Author: James L. Patton Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022616960X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 1363
Book Description
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.
Author: John Joseph Dickinson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Ampeliscidae Languages : en Pages : 414
Book Description
Describes and identifies eight species of genus Byblis on North American continental shelf in the region between the Bering Sea and northern California. Also provides key to genus Haploops.
Author: C. G. Van Zyll de Jong Publisher: National Museums of Canada : National Museum of Natural Sciences ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 84
Book Description
Multivariate morphometric analyses of cranial and post-cranial skeletal data from historical, Holocene, late Pleistocene and living remnant populations of bison were used to study geographic variation and subspeciation of Recent bison. Particular consideration was given to Bison bison athabascae and the taxonomic status of the remnant populations of presumed pure wood bison from the Nyarling herd in Wood Buffalo National Park. External characters (standard measurements, weight, outline shape and pelage characteristics) were compared in living forms.