Varanoid Lizards of the World (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Pianka, Erick; King, Dennis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The large and impressive monitor lizard (genus Varanus) has attracted a great deal of interest. Despite being wary and difficult to observe, monitors have received an extraordinary amount of attention from devoted students. Varanoid Lizards of the World is a comprehensive account of virtually everything important that is known about monitor lizards, beginning with detailed species accounts and proceeding to various modern comparative analyses. Where possible, people who have had detailed field experience with a particular species have assembled the species accounts. In the process of reporting what is known, the book also identifies what remains to be learned about these lizards. This volume stands as a model for showing how such a diverse monophyletic group can be exploited both to identify and to understand the actual course of evolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253013699
• Artikelnr.: 47665940

Autorenporträt

Edited by Eric R. Pianka and Dennis R. King. with Ruth Allen King

Inhaltsangabe

Contents List of Contributors Acknowledgments Part I. 1. Introduction by Eric R. Pianka and Dennis R. King 2. The Long and Honorable History of Monitors
and Their Kin by Ralph E. Molnar 3. Biogeography and Phylogeny of Varanoids by Ralph E. Molnar and Eric R. Pianka 4. Tempo and Timing of the Australian Varanus Radiation by W. Bryan Jennings and Eric R. Pianka Part II Introduction to Part II: Species Accounts. 5. African Varanid Species by Daniel Bennett
Wolfgang Böhme
Sigrid Lenz
John ("Andy") Phillips
Michael Stanner
and Thomas Ziegler 6. Asian Varanid Species by Daniel Bennett
Wolfgang Böhme
Claudio Ciofi
Gil Dryden
Maren Gaulke
Harry W. Greene
Hans-George Horn
Hans J. Jacobs
Dennis R. King
Kai M. Philipp
Eric R. Pianka
Lawrence A. Smith
Gerard Visser
and Thomas Ziegler 7. Australian Varanid Species by Gavin S. Bedford
Keith Christian
Sean Doody
Gil Dryden
Bernd Eidenmüller
Hans-Georg Horn
Grant Husband
Steve Irwin
Dennis R. King
Max King
Ruth Allen King
Jeffrey M. Lemm
Eric R. Pianka
Tim Schultz
Lawrence A. Smith
Samuel S. Sweet
Graham Thompson
and Brian Weavers 8. Other Varanoids by Daniel D. Beck
Mark A. Norell
and Eric R. Pianka Part III. 9. Evolution of Body Size and Reproductive Tactics by Eric R. Pianka 10. Keeping Monitors in Captivity: A Biological
Technical
and Legislative Problem by Hans-Georg Horn Glossary Index