Jacob A. Esselstyn

Jacob A. Esselstyn, U.S. zoologist

• Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, 119 Foster Hall, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 31 taxon names authored by Jacob A. Esselstyn

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2010

• Esselstyn, J.A. & Goodman, S.M. 2010. New species of shrew (Soricidae: Crocidura) from Sibuyan Island, Philippines. Journal of Mammalogy 91(6): 1467–1472. DOI: 10.1644/10-MAMM-A-002.1 Reference page. 

2013

• Stanley, W.T., Robbins, L.W., Malekani, J.M., Gambalemoke Mbalitini, S., Migurimu, D.A., Mukinzi, J.C., Hulselmans, J., Prévot, V., Verheyen, E., Hutterer, R., Doty, J.B., Monroe, B.P., Nakazawa, Y.J., Braden, Z., Carroll, D., Kerbis Peterhans, J.C., Bates, J.M. & Esselstyn, J.A. 2013. A new hero emerges: another exceptional mammalian spine and its potential adaptive significance. Biology letters 9(5) DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0486 Reference page. 

2014

• Esselstyn, J.A., Achmadi, A.S. & Maharadatunkamsi 2014. A new species of shrew (Soricomorpha: Crocidura) from West Java, Indonesia. Journal of Mammalogy 95(2): 216–224. DOI: 10.1644/13-MAMM-A-215 Reference page. 
• Rowe, K.C., Achmadi, A.S. & Esselstyn, J.A. 2014. Convergent evolution of aquatic foraging in a new genus and species (Rodentia: Muridae) from Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. Zootaxa 3815(4): 541–564. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3815.4.5 ResearchGate Reference page. 

2015

• Stanley, W.T., Hutterer, R., Giarla, T.C. & Esselstyn, J.A. 2015. Phylogeny, phylogeography and geographical variation in the Crocidura monax (Soricidae) species complex from the montane islands of Tanzania, with descriptions of three new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174(1): 185-215. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12230 Reference page. 

2016

• Rowe, K.C., Achmadi, A.S. & Esselstyn, J.A. 2016. A new genus and species of omnivorous rodent (Muridae: Murinae) from Sulawesi, nested within a clade of endemic carnivores. Journal of Mammalogy 97(3): 978–991. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyw029 Reference page. 

2017

• Demos, T.C., Achmadi, A.S., Handika, H., Maharadatunkamsi, Rowe, K.C. & Esselstyn, J.A. 2016 [2017]. A new species of shrew (Soricomorpha: Crocidura) from Java, Indonesia: possible character displacement despite interspecific gene flow. Journal of Mammalogy 98(1): 183–193. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyw183 Reference page. 

2019

• Esselstyn, J.A., Achmadi, A.S., Handika, H., Giarla, T.C., & Rowe, K.C. 2019. A new climbing shrew from Sulawesi highlights the tangled taxonomy of an endemic radiation . Journal of Mammalogy 100(6):1713–1725. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyz077 PDF Reference page. 

2021

• Handika, H., Achmadi, A.S., Esselstyn, J.A. & Rowe, K.C. 2021. Molecular and morphological systematics of the Bunomys division (Rodentia: Muridae), an endemic radiation on Sulawesi. Zoologica Scripta 50(2): 141–154. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12460 Reference page. 

2022

• Nations, J.A., Giarla, T.C., Morni, M.A., Dee, J.W., Swanson, M.T., Hiller, A.E., Khan, F.A.A. & Esselstyn, J.A. 2022. Molecular data from the holotype of the enigmatic Bornean Black Shrew, Suncus ater Medway, 1965 (Soricidae, Crocidurinae), place it in the genus Palawanosorex. Zookeys 1137: 17–31. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1137.94217 Reference page. 

2024

• Nations, J.A., Handika, H., Mursyid, A., Busta, R.D., Apandi, Achmadi, A.S. & Esselstyn, J.A. 2024. Three new shrews (Soricidae: Crocidura) from West Sumatra, Indonesia: elevational and morphological divergence in syntopic sister taxa. Journal of Mammalogy 105(2): 372–389. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyad126 Reference page. 

Links

• Jacob Esselstyn lab homepage