Notes On The Habits And Development Of The Mud Puppy Necturus Maculosus Rafinesque

Notes on the Habits and Development of the Mud-puppy Necturus Maculosus (Rafinesque),

Notes on the Habits and Development of the Mudpuppy

Excerpt from Notes on the Habits and Development of the Mudpuppy: Necturus Maculosus (Rafinesque) The ability the mudpuppy has to exist in waters of extremely diverse character and to compete successfully with the enormous number of animals with which it is associated, accounts in large part for its wide distribution. The Great Lakes and their tribu taries harbor them by thousands. They persist in certain of the Finger Lakes in New York in spite of intensive collecting over a period of many years. Not only are they found in the clear open waters Of lakes and streams where the character of the bottom prevents plant growth, but also in shallow weed-choked bays and streams and in the perennially muddy and polluted waters of creeks, rivers and canals. They are common in the Hudson and Mohawk rivers near Albany and in the turbid Mississippi; in waters ice bound months at a time and in the tepid streams of some of the southeastern states; in shallow, rapid streams with rocky beds and in deep, slow streams with mud banks and bottoms; and in canals, reservoirs and backwaters. In the north they are most numerous and reach their best development in clear streams and lakes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Handbook of Salamanders

Despite their abundance in many parts of North America, salamanders have generally been neglected by all but a few specialists. In this book—first published in 1943—Sherman C. Bishop discusses in a lively but authoritative manner the 126 species and subspecies of salamanders that are known to exist in the United States, Canada, and Baja California. Group by group, Bishop describes salamanders in accounts that give the common and technical names, type of locality, range, habitat, size, anatomical characteristics, color, breeding habits, and relationships—all in a uniform arrangement that makes the handbook especially convenient for studying both living animals and laboratory specimens. His brief introduction surveys the relationships and general habits of salamanders and gives information on collecting and preserving them. In his foreword, Edmund D. Brodie, Jr., a specialist on salamanders, updates the taxonomy of the group.