Evolution and Systematics of the Atlantic Tree Rats, Genus Phyllomys (Rodentia, Echimyidae), With Description of Two New Species - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evolution and Systematics of the Atlantic Tree Rats, Genus Phyllomys (Rodentia, Echimyidae), With Description of Two New Species write by Yuri L. R. Leite. This book was released on 2003-10-20. Evolution and Systematics of the Atlantic Tree Rats, Genus Phyllomys (Rodentia, Echimyidae), With Description of Two New Species available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study focuses on the Atlantic Forest tree rats of the genus Phyllomys (Rodentia: Echimyidae), one of the most poorly understood mammal genera inhabiting the coastal rain forests Brazil, the most threatened lowland tropical forest in the world. The author summarizes their distribution, ecology and evolution, using a combination of morphological and molecular analyses, describes two new species, and provides the first systematic revision of the genus, which was originally described in 1839.
The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals
The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals write by Bo Beolens. This book was released on 2009-09-28. The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Just who was the Przewalski after whom Przewalski's horse was named? Or Husson, the eponym for the rat Hydromys hussoni? Or the Geoffroy whose name is forever linked to Geoffroy's cat? This unique reference provides a brief look at the real lives behind the scientific and vernacular mammal names one encounters in field guides, textbooks, journal articles, and other scholarly works. Arranged to mirror standard dictionaries, the more than 1,300 entries included here explain the origins of over 2,000 mammal species names. Each bio-sketch lists the scientific and common-language names of all species named after the person, outlines the individual's major contributions to mammalogy and other branches of zoology, and includes brief information about his or her mammalian namesake's distribution. The two appendixes list scientific and common names for ease of reference, and, where appropriate, individual entries include mammals commonly -- but mistakenly -- believed to be named after people. The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals is a highly readable and informative guide to the people whose names are immortalized in mammal nomenclature.
Bones, Clones, and Biomes
Bones, Clones, and Biomes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bones, Clones, and Biomes write by Bruce D. Patterson. This book was released on 2012-06-05. Bones, Clones, and Biomes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Bones, clones and biomes offers an exploration of the development and relationships of the modern mammal fauna through a series of studies that encompass the last 100 million years and all of Latin America and the Carribean." -- Inside dust jacket.
Systematics of the Atlantic Tree Rats, Genus Phyllomys (rodentia, Echimyidae), and the Evolution of Echimyid Rodents in South America
Systematics of the Atlantic Tree Rats, Genus Phyllomys (rodentia, Echimyidae), and the Evolution of Echimyid Rodents in South America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Systematics of the Atlantic Tree Rats, Genus Phyllomys (rodentia, Echimyidae), and the Evolution of Echimyid Rodents in South America write by Yuri Luiz Reis Leite. This book was released on 2001. Systematics of the Atlantic Tree Rats, Genus Phyllomys (rodentia, Echimyidae), and the Evolution of Echimyid Rodents in South America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mammals of South America, Volume 2
Mammals of South America, Volume 2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mammals of South America, Volume 2 write by James L. Patton. This book was released on 2015-03-09. Mammals of South America, Volume 2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The second installment in a planned three-volume series, this book provides the first substantive review of South American rodents published in over fifty years. Increases in the reach of field research and the variety of field survey methods, the introduction of bioinformatics, and the explosion of molecular-based genetic methodologies have all contributed to the revision of many phylogenetic relationships and to a doubling of the recognized diversity of South American rodents. The largest and most diverse mammalian order on Earth—and an increasingly threatened one—Rodentia is also of great ecological importance, and Rodents is both a timely and exhaustive reference on these ubiquitous creatures. From spiny mice and guinea pigs to the oversized capybara, this book covers all native rodents of South America, the continental islands of Trinidad and Tobago, and the Caribbean Netherlands off the Venezuelan coast. It includes identification keys and descriptions of all genera and species; comments on distribution; maps of localities; discussions of subspecies; and summaries of natural, taxonomic, and nomenclatural history. Rodents also contains a detailed list of cited literature and a separate gazetteer based on confirmed identifications from museum vouchers and the published literature.
