Handbook of snakes of the United States and Canada
By: by Albert Hazen Wright and Anna Allen Wright.
Contributors: Wright, Anna Allen, 1882- joint author.
Series: Handbooks of American natural history
Publisher: Comstock Pub. Associates
Published: 1957
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Snakes -- North America
Notes: Bibliography: v. 2, p. 1070-1074.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Names of snakes; title: Range; title: Size (of adults); title: Longevity; title: Distinctive characteristics; title: Color; title: Habitat; title: Period of activity; title: Breeding; title: Ecdysis; title: Food; title: Venom and bite; title: Enemies; title: Field notes; title: Authorities; title: Accounts of species; title: Key to families; title: Leptotyphlopidae: blind snakes; title: Hydrophidae: sea snakes; title: Boidae: boas; title: Charina: rubber boas; title: Lichanura: rosy boas; title: Colubridae: common harmless snakes; title: Abastor: rainbow snakes; title: Arizona: glossy snakes; title: Carphophis: worm snakes; title: Cemophora: scarlet snakes; title: Chilomeniscus: banded burrowing snakes; title: Chionactis: shovel-nosed ground snakes; title: Coluber: racers; title: Coniophanes: black-banded snakes; title: Contia: sharp-tailed snakes; title: Diadophis: ring-necked snakes; title: Drymarchon: indigo snakes; title: Drymobius: speckled snakes; title: Elaphe: rat snakes; title: Farancia: horn snakes; title: Ficimia: hook-nosed snakes; title: Gyalopion: hook-nosed snakes; title: Haldea: ground snakes; title: Heterodon: hog-nosed snakes; title: Hypsiglena: night snakes; title: Lampropeltis: king snakes; title: Leptodeira: annulated snakes; title: Liodytes: mud snakes; title: Masticophis: whip snakes.; title: (cont) Natrix: water snakes; title: Opheodrys: green snakes; title: v. 2. Oxybelis: pike-headed tree snakes; title: Phyllorhynchus: leaf-nosed snakes; title: Pituophis: bull snakes, pine snakes, gopher snakes; title: Rhadinaea: yello-lipped snakes; title: Rhinocheilus: long-nosed snakes; title: Salvadora: patch-nosed snakes; title: Seminatrix: red-bellied mud snakes; title: Sonora: ground snakes; title: Stilosoma: short-tailed snakes; title: Storeria: brown snakes; title: Tantilla: black-headed snakes; title: Thamnophis: garter snakes, ribbon snakes; title: Trimorphodon: lyre snakes; title: Tropidoclonion: lined snakes; title: Elapidae: coral snakes; title: Micruroides: Arizona coral snakes; title: Micrurus: coral snakes; title: Crotalidae: pit vipers; title: Ancistrodon: copperheads, moccasins; title: Crotalus: rattlesnakes; title: Sistrurus: ground rattlesnakes, pigmy rattlesnakes, massasaugas.