Handbook of the Mammals of the World

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Kevin said:
New illustrations and pages now showing on the Lynx website
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Interesting that they have included new well-supported splits, like Cervus hanglu and splitting Giraffe in 3 species, but have not lumped back unsupported splits from HMW volume 2 (Beisa oryx in 3 species, splitting Sable).
 
I notice, also, five Colocolo species, three Oncilla species, and already the new Red Panda split is included as well.
 
They tried to put in order the controversial taxons Cervus hanglu and Cervus elaphus, but is funny that the illustration of ssp. yarkandensis (not illustrated in HMW2) is the copy-paste of the ssp. maral, just with different coat colour.
 
It seems that they did the same thing with the two Metachirus species: they only changed the color of nudicaudatus to a darker tone. Also, some of the Leopardus cats seem copy pasted with just minor modifications: L. emiliae with L. tigrinus tigrinus, L. guttulus with L. tigrinus oncilla, and L. munoai and L. garleppi with L. colocola.

I was hoping to see some of the rodents illustration improved, specially those that didn’t match the coloration of the animal they were supposed to portrait (like Peromyscus mayensis and Peromyscus grandis, as exposed in the blog of Mammalwatching.com), or some of the bats whose artwork is, in my opinion, of lower quality compared to those of Ilian Velikow (see some of they Myotis bats, the Nycticeius genus or Rhyneptesicus nasutus). But with those downfalls in the illustrations, I don’t have so much hope...
 
Looks like Toni Lobet is not going to take part in the Checklists, so all the new splits that are missing in the initial volumes will be his drawings with a new colour. At least Ilian Velikov is the author of the most new Primate illustrations. I checked with him about a new volume III possibility, but he didn't confirm.
 
twilighter said:
Looks like Toni Lobet is not going to take part in the Checklists, so all the new splits that are missing in the initial volumes will be his drawings with a new colour. At least Ilian Velikov is the author of the most new Primate illustrations. I checked with him about a new volume III possibility, but he didn't confirm.
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I doubt if a new edition of volume III will be produced, although 'Primates' (Primates – Lynx Edicions) may be classified into English.
 
I think not all new primate illustrations are going to be made by Ilian Velikov; Lluis Sogorb (one of the artists in volume 9) seems to be drawing neotropical primates for the checklist, according to his instagram account. Also, they’re going to keep some of volume 3 illustrations according to a response in a comment on Instagram...
 
Carlos M said:
I think not all new primate illustrations are going to be made by Ilian Velikov; Lluis Sogorb (one of the artists in volume 9) seems to be drawing neotropical primates for the checklist, according to his instagram account. Also, they’re going to keep some of volume 3 illustrations according to a response in a comment on Instagram...
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You say that there will be three volumes.

Do you know whether there is or will be a volume that focuses specifically on the Neotropical primates ?
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
You say that there will be three volumes.

Do you know whether there is or will be a volume that focuses specifically on the Neotropical primates ?
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No, what I was saying is that for the upcoming Illustrated Checklist, Ilian Velikov is not going to be the only artist behind the new primate illustrations: Lluis Sogorb seems to be also contributing for some neotropical monkeys (like the genus Cebus, Sapajus, Plecturocebus, and Saimiri). Also, some of the Stephen Nash illustrations included in the original Volume III are going to be kept in the checklist. That’s what I meant :D
 
Carlos M said:
I think not all new primate illustrations are going to be made by Ilian Velikov; Lluis Sogorb (one of the artists in volume 9) seems to be drawing neotropical primates for the checklist, according to his instagram account. Also, they’re going to keep some of volume 3 illustrations according to a response in a comment on Instagram...
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Interesting. I hope they not going to keep a lot of Stephen Nash's.
 
The illustrations of the Galago's family in the new Checklist are drawn by the South African bird books author Faansie Peacock (FB)
 
I think he (Faansie Peacock) also drew some bats for volume 9, right? I don't have that volume to see and compare his drawings of mammals, but the image of the galagos seems of good quality .

Just out of curiosity, Does volume 9 indicates the authors of each plate, or are just they all listed in general at the list of plates?
 
Listed separately; Faansie Peacock did a plate of Pteropus (plate 11), 3 full plates of Myotis (72-74) as well as some species on 70 (3 species) and 71 (17). 7 artists altogether.
 
lintworm said:
Looking at the sample plates of the coming soon "Mammals of South Asia" it is good to see that the new primate plates are a huge improvement. They do however stick with their hugely inconsistent taxonomy, following all the G&G splits (regardless of evidence) for the Bovids, but use the traditional approach for all the other families. E.g. Common Muntjac is not split, even though there is pretty good recent evidence and this is accepted by IUCN, but Takin are..

Mammals of South Asia – Lynx Edicions
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This book is out now, as readers of Mammalwatching are probably aware.

I had a look at Lynx's "Coming Soon" page, hoping to see a "Mammals of Indonesia", but the only one on there is "Mammals of China".
 
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