This volume of the series Handbook of Zoology deals with the anatomy of the gastrointestinal
digestive tract - stomach small intestine caecum and colon - in all eutherian orders and
suborders. It presents compilations of anatomical studies as well as an extensive list of
references which makes widely dispersed literature accessible. Introductory sections to orders
and suborders give notice to biology taxonomy biogeography and food of the respective taxon.
It is a characteristic of this book that different sections of the post-oesophageal tract are
discussed separately from each other. Informations on form and function of organs of digestion
in eutherians are discussed under comparative-anatomical aspects. The variability and diversity
of anatomical structures represents the basis of functional differentiations.
