New Books

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

Recently received titles (click on highlighted title for the HOLLIS record):  

Adult haliplidae of the world: an illustrated diagnostic guide.

By Bernhard van Vondel. Leiden: Brill, 2026.

 

Aquatic snakes: diversity and natural history.

John C. Murphy, editor. [Place of publication not identified]: JCM Natural History with Herpetological Conservation International, [2024].

 

Arctic marine ecotoxicology: climate change, pollutants, and their far-reaching effects.

By Patrick Omoregie Isibor, editor. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland, [2025].

 

Atlas arealov gnezdi︠a︡shchikhsi︠a︡ kulikov Rossiĭskoĭ Arktiki = Atlas of breeding waders in the Russian Arctic.

By E.G. Lappo, P.S. Tomkovich, E.E. Syroechkovskiĭ. Moskva:  Izdatelʹstvo-tipografii︠a︡ OOO "UF Ofsetnai︠a︡ Pechatʹ", 2012.

 

Atlas: birds of Moscow City and the Moscow region.

[Authors, M.V. Kalyakin & O.V. Voltzit]. Sofia: Pensoft, 2006.

 

Atlas raspredelenii︠a︡ ptit︠s︡ v primorskikh tundrakh sever-vostoka Azii: po materialam aviauchetov 1993-1995 godov.

By N.D. Poi︠a︡rkov, Dzh. Khodzhes, V. Eldridzh. Moskva:  Izdatelʹstvo T︠S︡entra okhrany dikoĭ prirody, 2000.

 

Atlas ptit︠s︡ Pechorskogo mori︠a︡ : raspredelenie, chislennostʹ, dinamika, problemy okhrany. Atlas of the Pechora Sea birds.

[By] I︠U︡.V. Krasnov [et al.; otvetstvennyi̓ redaktor, G.G. Matishov]. Apatity: Izd-vo KNT︠S︡ RAN, 2002.

 

Being biological: human meaning in the age of neuroscience.

By Michael A. Fuller. United States: [Michael A. Fuller], [2022].

 

Birds of Evenkia and adjacent territories (Ptit︠s︡y Ėvenkii i sopredelʹnykh territoriĭ).

Moskva: T-vo nauch. izd. KMK, 2008.

 

Birds of Siberia: field guide in two volumes. [Ptit︠s︡y Sibiri: spravochnik-opredelitelʹ v dvukh tomakh].

Moskva-Ekaterinburg: Kabinetnyĭ uchenyĭ, 2014.

 

Birds up close: an engineer explores their hidden wonders.

By Lorna Gibson. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, [2026].

 

British fossil Cirripedia. Part 3.

By Andrew S. Gale. London: Palaeontographical Society, 2024.

 

The butterflies of the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

By Warren J. Kiel; illustrations by Lois De Luca. [Concord]: Audubon Society of New Hampshire; Guilford, Conn.; Falcon,  2003.

 

By this wing: letters by Celia Thaxter to Bradford Torrey about birds at the Isles of Shoals, 1888 to 1884.

Edited by Donna Marion Titus. Manchester, N.H.: J. Palmer Publisher, c1999.

 

Cabinet of curiosities = Das Buch der Wunderkammern = Cabinets des merveilles.

By Massimo Listri; introduction by Antonio Paolucci; catalogue by Giulia Carciotto. Köln: Taschen, [2022].

 

Cane toads and other rogue species.

Edited by Karl Weber. New York: Public Affairs, 2010.

 

Children of the ice age: how a global catastrophe allowed humans to evolve.

By Steven M. Stanley. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1998.

 

Cranes and storks of the Amur River: the proceedings of the International Workshop, Khabarovsk-Poyarkovo-Khabarovsk, $$f July 3-12, 1992.

[Edited by] Curtis H. Halvorson, James Th. Harris, Sergei M. Smirenski. Moscow: Arts Literature Publishers, 1995.

 

Dan ding he yan jiu. [Research on the red-crowned crane].

[By] Ma Yiqing, Li Xiaomin bian zhu. Shanghai: Shanghai ke ji jiao yu chu ban she, 2002.

 

De genes, dioses y tiranos: la determinación biológica de la moral.

