Author: Royal Ontario Museum. Division of Zoology and PalaeontologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Contributions of the Royal Ontario Museum, Division of Zoology and Palaeontology
Author: Royal Ontario Museum. Division of Zoology and PalaeontologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Report of the Director - Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology and Palaeontology
Author: Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology and PalaeontologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Contributions of the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology
Author: Canadiana
Author: Guide to the Galleries of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario ...
Author: Royal Ontario MuseumMammal Species of the World
Author: Don E. WilsonPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801882214
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 2201
Book Description
This indispensable reference work belongs in public and academic libraries throughout the world and on the shelf of every biologist who works with mammals.
Caddisflies
Author: Glenn B. WigginsPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442656174
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Caddisflies constitute the insect order Trichoptera in which some 10,000 species are known in the world, including about 1400 in North America. Fossil evidence shows that caddisflies originated in the Triassic period, 200-250 million years ago. They are important links in the movement of energy and nutrients through freshwater ecosystems due largely to the extraordinary diversification in their larval architecture, which includes portable and stationary shelters, silken filter nets, and osmotically semipermeable cocoons. Glenn Wiggins's Caddisflies is the foremost comprehensive reference source about these insects and is concerned with behavioural ecology, evolutionary history, biogeography, and biological diversity. Wiggins outlines fundamental concepts of aquatic ecology, illuminating the ways in which caddisflies help to make fresh waters work. Essential features of morphology, biology, and distribution are outlined for the twenty-six North American families of caddisflies and illustrated diagnostic keys are provided for larvae, pupae, and adults. The author also brings together information on caddisflies from widely scattered sources and provides comprehensive coverage of the scientific literature.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Catalog of the Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Author: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals
Author: Bo BeolensPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801893046
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
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.