Research Catalog

Title

Biology of the snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) / edited by Anthony C. Steyermark, Michael S. Finkler, Ronald J. Brooks ; foreword by J. Whitfield Gibbons.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

• Steyermark, Anthony C., 1968-
• Finkler, Michael S., 1969-
• Brooks, Ronald J.

Description

x, 225 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm

Subject

• Chelydra serpentina

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-220) and index.

Contents

Foreword / J. Whitfield Gibbons -- Pt. 1. Taxonomy and Systematics -- 1. Systematics, Taxonomy, and Geographic Distribution of the Snapping Turtles, Family Chelydridae / Carl H. Ernst -- 2. History of Fossil Chelydridae / J. Howard Hutchison -- 3. An Introduction to the Skull of Chelydra serpentina, with a Review of the Morphology Literature of Chelydra / Eugene S. Gaffney -- 4. Molecular Insights into the Systematics of the Snapping Turtles (Che1ydridae) / H. Bradley Shaffer, David E. Starkey and Matthew K. Fujita -- Pt. 2. Physiology, Energetics, and Growth -- 5. Respiratory and Cardiovascular Physiology of Snapping Turtles, Chelydra serpentina / Nigel H. West -- 6. Reproductive Physiology of the Snapping Turtle / Ibrahim Y. Mahmoud and Abdulaziz Y. A. Alkindi -- 7. Thermal Ecology and Feeding of the Snapping Turtle, Chelydra serpentina / James R. Spotila and Barbara A. Bell -- 8. Energetics of the Snapping Turtle / Robert E. Gatten, Jr. -- 9. Ecology and Physiology of Overwintering / Gordon R. Ultsch and Scott A. Reese -- 10. Embryos and Incubation Period of the Snapping Turtle / Michael A. Ewert -- 11. Growth Patterns of Snapping Turtles, Chelydra serpentina / Anthony C. Steyermark -- Pt. 3. Life History and Ecology -- 12. Reproductive and Nesting Ecology of Female Snapping Turtles / Justin D. Congdon, Judith L. Greene and Ronald J. Brooks -- 13. Water Relations of Snapping Turtle Eggs / Ralph A. Ackerman, Todd A. Rimkus and David B. Lott -- 14. Sex Determination in Chelydra / Fredric J. Janzen -- 15. Physiology and Ecology of Hatchling Snapping Turtles / Michael S. Finkler and Jason J. Kolbe -- 16. Population Biology and Population Genetics / David A. Galbraith -- 17. Geographic Variation in Life-History Traits / Don Moll and John B. Iverson.

ISBN

• 9780801887246 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0801887240 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007018746

OCLC

• ocn124074909
• 124074909
• SCSB-5407268

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries