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| Ellerman, J.R.; Morrison-Scott, T.C.S. | |
| Family Felidae | |
| 1951 Book Chapter | |
The area covered by this work is the Palaearctic region and the Indian (incl. Pakistan) and Indo-Chinese subdivisions of the Oriental region. For the purposes of a list such as this, some arbitrary limit must be set. In Africa we have drawn the boundary along the parallel of 20ø N. which, owing to the barrier of the Sahara, does correspond reasonably well with the facts. The boundary in Malaya has, however, been drawn in a purely arbitrary manner along the parallel of 10ø N. This line has been chosen because it is the northern limit of the area covered by Chasen, 1940, Handlist of Malaysian Mammals. The limits in point of time are from 1758 to 1946. That is to say, we have endeavoured to include all forms of recent mammals named from the tenth edition of Linnaeus up till the end of 1946, except that domestic animals, and wild mammals which have become extinct, have as a rule been omitted. We have recognized 809 species of mammals in the Palaearctic and Indian regions. We have endeavoured to indicate the diagnostic characters of each genus and species by reference to the appropriate works, and where they are non-existent we have provided keys. The distribution of each species has been approximately shown, though it should be remembered that the distributions of many mammals are imperfectly known and that the ranges of many of the larger mammals are shrinking every year. The pinnipedes were treated as a suborder of Carnivora by Simpson (1945); Gregory, 1910, The Orers of Mammals; Weber, 1928, Die S„ugetiere; and Anderson, 1947, Catalogue of Canadian Recent Mammals. Pocock regarded them as being of less than subordinal rank. They were regarded as a distinct order by Miller, 1923, List of North American Recent Mammals; Ognev, 1935, The Mammals of U.S.S.R. and adjacent countries, 3; G. M. Allen, 1938, Mammals of China and Mongolia, I; and Bobrinskii, 1944, Mammals of U.S.S.R. The standard work on the pinnipedes as a whole is still J.A. Allen, 1880, History of the North American Pinnipeds, which is virtually a monograph of all species occurring north of the equator, and includes as well a revision of those of other seas. Keys to the families and genera will be found in this work, together with a detailed account of the nomenclatorial history of each form. A useful general work on the Otariidae and Phocidae is Howell, 1929, Contribution to the comparative anatomy of the eared and earless seals, proc. U.S Nat. Mus. 73, 15: 1-142. |
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