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Don E. Wilson is also editor of the reference work Mammal Species of the World. An updated two-volume set with taxonomic revisions was released in 2020 as the Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of the World, and a condensed, single-volume version of the series was published in 2023 as All the Mammals of the World.
Mammal Species of the World. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1206 pp. ISBN 1-56098-217-9; McKenna, Malcolm C. and Bell, Susan K. (1997.) Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8; Nowak, Ronald M. (1999.) Walker's Mammals of the World, 6th edition.
Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference is a standard reference work in mammalogy giving descriptions and bibliographic data for the known species of mammals. It is now in its third edition, published in late 2005, which was edited by Don E. Wilson and DeeAnn M. Reeder. [1] An online version is hosted by Bucknell ...
A mammal (from Latin mamma 'breast') [1] is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia (/ m ə ˈ m eɪ l i. ə /). Mammals are characterised by the presence of milk-producing mammary glands for feeding their young, a broad neocortex region of the brain, fur or hair, and three middle ear bones.
The higher taxonomy used for the ungulates of this order is based primarily on the Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volume 2 on hoofed mammals, including the subfamily and tribal affiliations in each family. The order includes about 242 recognized ungulate species, along with 6 recently extinct species.
List of mammals of São Tomé and Príncipe; List of mammals of Saudi Arabia; List of mammals of Senegal; List of mammals of Serbia; List of mammals of Seychelles; List of mammals of Sierra Leone; List of mammals of Singapore; List of mammals of Slovakia; List of mammals of Slovenia; List of mammals of the Solomon Islands archipelago; List of ...
The archive of number of mammals on earth is constantly growing, but is currently set at 6,495 different mammal species including recently extinct. [2] There are 5,416 living mammals identified on earth and roughly 1,251 have been newly discovered since 2006. [ 2 ]
This is a collection of lists of mammal species by the estimated global population, divided by orders. Lists only exist for some orders; for example, the most diverse order - rodents - is missing. Much of the data in these lists were created by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Global Mammal Assessment Team, which ...