Principles of taxonomy -- Formal classification of mammalia -- Review of mammalian classification -- Bibliography -- Index to technical names -- Index to vernacular names siris_sil_16894 ...
Mammals are not especially diverse. Roughly 6,800 mammal species are known to exist, compared with about 8,800 species of amphibian, 11,000 species of bird and 12,500 of reptile. Yet when most people ...
Bats, rodents, hedgehogs, and shrews are mammals among the orders that are predicted to have the most undescribed mammals. (Pictured: a bicolored shrew) Werner Korschinsky via Wikimedia Commons under ...