Description:
Written by the foremost experts on larval amphibians, this is the first guide of its kind and will transform the fieldwork of scientists and fish and wildlife professionals.
Brief description: Ronald Altig is Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at Mississippi State University. Altig and Roy W. McDiarmid are coeditors of Tadpoles: The Biology of Anuran Larvae.
Review Quotes:
Altig and McDiarmid's Handbook of Larval Amphibians ... synthesizes the scattered literature on the eggs and larval forms of frogs and salamanders in the United States and Canada. In addition to providing an informative key organized into geographic sectorsthe authors present technical advice for how to properly prepare eggs for identification as well as descriptions and illustrations of the structures necessary for identification... With a bit of scanning and searching accounts of related speciesreaders with limited expertise in amphibian larvae should be able to correctly identify many of the larvae with the photographs and illustrations provided.
--Matthew D. Venesky "University of Chicago Press"