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Kansas African Studies Center: Recent submissions
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Phylogeny of plecotine bats (Chiroptera: “Vespertilionidae”): summary of the evidence and proposal of a logically consistent taxonomy
(American Museum of Natural History, 1992-02)Using standard phylogenetic techniques, 25 transformation series of morphological characters and 11 of karyological characters are evaluated in an attempt to recover the phylogenetic history of plecotine vespertilionid ... -
Annotated checklist of the mammals of Cuzco Amazónico, Peru
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Historical distribution of the extinct tropical seal, Monachus tropicalis (Carnivora: Phocidae)
(Conservation Biology, 1997-04) -
Genus Caenolestes O. Thomas, 1895
(University of Chicago Press, 2008-03) -
Characters and phylogenetic relationships of nectar-feeding bats, with descriptions of new Lonchophylla from western South America (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Lonchophyllini)
(Biological Society of Washington, 2006-12)The Neotropical Lonchophyllini (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) currently comprise four genera and thirteen species of nectar-feeding bats. These species often are separated into larger-bodied (eight species) and smaller-bodied ... -
Rediscovery of Enders’s small-eared shrew, Cryptotis endersi (Insectivora: Soricidae), with a redescription of the species
(Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde, 2002-12) -
In memoriam, James Stephen “Steve” Ashe (1947–2005)
(The Coleopterists Society, 2006-02) -
In memoriam: James S. “Steve” Ashe, 1947–2005
(Kansas (Great Plains) Entomological Society, 2006-04) -
A new species of spiny pocket mouse (Rodentia: Heteromyidae: Heteromys) from northwestern Costa Rica
(American Museum of Natural History, 2006-03)Recent taxonomic works have recognized only two species of spiny pocket mice of the genus Heteromys (Rodentia: Heteromyidae) from Costa Rica. Within Costa Rica, the widespread H. desmarestianus is considered to occur ... -
The Florida bonneted bat, Eumops floridanus (Chiroptera: Molossidae): Distribution, morphometrics, systematics, and ecology
(Journal of Mammalogy, 2004-10)A review and reappraisal of bats of the genus Eumops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) reveals that considerable geographic variation is present in the bonneted bat, E. glaucinus; it is a complex consisting of >1 species. Bonneted ... -
Bats of the West Indian island of Dominica: Natural history, areography, and trophic structure
(The Museum of Texas Tech University, 2001-02)Because the islands in the Caribbean long have interested students of mammals and zoogeography, considerable information has been published concerning the biology of the Antillean mammalian fauna in the past three decades ... -
The xenarthrans of Nicaragua
(Mastozoología Neotropical, 2003-03)The mammalian fauna of Nicaragua includes seven species in the order Xenarthra, including the brown-throated three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus) in the family Bradypodidae, Hoffmann's two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni) ... -
Speciation within bonneted bats (genus Eumops): The complexity of morphological, mitochondrial, and nuclear datasets in systematics
(Journal of Mammalogy, 2008-10)We phylogenetically analyze cytochrome-b gene sequences and Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms (AFLPs) from populations of the karyotypically variable Wagner’s bonneted bat, Eumops glaucinus, and the Florida bonneted ... -
Orb-weaving spider, Argiope savignyi (Araneidae), predation on the proboscis bat Rhynchonycteris naso (Emballonuridae)
(Caribbean Journal of Science, 2007-12)We report an observation of an orb-weaving spider (Argiope savignyi; Araneidae) capturing and feeding on a proboscis bat (Rhynchonycteris naso; Emballonuridae) at the La Selva Biological Station in the Caribbean lowlands ... -
Redescription of the enigmatic long-tailed rat Sigmodontomys aphrastus (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) with comments on taxonomy and natural history
(Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 2007-08)Sigmodontomys aphrastus, the long-tailed rat, is an exceedingly rare rodent species from montane regions of Central and South America of which very little is known ecologically or systematically. It has been variously ... -
The bat fauna of Costa Rica’s Reserva Natural Absoluta Cabo Blanco and its implications for bat conservation.
(University of California Publications in Zoology, 2007-06)Reserva Natural Absoluta Cabo Blanco, located at the southern tip of northwestern Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, was established in 1963 and is the country’s oldest nationally protected reserve. Because the climate of the ... -
The wild mammals of Wisconsin, book review
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Geographic variation in size and coloration in the Turdus poliocephalus complex: A first review of species limits
(Natural History Museum, The University of Kansas, 2007-09-12)Among the most dramatically variable of bird species under the traditional polytypic ‘biological' species concept is Turdus poliocephalus Latham 1801, which is distributed across parts of Southeast Asia and Oceania. This ... -
Empathizing with France and Pakistan on Agricultural Subsidy Issues in the Doha Round
(Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 2007) -
Austin's Ghost and DSU Reform
(The International Lawyer, 2003)