By Camilo J. Cela Conde. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1985.

 

Descriptive catalogue of Pliocene cercopithecoid fossils (primates, mammalia) from the Humpata Plateau, Angola.

By Martin Pickford and Daniela de Matos. Günding: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, 2026.

 

The Dutch Indies commission and the herpetological legacy of Heinrich Boie:(1794-1827).

By Jay M. Savage, Marcus Sparreboom, Gregory K. Pregill. Villanova, Pennsylvania: Society for the study of amphibians and reptiles, in cooperation with the International Society for the History and Bibliography of Herpetology, 2025. 

 

Earth & life: a four-billion-year conversation.

By Andrew H. Knoll. Princeton: Princeton University Press, [2026]. 

 

Edward Bartlett (1844-1908), biography, bibliography and contributions to the herpetology of Borneo.

By Aaron M. Bauer and Indraneil Das. [Topeka, Kansas]: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, [2024].

 

Ėkologii︠a︡ i biot︠s︡enoticheskie svi︠a︡zi pereletnykh ptit︠s︡ Zapadnoĭ Sibiri.

Otvetstvennyĭ redaktor K.T. I︠U︡rlov. Novosibirsk: Izd-vo "Nauka, " Sibirskoe otd-nie, 1981.

 

Ėkologii︠a︡ i migrat︠s︡ii lebedeĭ v SSSR.

Otvetstvennyĭ redaktor E.V. Syroechkovskiĭ. Moskva: Izd-vo "Nauka", 1987.

 

Ėkologii︠a︡ kulikov Bashkortostana i aspekty ikh okhrany.

[By] V.A. Valuev. Ufa: Gilem, 2007.

 

Ėkologii︠a︡ ptit︠s︡ Bashkortostana: 1811-2008 gg.

By V.A. Valuev. Ufa: Gilem, 2008.

 

Entomofaunal diversity of Andaman Group of Islands, India.

By Anil Kumar Dubey, Dhriti Banerjee. Kolkata: Zoological Survey of India, January 2026.

 

Everlasting flowers between the pages: the making of seventeenth-century florilegia.

By Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen. Leiden; Boston: Brill, [2025]

 

A field guide to the animals of vernal pools.

By Leo P. Kenney, Matthew R. Burne. Westborough, MA: Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife, Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program; Reading, MA: Vernal Pool Association, [2001].

 

A field guide to the reptiles of Borneo.

By Indraneil Das. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2026.

 

Fish on paper: ichthyology and the disciplining of natural history (1680-1820).

By Didi van Trijp. Leiden: Brill, [2025].

 

Genetics and analysis of quantitative traits: foundations.

By Bruce Walsh, Peter M. Visscher, Michael Lynch. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025.

 

Gornai︠a︡ avifauna i︠u︡zhno ̆palearktiki: ėkologo-geografiueskiĭ analiz.

[By] R.L. Bëme, D.A. Banin. [Moscow]: Izd-vo MGU, 2001.

 

Grundlagen der tierpsychologie.

By Günter Tembrock. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1971.

 

Le guide des papillons du Québec.

By Louis Handfield; photographies de Daniel Handfield; texte avec la collaboration de Daniel Handfield [and others]; préface de J. Donald Lafontaine; avant-propos de Nathalie Zinger. Saint-Constant, QC: Broquet, 2011.

 

Guide des papillons nocturnes d'Europe et d'Afrique du Nord: Héterocères (Partim).

By P.-C. Rougeot, P. Viette. Neuchâtel, Switzerland:  Delachaux et Niestlé, 1978.

 

Guseobraznye ptit︠s︡y vostochnoevropeĭskikh tundr.

[By] I︠U︡.N. Mineev. Ekaterinburg: Rossiĭskai︠a︡ akademii︠a︡ nauk, Uralʹskoe otd-nie, In-t biologii Komi nauch. t︠s︡entra, 2003.

 

Hei jing he yan jiu. [Research on the black-necked crane].

[By] Li Zhumei, Li Fengshan bian zhu. Shanghai: Shanghai ke ji jiao yu chu ban she, 2005.

 

L'heure de la sociobiologie.

By Yves Christen. Paris: A. Michel, 1979.

