I knew this, and I tried, but I was in the iron grip of long habituation to the dictates of fearsome editors and subeditors. Species Lemniscomys mittendorfi Mittendorf's striped grass mouse. As of 2005, the Murinae contain 129 genera in 584 species. List of Species. I suspect that the matter had long been put right, but she thanked me anyway.Under the tutelage first of Amy, and subsequently of Ana, I was introduced to the rigours of the HMW house style -sorry, rigors; HMW uses American English. It isn’t always easy to interpret postures frozen in the moment. Data Shrew Rat Conservation status When the captions came back from author review, every line I’d taken from her work had been red-penned, with comments such as “this is an old wives’ tale”. Bellier's striped grass mouse [Lemniscomys bellieri] Bellier-Streifengrasmaus {f} zool. For example, according to the chapter on the Miniopteridae (Long-fingered Bats) in HMW9, Shortridge’s Long-fingered Bat is smaller than both the Little Long-fingered Bat and the Small Long-fingered Bat.There’s also a Large Long-fingered Bat, a Great Long-fingered Bat, a Greater Long fingered Bat which is smaller than the Great Long-fingered Bat, a Lesser Long-fingered Bat, a Least Long-fingered Bat which is bigger than the Little and Small Long-fingered Bat, and an Intermediate Long-Fingered Bat. Species Lemniscomys roseveari Rosevear's striped grass mouse. 2020. Putting this right took some exceptionally fast picture researching from José Luis, and new captions from me, written under the additional pressure of knowing that they would go straight to page, as a journalist would say, with no further editorial intervention.Taxonomists do a great job of finding cryptic species and splitting them from what were previously regarded as single widespread species. Here you will find the best work of the best known wildlife photographers, and also pictures of rare and range-restricted species from hard-to-reach places by local photographers, whose work may be appearing in an international publication for the first time.However reputable the photographer, or specialized the photo-library, the species depicted are not always accurately identified. With around 711 species, this is the largest family of rodents and mammals. Rodents now account for 40% of all known mammal species, and two volumes of HMW were needed to cover them.Similar expansions are happening in other families. Many book-length monographs are shorter than this.Then there are the pictures, hundreds of photos per volume painstaking collated by picture editor José Luis Copete, and each personally approved by Josep. The University of Wageningen developed the scientific method used to build the positive list, in which animal behavioural needs are a key feature. In other publications, it’s called the Bastard Big-footed Mouse, as if it bit someone while they were naming it.There’s a modern tendency to avoid common names commemorating the intrepid naturalists who discovered species that were probably perfectly well known to the locals. The St Kilda house mouse is an extinct subspecies of the house mouse found only on the islands of the St Kilda archipelago of northwest Scotland. The rare and little-known taxon recently split from the Common Sword-nosed Bat is called the Uncommon Sword-nosed Bat. (It helps to get the anatomy right. By keeping my head down, and my uninformed opinions mostly to myself, I learned a lot.I had already written a profile of Josep for BirdLife’s then magazine, To counteract my lack of obvious qualifications for the work, I had two strengths to offer from my journalistic background. It is closely related to the yellow-necked mouse (Apodemus flavicollis) but differs in that it has no band of yellow fur around the neck, has slightly smaller ears, and is usually slightly smaller overall: around 90 mm (3.54 in) in length and 23 g in weight.