| Description |
1 online resource (1,102 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Introduction; Rationale and Scope of the Book; Evolution of Fossil Rodents in Africa; Importance of Rodents; Conservation of African rodents; General Methods and Layout of Book; Species accounts; Order: Rodentia; Family: Gliridae; Family: Sciuridae; Family: Myocastoridae; Family: Ctenodactylidae; Family: Hystricidae; Family: Thryonomyidae; Family: Petromuridae; Family: Bathyergidae; Family: Anomaluridae; Family: Pedetidae; Family: Dipodidae; Family: Spalacidae; Subfamily: Tachyoryctinae; Family: Nesomyidae; Family: Muridae; Subfamily: Deomyinae |
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Subfamily: GerbillinaeSubfamily: Leimacomyinae; Subfamily: Lophiomyinae; Subfamily: Murinae. TEIL 1; Subfamily: Murinae. TEIL 2; References; Appendix |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Rodents -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Geographical distribution
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Rodents -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Classification
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NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals.
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Rodents
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Rodents -- Geographical distribution
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Rongeurs -- Afrique noire -- Distribution géographique.
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Rongeurs -- Afrique noire -- Classification.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Classification
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110301915 |
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3110301911 |
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9783110301922 |
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311030192X |
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3110389231 |
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9783110389234 |
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