Handbook of the Mammals of the World - Volume 8
Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 8
Insectivores, Sloths and Colugos
🖊️ Edited by Russell A. Mittermeier, Don E. Wilson
🎨 Illustrated by Toni Llobet
Published by Lynx Edicions in association with Conservation International and IUCN
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.
This volume also includes a Special Chapter: Conservation Priorities and Actions for the orders Cingulata, Pilosa, Afrosoricida, Macroscelidea, Scandentia, Dermoptera, and Eulipotyphla by Rosalind Kennerley, Thomas Lacher, Jr, Victor Mason, Shelby McCay, Nicolette Roach, P. J. Stephenson, Mariella Superina & Richard Young.
Contents and authors:
| 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 |
- 28 color plates
- More than 600 color photographs
- 684 distribution maps
| WEIGHT | 4.13 kg |
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| DIMENSIONS | 24 × 31 cm |
| LANGUAGE | English |
| PRODUCT FORMAT | Hardback |
| PAGES | 710 |
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Authors
Chief Editors
Dr D. E. Wilson: Curator Emeritus, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
Dr R. A. Mittermeier: Chief Conservation Officer, Global Wildlife Conservation; Honorary Member, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); and Chair, IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group, USA.
Authors
Dr A. M. Abba: Research Scientist, Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CEPAVE), Cátedra de Mastozoología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo (UNLP), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), La Plata, Argentina; and Red List Authority, IUCN/SSC Anteater, Sloth and Armadillo Specialist Group.
Dr A. Bertassoni: Researcher, Instituto de Pesquisa e Conservação de Tamanduás do Brasil, Parnaíba, Piauí, Brazil.
Dr T. L. Best: Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA.
C. J. Burgin: Researcher, Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA.
R. Haslauer: Independent Researcher and Member, Zoological Society for the Conservation of Species and Populations (ZGAP), Poernbach, Bavaria, Germany.
Dr M. T. R. Hawkins: Assistant Professor and Museum Curator, Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, USA.
Dr K. He: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
S. Heritage: Researcher, Division of Fossil Primates, Duke Lemur Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
A. Hinckley: Predoctoral Researcher, Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC, Sevilla, Spain.
S. Hintsche: Biologist for Species Conservation and Mammalogy, Department of Education & Conservation, Hellabrunn Zoo Munich, Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
Dr R. Hutterer: Curator Emeritus, Department of Vertebrates, Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany.
Dr J. E. Janecka: Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
M. J. Janecka: PhD Candidate, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
P. D. Jenkins: Senior Curator, Vertebrates Division, Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK.
Dr R. J. Kennerley: Conservation Scientist, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Jersey, UK; and Programme Officer, IUCN/SSC Small Mammal Specialist Group.
Professor B. Kryštufek: Head, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Dr T. E. Lacher, Jr: Professor, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; Co-Chair, IUCN/SSC Small Mammal Specialist Group; and Associate Conservation Scientist, Global Wildlife Conservation, USA.
Dr W. J. Loughry: Professor, Department of Biology, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, USA.
Dr S. Maree: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Zoology and Entomology, and Molecular Ecology and Evolution Program, Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.
Dr V. C. Mason: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Swiss Institute of Equine Medicine, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern and Agroscope, Bern, Switzerland.
S. D. McCay: MS Student, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; and New World Program Coordinator, IUCN/SSC Small Mammal Specialist Group, USA.
Dr C. M. McDonough: Professor, Department of Biology, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, USA.
Dr F. R. Miranda: Professor and Researcher, Department of Animal/Veterinary Science, University of Santa Cruz, Bahia, Brazil.
Professor A. Monadjem: Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Swaziland, Kwaluseni, Swaziland.
Dr N. Moraes-Barros: Auxiliary Researcher, CIBIO-InBIO, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal; and Deputy Chair, IUCN/SSC Anteater, Sloth and Armadillo Specialist Group.
Professor M. Motokawa: Professor, Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Dr S. Mynhardt: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.
Dr J. N. Pauli: Associate Professor, Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
N. S. Roach: PhD Student, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; New World Program Coordinator, IUCN/SSC Small Mammal Specialist Group; and Associate Conservation Scientist, Global Wildlife Conservation, USA.
Dr M. Ruedi: Curator, Natural History Museum of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr B. I. Sheftel: Senior Scientist, A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Dr P. J. Stephenson: Senior Research Fellow, Ecosystem Management Group, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Zürich, Switzerland; and Member, IUCN/ SSC Afrotheria Specialist Group.
Dr M. Superina: Research Scientist, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), IMBECU - CCT CONICET Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina; and Chair, IUCN/SSC Anteater, Sloth and Armadillo Specialist Group.
Dr W. A. Taylor: Senior Programme Officer, Wildlife in Trade Programme, The Endangered Wildlife Trust, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Dr S. T. Turvey: Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, UK; and Conservation Coordinator, IUCN/SSC Small Mammal Specialist Group.
Dr R. P. Young: Head of Conservation Knowledge, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Jersey, UK; and Co-Chair, IUCN/SSC Small Mammal Specialist Group.
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.