Assorted news
A few recent papers some people might find interesting:
1-2. A new water vole split in Western Iran. Also, the proper name for red-backed voles is again Clethrionomys rather than Myodes. Both papers are open-access in the latest volume of Mammalia.
3. Range limits of eastern and western red bats in North America: new paper in Western North American Naturalist.
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Vladimir Dinets
Illustrated guide to bats of Taiwan: https://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/5485/6773
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Vladimir Dinets
Multi-way split of Niviventer fulvescens: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa040/5836740?fbclid=IwAR1Ee_fRcQ2Udj8xqZsonSLJoRoSGdrjWVsTSy0s8mjcaK9CfqFnCkAfTSk#.XsAdnuHTCZR.facebook
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Vladimir Dinets
Also, Chaco mara should be in its own genus and called Pediolagus salinicola: https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jmammal/gyaa038/5836015
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Vladimir Dinets
More on African wolf mystery: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz214
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Vladimir Dinets
Desert shrews E and W of Colorado River are likely different species, the western one is being described as N. tataticuli: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyaa045.
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Theo Linders
The Pampas Cat split does seem to take a PSC “light” approach and I find the results interesting, they find a relatively recent split data between the taxa, but quite high genetic divergence. The data used is somewhat limited, but a more extensive study might well confirm the split.
In other new Lynx Edicions seems to continue the use of their bogus mammal taxonomy in the new field guides when it comes to Ungulates. The Mammals of South Asia book shows they use the traditional taxonomy for most ungulates (e.g. Common Muntjac not split), but for Bovids accept all G&G splits (split Takin).
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Vladimir Dinets
Rattus baluensis is a subspecies of R. tiomanicus: https://academic.oup.com/jhered/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jhered/esaa014/5850526
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VLADIMIR DINETS
Micronycteris bats of coastal Ecuador and of Central America described as new species: sci-hub.tw/10.1111/jzs.12388
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Vladimir Dinets
Crocidura kurodae (a common shrew of Taiwan mountains) is not a subspecies of C. rapax, and other Crocidura news: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-020-1588-8