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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

Gardner, A. L. 2007. [Review of] Mammals of South America by Rexford D. Lord. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, DOI 10.1007/s10914-007-9053-7.

Gardner, A. L. 2005. Order Didelphimorphia. Vol 1:3-18, 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.

Gardner, A. L. 2005. Order Paucituberculata. Vol 1:19-20, 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.

Gardner, A. L. 2005. Order Microbiotheria. Vol 1:21, 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.

Gardner, A. L. 2005. Order Cingulata. Vol 1:94-99, 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.

Gardner, A. L. 2005. Order Pilosa. Vol 1:100-103, 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.

Albuja V. L., and A. L. Gardner. 2005. A new species of Lonchophylla Thomas (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Ecuador. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 118(2): 442-449. [pdf]

Gardner, A. L. 2005. Case 3328. Didelphis Linnaeus, 1758 (Mammalia, Didelphidae): proposed correction of gender, and Cryptotis Pomel, 1848 (Mammalia, Soricidae): proposed fixation of gender. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 62(3): 142-145.

Gardner, A. L. 2005. The gender of genus-group names ending in either -otis or -otus. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 62(3): 183-184.

Gardner, A. L. 2005. Been there done that: after 44 years of preparation, What’s Next? Pp. 277-284, in: C. J. Phillips and C. Jones, eds., Going Afield, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Pinto, C. M., and A. L. Gardner. 2004. Marsupials from Argentina: comments on Ojeda and Monjeau (1995). Mastozoología Neotropical 11(2): 257-260.

Gardner, A. L., and V. Hayssen. 2004. A guide to constructing and understanding synonymies for Mammalian Species. Mammalian Species, 739: 1-17.

Voss, R. S., A. L. Gardner, and S. A. Jansa. 2004. On the relationships of "Marmosa" formosa Shamel, 1930 (Marsupialia: Didelphidae), a phylogenetic puzzle from the Chaco of northern Argentina. American Museum Novitates 3442: 1-18.

Arroyo-Cabrales, J., and A. L. Gardner. 2003. The type specimen of Anoura geoffroyi lasiopyga (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 116(3): 737–741.

Gardner, A. L., and M. E. Sunquist. 2003. Opossum, Didelphis virginiana. Pages 3-29 in: Wild mammals of North America (G. A. Feldhamer, B. C. Thompson, and J. A. Chapman, eds.). The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, xic + 1,216 pp.