Chordata

A classic college text that explains how vertebrates are built through their embryology, then walks you through their classification, living and fossil groups alike, from lampreys and fishes to birds and mammals.

J. S. Kingsley

Written by one of the founders of ichthyology, this volume covers how fishes are built, how they live and spread across the world's waters, and how lancelets, lampreys and sharks are classified.

David Starr Jordan

Meet the turtles, crocodilians, lizards and snakes of both hemispheres, order by order, with nearly 200 photographs taken by the curator of reptiles at the Bronx Zoo.

Raymond L. Ditmars

Tour the mammal world order by order, from bats, shrews and carnivores to hoofed animals, whales, elephants and sloths, in a natural history reviewed by museum curators. Includes 15 color plates.

Ernest Ingersoll