Old World ratsnakes
Subtitle: a collection of papers
By: edited by Klaus-Dieter Schulz ; with contributions from Massimo Capula ... [et al.].
Publisher: Bushmaster Publications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berg SG, Switzerland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9783874294355
Subjects: Rat snakes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Wolfgang Böhme; title: Introduction / Klaus-Dieter Schulz; title: Systematics of ratsnakes / Klaus-Dieter Schulz; title: An annotated and illustrated checklist of Old World ratsnakes / Klaus-Dieter Schulz; title: The Aegean populations of Elaphe quatuorlineata (LaCépède, 1789) : a morpho-ecological examination / Augusto Cattaneo & Mauro Grano; title: Predation on Coracias garrulus (Linnaeus, 1758) by Elaphe quatuorlineata (LaCépède, 1789) / Mauro Grano & Cristina Cattaneo; title: Natural history, morphology and ecology of the Italian Aesculapian snake, Zamenis lineatus / Massimo Capula & Luca Luiselli; title: Episodes of predation on adult specimens of edible dormouse, Glis glis (Linnaeus, 1766), by Zamenis longissimus (Laurenti, 1768) / Augusto Cattaneo, Mauro Grano & Cristina Cattaneo; title: Notes on ratsnakes from north-eastern India / Abhijit Das; title: Contribution to the knowledge of the ratsnakes of Bhutan / Jigme Tshelthrim Wangyal; title: Observations on cave racers, Orthriophis taeniurus (Cope) in Southeast Asia / Liz Price; title: Distributional and natural history notes on the ratsnakes of Japan, with special emphasis on the species of Hokkaido / Tatsuhiro Tokuda; title: Distribution and natural history of the ratsnakes of Taiwan : an annotated photographic review / Chung-wei You, Shin-wen Li & Anthony Lau; title: Contribution to the knowledge of the Oriental rhino ratsnake, Rhynchophis boulengeri Mcoquard / Sergei Ryabov, Klaus-Dieter Schulz & Xing Wang; title: Undercover in the rainforest canopy : the rainbow tree snake Gonyophis margaritatus / Klaus-Dieter Schulz & Andreas Gumprecht; title: The Asian brown snakes of the genus Xenelaphis / Andreas Gumprecht & Klaus-Dieter Schulz; title: Forty years of husbandry and breeding of Old World ratsnakes : a summary / Rainer Fesser; title: A checklist of the extinct taxa allied to the Old World ratsnakes : with remarks on the phylogeny and radiation of Elaphe, Rhinechis and Zamenis / Notker Helfenberger & Klaus-Dieter Schulz.