Louise H. Emmons
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Louise H. Emmons | |
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| Born | 23 August 1943 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Known for | The 307-page opus Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide [1][2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoologist |
| Institutions | National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution |
Louise H. Emmons is an American zoologist who studies tropical rainforest mammals, especially rodents. She has conducted fieldwork in Gabon, Sabah (Borneo), Peru, and Bolivia. Her best known work is the field guide, Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide, first published in 1990, with a second edition in 1997.[1][2]
Louise Hickok Emmons earned her PhD from Cornell University in 1975 and wrote a thesis entitled, "Ecology and Behavior of African Rainforest Squirrels."[3] She received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965.
Description of new taxa
Louise H. Emmons described several new taxa of mammals:
- three genera of spiny rats, Callistomys, in 1998,[4] and Pattonomys and Santamartamys, in 2005.[5]
- one genus and one species of abrocomid, Cuscomys ashaninka, in 1999.[6]
- one species of spiny rat, Phyllomys pattoni, in 2002.[7]
- two species of oryzomyine rodents, Oryzomys acritus, in 2005,[8] and Oecomys sydandersoni, in 2009.[9]
- one species of rat, Pithecheirops otion, in 1993.[10]
- one species of didelphid marsupial, Monodelphis gardneri, in 2012.[11]
She also introduced the new taxon name Olallamys for a genus of spiny rats.[12]
Taxonomic patronym
In honor of Louise H. Emmons, one taxonomic patronym was given for a rodent with the species name emmonsae:
