Handbook of the mammals of the world. Volume 5, Monotremes and marsupials

Handbook of the mammals of the world. Volume 5, Monotremes and marsupials /

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Main Author: Aplin, K. P. (Kenneth Peter), 1958- (Author)
Other Authors: Wilson, Don E. (Editor), Mittermeier, Russell A. (Editor), Martínez-Vilalta, Albert (Editor), Leslie, D. M. (Editor), Christie, David A. (Editor), Llobet, Toni (Editor, Illustrator), Hoyo, Josep del (Editor), Copete, José Luis (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Barcelona, Spain : Lynx Edicions, [2015]
Subjects:
Mammals > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Marsupials > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Mammals
Marsupialia
Monotremata
Mammals.
Marsupials.
Australian
Encyclopedia
Handbooks and manuals.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / D.E. Wilson
  • Recently extinct Australian marsupials and monotremes / K.M. Helgen & E.G. Veatch
  • Order Monotremata. Family Tachyglossidae (echidnas) / S.C. Nicol ; Family Ornithorhynchidae (platypus) / T.R. Grant
  • Order Didelphimorphia. Family Didelphidae (opossums) / D. Astia
  • Order Paucituberculata. Family Caenolestidae (shrew-opossums) / B.D. Patterson
  • Order Microbiotheria. Family Microbiotheriidae (monito del monte) / R.E. Palma & A. Valladares-Gomez
  • Order Notoryctemorphia. Family Notoryctidae (marsupial moles) / K.P. Aplin
  • Order Dasuromorphia. Family Myrmecobiidae (numbat) / J.A. Friend ; Family Dasyuridae (carnivorous marsupials) / A.M. Baker
  • Order Peramelemorphia. Family Thylacomyidae (greater bilby) / R.I. Southgate ; Family Peramelidae (bandicoots and echymiperas) / C.R. Dickman
  • Order Diprotodontia. Family Phascolarctidae (koala) / S.M. Jackson ; Family Vombatidae (wombats) / R.T. Wells ; Family Burramyidae (pygmy possums) / S.M. Jackson ; Family Phalangeridae (cuscuses, brush-tailed possums and scaly-tailed possum) / K.M. Helgen & S.M. Jackson ; Family Pseudocheiridae (ring-tailed possums and greater gliders) / S.M. Jackson ; Family Petauridae (striped possums, Leadbetter's possum and lesser gliders) / S.M. Jackson ; Family Tarsipedidae (honey possum) / R.D. Wooller ; Family Acrobatidae (feather-tailed gliders and feather-tailed possum) / K.P. Aplin ; Family Hypsiprymnodontidae (musky rat kangaroo) / A.J. Dennis ; Family Potoroidae (bettongs and potoroos) / M.D.B. Eldridge & G.J. Frankham
  • Family Macropodidae (kangaroos and wallabies) / M.D.B. Eldridge & G.M. Couson.

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