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The Herpetological Bulletin 155, 2021: 50-51 BOOK REVIEW - Lizards of the World: Natural History and Taxon Accounts

1 Apr 2021

Note that there is no information about thermoregulation; on the natural history of the this is dealt with in the genus accounts, in this case the relevant world’s 6,528 lizard species entry reads “Fifty-two percent (v.25 %) bask directly, and their (the cut-off point for the count mean active body temperature is average for lacertids (33.2 was May 2017) I thought “this ˚C v 33.3 ˚C)”. [...] The first is “At least five species show a Then the review copy pattern of high moves per minute, while showing a percentile landed on my doorstep – for time spent moving that is at least twenty percentiles lower… a massive tome which of muralis (95/68)… but the general pattern suggests that there the books on my shelves is is a component to the movement of Podarcis that accentuates exceeded in we. [...] This, like the rest of the book, is derived from a database Chapter 3 – at 62 pages, the second longest in the book – which, as well as taxonomic information, includes 170 “most does just this. [...] Who will The first words of the book succinctly describe its aims: “I rise to the challenge of doing the same thing for the snakes of wish to describe for you the natural histories of all lizards. [...] Given its size and scope, it’s remarkably free from errors, and the publishers have done justice to the importance of the material in the quality of production.
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