An Annotated Bibliography of the African Muridae (Rodentia)

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Language: English

From the introduction:

"Everyone who has worked on the taxonomy of an African Murid knows that one of the major difficulties encountered is the compilation of a complete bibliographical survey of his subject. Having been time and again faced with this tedious situation, I decided some years ago to prepare, for my own use, an annotated bibliographical list of the African Murids. [...] The bibliographical list mentions exclusively publications which refer to the African Muridae. However, also included are publications dealing with the Murids of the Middle East, Madagascar and some of the islands of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

The Muridae are considered to include all the genera of ratlike Rodents living in Africa; excluded, however, are the Tachyoryctidae, the Petromyidae, the Thryonomyidae, the Bathyergidae, the Muscardinidae and the Sciuridae. Apart from the fact that a number of figures and maps were omitted on purpose, the bibliographical references contain all the other classical data which are needed to characterize a publication. Each reference has been checked and the abbreviations of the titles of the periodicals are those suggested by the World List of Scientific Periodicals Published in the Years 1900-1960 4th ed., 1963 Butterworths, London."

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