The lost species : great expeditions in the collections of natural history museums /
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| Author / Creator: | Kemp, Christopher, author. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2017. ©2017 |
| Description: | xxi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's UCPress copy has original dust jacket. |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11424635 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Vertebrates
- 1. Pushed up a Mountain and into the Clouds: The Olinguito (Bassaricyon neblina)
- 2. Beneath a Color 83 Sky: The Ucucha Mouse (Thomasomys ucucha)
- 3. Going on a Tapir Hunt: The Little Black Tapir (Tapirus kabomani)
- 4. ATaxonomic Confusion: The Saki Monkeys (Pithecia genus)
- 5. Scattered to the Corners of the World: The Arfak Pygmy Bandicoot (Microperoryctes aplini)
- 6. The One That Got Away for 160 Years: Wallace's Pike Cichlid (Crenicichla monicae)
- 7. Here Be Dragons: The Ruby Seadragon (Phyllopteryx dewysea)
- 8. ACentury in a Jar: The Thorius Salamanders
- 9. From a Green Bowl: The Overlooked Squeaker Frog (Arthrolkeptis kutogundua)
- 10. A Body and a Disembodied Tail: Smith's Hidden Gecko (Cyrtodactylus celatus)
- The Invertebrates
- 11. Treasure in the By-Catch: The Gall Wasps (Cynipoidea species)
- 12. The Biomimic: The Lightning Cockroach (Lucihornetica luckae)
- 13. Sunk beneath the Surface in a Sea of Beetles: Darwin's Rove Beetle (Darwinilus sedarisi)
- 14. The Spoils of a Distant War: The Congo Duskhawker Dragonfly (Gynacantha congolica)
- 15. A Specimen in Two Halves: Muir's Wedge-Shaped Beetle (Rhipidocyrtus muiri)
- 16. Mary Kingsley's Longhorn Beetle (Pseudictator kingsleyae)
- 17. The Giant Flies (Gauromydas papavero and Gauromydas mateus)
- 18. It Came from Area 51: The Atomic Tarantula Spider (Aphonopelma atomicum)
- 19. The Host with the Most: The Nematode Worm (Ohbayashinema aspeira)
- 20. From a Time Machine on Cromwell Road: Ablett's Land Snail (Pseudopomatias abletti)
- 21. In Sight of Land: Payden's Isopod (Exosphaeroma paydenae)
- 22. A Ball of Spines: Makarov's King Crab (Paralomis makarovi)
- Botanical
- 23. In an Ikea Bag: The Custard Apple Family (Monanthotaxis Genus)
- The Others
- 24. Waiting with Their Jackets On: The Fossils (Paleontology Specimens Collected by Elmer Riggs)
- 25. The First Art: The Earliest Hominin Engraving (a 500,000-Year-Old Shell)
- Epilogue
- Illustration Captions and Credits
- Notes
- Index