Catalog of Type Specimens of Recent Mammals: Orders Didelphimorphia through Chiroptera (excluding Rodentia) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

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Catalog of Type Specimens of Recent Mammals: Orders Didelphimorphia through Chiroptera (excluding Rodentia) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, number 644, viii + 110 pages, 2015.-The type collection of Recent Mammals in the Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, contains 821 specimens bearing names of 810 species-group taxa of Didelphimorphia through Chiroptera, excluding Rodentia, as of June 2014. This catalog presents an annotated list of these holdings comprising 789 holotypes, 26 lectotypes, 11 syntypes (22 specimens), and 4 neotypes. Included are several specimens that should be in the collection but cannot be found or are now known to be in other collections. One hundred and twenty-eight of the names are new since the last type catalog covering these orders, Arthur J.

Catalogue of primary types of Neotropical Myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae)

“…The accounts were arranged chronologically, following the date of taxa description. The format of accounts was inspired by Fisher and Ludwig (2015) , but with modifications. Each account reads as follows: (i) Current name (for recognized species) or original published name (for names in synonymy) followed by the author’s or authors’ names; (ii) Original citation, including publication, volume, pages, and year of publication; (iii) Taxonomy, species original published name if different from the currently name, followed by information on subspecies, if any; (iv) Type designation as holotype, lectotype, paralectotype, neotype, or syntype, including collection number, age and sex, date collected and collector(s) name(s), and preparation of specimen; (v) Type locality: Verbatim locality as given in the original description or neotype designation, published restrictions, and supplementary data.…”

Catalog of Type Specimens of Recent Mammals: Orders Carnivora, Perissodactyla, Artiodactyla, and Cetacea in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

“…It follows the recently published Fisher and Ludwig (2012;843 specimens reported for the order Rodentia, suborders Sciuromorpha and Castorimorpha), Fisher and Ludwig (2014;971 specimens reported for the order Rodentia, suborders Myomorpha, Anomaluromorpha, and Hystricomorpha), and Fisher and Ludwig (2015; 841 specimens reported for the orders Didelphimorphia through Chiroptera, excluding Rodentia). Together, these four publications represent the third complete type catalog of USNM mammals published to date, following Lyon and Osgood (1909;1,415 specimens reported) and Poole and Schantz (1942;2,824 specimens reported).…”

“…Number 646, the last in a series of four sections comprising the USNM type catalog (Fisher and Ludwig, 2012, completes an updated and expanded account of the name-bearing mammal types deposited in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Together these four accounts record all 3,198 extant name-bearing modern mammal specimens in the museum, a remarkable record of names and of scientific hypotheses representing nearly two centuries of exciting discoveries and scholarly investigations that have taken place at the Smithsonian Institution.…”

“…Together, these four publications represent the third complete type catalog of USNM mammals published to date, following Lyon and Osgood (1909;1,415 specimens reported) and Poole and Schantz (1942;2,824 specimens reported). We continue to deviate from both Lyon and Osgood (1909) and Poole and Schantz (1942) and follow the precedent set by the NMNH Division of Fishes (Vari and Howe, 1991) and Division of Amphibians and Reptiles (Reynolds et al, 2007), as continued by Fisher and Ludwig (2012, in which the type collection is divided into smaller, more manageable taxonomic reports, rather than addressed in a single monograph.…”

American Recent Eulipotyphla: Nesophontids, Solenodons, Moles, and Shrews in the New World

“…Additions may be included in brackets within quotes, but I generally attempted to avoid this except when filling out abbreviations in the original. The distribution of type localities is provided in Appendix D. Additional useful information on type specimens of eulipotyphlans can be found in Sanborn (1947), Jones and Genoways (1969), Youngman (1973), Koopman (1976), Baranova et al (1981), Hafner (1993), Lawrence (1993), Helgen and McFadden (2001), Turni et al (2007), Fisher and Ludwig (2015), and similar published catalogs.…”