Genus Vulpes in Egypt

ISBN-13: 9783846506004 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str.

Walid Fathy Mohamed

Opis

This is a comprehensive work introduced by the author dealing with data collected from all geographical set of localities of Egypt to review the existence of genus Vulpes in Egypt. The author made in-depth work and evaluated the data published about this genus and he added a new method of comparison between subspecies of them depending on morphological, cranial and dental measurements from side and habitat, feeding habits, distribution and ecological and biogeographical barriers from other side. The author reached to new findings in this present work and made an identification key with full description for the new discovered subspecies. This work is considered as a guide and a good reference for all mammalogists who want to study foxes in Egypt and hence North Africa at all.

O autorze

Dr. Walid Fathy Mohamed is a talent intelligent staff member in Ain Shams University and he got his MSc. and PhD. in the field of Animal Ecology. He published many papers in this area and he still working on studying the biogeographical barriers using different classes of animals especially mammals as tools.