Terrestrial Fauna of the Azores: A Field Guide

Virgílio Vieira, Paulo A. V. Borges e António M. de Frias Martins

Letras Lavadas, 2021, English

272 pages, 20 × 13 cm, paperback

ISBN 9789897353611

What the publisher says: 

The field guide Terrestrial Fauna of the Azores, a tool developed by António M. Frias Martins (molluscs), Paulo A. V. Borges (arthropods) and Virgílio Vieira (amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals), professors and researchers at the University of the Azores, has the purpose of helping teachers and incite the curiosity of students and the general public, providing information about these animals in the classroom and helping to distinguish between similar-looking individuals, but not necessarily related, during their fieldwork activities. In the “Introduction” to the field guide proper, the authors included considerations on the geography and geology, climate, population, flora and terrestrial fauna of the Azores, and also about species conservation, followed by instructions for using the guide and 200 sheets (250 animals). The publication concludes with a bibliographic list, and indexes of scientific and common names. The sets of sheets start with an introductory text and are organized sequentially according to the evolutionary succession of each phylum (i.e., Mollusca, Arthropoda and Chordata). Each species sheet, illustrated with photographs, contains information on the taxonomy, common name, morphology, habitat, way of life, distribution and also some of the peculiarities of the species. The higher education and knowledge acquired by the authors in field work should be taken as a guarantee of the meritorious quality of this field guide and support for it to be recommended.