 

The hidden lives of lab animals: a vet's vision for a more humane future.

By Larry Carbone. Oakland, California: University of California Press, [2026].

 

History of the Russian zapovedniks 1895-1995.

By Feliks Shtilmark; translated from Russian by G.H. Harper.Edinburgh: Russian Nature Press, 2003.

 

Human well-being and the natural environment.

By Partha Dasgupta. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

 

Intermittent frontiers: on how changing ecological factors control natural selection.

By Robert B. Finley, Jr. Longmont, CO: Pilgrims Process, ©2005.

 

La Isla Socorro: reserva de la biosfera Archipiélago de Revillagigedo, México.

Alfredo Ortega Rubio y Aradit Castellanos Vera, editores. La Paz, Baja California Sur: Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste en colaboración con WWF, 1994.

 

Kli︠u︡chevye ornitologicheskie territorii Rossii. V.2

[By] pod obshcheĭ redakt︠s︡ieĭ S.A. Bukreeva.  Moskva: Soi︠u︡z okhrany ptit︠s︡ Rossii, <2006-2009>

 

Kol'tsevanie v izuchenii migratsii ptits fauny SSSR.

[Otvetstvennyi redaktor V.D. Il'ichev; zam. otvetstvennogo radaktora S.G. Priklonskii ; redaktsionnaia kollegiia: M.A. Voinstvenskii ... et al.]. Moskva: Nauka, 1976.

 

Leopards: 40 years of zoological studies on leopards between 1983-2023 [An- numūr : 40 ʻāmanā min ad-dirāsāt aliʻlmīa alḥīwānīa ʻalī an-numūr bīn ālāʼʻwām 1983-2023].

By Sharif Hajji Prof. Dr. Sc. Norman Ali Bassam Ali Taher Khalaf-Prinz Sakerfalke von Jaffa. Gaza: Prof. Dr. Norman Ali Khalaf Department for Environmental Research and Media, National Research Center, University of Palestine, September 2025.

 

Migrat︠s︡ii ptit︠s︡ Vostochnoĭ Evropy i Severnoĭ Azii. $$p Zhuravleobraznye—rzhankoobraznye.

Otvetstvennye redaktory toma I︠A︡.A. Viksne, Kh. A. Mikhelʹson. Moskva: "Nauka", 1985.

 

The nature and affinities of the enigmatic Silurian-Devonian genus Pachytheca from Britain.

By Dianne Edwards, Alan Channing, Lindsey Axe & Elena Padilla Maqueo Mendez. London: The Palæontographical Society, 2026.

 

Non-native species in the Ponto-Caspian Seas: introduction, impact, geographical distribution, consequences.

By Tamara A. Shiganova, Henry J. Dumont, Alexander S. Kazmin. Cham: Springer, 2026.

 

On genetic interests: family, ethnicity, and humanity in an age of mass migration.

By Frank Salter. Frankfurt am Main: New York: Peter Lang, 2003.

 

On the origin of sex: the weird and wonderful science of reproduction.

By Lixing Sun. New York: Basic Books, 2026.

 

Ornitofauna severo-vostoka Azii: istorii︠a︡ i sovremennoe sostoi︠a︡nie.

[By] A.A. Kishchinskiĭ; otvetstvennye redaktory V.D. Ilʹichev, I︠U︡.A. Isakov. Moskva: Nauka, 1988.

 

Pants on fire: the evolutionary psychology of sex, cheating, death, and cheating death.

By Brett W. Pulham. [United States?]: M Perfect Press, [2015].

 

Pelicans in the former USSR.

Edited by A.J. Crivelli, V.G. Krivenko & V.G. Vinogradov. Slimbridge, Gloucester, UK: International Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Bureau, 1994.

 

Pernatye khishchniki Uralʹskogo regiona: sokoloobraznye (Falconiformes), sovoobraznye (owls).

[By] I.V. Kari︠a︡kin. Permʹ: T︠S︡entr polevykh issledovaniĭ soîuza okhrany zhivotnykh Urala, 1998.

 

Pflanzenwespen Deutschlands: (Hymenoptera, Symphyta); kommentierte Bestandsaufnahme.

