Yuri Luiz Reis Leite

Yuri Luiz Reis Leite, Brazilian mammalogist.

Professor associated at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil
Curator of the Mammal Division at Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, UFES, Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Emmons, L.H., Leite, Y.L.R., Kock, D. & Costa, L.P. 2002. A review of the named forms of Phyllomys (Rodentia, Echimyidae), with the description of a new species from coastal Brazil. American Museum Novitates 3380: 1–40. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)380<0001:AROTNF>2.0.CO;2 Reference page.

Leite, Y.L.R. 2003. Evolution and systematics of the Atlantic tree rats, genus Phyllomys (Rodentia, Echimyidae), with description of two new species. University of California Publications in Zoology 132: 1–118. DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520098497.001.0001 Reference page.

Galewski, T., Mauffrey, J.-F., Leite, Y.L.R., Patton, J.L. & Douzery, E.J.P. 2005. Ecomorphological diversification among South American spiny rats (Rodentia; Echimyidae): a phylogenetic and chronological approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34(3): 601–615. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.015 Reference page.

Costa, L.P., Pavan, S.E., Leite, Y.L.R. & Fagundes, V. 2007. A new species of Juliomys (Mammalia: Rodentia: Cricetidae) from the Atlantic forest of southeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 1463: 23–37. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.

Leite, Y.L.R., Christoff, A.U. & Fagundes, V. 2008. A new species of Atlantic Forest tree rat, genus Phyllomys (Rodentia, Echimyidae) from southern Brazil. Journal of Mammalogy 89(4): 845–851. DOI: 10.1644/07-MAMM-A-343.1 Reference page.

Rocha, R.G., Ferreira, E., Costa, B.M.A., Martins, I.C.M., Leite, Y.L.R., Costa, L.P. & Fonseca, C. 2011. Small mammals of the mid-Araguaia River in central Brazil, with the description of a new species of climbing rat. Zootaxa 2789: 1–34. Preview Reference page.

Pontes, A.R.M., Gadelha, J.R., Melo, E.R.A., Sá, F.B., Loss, A.C., Caldara Junior, V., Costa, L.P. & Leite, Y.L.R. 2013. A new species of porcupine, genus Coendou (Rodentia: Erethizontidae) from the Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3636(3): 421–438. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3636.3.2 Reference page.

Dalapicolla, J. & Leite, Y.L.R. 2015. Taxonomic implications of morphological variation in three species of Trinomys (Rodentia: Echimyidae) from eastern Brazil. Zootaxa 3919(1): 61–80. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.1.3. Reference page.

Simões, M.B., Moreira, N.I.B. & Leite, Y.L.R. 2019. First record of Pterygodermatites (Pterygodermatites) (Nematoda: Rictulariidae) in South America, with the description of a new species from the Atlantic Forest, southeast Brazil. Zootaxa 4629(1): 96–108. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4629.1.7 Reference page.
Courcelle, M., Tilak, M., Leite, Y.L.R., Douzery, E.J.P. & Fabre, P.-H. 2019. Digging for the spiny rat and hutia phylogeny using a gene capture approach, with the description of a new mammal subfamily. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 136: 241–253. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.03.007 Reference page.