Handbook of the Mammals of the World - Volume 6
Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 6
Lagomorphs and Rodents I
🖊️ Edited by Don E. Wilson, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr, Russell A. Mittermeier
🎨 Illustrated by Toni Llobet
Published by Lynx Edicions in association with Conservation International and IUCN
Rats and mice and their relatives in the order Rodentia make up almost half of the species of mammals. Because of this, we polled our readers and the overwhelming positive response was to produce two volumes treating Rodents. Volume 6 will include all of the families of rodents other than Cricetidae and Muridae, plus the order Lagomorpha, which includes rabbits and pikas. This radiation includes some 35 families, which have spread around the globe, occupying every continent except Antarctica, and countless islands in all major oceans. As usual, the text includes up-to-date information on every species, and each species is illustrated. Each family account includes color photographs documenting a variety of behaviors of these diverse and interesting mammals.
This volume also includes a Special Chapter: An overview of rodents, including chapters on morphology, taxonomy, and evolutionary history; why rodents are studied; and tools for studying them.
Families covered in Volume 6:
ORDER LAGOMORPHA
- 2 families, 11 genera, 92 species
ORDER RODENTIA
- Suborder Castorimorpha: 3 families, 13 genera, 109 species
- Suborder Anomaluromorpha: 2 families, 4 genera, 9 species
- Suborder Hystricomorpha: 17 families, 70 genera, 291 species
- Suborder Sciuromorpha: 3 families, 70 genera, 322 species
Contents and Authors:
| Family Ochotonidae (Pikas) | Andrey Lissovsky |
| Family Leporidae (Hares and Rabbits) | Stéphanie Schai-Braun & Klaus Hackländer |
| Family Castoridae (Beavers ) | Peter Busher |
| Family Heteromyidae (Pocket Mice, Kangaroo Mice and Kangaroo Rats) | David Hafner |
| Family Geomyidae (Pocket Gophers) | Mark Hafner |
| Family Anomaluridae (Anomalures) | Stephen Jackson |
| Family Pedetidae (Spring Hares) | Raquel López-Antoñanzas |
| Family Ctenodactylidae (Gundis) | Raquel López-Antoñanzas |
| Family Diatomyidae (Kha-nyou) | Paula Jenkins |
| Family Hystricidae (Old World Porcupines) | Erika Barthelmess |
| Family Thryonomyidae (Cane Rats) | Raquel López-Antoñanzas |
| Family Petromuridae (Noki) | Raquel López-Antoñanzas |
| Family Heterocephalidae (Naked Mole-rat) | Bruce Patterson |
| Family Bathyergidae (African Mole-rats) | Rodney Honeycutt |
| Family Erethizontidae (New World Porcupines) | Erika Barthelmess |
| Family Cuniculidae (Pacas) | Rafael Samudio, Jr |
| Family Caviidae (Cavies, Capybaras and Maras) | Thomas Lacher, Jr |
| Family Dasyproctidae (Agoutis and Acouchys) | Thomas Lacher, Jr & Jessica Gilbert |
| Family Chinchillidae (Viscachas and Chinchillas) | Angel Spotorno & Pablo Valladares |
| Family Dinomyidae (Pacarana) | Michael Mares & Janet Braun |
| Family Abrocomidae (Inca Rats and Chinchilla Rats) | Louise Emmons |
| Family Ctenomyidae (Tuco-tucos) | Thales Freitas |
| Family Octodontidae (Viscacha Rats, Degus, Rock Rats and Coruro) | Agustina Ojeda |
| Family Echimyidae (Hutias, Coypu South and American Spiny-rats) | Pierre-Henri Fabre, Jim Patton & Yuri Leite |
| Family Aplodontiidae (Mountain Beaver) | Samantha Hopkins |
| Family Sciuridae (Tree, Flying and Ground Squirrels, Chipmunks, Prairie Dogs and Marmots) | John Koprowski, Emily Goldstein, Kendell Bennett & Calebe Pereira |
| Family Gliridae (Dormice) | Mary Ellen Holden-Musser, Rimvydas Juškaitis & Grace Musser |
- 60 colour plates, 735 colour photographs, 850 distribution maps.
| WEIGHT | 4.9 kg |
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| DIMENSIONS | 24 × 31 cm |
| LANGUAGE | English |
| PRODUCT FORMAT | Hardback |
| PAGES | 987 |
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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 Thomas E. Lacher, Jr: Professor, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
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 Erika L. Barthelmess: Professor of Biology and Nature Up North Project Director, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, USA.
Kendell R. Bennett: Doctoral Student, School of Natural Resources & the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Dr Janet K. Braun: Curator of Mammals and Genomic Resources, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA.
Dr Peter E. Busher: Professor, Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, College of General Studies, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Dr Louise H. Emmons: Research Associate, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA.
Dr Pierre-Henri Fabre: Associate Professor, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, Equipe Phylogénie & Evolution Moléculaires, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France, and Associate Researcher, USNM Mammal Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
Dr Thales R. O. Freitas: Professor, Department of Genetics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Jessica A. Gilbert: Research Assistant, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
Dr Emily A. Goldstein: Postdoctoral Scholar, School of Natural Resources & the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Professor Klaus Hackländer: Head, Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management, Department of Integrative Biology and Game Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Professor David J. Hafner: Research Associate, Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Professor Mark S. Hafner: Professor and Curator Emeritus, Department of Biological Sciences and Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
Dr Mary E. Holden-Musser: Research Associate, Department of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA.
Professor Rodney L. Honeycutt: University Professor and Divisional Dean, Natural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, USA.
Dr Samantha S. B. Hopkins: Associate Professor of Geology, Clark Honors College and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
Dr Stephen M. 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.
Paula D. Jenkins: Senior Curator, Vertebrates Division, Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK.
Dr Rimvydas Ju?kaitis: Leading Researcher, Institute of Ecology, Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Professor John L. Koprowski: School of Natural Resources & the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Dr Thomas E. Lacher, Jr: Professor, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
Dr Yuri L. R. Leite: Associate Professor, Departmento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil.
Dr Andrey A. Lissovsky: Scientific Associate, Zoological museum, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Moscow, Russia.
Dr Raquel López-Antoñanzas: Senior Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Dr Michael A. Mares: Director and Curator of Mammals, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA and Professor, Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA.
Grace M. Musser: Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
Dr Agustina A. Ojeda: Researcher at National Council for Science & Technology of Argentina (CONICET), Grupo de Investigaciones de la Biodiversidad (GIB), Instituto Argentino de Zonas Áridas (IADIZA)-CCT Mendoza-CONICET, Mendoza. Argentina.
Dr Bruce D. Patterson: MacArthur Curator of Mammals, Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Dr James L. Patton: Professor and Curator Emeritus, Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
Calebe Pereira Mendes: Doctoral Student, Departamento de Ecología, Universidad Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil.
Dr Rafael Samudio, Jr: Director, Programa de Biodiversidad de los Mamíferos de Panamá, Sociedad Mastozoológica de Panamá (SOMASPA), Panama City, Panamá, Republic of Panama.
Dr Stéphanie C. Schai-Braun: Research Assistant, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Dr Angel E. Spotorno: Professor, Programa de Genética Humana, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Dr Pablo Valladares Faúndez: Professor, Department of Biology, University of Tarapacá, Arica, Chile.
Artist
Toni Llobet
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.