Science and conservation for the world’s 3200+ small mammal species 🐿️🐀🦔🐭
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Small Mammal Specialist Group
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Fauna & Flora is offering early-career conservationists in Greenland and Northern Norway the opportunity to apply for a Future Arctic Conservationist Award of up to US$15,000
Any small mammal biologists there interested?
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Small Mammal Specialist Group
Integrative taxonomic revision of Uropsilus (Uropsilinae, Talpidae) combining genomic, morphological and geographic evidence doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...
The enigma of the Oltenia blind mole-rat (Spalax istricus) within the collapsing steppe biome www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Discovery of a new species of Coendou (Rodentia: Erethizontidae) within the hyper-diverse mammalian community of Sangay National Park in Ecuador peerj.com/articles/213...
Meet the Etruscan shrew, one of the smallest living land mammals in the world! It only grows ~2.1 in (5.3 cm) long & weighs up to 0.1 oz (3 g). It can be found throughout southern Europe, northern Africa, & parts of Asia.
Photo: Laurent BOUVIN, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
We'd like to welcome Javier to the team. He will be working with Dr. Michelle Lawing at @tamu.bsky.social on Red Listing of small mammals in the Americas.
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Genomic evidence of a previously undetected Peromyscus truei invasion on San Clemente Island, California therya.mastozoologiamexicana.com/index.php/TH...
A new genus and species of octodontid rodent from the hilly Chaco of central Argentina (Rodentia: Octodontidae) vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/articles.php...
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Abstract Octodontidae is a moderately speciose family (seven genera and 16 species) of South American caviomorph rodents; however, from an ecological point of view, it is a d...
#RodentOfTheDay California Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus beecheyi)
"California ground squirrels live in burrow systems that can house many generations, forming a sort of colony. Each individual has an entrance of their own."
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Museum genomics (museomics) provide powerful tools for detecting cryptic diversity in natural history collections, including previously undetected invasions. We analyzed genomic and morphological data...
