Mammals of South America. Volume 2, Rodents / edited by James L. Patton, Ulyses F.J. Pardiñas, and Guillermo D'Elía.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Patton, James L., editor.

Pardiñas, Ulyses F. J., editor.

D'Elía, Guillermo, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mammals--South America.

Mammals.

Mammals--South America--Classification.

Mammals--South America--Geographical distribution.

Rodents--South America.

Rodents.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1,363 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Sections and Authors

Introduction

Map

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Taxonomic Accounts. Part 1

Taxonomic Accounts. Part 2

Taxonomic Accounts. Part 3

Taxonomic Accounts. Part 4

Literature Cited

Gazetteer

List of Taxa

Contributors

Index of Scientific Names

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 12, 2015).

ISBN:

9780226169606

022616960X

OCLC:

1229161156