Taxonomic anarchy or an inconvenient truth for conservation? Accelerated species discovery reveals evolutionary patterns and heightened extinction threat in Afro-Malagasy small mammals

How many species of mammals are there?

(2018) Connor J Burgin et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Revised occurrence of rodents from the tribe Praomyini (Muridae) in Zambia based on mitochondrial DNA analyses: implications for biogeography and conservation

(2018) Josef Bryja et al.   FOLIA ZOOLOGICA

Taxonomy: refine rather than stabilize

(2017) Fenton P. D. Cotterill et al.   NATURE

Taxonomy anarchy hampers conservation

(2017) Stephen T. Garnett et al.   NATURE

What really hampers taxonomy and conservation? A riposte to Garnett and Christidis (2017)

(2017) MARCOS A. RAPOSO et al.   ZOOTAXA

An African Bat Hotspot: The Exceptional Importance of Mount Nimba for Bat Diversity

(2016) Ara Monadjem et al.   ACTA CHIROPTEROLOGICA

Using potential distributions to explore environmental correlates of bat species richness in southern Africa: Effects of model selection and taxonomy

(2016) M. Corrie Schoeman et al.   Current Zoology

Mitochondrial DNA relationships among North Palaearctic Eptesicus (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera) and past hybridization between Common Serotine and Northern Bat

(2016) ARTYUSHIN I. V. et al.   ZOOTAXA

A new species of the rodent genus Hylomyscus from Angola, with a distributional summary of the H. anselli species group (Muridae: Murinae: Praomyini)

(2015) MICHAEL D. CARLETON et al.   ZOOTAXA

Description of a new species of the Miniopterus aelleni group (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae) from upland areas of central and northern Madagascar

(2015) Steven M. Goodman et al.   ZOOTAXA

Molecular and morphological evidence for a Pleistocene radiation of laminate-toothed rats (Otomys: Rodentia) across a volcanic archipelago in equatorial Africa

(2014) Peter J. Taylor et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Afromontane small mammals do not follow the hump-shaped rule: altitudinal variation in the Soutpansberg Mountains, South Africa

(2014) Peter John Taylor et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Insights into the Evolution of a Cryptic Radiation of Bats: Dispersal and Ecological Radiation of Malagasy Miniopterus (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae)

(2014) Les Christidis et al.   PLoS One

Is Diagnosability an Indicator of Speciation? Response to “Why One Century of Phenetics Is Enough”

(2014) Rasmus Heller et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

African highlands as mammal diversity hotspots: new records ofLamottemys okuensisPetter, 1986 (Rodentia: Muridae) and other endemic rodents from Mt Oku, Cameroon

(2014) Christiane Denys et al.   ZOOSYSTEMA

A new species of the Miniopterus schreibersii species complex (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae) from the Maghreb Region, North Africa

(2014) SEBASTIEN J. PUECHMAILLE et al.   ZOOTAXA

Are There Really Twice as Many Bovid Species as We Thought?

(2013) Rasmus Heller et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Timeframes of Speciation, Reticulation, and Hybridization in the Bulldog Bat Explained Through Phylogenetic Analyses of All Genetic Transmission Elements

(2013) Faisal Ali Anwarali Khan et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Cryptic diversity in forest shrews of the genusMyosorexfrom southern Africa, with the description of a new species and comments onMyosorex tenuis

(2013) Peter John Taylor et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A cryptic new species of Miniopterus from south-eastern Africa based on molecular and morphological characters

(2013) ARA MONADJEM et al.   ZOOTAXA

Cryptic speciation in the southern African vlei ratOtomys irroratuscomplex: evidence derived from mitochondrial cytband niche modelling

(2012) ADRIAAN ENGELBRECHT et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Species inflation and taxonomic artefacts—A critical comment on recent trends in mammalian classification

(2012) Frank E. Zachos et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Four New Bat Species (Rhinolophus hildebrandtii Complex) Reflect Plio-Pleistocene Divergence of Dwarfs and Giants across an Afromontane Archipelago

(2012) Peter J. Taylor et al.   PLoS One

Conflicting mitochondrial and nuclear paraphyly in small-sized West African house bats (Vespertilionidae)

(2012) PETER VALLO et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

DNA barcoding of African fruit bats (Mammalia, Pteropodidae). The mitochondrial genome does not provide a reliable discrimination between Epomophorus gambianus and Micropteropus pusillus

(2011) Nicolas Nesi et al.   COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES

PROGRESS TOWARD A GENERAL SPECIES CONCEPT

(2011) Bernhard Hausdorf   EVOLUTION

The Use of Molecular Phylogenetic and Morphological Tools to Identify Cryptic and Paraphyletic Species: Examples from the Diminutive Long-fingered Bats (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae: Miniopterus) on Madagascar

(2009) Steven M. Goodman et al.   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

Patterns of morphological and genetic variation in the endemic Malagasy batMiniopterus gleni(Chiroptera: Miniopteridae), with the description of a new species,M. griffithsi

(2009) S. M. Goodman et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

When is a species not a species? Uncoupled phenotypic, karyotypic and genotypic divergence in two species of South African laminate-toothed rats (Murinae: Otomyini)

(2009) P. J. Taylor et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

The use of molecular and morphological characters to resolve the taxonomic identity of cryptic species: the case ofMiniopterus manavi(Chiroptera, Miniopteridae)

(2009) Steven M. Goodman et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

A new species of Miniopterus (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae) from lowland southeastern Madagascar

(2008) Steven M. Goodman et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY