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Education

Ph.D. (Vertebrate Zoology): Louisiana State University, 1970
M.S. (Zoology): University of Arizona, 1965
B.S. (Wildlife Management): University of Arizona, 1962

Research Interests

Research is primarily on the systematics and nomenclature of land mammals of the Western Hemisphere with particular emphasis on the Neotropics.

Recent Publications

Velazco, Paúl M. and Gardner, Alfred L. 2012. A new species of Lophostoma d'Orbigny, 1836 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Panama. Journal of mammalogy, 93(2): 605-614. doi:10.1644/11-MAMM-A-217.1

Velazco, Paúl M., Gardner, Alfred L. and Patterson, Bruce D. 2010. Systematics of the Platyrrhinus helleri species complex (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), with descriptions of two new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 159(3): 785-812.

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.

Arroyo-Cabrales, Joaquin, Polaco, Oscar J., Wilson, Don E. and Gardner, Alfred L. 2009. Nuevos Registros de Murcielagos Para el Estado de Nayarit, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Mastozoología, 12: 141-162.

Velazco, Paul M. and Gardner, Alfred L. 2009. A new species of Platyrrhinus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from western Colombia and Ecuador, with emended diagnoses of P. aquilus, P. dorsalis, and P. umbratus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 122(3): 249-281.

Complete List of Gardner's Publications and Downloadable PDFs