By Andreas Taeger & Stephan M. Blank (Hrsg.). Keltern: Goecke & Evers, 1998.

 

Poison darts.

By Russell Finley. [Place of publication not identified]: [Russell Finley], [2003].

 

The power of life: the invention of biology and the revolutionary science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

By Jessica Riskin. New York: Riverhead Books, 2026.

 

Pozvonochnye zhivotnye severo-vostoka T︠S︡entralʹnogo regiona Rossii: vidy fauny, chislennostʹ i ee izmenenii︠a︡.

By V.A. Zaĭt︠s︡ev. Moskva: T-vo nauch. izd. KMK, 2006.

 

A primer for experimental evolution.

By Michael R. Rose. New Jersey: World Scientific, [2026].

 

Ptit︠s︡y dalʹnevostochnykh moreĭ Rossii. Tom 1. 

[By] V.P. Shuntov. Vladivostok: TINRO-t︠s︡entr, 1998-

 

Ptit︠s︡y goroda Arkhanshelʹska i ego okrestnosteĭ: monografii︠a︡.

By N.I. Asoskova, V.M. Konstantinov. Arkhangelʹsk: Pomorskiĭ gos. universitet, 2005.

 

Ptit︠s︡y goroda Vladivostoka i ego okrestnosteĭ.

By I︠U︡.N. Nazarov. Vladivostok: Izd-vo Dalʹnevostochnogo universiteta, 2004.

 

Ptit︠s︡y I︠A︡malo-Nenet︠s︡kogo avtonomnogo okruga : spravochnik-opredelitelʹ.

By V.K. Ri︠a︡bit︠s︡ev, A.V. Ri︠a︡bit︠s︡ev. Ekaterinburg: Uralʹskiĭ gos. universitet, 2010.

 

Ptit︠s︡y i︠u︡zhnoĭ taĭgi Zapadnoĭ Sibiri: 25 let spusti︠a︡ = Birds of Southern taiga of West Siberia : 25 years later.

By K.V. Toropov, E.L. Shor ; Otvetstvennyĭ redaktor doktor biologicheskikh nauk I︠U︡.S. Ravkin. Novosibirsk : Nauka-T︠S︡entr, 2012.

 

Ptit︠s︡y Kemerovskoĭ oblasti.

By A.A. Vasilʹchenko. Kemerovo: Kuzbassvuzizdat, 2004.

 

Ptit︠s︡y lesostepi Sredneĭ Sibiri.

[By] V.S. Zhukov; otvetstvennyĭ redaktor I︠U︡.S. Ravkin. Novosibirsk: Nauka, 2006.

 

Ptit︠s︡y lesostepeĭ Verkhnego Priangarʹi︠a︡.

By V.G. Maleev, V.V. Popov. Irkutsk: NTs VSNTs SO RAMN, 2007.

 

Ptit︠s︡y Omska i ego okrestnosteĭ. Birds of Omsk and its suburbs.

By S.A. Solovʹev; otvetstvennyĭ redaktor, I︠U︡.S. Ravkin. Novosibirsk: Nauka, 2005.

 

Ptit︠s︡y ozera Manych-Gudilo i prilegai︠u︡shchikh stepeĭ.

[By] V.A. Minoranskiĭ, A.M. Uzdenov, I︠A︡.I︠U︡. Podgornai︠a︡. Rostov-na-Donu: T︠S︡VVR, 2006.

 

Ptit︠s︡y poluostrova I︠A︡mal i priobskoĭ lesotundry. Birds of Yamal Peninsula and near-Ob' forest-tundra.

By V.K. Ri︠a︡bit︠s︡ev, V.N. Ryzhanovskiĭ. Moskva: Kabinetnyĭ uchenyĭ, 2022.

 

Ptit︠s︡y ostrova Sakhalin.

By V.A. Nichaev.  Vladivostok: Amuro-Ussuriĭskiĭ t︠s︡entr po izuchenii︠u︡ bioraznoobrazii︠a︡ ptit︠s︡, 1991.

 

Ptit︠s︡y podtaezhnykh lesov Zapadnoĭ Sibiri.

