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Anyone else reading this book? I just started reading it and so far it's great. Highly detailed and covers every species of Nerodia, seminatrix, and Regina in North America.

Looks like they put a lot of work into this book.

That book again is ... North American Waternakes : A Natural History, by J. Whitfield Gibbons & Michael E. Dorcas

Been about a month since you made this post but just curious how you liked this book. I am thinking of ordering it in a few days and just wondered your opinion since you've had time to look at it in depth.

I have been studying North American herps for about 12 years, so I am highly interested in genus specific coverage. This book presents great detail on the things I am looking for...Habitat, diet, behaviour, and reproduction. The captive husbandry notes are quite short, but this is expected for natural history literature.

The range maps are excellent, detailing down to county for each species presented. The color plates are also excellent, including an amazing photo of Nerodia clarkii compressicauda luring fish with it's tongue! If you are interested in our native Water snakes and want a more in depth look at them than the average field guide presents, then I recommend this book.

Thanks for the info. Various types of watersnakes are the most commonly seen reptiles where I do the majority of my herping so this should be a very interesting book. I was thinking it would provide a large amount of detail since most snake books I have are this long and include all types..not just watersnakes, thanks for confirming it, probably gonna order it in this week sometime.