential handbook for herpetologists ecologists and naturalists features comprehensive keys to eggs embryos salamander larvae and tadpoles; species accounts; a glossary of terms; and an extensive bibliography. The taxonomic accounts include a summarization of the morphology and basic natural history as well as an introduction to published information for each species. Tadpole mouthparts exhibit major characteristics used in identifications and the book includes illustrations for a number of species. Color photographs of larvae of many species are also presented. Handbook of Larval Amphibians of the United States and Canada  written by the foremost experts on larval amphibians is the first guide of its kind and will transform the fieldwork of scientists and fish and wildlife professionals.
language: English
title: Handbook of Larval Amphibians of the United States and Canada
publisher: Comstock Publishing Associates