Photographic Field Guide to Australian Frogs

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By: Mark G Sanders

eBook - June 2021 - eRetailers

Enables frog enthusiasts and researchers to confidently identify 242 Australian frog species.

Australia is home to more than 240 species of frogs, many of which cannot be found anywhere else in the world. + Full description

The Photographic Field Guide to Australian Frogs provides readers with the tools to confidently identify 242 species and five recognised subspecies. It includes detailed information on the distribution, habitat preferences and call of each frog species, as well as fully illustrated keys to genera to assist with identification. Multiple photographs of each species show variation in colour and pattern as well as features used for identification such as thigh colouration, skin texture, belly colour and patterning, eye colour and extent of webbing between the toes.

With a strong focus on illustrating variation and key diagnostic features, this guide will enable frog enthusiasts, environmental professionals and research scientists to identify Australian frog species with a high level of confidence.

Certificate of Commendation, The Royal Zoological Society of NSW 2022 Whitley Awards: Zoology Field Guide

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News

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Mark Sanders talks about what went into producing this book, and gives advice for first-time explorers: Discovering Australia’s Frogs: Take the leap with Mark Sanders

Reviews

"Overall, this book is a field guide to Australian frogs unlike any other. Wonderfully detailed, extensively comparative, superbly illustrated and, most notably, useful for identifying Australian frogs."
FrogCall No. 173, June 2021

"Mark Sanders’ Photographic Field Guide to Australian Frogs would serve as a valuable addition to the libraries of field ecologists, amateur froggers and anyone else looking for a reliable frog field guide for use anywhere in Australia."
Ed Meyer, Frogsheet, 2021

"Australia is home to more than 240 species of frogs, and they’re all in here, in a book that somehow, despite its attention to detail, manages to stay reasonably field-guide sized."
Simon Webster, Organic Gardener, Spring 2021

"If you’re looking for a frog guide you should seriously consider this one. If you’ve already got one, have a look to see if you think you need this one too. As I say, it’s good."
Ian Fraser Natural History Reviews #30, January 2022

"The Photographic Field Guide to Australian Frogs has to be one of the nicest field guides to use that cover all of our known Australian species. It is well illustrated with good in focus shots of all the profiled species."
Charles Porter, The Naturalist News, October 2021

"If you want to know more about the frogs that adorn your creek banks and commandeer your drainpipes, this new field guide is going to #1 on your wish list. There is no other book like this on the market."
Amelia Carlson, Land for Wildlife, February 2022

"With a strong focus on illustrating variation and key diagnostic features, this guide will enable frog enthusiasts, environmental professionals, and research scientists to identify Australian frog species with a high level of confidence."
Australian Wildlife Volume 3, 2022

Details

Paperback | June 2021 | $ 49.99
ISBN: 9781486313259 | 376 pages | 245 x 170 mm
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Colour photographs, Illustrations, Maps

ePDF | June 2021
ISBN: 9781486313266
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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ePUB | June 2021
ISBN: 9781486313273
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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Features

Features detailed species descriptions with comparative analysis to improve identification
Generously illustrated with feature-specific images including webbing, finger discs, posterior thigh colour, and bellies
Provides keys for identification and individual distribution maps
Includes call descriptions with comparisons to similar species

Foreword
Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION
Purpose and scope
Classification and names
Amphibians in Australia
Frog protection and legislation
Finding frogs
Hygiene
Morphology – physical features which aid identification
Distribution maps
Call

FROG IDENTIFICATION AND SPECIES PROFILES
Family Limnodynastidae
Family Microhylidae
Family Myobatrachidae
Family Pelodryadidae
Family Ranidae
Family Bufonidae

Glossary and abbreviations
References
Index

Authors

Mark G. Sanders has a passion for the natural world. Initially focused on birds, his interest and knowledge now includes all terrestrial vertebrates, a number of invertebrate groups and orchids too. His professional experience as a field naturalist, ecologist and fauna surveyor extends over more than 20 years. He is a well-known wildlife photographer, and currently runs an environmental consultancy conducting surveys across Australia but mostly within his home state of Queensland.