Name: Evolution and Systematics of the Atlantic Tree Rats, Genus Phyllomys (Rodentia, Echimyidae), With Description of Two New Species
Author: Leite, Yuri L. R.
ISBN: 9780520098497

by Leite, Yuri L. R.

Evolution and Systematics of the Atlantic Tree Rats, Genus Phyllomys (Rodentia, Echimyidae), With Description of Two New Species

by Leite, Yuri L. R.

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ISBN-13: 9780520098497
ISBN: 0520098498
Publisher: University of California Press

AUTHOR

Leite, Yuri L. R.

SUMMARY

This study focuses on the Atlantic Forest tree rats of the genus Phyllomys (Rodentia: Echimyidae), one of the most poorly understood mammal genera inhabiting the coastal rain forests Brazil, the most threatened lowland tropical forest in the world. The author summarizes their distribution, ecology and evolution, using a combination of morphological and molecular analyses, describes two new species, and provides the first systematic revision of the genus, which was originally described in 1839.Leite, Yuri L. R. is the author of 'Evolution and Systematics of the Atlantic Tree Rats, Genus Phyllomys (Rodentia, Echimyidae), With Description of Two New Species' with ISBN 9780520098497 and ISBN 0520098498.

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