Michael D. Carleton

Curator of Mammals

National Museum of Natural History

Smithsonian Institution

Washington, D.C. 20560-0108

Current Research Projects

Taxonomic and phylogenetic studies of neotropical (Oryzomyinae), afrotropical (Murinae), and Malagasy (Nesomyinae) rodents.

Recent Publications

Musser, G. G., M. D. Carleton, E. M. Brothers, and A. L. Gardner. 1998. Systematic studies of oryzomyine rodents (Muridae: Sigmodontinae): diagnoses and distributions of species formerly assigned to Oryzomys "capito." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 236: 376 pp.

Carleton, M. D., and S. M. Goodman. 1998. New taxa of nesomyine rodents (Muroidea: Muridae) from Madagascar's northern highlands, with taxonomic comments on previously described forms. Fieldiana: Zoology, New Series, 90: 163-200.

Carleton, M. D., and S. L. Olson. 1999. Amerigo Vespucci and the rat of Fernando de Noronha: a new genus and species of Rodentia (Muridae: Sigmodontinae) from a volcanic island off Brazil's continental shelf. American Museum Novitates, 3256: 59 pp.

Goodman, S. M., M. D. Carleton, and M. Pidgeon. 1999. The rodents of the Réserve Naturelle Integrale d'Andohahela, Madagascar. Fieldiana: Zoology, New Series, 94: 217-249.

Carleton, M. D., R. D. Fisher, and A. L. Gardner. 1999. Identification and distribution of cotton rats, genus Sigmodon (Muridae: Sigmodontinae), of Nayarit, México. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 112: 813-856.

Carleton, M. D., and S. M. Goodman. 2000. The rodents of the Parc National de Marojejy, Madagascar. Fieldiana: Zoology, New Series, 97: 231-263.

Carleton, M. D., S. M. Goodman, and D. Rakotondravony. 2001. A new species of tufted-tailed rat, genus Eliurus (Muridae: Nesomyinae), from western Madagascar, with notes on the distribution of E. myoxinus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 114: 972-987.

Carleton, M. D., O. Sánchez, and G. Urbano Vidales. 2002. A new species of Habromys (Muridae: Neotominae) from México, with generic review of species definitions and remarks on diversity patterns among Mesoamerican small mammals restricted to humid montane forests. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 115: 488-533.

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