(updated August, 2007) Please find below a selection of books on Herpetology published in India. Many of these titles are further linked to provide the complete table of contents of the books along with excerpts from the jacket/preface. If you do not find a title you are looking for in the list below, please e-mail us at vedams@vedamsbooks.com and we shall do our best to procure it. We can supply you any title published in India. All books are in hardcover unless specified pbk (for paper back edition)

Animal Resources of India : Protozoa to Mammalia--State of the Art/edited by Director, Zoological Survey of India. 1991, xxvii, 694 p., tables, $33. [Includes a list of experts around the world on each group.] Details No. 6685

A Bibliography of Fossil Reptilia of India/T.K. Pal, S.K. Ray, B. Barik and K.D. Saha. Kolkata, Zoological Survey of India, 2006, 47 p., figs., tables, $11 (pbk). ISBN 81-8171-109-2. [Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper No. 251].  Details No. 45929

Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala : Part 9 : Amphibians/P.S. Easa. Peechi, Kerala Forest Research Institute, 2003, vi, 35 p., $11 (pbk). ISBN 81-85041-47-4.  Details No. 36434

Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala, Part 10 : Reptiles/P.S. Easa and K.K. Ramachandran. Peechi, Kerala Forest Research Institute, 2004, v, 57 p., $11 (pbk). ISBN 81-85041-52-0.  Details No. 38337

Biology of Amphibia/D.R. Khanna and P.R. Yadav. New Delhi, Discovery Pub., 2005, x, 394 p., figs., $50. ISBN 81-7141-932-1.  Details No. 41610

Biology of Reptiles/D.R. Khanna and P.R. Yadav. New Delhi, Discovery Pub., 2004, ix, 414 p., figs., $47. ISBN 81-7141-907-0.  Details No. 38191

The Book of Indian Reptiles and Amphibians/J. C. Daniel. Delhi, Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, 2002, viii, 238 p., $33. ISBN 019 566099 4. Details No. 28191

Catalogue of the Protozoans Occurring in Reptiles from India/F.B. Mandal, N.C. Nandi and A.K. Mandal. 1993, 36 p., $11. Details No. 7823

Common Rat Snake of India : Their Functional Morphology and Bionomics, Ptyas Mucosus Including Deadly Venomous Snakes of India/Shiva Dutta. Delhi, Asiatic Pub., 2005, xvii, 334 p., plates, figs., graphs, tables, $80. ISBN 81-87067-48-9.  Details No. 41847

The Common Snakes of India and Burma and How to Recognize Them/W.H. Cazaly. Reprint. First published by The Pioneer Press, Allahabad, India in 1914. 1984, 60 p., ill., index, $11. Details No. 8293

Crocodile Fever : Wildlife Adventures in New Guinea/Rom and Zai Whitaker. 1998, 152 p., 8 maps, col. plates, black and white plates, $38. Details No. 13154

Diatom Studies of the Headwaters of Henrys Fork of the Snake River, Island Park, Idaho, U.S.A./Richard L. Clark and Samuel R. Rushforth. Dehra Dun, Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, 2006, iv, 204 p., tables, $80. ISBN 81-211-0519-6. (Bibliotheca Phycologica).  Details No. 47612

Ecophysiology of Desert Vertebrates/Edited by P.K. Ghosh and Ishwar Prakash. 1988, viii, 475 p., figs., tables, plates, $28.  Details No. 5024

Encyclopaedia of Amphibia/Rajiv Tyagi and Arvind N. Shukla. New Delhi, Anmol, 2002, 3 Vols., 1068 p., $175. ISBN 81-261-1023-6. Details No. 22495

Encyclopaedia of Reptiles/Rajiv Tyagi and Arvind N. Shukla. New Delhi, Anmol, 2002, 3 Vols., 1049 p., $132. ISBN 81-261-1032-5. Details No. 22500

