Turtles of the United States and Canada (2nd edition)

This is a revised and updated edition (including new species names) of a 1994 publication covering all the turtles living in the United States and Canada – in the waters north of Mexico. It details all 58 species and includes in the introduction a very useful table, which shows the taxonomic name changes between the 1994 edition and the present one. The early edition had about 3,000 references in the bibliography; this one has more than 5,200 spread over 171 pages. Quite a bibliography!

The informative introduction covers the first 21 pages of the book including sections on evolution, morphology,...