[By] V.A. I︠U︡dkin; otvetstvennyĭ redaktor A.I. Mikhantʹev. Novosibirsk: Nauka, 2002.

 

Ptit︠s︡y severa Nizhnego Povolzhʹi︠a︡. V. 1-2. 

By E.V. Zavʹi︠a︡lov and others. Saratov: Saratovskiĭ gos. universitet, 2005-<2007>.

 

Ptit︠s︡y Sredneĭ Sibiri: rasprostranenie, chislennostʹ, zoogeografii︠a︡.

By Ė.V. Rogacheva; otvetstvennyĭ redaktor V.D. Ilʹichev.Moskva: "Nauka", 1988.

 

Ptitsȳ zonal'nȳkh stepeĭ i pustȳn' Tsentral'noĭ Azii = [Birds of the zonal steppes and deserts of Central Asia].

By E.V. Kozlova. Leningrad: Izd-vo Nauka, 1975.

 

Quantum mechanics of biological systems.

Edited by Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman and Jack A. Tuszynski. Boca Raton: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

 

Red data book of Kazakstan. Vol. 1, part 1. Animals—Vertebrates. 

Almaty: "Qonzhyq", 1996-

 

Redkie ptit︠s︡y i zveri Kazakhstana: materialy ko vtoromu izdanii︠u︡ krasnoĭ knigi Kazakhskoĭ SSR.

[Otv. redaktor, A.F. Kovsharʹ]. Alma-Ata: "Gylym", 1991.

 

Reptiles and Amphibians of Japan.

By Richard Pearce and Tomoya Matsukoji; with contributions from Michael Slater [and five others]. Frankfurt am Main: Edition Chimaira, 2026.

 

Revision of small Bunodont Anthracotheres (Artiodactyla, Anthracotheriidae, Microbunodontinae) from Indo-Pakistan, and reassessment of the age of the Caribari deposits, Garo Hills, Bengal.

By Martin Pickford. Günding, Germany: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, [2026].

 

Sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Vol. 1. 

Edited by Matti Viitasaari. Helsinki: Tremex Press, 2002-

 

Sinoophis: zhongguo she lei tu jian. (Vol. 1-2). Atlas of snakes in China.

[By] Huang Song, zhu bian. Fuzhou: Haixia shuju, 2021.

 

Sympatry and comparative ecology of congeneric bird species: (Lake Baikal basin).

By T︠S︡.Z. Dorzhiev. Ulan-Udė: Izd-vo Buri︠a︡tskogo universiteta, 1997.

 

Der Teichmolch.

[By] Wolf-Rüdiger Grosse. Leipzig: Die Neue Brehm Bücherei, [2026]. 

 

Time will tell: stories of the Rideau Valley.

By Diana Beresford-Kroeger. Kingston, Ont.: Quarry Heritage,  2004.

 

24th Czech-Slovak-Polish paleontological conference October 23-24, 2025 Kraków, Poland : abstract volume.

Edited by A. Waśkowska, J. Kowal-Kasprzyk, M. A. Kaminski & S. Bębenek. Kraków: Grzybowski Foundation, $$c 2025.

 

The venomous snakes of China.

By Kevin R. Messenger, Ph.D.; edited by Jing Zang and W. Scott Lupien; with contributions by Tom Charlton [and ten others]. Mint Hill, North Carolina: KRM Herpetology, 2025.

 

Vodoplavai︠u︡shchie ptit︠s︡y Malozemelʹskoĭ tundry i delʹty r. Pechory.

By O.I︠U︡. Mineev. Ekaterinburg: UrO RAN, 2005.

 

Writing zoological natural history for British India.

By John Mathew. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025.

 

Wye Valley.

By George Peterken. London: Collins, 2008.

 

Yujŏnjadŭl ŭi chŏnjaeng: haengdong ŭro pon sahoe saengmurhak ŭi segye (Genes at war: world of sociobiology as seen through animal behavior).

By Lee Byung-Hoon. Sŏul: Minŭmsa, 1994.

 

Zhuravlʹ-krasavka v SSSR.

[Otvetstvennye redaktory A.F. Kovsharʹ i I.A. Neĭfelʹdt]. Alma Ata : "Gylym", 1991.