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Ungulate Taxonomy Hardcover – November 15, 2011

by Colin Groves (Author), Peter Grubb (Author)

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A group of special interest to mammalogists, taxonomists, and systemicists, ungulates have proven difficult to classify. This comprehensive review of the taxonomic relationships of artiodactyls and perissodactyls brings forth new evidence in order to propose a theory of ungulate taxonomy.

With this straightforward volume, Colin Groves and the late Peter Grubb cut through previous assumptions to define ungulate genera, species, and subspecies. The species-by-species accounts incorporate new molecular, cytogenetic, and morphological data, as well as the authors’ own observations and measurements. The authors include references and supporting arguments for new classifications.

A starting point for further research, this book is sure to be discussed and hotly debated in the mammalogical community. A well-reasoned synthesis, Ungulate Taxonomy will be a defining volume for years to come.

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336 pages
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English
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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November 15, 2011
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7 x 0.95 x 10 inches
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1421400936
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978-1421400938
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"Groves and Grubb have produced the first major revision of hoofed mammals since Richard Lydekker's contributions nearly 100 years ago... Their collaborative volume will likely represent the authoritative classification of ungulates well into the future, possible for the next 100 years."

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"Groves and Grubb have written THE book about ungulate taxonomy, which will be the benchmark and reference for the next years."

(Journal of the Zoological Society for the Conservation of Species and Populations)

"An important contribution to ungulate taxonomy written by two well-published and highly regarded authors. It should be purchased by any mammalogist or evolutionary biologist interested in ungulates for his or her library."

(Roger D. Applegate Journal of Mammology)

"[Ungulate Taxonomy] will become a reference base for future studies and it is a pleasant book to handle."

(A.W. Gentry Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society)

"Ungulate Taxonomy is a unique and significant contribution to the literature."

(Steve Demarais Journal of Wildlife Management)

About the Author

Colin Groves is a professor of biological anthropology at Australian National University and the author of Primate Taxonomy. Peter Grubb was an English zoologist who, until his death in December 2006, was widely recognized as the world’s leading ungulate taxonomist.

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Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press; 1st edition (November 15, 2011)
Language : English
Hardcover : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 1421400936
ISBN-13 : 978-1421400938
Item Weight : 1.85 pounds
Dimensions : 7 x 0.95 x 10 inches

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Brody Culpepper

A Major Triumph of Disappointment

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2016

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While this book seemed to advertise a revision of taxonomy among the ungulates - a long-needed Herculean task - it falls short in so many ways. First, there is not a single cladogram of any kind. None. Cladograms (modern character based "evolutionary trees") are visual means of conveying taxonomic relationships and the morphological traits that unite or divide lineages of organisms. These are exactly what is needed, but are completely absent in this book. Characters of teeth and skull used to construct character matrices, for example, show no diagrams of how these measurements are made, and show no skulls or dental illustrations which also further explain the characters used in this volume. There is very little treatment of sub-species for most of the taxa in the book, which is important in taxonomy as they have been treated as separate species in the past, and could be elevated as separate species in the future. Discussions of ungulate fossils, which could unite lineages and their common ancestors, determine timing speciation events, or pinpoint geographical centers of ungulate origin or diversification, is also ignored. This could have been a master work of epic proportions for mammalogists and evolutionary biologists, but fails to deliver in so many ways. Perhaps an expanded revision in the future would provide greater value.

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Bret Newton

Major revision of what we thought we knew about ungulates.

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2012

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This is one of the most monumental undertakings in taxonomic history and changes a lot of the preconceptions that we had about hoofstock. Every single taxa of Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla has been reexamined and new findings have been made based upon the best evidence to date. As the authors say, this should not be the final word on their taxonomy, but a starting point for more research to be done.

To give an example of some of the revisions, there is now one more species of rhinoceros that we had envisioned (the northern white rhino) and there are now eight species of giraffes instead of one.

This book uses both the latest in DNA evidence as well as traditional morphological data. The morphological data is in some area the first time this information has been published (being taken from the massive files and notes of the late Peter Grubb).

Some people will find some of the information hard to swallow as it can be so revolutionary, but when Groves did the same thing with primate taxonomy in 2001, his findings were quickly adopted by the majority of scientists.

Bovidae has had the largest revision with nearly double the number of species previously accepted. These new findings are also the basis for the Bovidae chapter in the recent Handbook of Mammals of the World vol. 2. Both of these books together will give a better understanding of the massive changes that have happened.

The only drawback to this book is the lack of charts, diagrams, and maps. The only charts present are tables of morphologic data in the form of skull measurements. Exact localities are hard to pinpoint. Phylogenetic trees are completely absent and would be most welcome if a 2nd edition were to ever be done. A phylogenetic tree would be most handy in explaining why the genus Tragelaphus has been split into 5 different genera.

No doubt, this book will spur endless debates, but its main goal it to elucidate how diverse the ungulate world really is and to give a better starting point for the conservation of significant populations heretofore neglected.

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Ungulate Taxonomy by Groves & Grubb is a welcome reference and a good read

Reviewed in Canada on April 15, 2014

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Everyone who needs to know the Latin name of an ungulate needs this book. The DNA revolution has shaken taxonomy to its roots, revealing unexpected relationships among species that could not have been identified by morphology alone. Yet these two fields are integral and a taxonomists elevates one above the other at his or her peril. As well, modern statistical methods and the mobility to examine collections in the far corners of the Earth--as Groves and Grubb have done--has derived new insights to the measurements of old bones. Groves and Grubb have done a superb job of marrying these two disciplines to produce a much-needed compendium of recent phylogenetic analyses, resulting in revisions of taxonomic arrangements throughout the Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla. And they have done it with flair and passion: "It is surely abhorrent..." Groves writes about an illogical incongruity in naming three species of tahr. One can almost see the twinkle in Groves' eye as he describes an error he published decades ago as "a moment of insanity". I found two typographical errors and I hope Dr. Groves asks me about caribou before the next edition.

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