Fauna of Andhra Pradesh, Part I : Reptilia, Amphibia, Fishes/edited by the Director Zoological Survey of India. 1993, 334 p., 143 line drawings, maps, $23. Details No. 8192

Fauna of Chilka Lake/edited by The Director, Zoological Survey of India. 1995, 672 p., plates (some col.), $40. [Wetland Ecosystem Series 1].Details No. 11379

Fauna of Gujarat : Part I: Vertebrates/edited by The Director Zoological Survey of India. Calcutta, Zoological Survey of India, 2000, 463 p., $55. ISBN 81-85874-41-7. Details No. 19512

Fauna of Meghalaya, Part 1 (Vertebrates)/edited by The Director, Zoological Survey of India. 1995-, v. [v. 1: 680 p., plates, figs., ].  $46. To be complete in 10 parts [State Fauna Series 4]. 
Details No. 11380

Fauna of Meghalaya Part-3 : Insecta/edited by The Director, Zoological Survey of India. 1995-, v. [Part 3 : 455 p., figs., .] $36. To be complete in 10 parts [State Fauna Series 4]   Details No. 11382

Fauna of Western Himalaya (U.P.) : Himalayan Ecosystem Series : Part 1. 1995, 228 p., 11 col. plates, maps, figs., $17.  Details No. 10212

A Field Book of the Lizards of India/T.S.N. Murthy. 1990, 116 p., 16 col. plates, 19 b & w plates, figs., $11. [Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper No. 115]. Details No. 7822

Frogs of the Genus Rana : A Monograph of the South Asian, Papuan, Melanesian and Australian/G.A. Boulenger. Dehra Dun, Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, 2005, 226 p., $45. ISBN 81-211-0432-7. [Records of the Indian Museum Vol. XX].  Details No. 41699

A Guide to the Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fishes/Albert Gunther and A. Smith Woodward. Delhi, Asiatic Pub., 2006, xvi, 112 p., tables, figs., $25. ISBN 81-87067-24-1.  Details No. 45466

A Guide to Reptiles and Fishes/edited by A. Gunther. Reprint. Delhi, Asiatic, 1999, 119 p., figs, $17. ISBN 81-87067-24-1. Details No. 17704 

Hand Book—Indian Amphibians/S.K. Chanda. Kolkata, Zoological Survey of India, 2002, 335 p., figs., maps, $55. ISBN 81-85874-58-1. Details No. 26135

Handbook Indian Lizards/B.K. Tikader and R.C. Sharma. xv, 250 p., 42 plates (some colour), 48 maps, figs., $40. Details No. 9574

Handbook : Indian Snakes/R.C. Sharma. Kolkata, Zoological Survey of India, 2003, xx, 340 p., figs., maps, plates, $55. ISBN 81-8171-16-9.  Details No. 33064

Handbook of Indian Snakes/Malcolm A. Smith. New Delhi, Cosmo, 2003, xii, 583 p., figs., maps, $34. ISBN 81-7755-743-2. Details No. 33124

Handbook of Snake-Bite/Paresh Banerji. Reprint. First published in 1929. 1985, xix, 430 p., 20 plates (some col.), $79. Details No. 2756

Herpetofauna of Nepal : A Conservation Companion/Karan Bahadur Shah and Sagendra Tiwari. Kathmandu, IUCN Nepal, 2004, viii, 237 p., $55 (pbk). ISBN 999338603-0.  Details No. 41961

Herpetology of Nepal : A Study of Amphibians and Reptiles of Trans-Himalayan Region of Nepal, India, Pakistan and Bhutan/Tej Kumar Shrestha. Photographs by the Author. Kathmandu, Bimala Shrestha, 2001, vii, 280 p., tables, figs., $50 (pbk). ISBN 99933-519-3-8.   Details No. 26579

Illustrated Encyclopaedia of the Reptiles of India/T.S.N. Murthy. 1994, 116 p., 127 coloured plates, 21 black & white plates, map, $106.  Details No. 9466

