- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press (17 July 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1560983833
- ISBN-13: 978-1560983835
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,858,842 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Common Names of Mammals of the World" offers a comprehensive, useful reference not only for mammalogists but also for wildlife managers, conservation biologists, environmental law enforcement agencies, zoologists, and others interested in the world's mammals.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I have found this book very useful in identifying mammal names that I have previously found only in Latin. For example, if one wanted to know what the common name given to the squirrel, Petaurista nobilis, is, simply look the name up in the index in the back of the book, or if you are a taxonomist, you can look it up in taxonomical order, in the order Rodentia, family Sciuridae. It will then tell you the common name is the Bhutan giant flying squirrel. The authors Don E. Wilson and F. Russell Cole, have made up certain common names, such as this squirrel, if no suitable sources have been found which give a name to the species. A list of sources is at the back and an introduction including history and rationale, principles used in selecting common names, geographic distribution, how to use the book and acknowledgements are included before the main text. Also beside each scientific name is an abbreviation of which zoogeographical realm it is native to. This helps in identification of common names.
Hope this helps you in deciding whether to buy this book.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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19 Mar 2002
Format:Paperback
The writers of this book did a good job in compiling a complete list of the English names of the ordines, familiae, genera and species of all mammals of the world, provided with two orderly indexes.
It's a pity that the species order within a genus is alphabetically, instead of taxonomically.
To my opinion it's the only minus; I didn't find any other.
It's a pity that the species order within a genus is alphabetically, instead of taxonomically.
To my opinion it's the only minus; I didn't find any other.
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11 Oct 2001
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