For those of you interested in such things:
I have just acquired the new guide to "the venomous snakes and their mimics, of Costa Rica and Panama" by Ray and Knight. Published by team snake Panama.
This is a field guide rather than a study of the species, 282 pages, with hundreds of colour photos and illustrations. All species have distribution maps and basic notes on habitat, description etc.
Each species is looked at in conjunction with the snakes that individually mimic them and could be confused in a field herping situation.
In my humble opinion, it is a useful guide for anyone travelling to this part of the world, or just someone like me that loves books on herps.. its inexpensive at £18 and there are a lot of species and habitat photos. The illustrations are well done, particularly the different coral snakes and their mimics. My only real criticism is the print quality of some of the photos could be better.
Costa Rica remains very much on my radar, however I have to get my ridiculously small Euro tick list up to scratch, visit Tanzania and RSA first.. roll on the lottery win..
Cheers
Paul