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

**Recently received titles:**

[**The aquatic world of penguins: biology of fish-birds**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99160521555603941/catalog)**.**

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**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99160507356803941/catalog)**.**

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

[**British fossil cirripedia. Part 2, Calanticomorpha, Scalpellomorpha**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99160507056803941/catalog)**.**

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

[**Butterflies of the world: a guide to every subfamily**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99159078433703941/catalog)**.**

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

[**Captive habitats: building, furnishing and maintaining naturalistic vivariums and enclosures**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99158924167803941/catalog)**.**

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

[**The complete guide to amphibians of Iran: biology, ecology and conservation**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99156574598703941/catalog)**.**

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**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99159781428903941/catalog).

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

[**Ecology of an underwater island**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99159075334703941/catalog)**.**

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

[**Entendre la biodiversitat**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99159085830703941/catalog).

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

[**Faunal diversity of Narayan Sarovar Wildlife Sanctuary Gujarat**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99159781429703941/catalog).

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

[**Faunal diversity of Sainj Wildlife Sanctuary, district-Kullu (Himachal Pradesh)**.](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99160507356303941/catalog)

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

[**Forest habitat restoration in Georgia, Caucasus ecoregion**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99160405583803941/catalog)**.**

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**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99160453208303941/catalog)**.**

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

[**Historical ecology: cultural knowledge and changing landscapes**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990033272220203941/catalog)**.**

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**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99160507356703941/catalog)**.**

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).**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99160520663403941/catalog)

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

[**Integrative fish biomechanics**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99159565809503941/catalog)**.**

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**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99160507256503941/catalog)**.**

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**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99160507256403941/catalog).

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

[**Monograph of the genus Euptychia Hübner, 1818:(Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae).**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99160528291303941/catalog)

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**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99160507356203941/catalog)**.**

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**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990140164450203941/catalog)**.**

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**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99159781235203941/catalog)**.**

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

[**Soft corals:(Malacalcyonacea: Octocorallia) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands (families cladiellidae, sarcophytidae and sinulariidae)**.](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99159781429503941/catalog)

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**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99160520564303941/catalog)**.**

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

[**Town ecology: Concord, Thoreau and onward**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99159589511303941/catalog)**.**

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**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990092803040203941/catalog)**.**

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

[**Venom: the secrets of nature's deadliest weapon**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99160506851603941/catalog)**.**

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

[**Zhongguo dan shui yu lei tu jian (freshwater fishes of China**](https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99158983988603941/catalog))**.**

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