Parco della fascia fluviale del Po - tratto Cuneese

Biology, ecology, and conservation of an Amphibian exclusive of the Alps

A volume dedicated to Lanza's Alpine Salamander, one of the most recent vertebrate species discovered in Europe: its official description dates back to the late 1980s and it has been named after Benedetto Lanza, a doctor and naturalist from Florence who devoted himself to the study of herpetology (the science studying Amphibians and Reptiles). As a matter of fact, only in those years zoologists realized that the salamander specimens of the upper Po Valley were different from the black salamander, a species with which Lanza's Alpine Salamander had been mistaken: in particular, they were bigger, less tapered, and with a rounded tail tip. The volume consists of a general section on this species and the mountain amphibians living in the Park and a special section containing the data of the research activities carried out in the Po Valley.

• Series: Le Scienze
• Author/s: Franco Andreone, Paolo Eusebio Bergò, Vincenzo Mercurio
• Publisher: Fusta Editore - Parco del Po Cuneese
• Pages: 96
• Size: 15x21cm
• Year: 2007
• Price: 16.00 €  

Notes: If you purchase this publication, you can require free of charge the brochure "La Salamandra di Lanza"