Education

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

Research Interests

Research focuses on the taxonomy and biogeography of muroid rodents, especially Neotropical groups (oryzomyines, peromyscines), the Malagasy nesomyines, and various African murines. Current projects include various generic and specific accounts for the rodent volume of South American mammals, revision of western Mexican Oryzomys, and a new species description of the oryzomyine Oecomys (with Louise Emmons and Guy Musser).

Recent Publications

Carleton, M. D., and S. M. Goodman. 2007. A New Species of the Eliurus majori Complex (Rodentia: Muroidea: Nesomyidae) from South-central Madagascar, with Remarks on Emergent Species Groupings in the Genus Eliurus. American Museum Novitates, 3547: 21 pp.

Carleton, M. D., and E. Schaefer Byrne. 2006. The Status of Otomys orestes dollmani Heller, 1912 (Muridae: Otomyinae), a Rodent Described from the Mathews Range, Central Kenya. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 119(4): 477-515. [pdf]

Carleton, M. D., J. Kerbis-Peterhans, and W. T. Stanley.  2006.  Review of the Hylomyscus denniae Group (Rodentia: Muridae) in Eastern Africa, with Comments on the Generic Allocation of Epimys endorobae Heller.  Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 119(2): 293-325. [pdf]

O’Brien, C., W. McShea, S. Guimondou, P. Barrière, and M. D. Carleton. 2006. Terrestrial Small Mammals (Soricidae and Muridae) from the Gamba Complex in Gabon: Species Composition and Comparison of Sampling Techniques. Pp 353-363, In A. Alonso, M. E. Lee, P. Campbell, O. S. G. Pauwels, and F. Dallmeier, eds. Gamba, Gabon: Biodiversity of an Equatorial African Rainforest. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, No. 12:433 pp. [pdf]

Carleton, M. D., and G. G. Musser. 2005. Order Rodentia. Vol 2:745-752, in: Mammal Species of the World, Third Edition (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. 2 Volumes, 2141 pp.

Musser, G. G., and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Vol 2:894-1531, in: Mammal Species of the World, Third Edition (D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder, eds.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD. 2 Volumes, 2141 pp.

Carleton, M. D., and T. E. Lawlor. 2005. Peromyscus from Santa Catalina Island, Sea of Cortez, Mexico: Taxonomic identities and biogeographic implications. Journal of Mammalogy, 86(4): 814-825.

Carleton, M. D., and W. T. Stanley. 2005. Review of the Hylomyscus denniae complex in Tanzania, with description of a new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 118(3): 619-646. [pdf]

Jenkins, P. D., and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major’s expedition to Madagascar, 1894 to 1896: beginnings of modern systematic study of the island’s mammalian fauna. Journal of Natural History, 39(20): 1779-1818.

Jansa, S. A., and M. D. Carleton. 2003. Systematics and phylogenetics of Madagascar’s native rodents. Pp. 1257-1265, in: The Natural History of Madagascar (S. M. Goodman and J. P. Benstead, eds.). The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, xxi + 1709 pp.

Jansa, S. A., and M. D. Carleton. 2003. Brachyuromys, Short-tailed Rats, Malagasy Voles. Pp. 1370-1373, in: The Natural History of Madagascar (S. M. Goodman and J. P. Benstead, eds.). The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, xxi + 1709 pp.

Carleton, M. D., and S. M. Goodman. 2003. Macrotarsomys, Big-footed Mice. Pp. 1386-1388, in: The Natural History of Madagascar (S. M. Goodman and J. P. Benstead, eds.). The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, xxi + 1709 pp.

Carleton, M. D., and S. M. Goodman. 2003. Gymnuromys, Voalavoanala. Pp. 1381-1383, in: The Natural History of Madagascar (S. M. Goodman and J. P. Benstead, eds.). The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, xxi + 1709 pp.

Carleton, M. D., and S. M. Goodman. 2003. Rodentia: Brachytarsomys, White-tailed Tree Rats, Antsangy. Pp. 1368-1370, in: The Natural History of Madagascar (S. M. Goodman and J. P. Benstead, eds.). The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, xxi + 1709 pp.

Carleton, M. D. 2003. Eliurus, Tufted-tailed Rats. Pp. 1373-1380, in: The Natural History of Madagascar (S. M. Goodman and J. P. Benstead, eds.). The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, xxi + 1709 pp.

Carleton, M. D., G. G. Musser, and I. Ya. Pavlinov. 2003. Myodes Pallas, 1811, is the valid name for the genus of red-backed voles. Pp. 96-98, in: Systematics, Phylogeny and Paleontology of Small Mammals. An International Conference Devoted to the 90th Anniversary of Prof. I. M. Gromov (A. O. Averianov and N. I. Abramson, eds.). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Saint Petersburg, 246 pp.