A field guide to the mammals of Egypt / (Record no. 1388)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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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
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Date acquired Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Cost, replacement price Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Environmental engineering The Knowledge Hub Library The Knowledge Hub Library 10/11/2023 298.00   590.5 HO.F 2009 212134 10/11/2023 298.00 10/11/2023 Books