Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia

Name: Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia
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ISBN: 9780195573954

ISBN-10: 0195573951

ISBN-13: 9780195573954

Edition: 3rd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Peter Menkhorst, Frank Knight

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This fully revised and updated edition of A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia is the only comprehensive guide to identifying all 382 species of mammals known in Australia. This book provides concise and accurate details of the appearance, diagnostic features, distribution, habitat, and key behavioural characteristics of all mammals known to have occurred in Australia or its waters since the time of European settlement. Each double-page spread provides all the informationneeded to identify an animal, a full-colour illustration of the entire animal, a smaller diagram of diagnostic features, a distribution map, and species description and measurements, including details of how to…

Book details

List price: $40.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
Publication date: 11/18/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


How to use this field guide


Geographic coverage


Identifying a mammal quickly


Classification and names


Field characters


Identification keys


Species accounts


Plates


Distribution maps


Field techniques for identifying mammals


Finding mammals


Field characters


How mammals are measured


Submitting records


References


Checklist of Australian Mammals


Identification Keys to Australian Mammals


Notes on using the keys


Index to keys


Identification keys


Habitat types


Abbreviations


Key to distribution maps


Species Accounts and Plates


Monotremes


Carnivorous marsupials


Bandicoots and bilbies


Koala and wombats


Cuscuses/possums and gliders


Possums and gliders


Bettongs, rat-kangaroos and potoroos


Rat-kangaroos and tree kangaroos


Fruit bats


Insectivorous bats


Rodents


Introduced carnivores


Introduced herbivores


Seals


Dolphins and whales


Dugong


Further Reading


Glossary


Index to Scientific Names


Index to Common Names