Marcelo Weksler

Marcelo Weksler, Brazilian mammalogist.

• Professor and curator at Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 31 taxon names authored by Marcelo Weksler

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1998

• Bonvicino, C.R. & Weksler, M. 1998. A new species of Oligoryzomys (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae) from Northeastern and Central Brazil. Zeitschrift für Saugetierkunde 63(1): 90–103. BHL Reference page. 

2004

• Jansa, S.A. & Weksler, M. 2004. Phylogeny of muroid rodents: relationships within and among major lineages as determined by IRBP gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31(1): 256–276. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2003.07.002 Reference page. 

2005

• Weksler, M. & Bonvicino, C.R. 2005. Taxonomy of pigmy rice rats genus Oligoryzomys Bangs, 1900 (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae) of the Brazilian Cerrado, with description of two new species. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 63(1): 113–130. BHL Reference page. 

2006

• Weksler, M., Percequillo & Voss, R.S. 2006. Ten new genera of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae). American Museum Novitates 3537: 1–29. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3537[1:TNGOOR]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5815 Reference page. 

2010

• Turvey, S.T., Weksler, M., Morris, E.L. & Nokkert, M. 2010. Taxonomy, phylogeny, and diversity of the extinct Lesser Antillean rice rats (Sigmodontinae: Oryzomyini), with description of a new genus and species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160(4): 748–772. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00628.x Reference page. 

2011

• Percequillo, A.R., Weksler, M. & Costa, L.P. 2011. A new genus and species of rodent from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae: Oryzomyini), with comments on oryzomyine biogeography. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 161(2): 357–390. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00643.x Reference page. 

2012

• Pine, R.H., Timm, R.M. & Weksler, M. 2012. A newly recognized clade of trans-Andean Oryzomyini (Rodentia: Cricetidae), with description of a new genus. Journal of Mammalogy 93(3): 851–870. DOI: 10.1644/11-MAMM-A-012.1 Reference page. 
• Turvey, S.T., Brace, S. & Weksler, M. 2012. A new species of recently extinct rice rat (Megalomys) from Barbados. Mammalian Biology 77(6): 404–413. DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2012.03.005 Reference page. 

2013

• O'Leary, M.A., Bloch, J.I., Flynn, J.J., Gaudin, T.J., Giallombardo, A., Giannini, N.P., Goldberg, S.L., Kraatz, B.P., Luo, Z.-X., Meng, J., Ni, X., Novacek, M.J., Perini, F.A., Randall, Z.S., Rougier, G.W., Sargis, E.J., Silcox, M.T., Simmons, N.B., Spaulding, M., Velazco, P.M., Weksler, M., Wible, J.R. & Cirranello, A.L. 2013. The placental mammal ancestor and the post–K-Pg radiation of placentals. Science 339(6120): 662–667. DOI: 10.1126/science.1229237 Reference page. 

2015

• Brace, S., Turvey, S.T., Weksler, M., Hoogland, M.L.P. & Barnes, I. 2015. Unexpected evolutionary diversity in a recently extinct Caribbean mammal radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282(1807): 20142371. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2371 Reference page. 

2020

• Pires, C., Weksler, M. & Bonvicino, C.R. 2020. Morphological variation in the genus Juliomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) and taxonomic status of Juliomys anoblepas (Winge 1887) from the Quaternary of Southeast Brazil. Zootaxa 4861(3): 429–443. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4861.3.9 Reference page. 
• Brito, J., Koch, C., Percequillo, A.R., Tinoco, N., Weksler, M., Pinto, C.M. & Pardiñas, U.F.J. 2020. A new genus of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) with three new species from montane cloud forests, western Andean cordillera of Colombia and Ecuador. PeerJ 8: e10247. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10247 Reference page. 

2021

• Novaes, R.L.M., Cláudio, V.C., Larsen, R.J., Wilson, D.E., Weksler, M. & Moratelli, R. 2021. The taxonomic status of Myotis nesopolus larensis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) and new insights on the diversity of Caribbean Myotis. ZooKeys 1015: 145–167. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1015.59248 Reference page. 
• Mistretta, B.A., Giovas, C.M., Weksler, M. & Turvey, S.T. 2021. Extinct insular oryzomyine rice rats (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) from the Grenada Bank, southern Caribbean. Zootaxa 4951(3): 434–460. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.2 Reference page. 

2023

• Percequillo, A.R. & Weksler, M. 2023. Systematics of the genus Euryoryzomys Weksler et al., 2006 (Rodentia: Cricetidae): integrative analysis reveals a new species from north-eastern Brazil. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 199(3): 594–632. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad048 Reference page. 

2024

• Bonvicino, C.R. & Weksler, M. 2024. Revealing the cryptic diversity of the hosts of Rio Mamoré orthohantavirus complex, Oligoryzomys microtis (Allen 1916) (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae), with the description of one new species with two subspecies. Hystrix in press. DOI: 10.4404/hystrix-00630-2023 Reference page.