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a guide to the scientific classification of reptiles, birds & mammals
Guide to the scientific classification of reptiles, birds & mammals
Scientific classification of reptiles, birds & mammals
Scientific classification of reptiles, birds and mammals
Generic and specific names -- Separating the animals into groups -- The phyla -- The vertebrates -- Reptiles in general - the class Reptilia -- Reptile orders, suborders, families and subfamilies -- Turtles, tortoises and terrapins -- Alligators, crocodiles and the gavial -- The tuatara -- Lizards -- Snakes -- Brids in general -- the class Aves -- Bird orders, families and subfamilies -- Ostriches -- Rheas -- Cassowaries -- Kiwis -- Tinamous -- Penguins -- Divers or loons -- Grebes -- Albatrosses, fulmars, shearwaters and petrels -- Tropicbirds, pelicans gannets, cormorants, anhingas and frigatebirds -- Herons, stroks, flamingos and their kin -- Screamers, geese, swans and ducks -- Vultures, hawks, eagles, falcons and their kin -- Grouse, pheasants, peacocks, guineafowls, turkeys and their kin -- Button-quail, cranes, rails, bustards and their kin -- Snipe, oystercatchers, plovers, curlews, skuas, gulls, auks and their kin -- Sandgrouse, pigeons and doves -- Parrots and their kin -- Turacos, cuckoos and their kin -- Owls -- Forgmouths, potoos, nightjars and their kin -- Swifts and hummingbirds -- Mousebirds or colies -- Trogons -- Kingfishers, bee-eaters, rollers, hornbills and their kin
Jacamars, honeyguidesm toucans, woodpeckers and their kin -- Perching birds -- Mammals in general - the class Mammalia -- Duck-billed platypus and echidnas -- Masupials or pouched animals -- Insect-eating animals -- Bats -- Flying lemurs or colugos -- Tree shrews, lemurs, monkeys apes and man -- Sloths armadillos and anteaters -- Pangolins -- Pikas, rabbits and hares -- Rodents -- Whales, dolphins and porpoises -- Dogs, weasels, lions and their kin -- Seals, sea-lion and the walrus -- The aardvark -- Elephants -- Hyraxes -- Manatees and the dugong -- Horses, tapirs and rhinoceroses -- Pigs, camels, deer, giraffes, antelopes and their kin
Originally published: London : Blandford Press, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 657-658) and indexes.