New Books

Ernst Mayr Library, MCZ. New books list, February 2026.

Recently received titles:  

The aquatic world of penguins: biology of fish-birds.

By David G. Ainley, Rory P. Wilson. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.

The Bivalvia of the Penarth Group, Triassic-Jurassic, of south-west Britain.

By P. Hodges. London: Palaeontographical Society, 2025.

British fossil cirripedia. Part 2, Calanticomorpha, Scalpellomorpha.

By Andrew S. Gale. London: The Palæontographical Society, 2025.

Butterflies of the world: a guide to every subfamily.

By Blanca Huertas, Shinichi Nakahara. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2025.

Captive habitats: building, furnishing and maintaining naturalistic vivariums and enclosures.

By Beat Akeret. Frankfurt am Main: Edition Chimaira, 2022.

The complete guide to amphibians of Iran: biology, ecology and conservation.

By Barbod Safaei-Mahroo. Sanandaj: Intishārāt-i Dānishgāh-i Kurdistān, 2020.

Diversity of hover flies (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) from agro climatic zones of Himachal Pradesh, India.

By Jayita Sengupta, Atanu Naskar, Dhriti Banerjee. Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, 2024.

Ecology of an underwater island.

By Robert W. Schmieder. Walnut Creek, CA: Cordell Expeditions, ©1991.

Entendre la biodiversitat.

By Xavier Bellés. [Barcelona]. Edicions de la Magrana, 1996.

Faunal diversity of Narayan Sarovar Wildlife Sanctuary Gujarat.

By Dhriti Banerjee and Indu Sharma. Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, March 2024.

Faunal diversity of Sainj Wildlife Sanctuary, district-Kullu (Himachal Pradesh).

Edited by The Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata.Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, March 2024.

Forest habitat restoration in Georgia, Caucasus ecoregion.

By Maia Akhalkatsi. Tbilisi: Mtsigobari, 2015.

A guide to a Georgia barrier island: featuring Jekyll Island with St. Simons and Sapelo Islands and a field guide to Jekyll Island.

Written by Taylor Schoettle; illustrated by Jennifer Smith. St. Simons Island, Georgia: Watermarks Pub., 1996.

Historical ecology: cultural knowledge and changing landscapes.

Edited by Carole L. Crumley. Santa Fe, N.M.: School of American Research Press; [Seattle]: Distributed by the University of Washington Press, c1994.

Ichthyofaunal diversity of Poma-Boroi river in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, India.

By Shantabala Devi Gurumayum, Laishram Kosygin. Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, March 2024.

An illustrated catalogue of moths (Lepidoptera) housed in the collections of Zoological Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Pune, India (Part-I Pune District).

By Aparna Sureshchandra Kalawate. Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, April 2024.

Integrative fish biomechanics.

Edited by Timothy E. Higham, George V. Lauder, Anthony P. Farrell, Colin J. Brauner, Erika J. Eliason. London, United Kingdom; Cambridge, MA: Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 2025.

James H. McLean memorial volume.

By Daniel L. Geiger, Lindsey T. Groves & Jann E. Vendetti (eds). Auckland, New Zealand: Magnolia Press, 2019.

The Mammals of the Late Eocene - Early Oligocene Solent Group.  Part 2, Euarchonta (Nyctitheriidae and Primates), Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Pseudorhyncocyonidae, Pantolesta, Apatotheria.

By Jerry J. Hooker. London: Palaeontographical Society, 2024.

Monograph of the genus Euptychia Hübner, 1818:(Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae).

By Shinichi Nakahara, Christer Fåhraeus, Andrea M. Schomann, and Keith R. Willmott. Cambridge, MA: MCZ Publications, August 2025.

A practical guide to optical studies of calcareous nannofossils.

By Osman Varol (Varol Research, Rhos-on-Sea, North Wales, United Kingdom). [Kraków, Poland]: Grzybowski Foundation, April 10, 2025.

Snakes, sunrises, and Shakespeare: how evolution shapes our loves and fears.

By Gordon H. Orians. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

The snout and anterior dentition of early Miocene Anthracotheres (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from Europe: implications for taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny.

By Martin Pickford. München: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, April 2025.

Soft corals:(Malacalcyonacea: Octocorallia) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands (families cladiellidae, sarcophytidae and sinulariidae).

By Seepana Rajendra, C. Raghunathan, Kailash Chandra, Dhriti Banerjee; edited by the Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, April 2023.

A systematic account of Telenominae (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) of South Western Ghats of India.

By K. Rajmohana. Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, 2025.

Town ecology: Concord, Thoreau and onward.

By Richard T.T. Forman. Concord, MA: Natural Resources Division, Town of Concord, Massachusetts, 2025.

The valley of the second sons: letters of Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, a young English naturalist, writing to his sweetheart and her brother about his life in West Cliff, Wet Mountain Valley, Colorado, 1887-1890.

By William A. Weber, F.L.S., editor. Longmont, CO: Pilgrims Process, ©2004.

Venom: the secrets of nature's deadliest weapon.

By Ronald Jenner & Eivind Undheim. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2017.

Zhongguo dan shui yu lei tu jian (freshwater fishes of China).

By Li Fan zhu bian. Fuzhou Shi: Hai xia shu ju, 2024.