Rodents of Sub-Saharan Africa: A biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis
- ISBN-10
- 3110301911
- ISBN-13
- 9783110301915
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 1102
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-02-17
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
- Authors
- Ara Monadjem, Peter J. Taylor, Christiane Denys
Description
This comprehensive handbook covers all the rodents occurring in Southern, Central, East and West Africa, south of the Sahara. Genus and species accounts include diagnostic descriptions, systematics and taxonomy, biogeographical environment, fossil species, photographs of skull and mandible, illustrations of molar dentition, photographs of live animals, distribution maps and tables of standard museum measurements.
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