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This will be a very quick review in which I fully intend to write a more detailed version in the future. My one year old daughter takes up much of my free time but I had to get out my first impressions and opinions on this excellent new text.
This book is sure to become the definitive scorpion field guide for years to come. This field guide sits right between a Simon and Schusters field guide and a comprehensive scientific text on scorpions.
I have read just about every non-scientific and many scientific books on scorpions and their biology written in the last 40 years and have to say that this is the scorpion book I would have written if I had done it myself.
It has a wealth of biologic, taxonomic, habitat and visual information that anyone who has any interest in scorpions needs to know as well as enough detailed taxonomic and ecologic content for the budding scorpionologist.
The first large section gives an overview of scorpion history, taxonomy, anatomy, collection techniques and tips, general husbandry and even some scorpion myths to start. There are also several well done color plates near the front and many excellent drawings throughout.
The photographic and species description section of the book (nearly half the book) is divided up into geographic regions. The geographic regions are further subdivided up into species groups of which there are three descriptions per leaf. Each left-hand page contains the detailed descriptions of three species with its corresponding photographs on the opposite page of the leaf. The beautiful photographs are sure to make any scorpion enthusiast drool on the pages.
The last major section is composed of lists of species and their distribution in the world followed by a glossary, photo credits and the index.
I will try to expand this as I have more time.
All I can say is that if you like scorpions, invertebrate biology, or animal field guides this is a MUST for even a basic collection.
John
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This will be a very quick review in which I fully intend to write a more detailed version in the future. My one year old daughter takes up much of my free time but I had to get out my first impressions and opinions on this excellent new text.
Scorpions of the World by Roland Stockmann and Eric Ythier
Forward: Victor Fet
567 pages
http://scorpionsworld.com/
The cost as printed on the cover and at link above is
75 euro which runs about $98US as of my post today.
Published by N.A.P. Editions - France
www.napeditions.com
ISBN 978-2-913688-11-7
Forward: Victor Fet
567 pages
http://scorpionsworld.com/
The cost as printed on the cover and at link above is
75 euro which runs about $98US as of my post today.
Published by N.A.P. Editions - France
www.napeditions.com
ISBN 978-2-913688-11-7
This book is sure to become the definitive scorpion field guide for years to come. This field guide sits right between a Simon and Schusters field guide and a comprehensive scientific text on scorpions.
I have read just about every non-scientific and many scientific books on scorpions and their biology written in the last 40 years and have to say that this is the scorpion book I would have written if I had done it myself.
It has a wealth of biologic, taxonomic, habitat and visual information that anyone who has any interest in scorpions needs to know as well as enough detailed taxonomic and ecologic content for the budding scorpionologist.
The first large section gives an overview of scorpion history, taxonomy, anatomy, collection techniques and tips, general husbandry and even some scorpion myths to start. There are also several well done color plates near the front and many excellent drawings throughout.
The photographic and species description section of the book (nearly half the book) is divided up into geographic regions. The geographic regions are further subdivided up into species groups of which there are three descriptions per leaf. Each left-hand page contains the detailed descriptions of three species with its corresponding photographs on the opposite page of the leaf. The beautiful photographs are sure to make any scorpion enthusiast drool on the pages.
The last major section is composed of lists of species and their distribution in the world followed by a glossary, photo credits and the index.
I will try to expand this as I have more time.
All I can say is that if you like scorpions, invertebrate biology, or animal field guides this is a MUST for even a basic collection.
John
];')