| Description |
1 online resource (1,102 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rodents -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Geographical distribution.
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Rodents. |
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Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Rodents -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Classification.
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| Genre/Form |
Classification.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Monadjem, Ara. Rodents of Sub-Saharan Africa : a biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, [2015] x, 1092 pages ; 25 cm 9783110301663 |
| ISBN |
9783110301915 (electronic book) |
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3110301911 (electronic book) |
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9783110301922 (electronic book) |
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311030192X (electronic book) |
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9783110301663 (acid-free paper) |
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