Girini d'Italia

Résumé du livre

"Tadpoles of Italy" is a contribution on recognition and biology of larval stages of Italian Anurans. The book is based on two fundamental resources: an innovative iconography combining scientific accuracy and trait pleasantness, on the one hand, and on an other. This monograph is intended to be an useful tool for the survival of identification through observation of external morphology, coloration and behavior. In this respect, it includes a dichotomous key used in Amphibian larvae identification, as horny teeth. Tadpoles have been mainly represented in Gosner developmental stages 35-39, which are widely considered the most significant for species identification. In order to avoid mistakes in the case of larvae, for a few generates (for instance Rana and Pelophylax ) the species of metamorphosis and / or genetical analysis. A special effort has been made to show variations in shape and coloration regarding anuran species whose larvae are known to display a high degree of polymorphism." -- Author's website (accessed 12 February, 2018).