Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California, Including Its Pacific Islands and the Islands in the Sea of Cortes
L. Grismer
Abstract
The Baja California peninsula is home to many forms of life found nowhere else on earth. This, combined with the peninsula's rugged and inaccessible terrain, has made the area one of the last true biological frontiers of North America. This book is a guide to the amphibians and reptiles of a fascinating and remote region. The culmination of a quarter century of fieldwork on the Baja peninsula and an exploration of more than one hundred of its islands in the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortés, this book gives information on the identification, distribution, natural history, and taxonomy of eac ... More
Keywords: Baja California, peninsula, North America, amphibians, reptiles, Pacific Ocean, Sea of Cortés, natural history, taxonomy, species distribution
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2002 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520224179 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520224179.001.0001 |
