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Hard covers, dust jacket. Condition: V.g. No Jacket. 1st edition. Little used. Label on spine of jacket. Weight: 1 Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Volume 1 only. This is a damaged copy. The damage consists of a horizontal tear through the middle of pages 381-384 (Deermice). The rest of the book is in Fine condition. It took several years to produce the entire series of the Handbook of the Mammals of the World. The comprehensive Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of the World forms an impressive finale to the series. The 2 volume set updates the taxonomy of each currently recognized species of mammal, providing a complete checklist over the two volumes. Volume 1 covers Monotremata through to Rodentia. The new illustrated checklist incorporates all recently published revisions in new, brief species accounts for each species. In addition to the updated scientific name of each species, each account includes common names in English, French, German and Spanish, and the IUCN Red List Conservation Category. Taxonomic notes incorporate recent changes, and updated distributions are also included. If subspecies are recognized, they are updated along with their current distributions. Accompanying each species account is a scientific illustration in full color, adapted from the earlier volumes, along with a revised distribution map. …

Rodents include species that have colonised almost every available habitat on earth, and others that have adapted to human beings and followed them as they also spread across the globe. Volume 7 completes the order Rodentia which represents arguably the most important order of mammals, both in terms of number of species, and in geographic distribution covering the families contained in the suborder Myomorpha, including the two largest families, Cricetidae and Muridae. This volume also includes a Special Chapter: Priorities for Conserving the World's Rodents by Thomas Lacher Jr., Richard Young, Samuel Turvey, Rosalind Kennerley & Nicolette Roach. Volume 7 will continue the coverage of the Order Rodentia - Suborder Myomorpha (mouse-like rodents): 9 families, 345 genera, 1,749 species Barcelona. Lynx Edicions. 1008 pp., 58 plates with color illustrations, 342 color photos, 1753 color distribution maps, hardcover 4.…