Education

Ph.D. (Zoology): University of Michigan, 1979
B.S. (Wildlife Biology): University of Massachusetts, 1966

Research Interests

Research continues to focus on the taxonomy and biogeography of muroid rodents (rats and mice), especially Neotropical groups (oryzomyines, peromyscines), the Malagasy nesomyines, and various African murids (murines, otomyines). Current projects include various generic and specific accounts of Oryzomyini for the rodent volume of South American mammals (J. L. Patton, ed.), and taxonomic revisions of the Otomys typus complex of East Africa (with Peter Taylor), the Praomys delectorum species group of East Africa (with W. T. Stanley), and Nesomys of Madagascar.

Recent Publications

Carleton, Michael D. and Stanley, William T. 2012. Species limits within the Praomys delectorum group (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae) of East Africa: a morphometric reassessment and biogeographical implications. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 165(2): 420-469. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00817.x

Taylor, Peter J., Lavrenchenko, Leonid A., Carleton, Michael D., Verheyen, Erik, Bennett, Nigel C., Oosthuizen, Carel J. and Maree, Sarita 2011. Specific limits and emerging diversity patterns in East African populations of laminate-toothed rats, genus Otomys (Muridae: Murinae: Otomyini): Revision of the Otomys typus complex. Zootaxa, 3024: 1-66.

Ding, X., Leigh, C. M., Goodman, S. M., Bedford, J. M., Carleton, Michael D. and Breed, W. G. 2010. Sperm morphology in the Malagasy rodents (Muroidea: Nesomyinae). Journal of Morphology, 271(12): 1493-1500.

Carleton, Michael D., Emmons, Louise H. and Musser, Guy G. 2009. A new species of the rodent genus Oecomys (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae: Oryzomyini) from eastern Bolivia, with emended definitions of O. concolor (Wagner) and O. mamorae (Thomas). American Museum Novitates, 3661: 1-32.

Voss, R. S. and Carleton, Michael D. (eds.) 2009. Systematic mammalogy: Contributions in honor of Guy G. Musser New York: American Museum of Natural History. (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History; 331) 450 pages.

Gardner, Alfred L. and Carleton, Michael D. 2009. A new species of Reithrodontomys, subgenus Aporodon (Cricetidae: Neotominae), from the highlands of Costa Rica, with comments on Costa Rican and Panamanian Reithrodontomys. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 331: 157-182.

Carleton, Michael D. and Arroyo-Cabrales, Joaquin 2009. Review of the Oryzomys couesi complex (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) in western Mexico. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 331: 94-127.

Carleton, Michael D. 2009. They sort out like nuts and bolts: a scientific biography of Guy G. Musser. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 331: 4-32.

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