Neal WoodmanUSGS
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
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Telephone: 202-633-1278 Fax: 202-357-1932 Email: nwoodman@usgs.gov Research Zoologist and Curator of Mammals |
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Systematics, taxonomy, biogeography, and community dynamics of shrews (Soricidae) Inventory of tropical mammal faunas Ecological and biogeographical significance of Quaternary mammalian assemblages Evolutionary significance of size variation Curation, care, and management of systematic mammal collections | |
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PDFs of many of these articles are available at http://vertebrates.si.edu/mammals/mammals_staff_pages/woodman_neal.cfm Feinstein, S., and N. Woodman. 2012. Shrews, Rats, and a Polecat in the Pardoner’s Tale. Pp. 49–66 in, C. Van Dyke, ed., Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Woodman, N. 2012. This shrew is a jumping mouse (Mammalia, Dipodidae): Sorex dichrurus Rafinesque 1833 is a synonym of Zapus hudsonius (Zimmermann 1780). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 125(3):308-316. abstract Woodman, N., J. O. Matson, T. J. McCarthy, R. P. Eckerlin, W. Bulmer, and N. Ordóñez-Garza. 2012. Distributional records of shrews (Mammalia, Soricomorpha) from northern Central America, with the first record of Sorex from Honduras. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 80(3):207–237. abstract Woodman, N. 2012. Taxonomic status and relationships of Sorex obscurus parvidens Jackson, 1921, from California. Journal of Mammalogy 93:826–838. abstract Woodman, N. 2011. Nomenclatural notes and identification of small-eared shrews (Mammalia: genus Cryptotis) from Cobán, Guatemala, in the Natural History Museum, London. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 124:249–258. abstract Woodman, N. 2011. Patterns of morphological variation among semi-fossorial shrews in the highlands of Guatemala, with the description of a new species (Mammalia, Soricomorpha, Soricidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163:1267–1288. abstract Woodman, N. 2010. Two new shrews (Soricidae) from the western highlands of Guatemala. Journal of Mammalogy 91(3): 566-579. abstract Woodman, N. 2010. History and dating of the publication of the Philadelphia (1822) and London (1823) editions of Edwin James’s Account of an Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. Archives of Natural History, 37(1):28-38. abstract Woodman, N., and R. Stephens. 2010. At the foot of the shrew: manus morphology distinguishes closely-related Cryptotis goodwini and Cryptotis griseoventris (Mammalia, Soricidae) in Central America. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 99(1):118-134. abstract Woodman, N., and N. B. Athfield. 2009. Post-Clovis Survival of American Mastodon (Mammut americanum) in the southern Great Lakes Region of North America. Quaternary Research 72(3):359-363. abstract Woodman, N. 2009. The Stephen H. Long Expedition (1819–1820), Titian R. Peale’s field illustrations, and the lost holotypes of the North American shrews Sorex brevicaudus Say and Sorex parvus Say (Mammalia: Soricidae) from the Philadelphia Museum. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 122(1):117-129. abstract Woodman, N., and J. E. Pefaur. 2008. Order Soricomorpha Gregory, 1910. Pages 177-187 in A. L. Gardner, ed. Mammals of South America. Volume I: Marsupials, Xenarthrans, Shrews, and Bats. University of Chicago Press, Chicago [The volume incorrectly gives 2007 as year of publication]. Woodman, N., and J. W. Branstrator. 2008. The Overmyer Mastodon (Mammut americanum) from Fulton County, Indiana. American Midland Naturalist 159:125-146. abstract Woodman, N. 2007. A new species of nectar-feeding bat, genus Lonchophylla, from western Colombia and western Ecuador (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 120:340-358. abstract Woodman, N., and R. M. Timm. 2006. Characters and phylogenetic relationships of nectar-feeding bats, with descriptions of new Lonchophylla from western South America (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Lonchophyllini). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 119:437-476. abstract Woodman, N. 2005. Size evolution in Goodwin’s small-eared shrew, Cryptotis goodwini. Pages 125-138 in J. F. Merritt, S. Churchfield, R. Hutterer, and B. A. Sheftel, eds. Advances in the Biology of Shrews II. Special Publication 01. International Society of Shrew Biologists, New York, NY. xiii, 454 pp. book info Woodman, N., and James P. J. Morgan. 2005. Skeletal morphology of the forefoot in shrews (Mammalia: Soricidae) of the genus Cryptotis, as revealed by digital x-rays. Journal of Morphology 266:60-73. abstract Woodman,
N.
2000.
Cryptotis merriami Choate in Costa Rica: syntopy with Cryptotis
nigrescens (Allen) and possible character displacement.
Caribbean Journal of Science 36(3-4):289-299.
Woodman,
N., and R. M. Timm.
2000.
Taxonomy and evolutionary relationships of Phillips’ small-eared
shrew, Cryptotis phillipsii (Schaldach, 1966), from Oaxaca, Mexico (Mammalia:
Rodentia: Soricidae).
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 113:339-355.
Woodman, N., A. Rucker, M. C. Thompson, J. Love, and S. Mount. 2000. The modern riparian vegetational community at Winfield, Cowley County, Kansas: a blend of new species and old. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 103(1-2):22-37. abstract (scroll down) Woodman,
N., and R. M. Timm.
1999.
Geographic variation and evolutionary relationships among
broad-clawed shrews of the Cryptotis goldmani-group (Mammalia: Insectivora:
Soricidae).
Fieldiana: Zoology (new series) 91:1-35.
Woodman,
N., R. M. Timm, N. A. Slade, and T. J. Doonan.
1996.
Comparison of traps and baits for censusing small mammals in
Neotropical lowlands.
Journal of Mammalogy 77(1):274-281.
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