Description
Illustrated by Toni Llobet. The penultimate volume of the Handbook of Mammals of the World covers all of the remaining orders (Cingulata, Pilosa, Afrosoricida, Macroscelidea, Scandentia, Dermoptera, and Eulipotyphla), other than bats (Chiroptera). From armadillos, sloths, and anteaters to shrews and moles, Volume 8 includes a wide variety of interesting small or medium-sized mammals from around the world. Most of them have different kinds of invertebrate and insectivorous diets, except sloths and colugos, which are arboreal herbivores and folivores.
This volume also includes a Special Chapter: Conservation Priorities and Actions for the orders Cingulata, Pilosa, Afrosoricida, Macroscelidea, Scandentia, Dermoptera, and Eulipotyphla by Rosalind Kennerley, Thomas Lacher, Jr, Victor Mason, Shelby McCay, Nicolette Roach, P. J. Stephenson, Mariella Superina & Richard Young.
Contents and authors:
Order CINGULATA
Family Dasypodidae (Long-nosed Armadillos) Colleen McDonough & James Loughry
Family Chlamyphoridae (Chlamyphorid Armadillos) Mariella Superina & Agustín Abba
Order PILOSA
Family Myrmecophagidae (Anteaters) Alessandra Bertassoni
Family Cyclopedidae (Silky Anteaters) Flávia Miranda
Family Megalonychidae (Two-toed Sloths) Nadia Moraes-Barros
Family Bradypodidae (Three-toed Sloths) Jonathan Pauli
Order AFROSORICIDA
Family Tenrecidae (Tenrecs) Paulina Jenkins
Family Potamogalidae (Otter-shrews) Ara Monadjem
Family Chrysochloridae (Golden Moles) William Andrew Taylor, Samantha Mynhardt & Sarita Maree
Order MACROSCELIDEA
Family Macroscelididae (Sengis) Steven Heritage
Order SCANDENTIA
Family Ptilocercidae (Pen-tailed Treeshrew) Melissa Hawkins
Family Tupaiidae (Treeshrews) Melissa Hawkins
Order DERMOPTERA
Family Cynocephalidae (Colugos) Jan Janecka & Mary Janecka
Order EULIPOTYPHLA
Family Erinaceidae (Hedgehogs and Gymnures) Troy Best
Family Soricidae (Shrews) Connor Burgin, Kai He, Rudolf Haslauer, Boris Sheftel, Paulina Jenkins, Manuel Ruedi, Stefan Hintsche, Masaharu Motokawa, Arlo Hinckley & Rainer Hutterer
Family Talpidae (Moles, Desmans, Star-nosed Moles and Shrew Moles) Boris Kryštufek & Masaharu Motokawa
Family Solenodontidae (Solenodons) Samuel Turvey
