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Amphibians of Central and Southern Africa

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"Amphibians of Central and Southern Africa is the first guide to the frogs, toads, and caecilians of the ten sub-equatorial African countries - Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The result is at once a valuable reference tool, a field guide, and a source of ideas for future research.".

"A focus of increasing interest in their own right, amphibians are also benchmark species for biodiversity and are used as laboratory animals in many of the sciences. In the wild, amphibians, especially frogs, act as natural monitors of water quality and are invaluable in pest control. Their skins secrete a wide range of pharmacologically active substances, such as antibiotics and painkillers. Yet frog populations are declining worldwide, mainly due to human destruction of their habitats.

Alan Channing synthesizes information published over the last century to provide the first natural history and a portrait of the amphibian fauna of this vast region."--BOOK JACKET.

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Language
English
Pages
470

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Cover of: Amphibians of Central and Southern Africa
Amphibians of Central and Southern Africa
2001, Comstock Pub. Associates
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-455) and indexes.

Published in
Ithaca, N.Y
Series
Comstock books in herpetology

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
597.8/0968
Library of Congress
QL662.A356 C43 2001, QL662.A356C43 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 470 p. :
Number of pages
470

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3948256M
Internet Archive
amphibiansofcent00chan
ISBN 10
0801438659
LCCN
2001037091
OCLC/WorldCat
47050213
Library Thing
2041276
Goodreads
3303174

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