Titre de série :	Handbook of the mammals of the world, Volume 8
Titre :	Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Editeur :	Barcelona : Lynx Edicions
Année de publication :	2018
Importance :	709p.
Format :	32cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-84-16728-08-4
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Mots-clés :	Insectivores (mammifères) -- Encyclopédies  Paresseux (mammifères) -- Encyclopédies  Insectivores (mammifères) -- Distribution géographique  Paresseux (mammifères) -- Distribution géographique  Dermoptères -- Encyclopédies  Dermoptères -- Distribution géographique
Index. décimale :	59 Zoologie
Résumé :	The penultimate volume of the Handbook of Mammals of the World covers all of the remaining orders (Cingulata, Pilosa, Afrosoricida, Macroscelidea, Scandentia, Dermoptera, and Eulipotyphla), other than bats (Chiroptera). From armadillos, sloths, and anteaters to shrews and moles, Volume 8 includes a wide variety of interesting small or medium-sized mammals from around the world. Most of them have different kinds of invertebrate and insectivorous diets, except sloths and colugos, which are arboreal herbivores and folivores.
Note de contenu :	Order CINGULATA Family Dasypodidae (Long-nosed Armadillos) Colleen McDonough & James Loughry Family Chlamyphoridae (Chlamyphorid Armadillos) Mariella Superina & Agustín Abba Order PILOSA Family Myrmecophagidae (Anteaters) Alessandra Bertassoni Family Cyclopedidae (Silky Anteaters) Flávia Miranda Family Megalonychidae (Two-toed Sloths) Nadia Moraes-Barros Family Bradypodidae (Three-toed Sloths) Jonathan Pauli Order AFROSORICIDA Family Tenrecidae (Tenrecs) Paulina Jenkins Family Potamogalidae (Otter-shrews) Ara Monadjem Family Chrysochloridae (Golden Moles) William Andrew Taylor, Samantha Mynhardt & Sarita Maree Order MACROSCELIDEA Family Macroscelididae (Sengis) Steven Heritage Order SCANDENTIA Family Ptilocercidae (Pen-tailed Treeshrew) Melissa Hawkins Family Tupaiidae (Treeshrews) Melissa Hawkins Order DERMOPTERA Family Cynocephalidae (Colugos) Jan Janecka & Mary Janecka Order EULIPOTYPHLA Family Erinaceidae (Hedgehogs and Gymnures) Troy Best Family Soricidae (Shrews) Connor Burgin, Kai He, Rudolf Haslauer, Boris Sheftel, Paulina Jenkins, Manuel Ruedi, Stefan Hintsche, Masaharu Motokawa, Arlo Hinckley & Rainer Hutterer Family Talpidae (Moles, Desmans, Star-nosed Moles and Shrew Moles) Boris Kryštufek & Masaharu Motokawa Family Solenodontidae (Solenodons) Samuel Turvey
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Handbook of the mammals of the world, Volume 8. Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos [texte imprimé] . - Barcelona : Lynx Edicions, 2018 . - 709p. ; 32cm.
ISBN : 978-84-16728-08-4
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Mots-clés :	Insectivores (mammifères) -- Encyclopédies  Paresseux (mammifères) -- Encyclopédies  Insectivores (mammifères) -- Distribution géographique  Paresseux (mammifères) -- Distribution géographique  Dermoptères -- Encyclopédies  Dermoptères -- Distribution géographique
Index. décimale :	59 Zoologie
Résumé :	The penultimate volume of the Handbook of Mammals of the World covers all of the remaining orders (Cingulata, Pilosa, Afrosoricida, Macroscelidea, Scandentia, Dermoptera, and Eulipotyphla), other than bats (Chiroptera). From armadillos, sloths, and anteaters to shrews and moles, Volume 8 includes a wide variety of interesting small or medium-sized mammals from around the world. Most of them have different kinds of invertebrate and insectivorous diets, except sloths and colugos, which are arboreal herbivores and folivores.
Note de contenu :	Order CINGULATA Family Dasypodidae (Long-nosed Armadillos) Colleen McDonough & James Loughry Family Chlamyphoridae (Chlamyphorid Armadillos) Mariella Superina & Agustín Abba Order PILOSA Family Myrmecophagidae (Anteaters) Alessandra Bertassoni Family Cyclopedidae (Silky Anteaters) Flávia Miranda Family Megalonychidae (Two-toed Sloths) Nadia Moraes-Barros Family Bradypodidae (Three-toed Sloths) Jonathan Pauli Order AFROSORICIDA Family Tenrecidae (Tenrecs) Paulina Jenkins Family Potamogalidae (Otter-shrews) Ara Monadjem Family Chrysochloridae (Golden Moles) William Andrew Taylor, Samantha Mynhardt & Sarita Maree Order MACROSCELIDEA Family Macroscelididae (Sengis) Steven Heritage Order SCANDENTIA Family Ptilocercidae (Pen-tailed Treeshrew) Melissa Hawkins Family Tupaiidae (Treeshrews) Melissa Hawkins Order DERMOPTERA Family Cynocephalidae (Colugos) Jan Janecka & Mary Janecka Order EULIPOTYPHLA Family Erinaceidae (Hedgehogs and Gymnures) Troy Best Family Soricidae (Shrews) Connor Burgin, Kai He, Rudolf Haslauer, Boris Sheftel, Paulina Jenkins, Manuel Ruedi, Stefan Hintsche, Masaharu Motokawa, Arlo Hinckley & Rainer Hutterer Family Talpidae (Moles, Desmans, Star-nosed Moles and Shrew Moles) Boris Kryštufek & Masaharu Motokawa Family Solenodontidae (Solenodons) Samuel Turvey
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