Amphibians of East Africa.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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9780801443749

Amphibians of East Africa.

Channing, Alan and Kim M. Howell.

Cornell U. Press

2006

418 pages

$45.00

Hardcover

Comstock books in herpetology

QL662

Channing (biodiversity and conservation biology, U. of the Western Cape, South Africa) and Howell (zoology and marine biology, U. of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) have written the first field guide and reference book on the amphibians of East Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda), covering 194 frogs and toads and 9 caecilians. For each species, ...

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