A Manual of the Mammalia
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-53300-1 (ISBN)
The taxonomy of recent mammals has lately undergone tremendous revision, but it has been almost four decades since the last update to Timothy E. Lawlor's acclaimed identification guide the Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals. Integrating the latest advances in research, Douglas A. Kelt and James L. Patton provide this long-overdue update in their new, wholly original work, A Manual of the Mammalia.
Complemented by global range maps, high-resolution photographs of skulls and mandibles by Bill Stone, and the outstanding artwork of Fiona Reid, this book provides an overview of biological attributes of each higher taxon while highlighting key and diagnostic characters needed to identify skulls and skins of all recent mammalian orders and most families. Kelt and Patton also place taxa in their currently understood supra-familial clades, and discuss current challenges in higher mammal taxonomy. Including a comprehensive review of mammalian anatomy to provide a foundation for understanding all characters employed throughout, A Manual of the Mammalia is both a user-friendly handbook for students learning to identify higher mammal taxa and a uniquely comprehensive, up-to-date reference for mammalogists and mammal-lovers from across the globe.
Douglas A. Kelt is professor of wildlife ecology at the University of California, Davis, and incoming president of the American Society of Mammalogists.He lives in Woodland, CA. James L. Patton is professor emeritus of integrative biology and curator of mammals at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, and a past president of the American Society of Mammalogists. He is coeditor most recently of Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives in Kensington, CA.
IntroductionOrganization of This Manual
AcknowledgmentsBasics of Mammalian AnatomyCranial and Postcranial AnatomyThe Mammalian Skull
Postcranial SkeletonThe IntegumentMammalian Hair
Foot Posture and Foot PadsTeethDental Formulae
Tooth Morphology
Types of Molar Occlusal Patterns
Specialized Molar Cusps
Crown Height and Root Development
Incisor Procumbency
Classification of Living MammalsClass MammaliaSubclass PrototheriaOrder MonotremataSubclass TheriaInfraclass Metatheria (= Marsupialia)Order Didelphimorphia
Order Paucituberculata
Order Microbiotheria
Order Notoryctemorphia
Order Dasyuromorphia
Order Peramelemorphia (= Peramelina)
Order DiprotodontiaSuborder Vombatiformes
Suborder Phalangeriformes
Suborder MacropodiformesInfraclass Eutheria or PlacentaliaClade Atlantogenata
Clade XenarthraOrder Cingulata
Order PilosaSuborder Folivora
Suborder VermilinguaClade AfrotheriaClade AfroinsectiphiliaOrder TubulidentataClade AfroinsectivoraOrder Macroscelidea
Order TenrecoideaSuborder Chrysochloridea
Suborder TenrecomorphaClade Paenungulata (= Subungulata)Order HyracoideaClade TethytheriaOrder Proboscidea
Order SireniaClade BoreoeutheriaClade EuarchontogliresClade GliresOrder Lagomorpha
Order RodentiaSuborder Sciuromorpha
Suborder Castorimorpha
Suborder Myomorpha (= Myodonta)
Suborder Anomaluromorpha
Suborder Hystricomorpha (= Ctenohystrica)
Infraorder Ctenodactylomorphi
Infraorder HystricognathiClade EuarchontaOrder PrimatesSuborder Strepsirrhini
Infraorder Lemuriformes
Infraorder Chiromyiformes
Infraorder Lorisiformes
Suborder Haplorrhini
Infraorder Tarsiiformes
Infraorder Simiiformes (= Anthropoidea)Clade SundatheriaOrder Dermoptera
Order ScandentiaClade LaurasiatheriaClade Lipotyphla (= Eulipotyphla)Order Erinaceomorpha
Order SoricomorphaClade ScrotiferaOrder ChiropteraClade Yinpterochiroptera (= Pteropodiformes)
Clade Yangochiroptera (= Vespertilioniformes)Clade Ferae
Order Pholidota
Order CarnivoraSuborder Feliformia
Suborder CaniformiaClade EuungulataOrder PerissodactylaSuperorder CetartiodactylaOrder ArtiodactylaSuborder Suina
Suborder Whippomorpha Infraorder AncodontaSuborder Tylopoda
Suborder Ruminantia
Infraorder Tragulina
Infraorder PecoraClade Cetacea (= Cete)Subclade Mysticeti
Subclade Odontoceti
Glossary
Literature Cited
Index to Taxonomic Names above the Genus Level
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.03.2019 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 513 halftones, 33 line drawings |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 279 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-53300-X / 022653300X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-53300-1 / 9780226533001 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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