A Guide to the Mammals of China

List of Species Plates xi List of Figures xv List of Maps xvii List of Habitat Illustrations xix Preface xxi Contributors xxiii INTRODUCTION: Andrew T. Smith and Xie Yan 1 China's Geography and Mammalian Biogeography 1 History of Chinese Mammalogy: Wang Sung 4 Mammalian Conservation 9 China's Protected Area System 10 How to Use This Book 11 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 14 Species Plates 32 Taxonomic Descriptions 155 CLASS MAMMALIA: Andrew T. Smith 155 ORDER PROBOSCIDEA: Andrew T. Smith and John MacKinnon 155 Family Elephantidae 155 ORDER SIRENIA: Andrew T. Smith 157 Family Dugongidae 157 ORDER SCANDENTIA: Andrew T. Smith 158 Family Tupaiidae 158 ORDER PRIMATES: John MacKinnon 158 Family Lorisidae 159 Family Cercopithecidae 160 Subfamily Cercopithecinae 160 Subfamily Colobinae 164 Family Hylobatidae 169 ORDER RODENTIA: Darrin Lunde, Andrew T. Smith, and Robert S. Hoffmann 172 Family Sciuridae: Robert S. Hoffmann and Andrew T. Smith 172 Subfamily Ratufinae 173 Subfamily Sciurinae 174 Subfamily Callosciurinae 182 Subfamily Xerinae 189 Family Gliridae: Andrew T. Smith 196 Family Castoridae: Andrew T. Smith 197 Family Dipodidae: Andrew T. Smith 198 Subfamily Allactaginae 198 Subfamily Cardiocraniinae 202 Subfamily Dipodinae 204 Subfamily Euchoreutinae 206 Subfamily Sicistinae 206 Subfamily Zapodinae 208 Family Platacanthomyidae: Andrew T. Smith 208 Family Spalacidae: Andrew T. Smith 209 Subfamily Myospalacinae 209 Subfamily Rhizomyinae 212 Family Cricetidae: Darrin Lunde and Andrew T. Smith 214 Subfamily Arvicolinae: Darrin Lunde 214 Subfamily Cricetinae: Andrew T. Smith and Robert S. Hoffmann 239 Family Muridae: Andrew T. Smith and Darrin Lunde 247 Subfamily Gerbillinae: Andrew T. Smith and Robert S. Hoffmann 247 Subfamily Murinae: Darrin Lunde 252 Family Hystricidae: Andrew T. Smith 273 ORDER LAGOMORPHA: Andrew T. Smith 275 Family Ochotonidae 275 Family Leporidae 287 ORDER ERINACEOMORPHA: Robert S. Hoffmann and Darrin Lunde 292 Family Erinaceidae 292 Subfamily Erinaceinae

Andrew T. Smith is the Parents Association Professor of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. Yan Xie is associate research professor in the Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Robert S. Hoffmann, now retired, was director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Darrin Lunde is collections manager in the Department of Mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History. John MacKinnon is a zoologist and writer whose many books include "A Field Guide to the Birds of China". Don E. Wilson is curator of mammals at the National Museum of Natural History. W. Chris Wozencraft (1953-2007) was professor of biology at Bethel College. Federico Gemma, based in Rome, is a wildlife artist and freelance natural-history illustrator.