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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
Uncategorised
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
Uncategorised
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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5 March 2019
Australasia
dingotaxonomy

Australian dingo is a valid and distinct taxon

A new paper just published in Zootaxa suggested that the Australian dingo should be treated as a distinct species: Canis dingo. This came after another paper published in the same

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17 July 2018
Uncategorised
booksfield guideslistingtaxonomy

A Review (a long review) of the latest version of Walker’s Mammals of the World

The first edition of Walker’s Mammals of the World came out in 1964, and the most recent version, which is sorta kinda the 7th edition, was released this week. In between, I have

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19 November 2016
Uncategorised
batspikastaxonomy

New species

Two new papers of interest: (1) splitting trident-nosed bat into 3 spp., one of them completely new; (2) claiming multiple new spp. among Chinese pikas. I find the first one prett

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