Neotropical Rainforest Mammals [:] A Field Guide

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Emmons, L. H. (text), and F. Feer (illustrations). 1997. NEOTROPICAL RAINFOREST MAMMALS [:] A FIELD GUIDE. 2nd ed. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, xvi + 307 pp. + pls 1-29, A-G and facing pages. ISBN 0-226-20719-6, price (cloth), $80.00, ISBN 0-226-20721-8, price (paper), $25.95.

Like the first edition, this one contains a very helpful section on use of the book; species (or genus) accounts; appendices, including a glossary, keys to families and genera, one on the study and conservation of rainforest mammals, outline drawings of "Tracks of [Some] Large [and Medium-sized] Mammals," a checklist and index of technical names, and an "Index of Genera and Common [English] Names." Each species or genus account may include an English name; technical name(s); identification pointers, including measurements; variation; differences from similar species; sounds; miscellaneous natural history; geographic range; conservation status; local names; and relevant primary references. The species accounts include not only synopses of what is known, but also statements about what is not known.

The larger and/or more visible and easily identifiable animals are covered in individual accounts at the species level and are generally figured at that level, while bats and the smaller rodents are so treated at the generic level. One strength of the book is that Emmons deals explicitly with uncertainties and disagreements about species-level classification. Intraspecific classification and variation in primates is treated in greater detail than in other groups, no doubt owing to monkeys' greater visibility and frequently bold and subspecifically diagnostic color patterns.

The "General References" section of the first edition is omitted in the second. A map in the.