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Condizione: New. 142, col illus, col distribution maps. 228x140mm. PB. NEW. . This is the ultimate field guide for identifying and learning about the 217 primate species and subspecies found in South America, Central America, and Mexico. This guide also covers introduced species on Caribbean islands like Barbados and St Kitts.Featuring detailed descriptions, high-quality illustrations, and accurate distribution maps, this book helps you easily identify primates across 21 Neotropical countries. It includes scientific and common names in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and more, conservation status, habitat details, and a checklist for tracking your primate sightings.This guide describes and illustrates the species and subspecies of the primates of South America, Central America and Mexico. This region boasts the highest number of primate taxa globally, with 217 species and subspecies in 24 genera across five families.With an easy-to-use format that is very handy for the field, this new book enables visitors to see at a glance which species are present in the 21 countries of the Neotropical region that have wild primate populations, and it gives pointers that will help in their identification. [9788416728503].

This guide describes and illustrates the species and subspecies of the primates of South America, Central America and Mexico. This region has the largest number of primate taxa of any of the major regions in which primates occur, a total of 217 species and subspecies in 24 genera and five families. With an easy-to-use format that is very handy for the field, this new book enables visitors to see at a glance which species are present in the 21 countries of the Neotropical region that have wild primate populations, and it gives pointers that will help in their identification. Neotropical Primates covers all the primate species and subspecies that occur naturally in the Neotropics and three African species that have been introduced and are now feral on some of the Caribbean islands, including Barbados, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, Grenada, Saint-Martin/Sint Maarten and Anguilla. Texts for each species include scientific names, common names in English, additional names in Portuguese and Spanish, as well as French for species occurring in French Guiana and Sranan Tongo for those in Suriname, conservation status according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the most relevant details about habitats and geographic distribution, brief descriptive notes, and, when available, altitudinal range. Each species account is accompanied by one or more illustrations and a distribution map. To stimulate primate-watching and primate life-listing, a complete checklist is provided with the common names and countries where the different species occur for you to mark the primates you have seen for your own personal life list. Barcelona. Lynx Edicions. 141 pages, color illustrations, color distribution maps, paperback.