Illustrated Guide to the Snakes of the Western Ghats, India/T.S.N. Murthy. 1990, 76 p., 57 b & w plates, 11 col. plates, $17. Details No. 7569

Indian Poisonous Snakes (An Ecological and Clinical Study)/edited by B.D. Sharma. New Delhi, Anmol, 2002, xiii, 341 p., $39. ISBN 81-261-1146-1. Details No. 27594

Indian Snake Poisons their Nature and Effects/A.J. Wall. Delhi, Asiatic Publishing, 2001, vii, 171 p., $25. ISBN 81-87067-37-3. Details No. 21046

An Introduction to Amphibia/Gurdarshan Singh and H. Bhaskar. New Delhi, Campus Books International, 2003, xi, 222 p., figs., $22. ISBN 81-8030-002-1.  Details No. 32082

An Introduction to Amphibia/H.S. Bhamrah and Kavita Juneja. Reprint. New Delhi, Anmol, 2002, 208 p., vi, $25.  ISBN 81-261-0700-6. Details No. 28808

An Introduction to Reptiles/Gurdarshan Singh and H. Bhaskar. New Delhi, Campus Books International, 2003, x, 209 p., figs., $22. ISBN 81-8030-003-X.  Details No. 32083

An Introduction to Reptiles/H.S. Bhamrah and Kavita Juneja. Reprint. New Delhi, Anmol, 2002, 193 p., vi, $22. ISBN 81-261-0710-3. Details No. 28806

Olive Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys Olivacea) and its Nesting Habitats along the Orissa Coast, India : A Status Survey/Bivash Pandav, B.C. Choudhury and C.S. Kar. Reprint. Dehra Dun, Wildlife Institute of India, 1997, 48 p., tables, charts, maps, $11 (pbk).  Details No. 35453  

On the Anatomy of Vertebrates--Fishes and Reptiles/Richard Owen. Reprint. 1984, xlii, 650 p., 452 figs., $83.  Details No. 2798

A Pocket Book of the Amphibians and Reptiles of the Chilka Lagoon, Orissa/T.S.N. Murthy. 1990, 35 p., 24 b & w plates, 23 col. plates, $13.  Details No. 7568

The Poisonous Terrestrial Snakes/F. Wall. Delhi, Asiatic, 2000, 173 p., figs, $28. ISBN 81-87067-35-7. Details No. 18239 

The Poisonous Terrestrial Snakes of Our British Indian Dominions (including Ceylon) and How to Recognize them. With Symptoms of Snake Poisoning and Treatment/Col. F. Wall. Reprint of fourth edition published in 1928. 1994, 173 p., figures, $17.  Details No. 9546

Rattlesnakes : Their Habits, Life Histories and Influence on Mankind/Laurence M. Klauber. Reprint of second edition published by the University of California Press in 1972. 1994, 2 v., xxx, 1536 p., figs., plates, $191.  Details No. 9136

Records of the Zoological Survey of India : Taxonomy, Ecobiology and Distribution Pattern of the Brachyuran Crabs of Mangrove Ecosystem in Andaman Islands (Occasional Paper No. 185)/ M.K. Dev Roy and A.K. Das. Calcutta, Zoological Survey of India, 2000, 210 p., figs., $24. ISBN: 81-85874-36-0. Details No. 19883

Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Vol. 95, No. 1-2. 1995, 121 p., plates, $11.  Details No. 11375

Red Book of Threatened Amphibians and Reptiles of Bangladesh/edited by Md. Anwarul Islam, Mahmud-ul Ameen and Ainun Nishat. Dhaka, IUCN, 2000, xii, 95 p., tables, map, $22 (pbk). ISBN 984-746-004-3. Details No. 23900

The Red Data Book on Indian Animals: Part 1: Vertebrata (Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia and Amphibia). 1994, xxi, 534 p.,  $26. We welcome standing orders for Part 2.]  Details No. 9573

