Common Names of Mammals of the World

By Don W. Wilson and Russell F. Cole

For many mammalogists the lack of a standard English reference to mammal common names has precluded their use, while for beginning naturalists scientific names can be daunting. Moreover, some species... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560983833
• ISBN13: 9781560983835
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good job

The writers of this book did a good job in compiling a complete list of the English names of the ordines, familiae, genera and species of all mammals of the world, provided with two orderly indexes. It's a pity that the species order within a genus is alphabetically, instead of taxonomically. To my opinion it's the only minus; I didn't find any other.