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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20231011100404.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9789774162541 |
Qualifying information |
hardback |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
EG-CaTKH |
Language of cataloging |
eng |
Transcribing agency |
EG-CaTKH |
Description conventions |
rda |
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
590.5 HO.F 2009 |
Edition number |
23 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Hoath, Richard, |
Relator term |
author, |
-- |
illustrator. |
245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
A field guide to the mammals of Egypt / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Richard Hoath ; illustrations by the author. |
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Cairo ; |
-- |
New York : |
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
The American University in Cairo Press, |
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2009. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
337 pages : |
Other physical details |
maps ; |
Dimensions |
21 cm. |
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
Content type term |
text |
Content type code |
txt |
Source |
rdacontent |
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
Media type term |
unmediated |
Media type code |
n |
Source |
rdamedia |
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
Carrier type term |
volume |
Carrier type code |
nc |
Source |
rdacarrier |
505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- The Biogeography of Egypt -- The Northern Coastal Strip -- The Western Desert -- The Eastern Desert -- The Sinai Peninsula -- Gebel Elba -- The Nile Delta and Valley -- Marine Environments -- Current Threats and the Status of Egyptian Mammals -- The Future -- Using the Guide -- The Text -- The Maps -- The Plates -- Measurements -- The Insectivores -- Long-eared Hedgehog -- Ethiopian Hedgehog -- Greater Musk Shrew -- Flower's Shrew -- Dwarf Shrew -- Lesser White-toothed Shrew -- House Shrew -- Savi's Pygmy Shrew -- The Bats -- Egyptian Fruit Bat -- Larger Rat-tailed Bat -- Lesser Rat-tailed Bat -- Geoffroy's Tomb Bat -- Egyptian Sheath-tailed Bat -- Egyptian Slit-faced Bat -- Arabian Horseshoe Bat -- Lesser Horseshoe Bat -- Mehely's Horseshoe Bat -- Trident Leaf-nosed Bat -- Kuhl's Pipistrelle -- Desert Pipistrelle -- Pygmy Pipistrelle -- Bodenheimer's Pipistrelle -- Rüppell's Bat -- Botta's Serotine Bat -- Hemprich's Long-eared Bat -- Schlieffen's Bat -- Arabian Barbastelle -- Gray Long-eared Bat -- European Free-tailed Bat -- Egyptian Free-tailed Bat -- The Carnivores -- Jackal -- Wolf -- Red Fox -- Rüppell's Sand Fox -- Blanford's Fox -- Fennec Fox -- Egyptian Weasel -- Striped Weasel -- Zorilla -- Marbled Polecat -- Small-spotted Genet -- Egyptian Mongoose -- Striped Hyena -- Aardwolf -- Wild Cat -- Swamp Cat -- Sand Cat -- Caracal -- Cheetah -- Leopard -- The Cetaceans -- Fin Whale -- Sei Whale -- Humpback Whale -- Sperm Whale -- Narwhal -- Common Dolphin -- Bottle-nosed Dolphin -- Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin -- Pantropical Spotted Dolphin -- Spinner Dolphin -- Risso's Dolphin -- Short-finned Pilot Whale -- False Killer Whale -- The Sirenians -- Dugong -- The Odd-toed Ungulates -- African Wild Ass -- The Hyraxes -- Rock Hyrax -- Yellow-spotted Hyrax -- The Even-toed Ungulates -- Addax -- Scimitar-horned Oryx -- Dorcas Gazelle -- Slender-horned Gazelle -- Mountain Gazelle -- Ibex -- Barbary Sheep -- The Rodents -- Giza Gerbil -- Anderson's Gerbil -- Large North African Gerbil -- Wagner's Gerbil -- Lesser Egyptian Gerbil -- Pygmy Gerbil -- Mackilligin's Gerbil -- Baluchistan Gerbil -- Greater Egyptian Gerbil -- Pallid Gerbil -- Lesser Short-tailed Gerbil -- Silky Jird -- Libyan Jird -- Shaw's Jird -- Tristram's Jird -- Negev Jird -- Fat-tailed Jird -- Fat Sand Rat -- Bushy-tailed Jird -- Four-toed Jerboa -- Lesser Egyptian Jerboa -- Greater Egyptian Jerboa -- Cairo Spiny Mouse -- Golden Spiny Mouse -- House Mouse -- Nile Kusu -- House Rat -- Brown Rat -- Bandicoot Rat -- Middle Eastern Dormouse -- Crested Porcupine -- Lesser Molerat -- The Lagomorphs -- Cape Hare -- Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- Indexes -- Back Cover. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
A Field Guide to the Mammals of Egypt is the first comprehensive field guide to every mammal species recorded in contemporary Egypt, from gazelle to gerbil, from hyena to hyrax. Each mammal species is described in detail, with reference to identification features, status, habitat, and habits, and with comparisons to similar species. A map is also provided for each species, clearly showing its current, and in some cases historical, range. Every species is meticulously illustrated-the bats and sea mammals in detailed black-and-white illustrations, all other species in scientifically accurate col. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Mammals |
Geographic subdivision |
Egypt. |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
Koha item type |
Books |
998 ## - LOCAL CONTROL INFORMATION (RLIN) |
Cataloger's name |
mona.romia |
Cataloging process |
P |
First Date, FD (RLIN) |
20231011 |