They will send you an email with tracking details, when dispatch the book.
Handbook of the Mammals of the World
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They will send you an email with tracking details, when dispatch the book.
Thanks I just received it. It's funny because I saw the mail on my phone but still cant find it on my pc...
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I have the order number but I still don't know how or where I can track my order? Do I have to know the posting company?
They will mail you the tracking number later, when the book is sent. It will be published in two weeks.
Has anyone else ordered the Checklist yet?
I did. I ordered also All the Birds of the World and the volume is printed on pretty thin paper to fit 11 000 species. The Checklist will be printed on the normal for Lynx editions paper, though.
How thin?
You can see the print through the pages.
Yeah, I ordered mine a while back. I only have the Carnivores volume of HMW which I desperately needed, so was very pleased to see an affordable format released so soon after the series was completed
. Also got "All the Birds..." and am quite pleased with that volume, not having purchased any HBW volumes yet either #cheapskate 
As a bibliophile, I have the complete sets of HBW and HMW; awaiting these two new products; birds to easily compare the different lists, and mammals to see taxonomic updates and the new primate paintings.
I hope the new mammal taxonomy in HMW isn't out of date already. Bird taxonomy has been radically changed at least twice in the last few years.
In the new Checklist they recognised all the resently proposed splits. It is definitely not going to be out of date, but it can be quite controversial. They invited for co-editors the authors of this study, which accepted almost every split:
How many species of mammals are there?
I can’t wait any longer. It’s the end of September and the checklist hasn’t even been published yet!!
Carlos M
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I wonder how the mammal checklist will be compared to the bird checklists. Will the new checklist include a long introduction too? Are they going to explain their method for delimiting species (specially, the reason why they refused to change the taxonomy of the Bovidae)? And what about the extinct species? Based on sample plates on their social media, the extinct species are included in the main text (the same for domestic ones), but not illustrated. I can't stop but wonder if they included an appendix for them with the illustrations or not....
I hope to receive the book before december, but I don't know how long does it take for Lynx to deliver the orders to the USA.
I hope to receive the book before december, but I don't know how long does it take for Lynx to deliver the orders to the USA.
The bird checklist has all the extinct species in an appendix at the back, illustrated where there is enough evidence to produce one (ie those known from specimens or reputable illustrations, but not from subfossil bones only). No bird species are only domesticated, so that quirk does not arise. If you class dogs as Canis familiaris rather than C. lupus, how many breed illustrations do you need?
How did they define which extinct birds to include? Just those that became extinct in the last 1,000 years?
Carlos M
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That is something I also wondered, and maybe that's the reason why they probably are not going to include illustrations for the domesticated species. There are so many breeds out there, and a lot of them look extremely different. But I think it would have been a nice detail to include them too, maybe the most popular breed, or the most alike to their presumed wild ancestor, or an Iberian breed (due to them being from Spain).
However, the book is probably going to be amazing no matter what
They included the species become extinct after the year 1500, divided in two Appendixes. Illustrated "better known" species - almost all can lay claim to at least one complete specimen in existence. Without illustration - lack even a single complete specimen.
has there been a delay with the checklist? My order's status is still awaiting publication according to my lynx account.
Presumably; my latest communication indicated publication at the end of September, and it is now October. Hopefully any day now....