Louise H. Emmons

For the actress, see Louise Emmons.

Louise H. Emmons is an American zoologist who studies tropical rainforest mammals, especially rodents. She has conducted fieldwork in Gabon, Sabah (Borneo), Peru, and Bolivia. Her best known work is the field guide, Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide, first published in 1990, with a second edition in 1997.^[1][2]

Louise H. Emmons
Born	(1943-08-23) 23 August 1943 (age 81) Montevideo, Uruguay
Nationality	American
Known for	The 307-page opus Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide [1][2]
Scientific career
Fields	Zoologist
Institutions	National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution

Education

Louise Hickok Emmons earned her PhD from Cornell University in 1975 and wrote a thesis entitled, "Ecology and Behavior of African Rainforest Squirrels."^[3] She received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965.

Description of new taxa

Louise H. Emmons described several new taxa of mammals:

• three genera of spiny rats, Callistomys, in 1998,^[4] and Pattonomys and Santamartamys, in 2005.^[5]
• one genus and one species of abrocomid, Cuscomys ashaninka, in 1999.^[6]
• one species of spiny rat, Phyllomys pattoni, in 2002.^[7]
• two species of oryzomyine rodents, Oryzomys acritus, in 2005,^[8] and Oecomys sydandersoni, in 2009.^[9]
• one species of rat, Pithecheirops otion, in 1993.^[10]
• one species of didelphid marsupial, Monodelphis gardneri, in 2012.^[11]

She also introduced the new taxon name Olallamys for a genus of spiny rats.^[12]

Taxonomic patronym

In honor of Louise H. Emmons, one taxonomic patronym was given for a rodent with the species name emmonsae:

• Euryoryzomys emmonsae, the Emmons's rice rat.^[13][14]
• Pampamys emmonsae, the Emmons's extinct spiny rat^[15]

Books

• 2002. Tupai: A field study of treeshrews in Borneo. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• 2000. Tupai: A field study of Bornean Treeshrews. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Emmons, Louise H. and Feer, François. 1999. Mamíferos de los bosques húmedos de América tropical: Una guía de campo. Santa Cruz, Bolivia: Editorial F.A.N.
• Emmons, Louise H., Whitney, B., and Ross, D. 1998. Sounds of Neotropical rainforest mammals: An audio field guide. Ithaca: Cornell Laboratory of Natural Sounds.
• Emmons, Louise H. and Feer, François. 1997. Neotropical rainforest mammals: A field guide. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Emmons, Louise H. and Feer, François. 1990. Neotropical rainforest mammals: A field guide. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

References

1. Emmons, Louise H.; Feer, François (1990). Neotropical rainforest mammals. A field guide (1st ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 281. ISBN 0-226-20716-1.
2. Emmons, Louise H.; Feer, François (1997-09-02). Neotropical rainforest mammals. A field guide (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 307. ISBN 978-0-226-20721-6. OCLC 44179508.
3. "Ecology and behavior of African rainforest squirrels - Cornell University Library Catalog". newcatalog.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
4. Emmons, Louise H.; Vucetich, María Guiomar (1998). "The identity of Winge's Lasiuromys villosus and the description of a new genus of echimyid rodent (Rodentia, Echimyidae)". American Museum Novitates (3223): 1–12. hdl:2246/3503.
5. Emmons, Louise Hickock (2005). "A revision of the genera of arboreal Echimyidae (Rodentia: Echimyidae, Echimyinae), with descriptions of two new genera". Mammalian Diversification: From Chromosomes to phylogeography (A Celebration of the Career of James L. Patton). Vol. 133. University of California Press. pp. 247–310. ISBN 9780520098534.
6. Emmons, Louise H. (1999). "A new genus and species of abrocomid rodent from Peru (Rodentia, Abrocomidae)". American Museum Novitates (3279): 1–14. hdl:2246/3027.
7. Emmons, Louise H.; Leite, Yuri L. R.; Kock, Dieter; Costa, Leonora P. (2002-08-01). "A Review of the Named Forms of Phyllomys (Rodentia: Echimyidae) with the Description of a New Species from Coastal Brazil". American Museum Novitates (380): 1–40. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2002)380<0001:AROTNF>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0003-0082. S2CID 56309113.
8. Emmons, Louise H.; Patton, James L. (2005). "A new species of Oryzomys (Rodentia, Muridae) from eastern Bolivia". American Museum Novitates (3478): 1–27. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2005)478[0001:ANSOOR]2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/5669. S2CID 55366906.
9. Carleton, Michael D.; Emmons, Louise H.; 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. doi:10.1206/612.1. hdl:2246/5984. S2CID 85788843.
10. Emmons, Louise H. (1993). "A new genus and species of rat from Borneo (Rodentia : Muridae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 106 (4): 752–761. ISSN 0006-324X.
11. Solari, Sergio; Pacheco, Víctor; Vivar, Elena; Emmons, Louise H. (2012-10-01). "A new species of Monodelphis (Mammalia: Didelphimorphia: Didelphidae) from the montane forests of central Perú". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 125 (3): 295–307. doi:10.2988/11-33.1. ISSN 0006-324X. S2CID 85588030.
12. Emmons, L. H. (1988-05-20). "Replacement Name for a Genus of South American Rodent (Echimyidae)". Journal of Mammalogy. 69 (2): 421. doi:10.2307/1381405. ISSN 0022-2372. JSTOR 1381405.
13. Musser, Guy G.; Carleton, Michael D.; Brothers, Eric M.; Gardner, Alfred L. (1998). "Systematic studies of oryzomyine rodents (Muridae, Sigmodontinae) : diagnoses and distributions of species formerly assigned to Oryzomys capito". Bulletin of the AMNH. 236: 233–239. hdl:2246/1630.
14. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009-10-07). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. JHU Press. p. 127. ISBN 9780801895333.
15. Verzi, Diego H.; Vucetich, M. G.; Montalvo, C. I. (1995). Un nuevo Eumysopinae (Rodentia, Echimyidae) del Mioceno tardío de la Provincia de La Pampa y consideraciones sobre la historia de la subfamilia. Ameghiniana 32: 191–95.

External links

• Biography of Louise H. Emmons
• Louise H. Emmons publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Biography of Louise H. Emmons from the National Museum of Natural History.