Mammals of the South-West Pacific and Moluccan Islands - Hardcover
Tim Flannery draws together the results of his five-year field survey and literature review on the mammals of an area extending from the islands just east of Sulawesi in the Moluccas, to the Cook Islands in the central South Pacific, north to Micronesia, and south to New Zealand, but excluding New Guinea. He identifies, classifies, and describes every living native mammalian species of the region as well as introduced and prehistorically extinct species.
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"This book covers a huge area of the Pacific Ocean and its islands with emphasis on more than 230 mammal species. . . .Provides a huge amount of information about mammals of the South-West Pacific and Moluccan Islands. Most highly recommended."--Wildlife Activist
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Color photos illustrate a guide to the mammals of the region identifying, classifying, and describing every living native mammalian species as well as introduced and prehistorically extinct species. Provides an overview of the area's fauna, geology, vegetation, human colonization, paleontology, and zoogeography. Includes b&w photographs and a gloss
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- PublisherReed Natural History/New Holland (AUS)
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0730104176
- ISBN 13 9780730104179
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages464
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Book Description Quarto,464 pp.,colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This book covers 230 indigenous species of mammals, which have been located on over 250 islands. There are species accounts, focusing on living native species, with introduced and prehistorically extinct species dealt with separately. Seller Inventory # 2365
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Book Description Condition: Fine. 464, col photos, maps, 22 b/w plates. . HB. Fine in d/w (minor crease to bottom edge of front panel). Owner's name to half-title. The result of the author's five years' travelling and research in the region. Intended as a complementary volume to Mammals of New Guinea, it covers Micronesia, Melanesia, Polynesia and New Zealand. These islands are home to 230 indigenous species of mammals, all of which are covered here in detailed accounts, together with 60 introduced and extinct species. Each account gives scientific, local and English name, a brief description, and details of distribution (with map), range and status. [9780730104179]. Seller Inventory # S50811
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