Reptiles and Mammals of Indian Sub-Continent with Special Reference to Nepal & Himalayas/Cantley and Hodgson. Reprint. First published in 1836. 1990, 211 p., plates, $13.  Details No. 7883

The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago : Volume I--Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria; Volume II--Ophidia/Nelly De Rooij. Reprint. First published by E.J. Brill, Leiden in 1915-1917. 1994, 2 volumes in one, 384, 334 p., 249 illustrations, $110.  Details No. 8835

The Reptiles and Amphibians of Southern Africa/Walter Rose. Reprint of Completely revised and enlarged edition. 1997, xxix, 494 p., 294 illustrations, $79.  Details No. 13993

Reptiles of the World -- the crocodilians, lizards, snakes, turtles and tortoises of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres/Raymond L. Ditmars. Reprint. First published in 1933. 1989, xiv, 321 p., 89 plates, $33.  Details No. 6892

Reptilia Volume I (Testudines and Crocodilia) : The Fauna of India and the Adjacent Countries/R.C. Sharma. 1998, xvi, 196 p., figures, illustrated, $33.  [To be complete in 3 volumes. We welcome standing orders for this series]. Details No. 13626

Reptilia & Amphibia : Vol. I - Loricata, Testudines/Malcolm A. Smith. Reprint. Originally published by Taylor and Francis, London in 1933. 1995, xxviii, 185 p., 42 figures, map, plates, $18. [Fauna of British India]. Details No. 10326

Reptilia and Amphibia, Vol. II: Sauria/Malcolm A. Smith. Reprint. First published by Taylor and Francis, London in 1935. 1995, xiii, 440 p., map, 95 figures, plates, bibliography, $21.  Details No. 10327

Reptilia and Amphibia, Vol. III: Serpentes/Malcolm A. Smith. Reprint. First published by Taylor and Francis, in 1943. 1995, xii, 583 p., 166 figures, bibliography, index, map, $26.  Details No. 10328

Reptilian Nematodes from South Asia/M.L. Sood. 1999, 299 p., map, figs., $66. ISBN 81-7089-248-1. Details No. 14855

The Snakes of India/Lieut Colonel K.G. Gharpurey. Delhi, Asiatic Pub., 2006, x, 166 p., figs., $47. ISBN 81-87067-10-1. Details No. 47192

The Snakes of Sikkim and Bengal/Shaw, Shebbeare and Barker. Reprint. Delhi, Asiatic, 1999, 125 p., plates, figs, $28.  ISBN 81-87067-05-5. Details No. 17700

Snakes of the World/Raymond L. Ditmars. Reprint. First published in 1931. Delhi, Komal, 2000,  207 p., 84 plates, $72.  Details No. 18526 

Studies on Pholidosis and Variability in Characters Showing Sexual Dimorphism in Various Species of Indian Reptiles/ R.C. Sharma. 1982, 153 p., tables, $11. [Records of the Zoological Survey of India]. Details No. 9032

Systematic Studies on the Amphibian Fauna of the District Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh, India/Pranjalendu Ray. 1999, 102 p., 32 plates, $11. ISBN 81-85874-05-0. Details No. 15110

The Tetrapod Reptiles of Ceylon: Vol I : Testudinates and Crocodilians/P.E.P. Deraniyagala. Reprint. First published in 1939 under the Colombo Museum Natural History Series. 1994, xxxii, 412 p., 24 plates, 137 text figures, 62 tables, $40.  Details No. 9034

Wildlife Diseases in India : Infectious and Parasitic Diseases of Mammals, Reptiles and Amphibians/B.M. Arora. 1994, x, 183 p., 30 col. plates, $31.  Details No. 9069

Zoogeography of Indian Amphibians : Distribution Diversity and Spatial Relationship/Shiv Kumar Tiwari. 1991, 187 p., 13 maps, tables, $19.  Details No. 6416