Here’s a split that makes sense. If you familiar with the split of wood rats into “West of the...
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Pampas Cat Split (5 Species?)
Charles Hood, , Central and South America, Pampas Cat, South America, taxonomy, 8In a March 2020 article in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, the authors provide a wide suite...
Updated Mammalwatching Checklist @ August 2020
Jon Hall, , General Mammal Watching, mammal list, taxonomy, 8The latest version of my global mammal checklist is available here and also on Scythebill too. This update differs a...
A couple new species descriptions: 1. A new Sorex shrew described from Honduras. The description is based on principal...
A couple taxonomy papers: 1. A proposed overhaul of squirrel taxonomy, breaking Sciurus squirrels of the New World into...
This 2019 reference covers rodents in Ethiopia; with range maps: Bryja J, Meheretu Y, Sumbera R, Lavrenchenko LA (2019...
Taxonomy news
Vladimir Dinets, , General Mammal Watching, African wolf, Ethiopia, Mexico, Peromyscus, taxonomy, 8A couple taxonomy news: 1. Peromyscus mice are usually very easy to ID even in areas with many species...
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
Japanese zoologists have always known that there are two non-interbreeding species of short-finned pilot whales in Japan. Now there...
A new paper just published in Zootaxa suggested that the Australian dingo should be treated as a distinct species:...
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