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Alfred Gardner, Ph.D.

Dr. Gardner's research includes taxonomy, morphology, genetics, distribution, food habits, life history, and nomenclature of mammals of the Western Hemisphere.

Research is based on a synthesis of original field work and results from the study of specimens in museum collections combined with published information, particularly the earlier literature of the late 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. 

EDUCATION

University of Arizona, Tucson, Wildlife Management (major), B.S., 1962

University of Arizona, Tucson, Zoology (major), Vertebrate Paleontology (minor), M.S., 1965

Fellow in Tropical Medicine, Louisiana State University--International Center for Medical Research and Training, San José, Costa Rica, 1966-1967.

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Vertebrate Zoology (major), Paleontology (minor) Ph.D., 1970

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, Texas, 1970-1971.

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Taxonomic reassessment of bats from Castelnau’s expedition to South America (1843–1847): Phyllostoma angusticeps Gervais, 1856 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae)

Gervais, in 1856, described the bats collected during Castelnau’s expedition through South America (1843–1847). We report that Phyllostoma angusticeps (Gervais, 1856), long treated as a junior synonym of Phyllostomus discolor(Wagner, 1843), is not a representative of the genus Phyllostomus. In fact, as we demonstrate, it represents the taxon known as Trachops cirrhosus. We also provide a summary,
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Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, Alfred Gardner, Bernard Sigé, Francois Catzeflis, Timothy J. McCarthy
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

A new species of Myotis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Suriname

We describe a new species of bat in the genus Myotis (Vespertilionidae: Myotinae) from the district of Sipaliwini, Suriname. The new species (Myotis clydejonesi sp. nov.), known from a single specimen, is sister to a clade of M. nigricans (Schinz) from southern South America, but differs from all Neotropical species of Myotis in qualitative and quantitative morphological characters and in its cyto
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Ricardo Moratelli, Don E. Wilson, Alfred Gardner, Robert D. Fisher, Eliécer E. Gutiérrez
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

United States Biological Survey: A compendium of its history, personalities, impacts, and conflicts

In 1885, a small three-person unit was created in the U.S. Department of Agriculture to gather and analyze information on bird migrations. Originally called the Section of Economic Ornithology, over the next 55 years this unit underwent three name changes and accumulated ever-increasing responsibilities for the nation’s faunal resources. Transferred to the Department of the Interior in 1939, this
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Comment on Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, ELAPIDAE): request for confirmation of availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural validation of the journal in which it was published (Case 3601; BZN 70:234–237; 71:30–38; 13

In Case 3601 Raymond Hoser has asked the Commission to validate for the purposes of nomenclature the name Spracklandus Hoser, 2009, and ‘the journal in which it was published,’ issue 7 of the Australasian Journal of Herpetology (AJH). We note that the entire run of AJH has been written, edited, and published solely by Hoser. Although his requests to the Commission were presented as narrow and, in
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Anders G.J. Rhodin, Hinrich Kaiser, Peter Paul van Dijk, Wolfgang Wüster, Mark O’Shea, Michael Archer, Mark Auliya, Luigi Boitani, Roger Bour, Viola Clausnitzer, Topiltzin Contreras-MacBeath, Brian I. Crother, Juan M. Daza, Carlos A. Driscoll, Oscar Flores-Villela, Jack Frazier, Uwe Fritz, Alfred L. Gardner, Claude Gascon, Arthur Georges, Frank Glaw, Felipe G. Grazziotin, Colin P. Groves, Gerhard Haszprunar, Peter Havaš, Jean-Marc Hero, Michael Hoffmann, Marinus S. Hoogmoed, Brian D. Horne, John B. Iverson, Manfred Jäch, Christopher L. Jenkins, Richard K.B. Jenkins, A. Ross Kiester, J. Scott Keogh, Thomas E. Lacher, Jeffrey E. Lovich, Luca Luiselli, D. Luke Mahler, David P. Mallon, Roderic Mast, Roy W. McDiarmid, John Measey, Russell A. Mittermeier, Sanjay Molur, Volker Mosbrugger, Robert W. Murphy, Darren Naish, Manfred Niekisch, Hidetoshi Ota, James F. Parham, Michael J. Parr, Nicolas J. Pilcher, Ronald H. Pine, Anthony B. Rylands, James G. Sanderson, Jay M. Savage, Wulf Schleip, Gustavo J. Scrocchi, H. Bradley Shaffer, Eric N. Smith, Robert Sprackland, Simon N. Stuart, Holger Vetter, Laurie J. Vitt, Tomás Waller, Grahame Webb, Edward O. Wilson, Hussam Zaher, Scott Thomson
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Southwest Biological Science Center

Systematics of Vampyressa melissa Thomas, 1926 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae), with descriptions of two new species of Vampyressa

