Handbook of the Mammals of the World - Volume 5
Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 5
Monotremes and Marsupials
🖊️ Edited by Russell A. Mittermeier, Don E. Wilson
🎨 Illustrated by Toni Llobet
Published by Lynx Edicions in association with Conservation International and IUCN
Platypus, Echidnas, Opossums, Kangaroos, Koalas, Wallabies, and Wombats – Monotremes and marsupials include a host of animals that have intrigued mammal fanciers for centuries. Monotremes are a very distinctive ancient group of mammals with only a handful of extant species in Australia and New Guinea and marsupials, with roots in South America, likely reached Australia via Antarctica some 50 million years ago. With relatives remaining in America, Marsupials have adapted to an amazing diversity of lifestyles and habitats.
Volume 5 of HMW provides complete coverage of these two important groups of mammals. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs showing different behaviors of all of them, the text contains the latest up-to-date information on all families of Monotremes and Marsupials, both Australasian and American.
Winner of the 2016 Whitley Medal
Each year the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Australia, hosts the Whitley Awards. These awards are a tribute to Gilbert Whitley, an eminent Australian ichthyologist. The Whitley Awards seek out and acclaim the best publications published in the previous 12 months relating to Australasian zoology and the unique fauna of the region. The Whitley Medal and Special Commendation are the most sought after prizes in Australian zoological publishing.
This volume also includes a Special Chapter on Extinct Marsupials and Monotremes, by Kristofer Helgen and Elizabeth Veatch.
| Families covered in this volume are: | |
| Family Tachyglossidae (Echidnas) | Stewart Nicol |
| Family Ornithorhynchidae (Platypus) | Tom Grant |
| Family Didelphidae (Opossums) | Diego Astúa |
| Family Caenolestidae (Shrew-Opossums) | Bruce Patterson |
| Family Microbiotheriidae (Monito del Monte) | Eduardo Palma & Alejandro Valladares-Gómez |
| Family Notoryctidae (Marsupial Moles) | Ken Aplin |
| Family Myrmecobiidae (Numbat) | Tony Friend |
| Family Dasyuridae (Carnivorous Marsupials) | Andrew Baker |
| Family Thylacomyidae (Greater Bilby) | Rick Southgate |
| Family Peramelidae (Bandicoots and Echymiperas) | Christopher Dickman |
| Family Phascolarctidae (Koala) | Stephen Jackson |
| Family Vombatidae (Wombats) | Rod Wells |
| Family Burramyidae (Pygmy Possums) | Stephen Jackson |
| Family Phalangeridae (Cuscuses, Brush-tailed Possums and Scaly-tailed Possum) | Kristofer Helgen & Stephen Jackson |
| Family Pseudocheiridae (Ring-tailed Possums and Greater Gliders) | Stephen Jackson |
| Family Petauridae (Striped Possums, Leadbeater’s Possum and Lesser Gliders) | Stephen Jackson |
| Family Tarsipedidae (Honey Possum) | Ronald Wooller |
| Family Acrobatidae (Feather-tailed Gliders and Feather-tailed Possum) | Ken Aplin |
| Family Hypsiprymnodontidae (Musky Rat Kangaroo) | Andrew Dennis |
| Family Potoroidae (Bettongs and Potoroos) | Mark Eldridge & Greta Frankham |
| Family Macropodidae (Kangaroos and Wallabies) | Mark Eldridge & Graeme Coulson |
- 44 colour plates
- 717 colour photographs
- 375 distribution maps
| WEIGHT | 4.6 kg |
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| DIMENSIONS | 24 × 31 cm |
| LANGUAGE | English |
| PRODUCT FORMAT | Hardback |
| PAGES | 800 |
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Authors
Chief Editors
Dr Don E. Wilson: Curator Emeritus, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA; and Co-chair, IUCN/SSC Small Mammal Specialist Group.
Dr Russell A. Mittermeier: President, Conservation International; Vice-President, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); and Chair, IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group, USA.
Authors
Dr Ken Aplin: Research Associate, Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
Dr Diego Astúa: Associate Professor and Curator of Mammals, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Dr Andrew Baker: Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Environmental Science, School of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences (EEBS), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Professor Graeme Coulson: Honorary Principal Fellow, School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Dr Andrew Dennis: Managing Director, The Doctor House, Yungaburra, Queensland, Australia.
Professor Christopher Dickman: Professor in Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Dr Mark Eldridge: Principal Research Scientist, Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Dr Greta Frankham: Manager, Australian Centre for Wildlife Genomics, Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Dr Tony Friend: Principal Research Scientist, Science and Conservation Division, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Albany, Western Australia, Australia.
Dr Tom Grant: Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Dr Kristofer Helgen: Research Zoologist and Curator-in-Charge, Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
Dr Stephen Jackson: Research Scientist, Department of Primary Industries, Orange, New South Wales, Australia; and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Professor Stewart Nicol: Honorary Research Associate, School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Dr Eduardo Palma: Associate Professor, Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Dr Bruce Patterson: MacArthur Curator of Mammals, Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Dr Richard Southgate: Envisage Environmental Services, Kingscote, South Australia, Australia.
Alejandro Valladares-Gómez: Doctoral Student, Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Elizabeth Veatch: Research Assistant, Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
Professor Roderick Wells: School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia; and Honorary Research Associate, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Professor Ronald Wooller: Emeritus Professor, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Artist
Toni Llobet
Toni Llobet (b. Barcelona, 1975) is a self-taught wildlife artist and naturalist, with a wide knowledge of field naturalism, geography and environmental issues. As well as being a field sketcher and traditional painter, he is a master of digital illustration technique, which allows him to work to high levels of both accuracy and productivity.
More than two decades as a wildlife artist - his first illustrations were created in his early teens for local bulletins and guides - have yielded a wide range of material and publications, from interpretation boards for Natural Parks to environmental computer games and websites, as well as children's books on endangered species, T-shirts, posters, information panels, logos, leaflets, guides, and books and other material for organizations and government bodies both in Catalonia and abroad, such as the Catalan Institute for Ornithology, the Durrell Wildlife Preservation Trust, Greenpeace, WWF, the Swedish ministry of the Environment and the UNEP-MAP programme. The Catalan Bird Breeding Atlas 1999-2002 was one of his most important projects prior to the challenge of illustrating the Handbook of the Mammals of the World.