Checklist of the Terrestrial Vertebrates of the Guiana Shield
CHECKLIST OF THE TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATES OF THE GUIANA SHIELD Tom Hollowell and Robert P. Reynolds, editors (TH) Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program National Museum of Natural History MRC 166, P.O. Box 37012 Washington, D.C., 20013-7012, U.S.A. (RPR) USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center National Museum of Natural History, MRC 111, P.O. Box 37012 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, U.S.A. i Front cover illustration: Tamandua tetradactyla (Linnaeus, 1758), Myrmecophagidae, the Southern Tamandua, illustration by Karl S. Pogany, 1961, q 2005 the Royal Ontario Museum. Ilustrations facing each section: for the Foreword, Chelus ®mbriatus (Schneider, 1783), Chelidae, the Mata-Mata turtle, illustration by Morag Williams, coutesty of the Guyana Marine Turtle Conservation Society; for the Preface, Artibeus obscurus Schinz, 1821, the Dark Fruit-Eating Bat, Phyllostomidae and Phyllostomus discolor Wagner, 1843, Phyllostom- idae, the Pale Spear-nosed Bat, illustrations by Karl S. Pogany, 1961, q 2005 the Royal Ontario Museum; for the Introduction, Bubo viginianus (J. F. Gmelin, 1788), Strigidae, illustration by Robert Savannah, courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; for Amphibians, Oreophrynella quelchii (Boulenger 1895), Bufonidae, the Roraima Bush Toad, illustration by Penelope Kay Hollingworth, courtesy of Roy McDiarmid; for Reptiles, Arthrosaura guianensis MacCulloch & Lathrop, 2001, Gymnophthalmidae, illustration of head by Amy Lathrop, courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum; for Birds, Carduelis cucullata Swainson, 1820, Fringillidae, the Red Siskin, with its food plant Curatella americana L., Dilleniaceae, illustration by John C. Anderton, courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution's Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program; for Mammals, Pithecia pithecia (Linnaeus, 1766), Pitheciinae, the Guianan Saki, illustraton of a female by Karl S.
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