Rodents of Sub-Saharan Africa : : A biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis / / Ara Monadjem, Peter J. Taylor, Christiane Denys, Fenton P.D. Cotterill.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2015
• VerfasserIn: Monadjem, Ara,; Cotterill, Fenton P.D.,; Denys, Christiane,; Taylor, Peter J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1092 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 -- Key to Rodent Families of Africa -- Family: Gliridae -- Family: Sciuridae -- Family: Myocastoridae -- Family: Ctenodactylidae -- Family: Hystricidae -- Family: Thryonomyidae -- Family: Petromuridae -- Family: Bathyergidae -- Family: Anomaluridae -- Family: Pedetidae -- Family: Dipodidae -- Family: Spalacidae -- Family: Nesomyidae -- Family: Muridae -- Subfamily: Deomyinae -- Subfamily: Gerbillinae -- Subfamily: Leimacomyinae -- Subfamily: Lophiomyinae -- Subfamily: Murinae. Part 1 -- Subfamily: Murinae. Part 2 -- References -- Appendix