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HomePosts tagged "taxonomy"
3 December 2020
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new speciestaxonomy

Taxonomy news

1. A new genus of rodents with three species described from Choco region. Must be rare: I’ve done a lot of trapping in Mindo where one of these occurs but never got it. 2. Ma

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19 August 2020
North American
Crawford's Gray ShrewDesert Shrewtaxonomy

Split of Desert Shrew at the Colorado River

Here’s a split that makes sense. If you familiar with the split of wood rats into “West of the Colorado River” and “East of the Colorado River” units

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19 August 2020
Central and South America
Pampas CatSouth Americataxonomy

Pampas Cat Split (5 Species?)

In a March 2020 article in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, the authors provide a wide suite of evidence for splitting the pampas cat complex five ways. Whether you a

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12 August 2020
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mammal listtaxonomy

Updated Mammalwatching Checklist @ August 2020

The latest version of my global mammal checklist is available here and also on Scythebill too. This update differs a little from previous ones. I focussed on improving the common

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4 August 2020
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taxonomy

New species described

A couple new species descriptions: 1. A new Sorex shrew described from Honduras. The description is based on principal component analysis of just two available specimens; my unders

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2 July 2020
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squirrelstaxonomyTursiops

Taxonomy news

A couple taxonomy papers: 1. A proposed overhaul of squirrel taxonomy, breaking Sciurus squirrels of the New World into a large number of genera and leaving only three Old World sp

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17 May 2020
Africa
Ethiopiataxonomy

Rodent and Hare references for Ethiopia

This 2019 reference covers rodents in Ethiopia; with range maps: Bryja J, Meheretu Y, Sumbera R, Lavrenchenko LA (2019 Sep). Annotated checklist, taxonomy and distribution of roden

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20 April 2020
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African wolfEthiopiaMexicoPeromyscustaxonomy

Taxonomy news

A couple taxonomy news: 1. Peromyscus mice are usually very easy to ID even in areas with many species present, so I’m sure nobody will be confused by yet another species bei

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23 January 2020
Oriental
taxonomy

How many gorals?

A new (from last April) paper that I almost missed, with a review of goral & serow taxonomy: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mam.12154

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3 June 2019
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cetaceanstaxonomy

pilot whale split

Japanese zoologists have always known that there are two non-interbreeding species of short-finned pilot whales in Japan. Now there is molecular support for the split (the authors

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