The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals by Bo Beolens Michael Watkins Michael Grayson

Author:Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson [Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson]
Language: eng
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Müller

were exhibited here before they were trans-

Brown Dorcopsis Dorcopsis muelleri

ferred by Voous to the Zoological Museum of

Lesson, 1827

Amsterdam. Musschenbroek was regarded as

Müller’s Gibbon Hylobates muelleri

an expert on large parts of the Dutch East In-

Martin, 1841 [Alt. Borneo Grey

dies, as is shown by his pioneering maps of

Gibbon]

Minahassa and the northern parts of the Mo-

Müller’s Giant Sunda Rat Sundamys

luccas. He also has a bird, Musschenbroek’s

muelleri Jentink, 1879

Lorikeet Neopsittacus musschenbroekii, named

for him. The Artis Library, University of Am-

Dr. Salomon Müller (1804–1864) was a Dutch

sterdam, advised us that he wrote Iets over

naturalist who collected in Indonesia in 1826,

de fauna van Noord-Celebes (1867) and Kaart

where he worked under Schlegel as a taxider-

van de bocht van Tomini (1880). The civet and

mist assisting members of the Netherlands

the spiny rat are both found only on Sulawesi

Natural Sciences Commission. He went on to

(Indonesia).

New Guinea, and in 1829 he explored the in-

terior of Timor. In 1831 he collected in Java,

Musser

and between 1833 and 1835 he explored west-

Marie’s Vole Volemys musseri Lawrence,

ern Sumatra. He is also commemorated in the

1982

common names of several birds, including

Musser’s Shrew-Mouse Microhydromys

Müller’s Barbet Megalaima oorti. The dor-

musseri Flannery, 1989 [Alt. Torricelli

copsis (wallaby) is found in western New

Shrew-Mouse]

Guinea, including some offshore islands such

Mossy Forest Shrew Crocidura musseri

as Misool, Salawatti, and Japen. The gibbon is

Ruedi and Vogel, 1995

endemic to Borneo. The rat occurs on the

Sierra Madre Shrew-Mouse Archboldomys

Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and the

musseri Rickart et al., 1999

western Philippines (Palawan, Balabac, Cu-

Musser’s Bristly Mouse Neacomys musseri

lion, and Busuanga).

Patton, da Silva, and Malcolm, 2000

[Alt. Manu Bristly Mouse]

Musschenbroek

Sulawesi Palm Civet Macrogalidia

Professor Dr. Guy G. Musser works as Arch-

musschenbroekii Schlegel, 1877

bold Curator for the Department of Mam-

Musschenbroek’s Spiny Rat Maxomys

malogy, American Museum of Natural History,

musschenbroekii Jentink, 1878

New York. According to the museum, “Dr. Mus-

ser researches the geographic origins of mu-

Samuel Cornelius Jan Willem van Musschen-

rine rodents in Asia by examining the phylo-

broek (1827–1883) graduated as a lawyer and

genetic relationships between the rats and

also trained as a seaman, passing his First

mice found on that continent and their Indo-

Mate’s examination. He then served as a Dutch

Australian cousins.” Musser took his first de-

colonial administrator in the East Indies from

gree in 1959 and his master’s in 1961, both

1855 to 1876. He was Resident of Ternate in

at the University of Utah. Having obtained

1873 and of Menado in 1875. He traveled ex-

his doctorate at the University of Michigan

tensively in the Moluccas with Beccari. In

in 1967, he began his studies of the Amer-

1879 he was in Leiden and was appointed to

ican Museum of Natural History collection of

be the first Director of the Museum der Kolo-

Muridae. He then spent three years living in

niale Vereniging (Colonial Museum). Many

the rainforests of Sulawesi, where he collected

bird skins that he had collected in Indonesia

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myers

various samples and specimens including 10

river). It refers to the typical biotope where the

species previously undescribed. He contributed

specimens were trapped.” It should thus more

the Muridae section of Mammal Species of the

correctly be called the Riverine Soft-furred

World. He has written at least one book on Phil-

Mouse. The species was discovered in northern

ippine Rodents, published in 1992, and numer-

DRC (Zaire).

ous scientific papers and contributions to larger

works.

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