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)

• 21 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. 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. 

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. 

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.