Bo Beolens - The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals

The Eponym Dictionaryof MammalsThis page intentionally left blankThe EponymDictionaryof Mammals Bo Beolens Michael Watkins Michael Grayson THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS Baltimore 2009 The Johns Hopkins University Press All rights reserved. Published 2009 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363 www.press.jhu.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Beolens, Bo. The eponym dictionary of mammals / by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, and Mike Grayson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9304-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-8018-9304-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. MammalsDictionaries. 2. I. I.

Watkins, Michael, 1940 II. Grayson, Mike. III. Title. QL701.2.B46 2009 599.03dc22 2008046475 A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Special discounts are available for bulk purchases of this book. Special discounts are available for bulk purchases of this book.

For more information, pleasecontact Special Sales at 410-516-6936 or specialsales@press.jhu.edu. The Johns Hopkins University Press uses environmentally friendly book materials, including recycled text paper that is composed of at least 30 percent post-consumer waste, whenever possible. All of our book papers are acid-free, and our jackets and covers are printed on paper with recycled content. ContentsThis page intentionally left blank Two of us, Bo Beolens and Mike Watkins, wrote Whose Bird? which was published in November 2003. A review of Whose Bird? was written by Nicholas Gould for the journal International Zoo News. Gould suggested that there could be a need for similar volumes on other animal classes, and among them he suggested mammals. We wish to give credit and thanks here to the person whose suggestion began the conversations that led to our writing of this book. As there are only about half as many mammal species as bird species, we assumed our new book would not be as long as Whose Bird? How wrong we were! It turns out that there are a very large number of people who have only one mammal species named after them.

Given that one man, Oldfield Thomas of the British Museum of Natural History, seemed to have described half of the mammal species ever discovered, we also assumed our research task would prove much easier than it had been for Whose Bird? Wrong again. But in the end it paid off, and the book you hold is the result not only of our perseverance, but of the labors of many people who assisted us without hesitation. We are deeply indebted to the following people and organizations for their generous help with research and, where needed, translations: Mark A. Adams, Researcher, Evolutionary Biology Unit, South Australian Museum, Australia; Cleber J. R. Alho, Conservao e Uso Sustentvel da Biodiversidade, Braslia, Brazil; Mike Archer, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia; Dickon and Ito Corrado, Tokyo, Japan; Sylvie Coten-Watkins, Montmorency, France; Gabor Csorba, Deputy Director, Curator of Mammals, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Ross Cunningham, Canberra ACT, Australia; Fritz Dieterlen, Staatlisches Museum fr Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany; Peter D.

Dwyer, Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia; Louise H. Emmons, Research Associate at the Smithsonian Division of Mammals, Washington DC, USA; Tim Flannery, Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia; Pavel German, Wildlife Images, New South Wales, Australia; Nicholas Gould, International Zoo News, Orkney, Scotland; David L. Harrison, Harrison Zoological Museum Trust, England; Lawrence R. Heaney, Curator of Mammals, Department of Zoology, University of Chicago, USA; Colin Higgins, Bat Conservation Trust, London, UK; Geoffrey Hope, Department of Archaeology and Natural History, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; Kim M. Howell, Professor of Zoology and Marine Biology, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Tony M. Hutson, East Sussex, England, UK; Rainer Hutterer, Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany; Paula D.

Jenkins, Collections Manager, Mammal vii viii preface Curation Group, Natural History Museum, London; Viner Khabibullin, Bashkir State University, Ufa City, Bashkortostan, Russia; Rael and Helena Loon, South Africa; Tim May, London, England; David Minter, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Philip Myers, Associate Professor and Associate Curator of Mammals, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, USA; Bruce Patterson, MacArthur Curator, Department of Zoology (Mammals), Field Museum, Chicago, USA; Heather Prestridge, Assistant Curator, Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA; Gavin J. Prideaux, Research Fellow, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia; Eric Rickart, Curator of Vertebrates, Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah, USA; Jevgeni Shergalin, Tallinn, Estonia; Steve Van Dyck, Senior Curator of Vertebrates, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia; Manfred Warth, Staatlisches Museum fr Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany; Charles Watkins, Montmorency, France; Nicholas Watkins, Oxford, England; Suzanne Watkins, Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire, England; Chris Watts, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia. Who Is It For? Much as birders often come across bird names that include the name of a person (such names are properly called eponyms), and their curiosity is aroused just as ours was, so will people come across similar eponyms for mammals. We have all heard of Przewalskis Horse or Thomsons Gazelle, but how familiar is Nolthenius Long-tailed Climbing Mouse or Bannisters Melomys? This book is for the curious mammalogist as much as it is for the student of zoology. How to Use This Book This book is arranged alphabetically by the names of the people after whom mammals have been named. Generally, the easiest way to find your animal is to look it up under the personal name that is apparently embedded in the animals common or scientific name.

We say apparently, as things are not always as simple as they seem. In some names, for example, the apostrophe implying ownership is a transcription error; in other instances the animal may have been named after a place, not a person. We have included any such names where we think confusion might arise, but we do not promise to have been comprehensive in that respect. You should also beware of spelling. Surf the Internet, and you may well find animals names spelled in a number of different ways; the greatest resource there has ever been is also full of inaccuracies and misinformation, so beware. We have tried to include entries on those alternatives, if we have ourselves come across them.

Each entry follows a standard format. First, you will find the name of the person honored. Next, there follows a list of animals named after that person, arranged in order of the year in which they were described. This list gives common names, scientific names, names of the people who first described each species, and the date of the original descriptionsin that sequence. Alternative English names follow in brackets and are each preceded by the abbreviation Alt. (synonym). (synonym).

Finally, there is a brief biography of that individual. To assist you in your search, we have cross-referenced the entries by highlighting (in bold) the names of those describers who also appear in the book. Some mammals are named in different ways after the same person, and we have also tried to marry these up using cross-references. So, for example, a species named after Queen Victoria might be called Queen Victorias Shrew or Victorias Shrew, or Queens Shrew or even Empresss Shrew. Interestingly, this is most often the case where aristocratic ix x introduction titles are concerned. For example, the Earl of Derby, whose family name is Stanley, has mammals named after him in at least three different ways.