num_pages: 480
description: In this handsome volume Donald W. Linzey offers a comprehensive review of the state of knowledge concerning the mammals of Virginia and the literature about them that has emerged over the past four hundred years.The book opens with a historical account of mammal investigations in Virginia and a summary of the natural regions of the Commonwealth. Most of the book consists of systematic summaries of the zoology and ecology of each species of mammal that occurs or recently occurred in Virginia. Each account describes the species with notes on its distribution habitat affiliation behavior diet reproduction and development longevity parasitology and selected other topics that vary among the species as well as a list of locations of museum specimens. A color photograph and line drawing of the skull and mandible from standard perspectives is provided for each species. Among the appendixes is a review of he mammalian fauna of Virginia during the past Ice Age. A substantial reference section identifies more than 2700 published sources of information about Virginias mammals.The Mammals of Virginia is a work of massive scope that makes a major contribution to the study of natural history in the Commonwealth.
language: English
title: The Mammals Of Virginia
publisher: Univ Tennessee Press