Field Guide to Scorpions of South Africa

The first comprehensive field guide to scorpions in South Africa, covering all 108 known species, with a detailed description, distribution map and multiple exceptional photographs per species.

About the author

Ian Engelbrecht is arguably the country's most knowledgeable expert on South African scorpions and has traveled extensively to find and document them. He has an MSc in Conservation Biology from the University of the Witwatersrand and a PhD in Zoology from the University of Pretoria. He currently serves as Data Coordinator at the Natural Science Collections Facility in Pretoria.

Summary

Among the world's most fascinating living fossils, scorpions have been around for some 420 million years. South Africa is home to an astonishing variety, with 108 species in three families occurring in most of the region's biomes, from desert and grassland to fynbos, savanna and forest.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Engelbrecht
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781775845744
• ISBN: 978-1-77584-574-4
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 211 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 632 g
• Illustrations: ±950 full colour photographs
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Invertebrates, NATURE / Animals / Wildlife, Wildlife: general interest, Arachnids (arachnology), Arachnids