<p><b>A comprehensive and user-friendly photographic field guide</b><br><br>With more than 1,000 photographs, <i>Snakes of Australia</i> illustrates and describes in detail all 240 of the continent’s species and subspecies—from file snakes, pythons, colubrids, and natricids to elapids, marine elapids, homalopsids, and blind snakes.<br></p><ul><li>Features introductions to each family, species descriptions, type locations, distribution maps, and quick-identification keys to each family and genera</li><li>Covers English and scientific names, appearance, range, ecology, disposition, danger level, and IUCN Red List Category</li><li>Illustrates every species and has multiple images for some species to show variation</li><li>Presents information on habitat types, snakes in the environment, and snake-bite prevention and first aid</li><li>Includes a checklist of all the snakes, a glossary, and a table of venom toxicity</li></ul>