This 197 page document is available in English, and is intended for healthcare and public health professionals, as well as occupational safety and health and environmental health specialists. It provides an intermediate level pictorial key of anthropods, reptiles, birds and mammals that are of public health significance. Public health biologists are often responsible for teaching animal identification to personnel (sanitarians, engineers, physicians, veterinarians, etc.) without special training in taxonomy. One of the most successful devices for such training has been the pictorial key. The pictorial keys are typical of identification keys found in reference works and scientific papers except that they are arranged as diagrams and are illustrated. After making the first choice offered at the top of each page, follow the black lines or indicated numbers to secondary choices until the correct identification has been made. Note that, in some cases, the identification can be made in the first choice.
