A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians: Eastern and Central North America Tapa blanda - 1998

Detalles

• Título A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians: Eastern and Central North America
• Autor Isabelle Hunt Conant (Illustrator); Roger Tory Peterson (Editor); Joseph T. Collins
• Encuadernación Tapa blanda
• Edición [ Edition: third
• Páginas 634
• Volúmenes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial Houghton Mifflin, Boston
• Fecha de publicación 1998-05-15
• Ilustrado Sí
• ISBN 9780395904527 / 0395904528
• Peso 1.85 libras (0.84 kg)
• Dimensiones 7.2 x 4.5 x 1.6 pulgadas (18.29 x 11.43 x 4.06 cm)
• Library of Congress subjects Reptiles - United States - Identification, Amphibians - United States - Identification
• Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 98013622
• Dewey Decimal Code 597.909

ALLIGATOR SNAPPING TURTLE Pls. 3, 9 Macroclemys temminckii IDENTIFICATION: 15–26 in. (38–66 cm); record 311?2 in. (80 cm). Weight 35–150 lbs. (16–68 kg); record 251 lbs. (113.9 kg) for a specimen maintained in captivity for nearly 50 years; 316 lbs. (143.3 kg) for a wild-caught example. Look for the huge head with its strongly hooked beaks, the prominent dorsal keels, and the extra row of scutes on each side of the carapace. Likely to be confused only with Snapping Turtles. Young (Pl. 3): Brown, shell exceedingly rough; tail very long. About 11?4–13?4 in. (3–4.4 cm) at hatching. This gigantic freshwater turtle, our largest and one of the largest in the world, often lies at bottom of lake or river with mouth held open. A curious pink process on floor of mouth resembles a worm, wriggles like one, and serves as a lure for fish. similar species: Snapping Turtle has a saw-toothed tail and a smaller head, and also lacks the extra row of scutes be-tween costals and marginals. range: Sw. Ga. and n. Fla. to e. Texas; north in Mississippi Valley to Kans., Iowa, and sw. Ky.; an isolated record in cen. Tenn.