Vampyressa melissa is a poorly known phyllostomid bat listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Since its description in 1926, fewer than 40 V. melissa have been reported in the literature, and less than half of these may have been correctly identified. During revisionary studies of Vampyressa, we uncovered two previously unrecognized species related to V.
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Valéria da C. Tavares, Alfred L. Gardner, Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves, Paúl M. Velazco
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

List of recent land mammals from Mexico, 2014

We provide an updated list of the Recent land mammals of Mexico and include information on the taxonomy of certain species, and where appropriate, the endemic and threatened status of all species listed. Several taxonomic and nomenclatural changes have been made since publication of the last list of the Mexican terrestrial mammalian fauna. Within the period from 2005 to present, there have been at
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Jose Ramirez-Pulido, Noe Gonzalez-Ruiz, Alfred L. Gardner, Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

The valid generic name for red-backed voles (Muroidea: Cricetidae: Arvicolinae): Restatement of the case for Myodes Pallas, 1811

In view of contradictions in the recent literature, the valid genus-group name to be applied to northern red-backed voles— Myodes Pallas, 1811, or Clethrionomys Tilesius, 1850—is reviewed. To develop the thesis that Myodes (type species, Mus rutilus Pallas, 1779) is the correct name, our discussion explores the 19th-century taxonomic works that bear on the relevant taxa, the transition in zoologic
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Michael D. Carleton, Alfred L. Gardner, Igor Ya. Pavlinov, Guy G. Musser
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

A new species of Lophostoma d'Orbigny, 1836 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Panama

We report the discovery of a new species of Lophostoma from Panama, which we name L. kalkoae. This new species resembles L. carrikeri and L. yasuni in possessing a white venter, but is distinguishable from both by external and cranial characteristics. The new species is similar in size to L. carrikeri and L. schulzi. Lophostoma sp. nov. can be most easily recognized by its combination of white ven
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Paúl M. Velazco, Alfred L. Gardner
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

Systematics of the Platyrrhinus helleri species complex (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), with descriptions of two new species

Platyrrhinus is a diverse genus of small to large phyllostomid bats characterized by a comparatively narrow uropatagium thickly fringed with hair, a white dorsal stripe, comparatively large inner upper incisors that are convergent at the tips, and three upper and three lower molars. Eighteen species are currently recognized, the majority occurring in the Andes. Molecular, morphological, and morpho
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Paúl M. Velazco, Alfred L. Gardner, Bruce D. Patterson
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

A new species of Platyrrhinus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from western Colombia and Ecuador, with emended diagnoses of P. aquilus, P. dorsalis, and P. umbratus

The Neotropical bat genus Platyrrhinus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Stenodermatinae) currently comprises 15 species. Our morphological and morphometric analysis of large and medium-sized Platyrrhinus revealed a distinctive Undescribed species from western South America. We also recognize P. aquilus (Handley & Ferris 1972) and P. umbratus (Lyon 1902) as valid species. We describe P. nitelinea sp. n
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Paúl M. Velazco, Alfred L. Gardner
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

A new species of Reithrodontomys, subgenus Aporodon (Cricetidae: Neotominae), from the highlands of Costa Rica, with comments on Costa Rican and Panamanian Reithrodontomys

A new species of the rodent genus Reithrodontomys (Cricetidae: Neotominae) is described from Cerro Asuncion in the western Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica. The long tail, elongate rostrum, bulbous braincase, and complex molars of the new species associate it with members of the subgenus Aporodon, tenuirostris species group. In its diminutive size and aspects of cranial shape, the new species (
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Alfred L. Gardner, Michael D. Carleton
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center

The type specimen of Anoura geoffroyi lasiopyga (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)

In 1868, Wilhelm Peters described Glossonycteris lasiopyga, based on a specimen provided by Henri de Saussure and collected in Mexico. The type specimen was presumed to be among those housed in the collections of the Zoologisches Museum of the Humboldt Universitat in Berlin, Germany. Our study of one of Saussure?s specimens from Mexico, discovered in the collections of the Museum d?Histoire Natu
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Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales, A.L. Gardner
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Eastern Ecological Science Center
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Mammals of South America Vol 1 & 2

The Mammals of South America

The Challenge: Accurate comprehensive information on current names of species and subspecies, their distributions, and means for their identification are required for effective conservation, management, scientific study, and enforcement of laws governing take, protection, and commerce. For the South American continent, up-to-date references containing this information have not been available until...
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Eastern Ecological Science Center
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The Mammals of South America

The Challenge: Accurate comprehensive information on current names of species and subspecies, their distributions, and means for their identification are required for effective conservation, management, scientific study, and enforcement of laws governing take, protection, and commerce. For the South American continent, up-to-date references containing this information have not been available until...
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