A list of the names proposed for genera and subgenera of recent mammals from the publication of T. S. Palmer's 'Index Generum Mammalium' 1904 to the end of 1951.
London: British Museum, 1953. Octavo, binder's cloth, signature. More
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Howard and Moore complete checklist of birds of the world, volume one: non-passerines.
Eastbourne: Aves Press, (2013. fourth edition). Quarto, laminated boards, CD-ROM, WAS $130. Revised extensively with additional new features, this edition has been updated to reflect the considerable change in our understanding of the evolution of birds derived from the study of their DNA over the past decade. This has resulted..... More
Priority! The dating of scientific names in ornithology: a directory to the literature and its reviewers.
Eastbourne: Aves Press, 2011. Quarto, laminated boards, CD-ROM, black and white photographs. Scientific names are vital to communicate clearly and efficiently about the amazing life around us. This is the first book to explain the importance of priority in relation to names in ornithology. Backgrounds are provided on the International..... More
Every living thing: man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from nanobacteria to new monkeys.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper. In a series of vivid portraits of determined - even obsessed - scientists, Rob Dunn shows that we are not even close to knowing all life on earth. We are not close to naming it, studying it, not even close to knowing..... More
Mammalian diversification: from chromosomes to phylogeograph (a celebration of the career of James L. Patton).
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Large octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations. James L. Patton served as Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and as Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1969 until 2001. This book aims to bring..... More
Taxonomy shifts up a gear: new publishing tools to accelerate biodiversity research.
Sofia: Pensoft, 2010. Octavo, colour photographs, distribution maps, tables, Entirely devoted to semantic mark up of taxonomic literature and its implementation for semantic enhancements of published texts and their importance for increased convenience in reading, archiving, future data mining and reuse. Several novelties are described in the two forum papers..... More
The principles of classification and a classification of mammals.
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1945. Quarto, cloth, softcover. The Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume 85. One of the classic papers of twentieth century mammalian taxonomy. More
Systematics: a course of lectures.
London: John Wiley, 2012. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, other illustrations. Designed for use in an advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate level course in systematics and is meant to present core systematic concepts and literature. The book covers topics such as the history of systematic thinking and fundamental concepts..... More
Systematics: a course of lectures.
London: John Wiley, 2012. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white illustrations. Designed for use in an advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate level course in systematics and is meant to present core systematic concepts and literature. The book covers topics such as the history of systematic thinking and fundamental concepts in..... More
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