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dc.contributor.authorTimm, Robert M.
dc.contributor.authorGenoways, Hugh H.
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-17T16:42:47Z
dc.date.available2017-11-17T16:42:47Z
dc.date.issued2003-06-16
dc.identifier.citationTimm, R. M., & Genoways, H. H. (2003). West Indian mammals from the Albert Schwartz Collection : biological and historical information / by Robert M. Timm and Hugh H. Genoways. Scientific Papers, (29), 1-47. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.8485en_US
dc.identifier.issn1094-0782
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/25407
dc.description.abstractIn the period 1954-1976, Albert Schwartz and several students working with him made extensive collections of mammals (ea. 2,000 specimens), reptiles and amphibians, birds, and butterflies in the West Indies. Schwartz's private collection of mammals from the West Indies is among the most comprehensive and important mammal collections from the region, yet much of it has never been reported in the scientific literature. Schwartz's original intent was to fully document all of the terrestrial mammals of the West Indies. In 1989, Schwartz transferred his mammals collection of some 6,500 from the West Indies. It is our purpose herein to present a catalogue of the West Indian mammals assembled by Albert Schwartz, to offer critical comments on the taxonomic status of several species, as well as to report new biological information based on his specimens and field observations.

The Albert Schwartz Collection represents a unique sample of West Indian mammals that includes new island records and significant series of poorly known species that contribute to systematic and zoogeographic studies of the region. Detailed measurements and ecological information are presented in accounts of the following species: one species of marsupial, one species of noctilionid bat, five species of mormoopids, 18 species of phyllostomids, three species of natalids, three species of vespertilionids, five species of molessids, three speiceies of capromyid rodents, two species of daysproctid rodents, and one herpestid carnivore. Discussions are focused primarily on the Antillean populations of these taxa and when sufficient material is available taxonomic recommendations are presented.
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dc.publisherNatural History Museum, University of Kansasen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesScientific Papers;29
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dc.subjectWest Indiesen_US
dc.subjectMammaliaen_US
dc.subjectChiropteraen_US
dc.subjectCarnivoraen_US
dc.subjectDidelphimorphiaen_US
dc.subjectRodentiaen_US
dc.subjectSystematicsen_US
dc.subjectTaxonomyen_US
dc.subjectBiogeographyen_US
dc.titleWest Indian Mammals from the Albert Schwartz Collection: Biological and Historical Informationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kuauthorTimm, Robert M.
kusw.kudepartmentEcology and Evolutionary Biologyen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.5962/bhl.title.8485en_US
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher versionen_US
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