Robert S Voss

Biographic Data

ID5683110
NAMERobert S Voss
GIVEN NAMESRobert S
FAMILY NAMEVoss
SIGNATUREVOSS R S
AFFILIATIONSAmerican Museum of Natural History
ORCID0000-0002-4093-5287
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT17
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Mammalian Diversity and Matses Ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru Part 5. Rodents

    Open AccessRobert S Voss, David W Fleck et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the American Museum…2024

    In this report, the fifth and last of our monographic series on mammalian diversity and ethnomammalogy in the Yavari-Ucayali interfluvial region of northeastern Peru, we document the local occurrence of 40 species of rodents, including 5 sciurids, 17 cricetids, 1 caviid, 1 cuniculid, 2 dasyproctids, 1 dinomyid, 2 erethizontids, and 11 echimyids.The following substantive taxonomic results, among others, are reported: (1) We discuss current issues …

  • An Annotated Checklist of Recent Opossums (Mammalia

    Open AccessRobert S VossARTICLEBulletin of the American Museum…2022

    Living opossums (Didelphidae) comprise 125 species in 18 genera and 4 subfamilies. This synopsis lists all the didelphid taxa (subfamilies, tribes, genera, subgenera, and species) currently recognised as valid, summarizes information about typification, synonyms, and geographic distributions, remarks noteworthy recent changes in usage, and comments on still outstanding problems. A concluding discussion rejects the notion that the almost twofold i…

  • Craniodental Morphology and Phylogeny of Marsupials

    Open AccessRobin M D Beck, Robert S Voss et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the American Museum…2022

    The current literature on marsupial phylogenetics includes numerous studies based on analyses of morphological data with limited sampling of Recent and fossil taxa, and many studies based on analyses of molecular data with dense sampling of Recent taxa, but few studies have combined both data types. Another dichotomy in the marsupial phylogenetic literature is between studies focused on New World taxa and those focused on Sahulian taxa. To date, …

  • Mammalian Diversity and Matses Ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru Part 4

    Open AccessPaúl M Velazco, Robert S Voss et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the American Museum…2021

    In this report, the fourth of our monographic series on mammalian diversity and Matses ethnomammalogy in the Yavarí-Ucayali interfluvial region of northeastern Peru, we document the occurrence of 98 species of bats, including 11 emballonurids, 2 noctilionids, 66 phyllostomids, 1 furipterid, 4 thyropterids, 7 vespertilionids, and 7 molossids. New species based on specimens collected in this region (Peropteryx pallidoptera, Micronycteris matses, Hs…

  • A Revision of the Didelphid Marsupial Genus MarmosaPart 2. Species of the Rapposa Group (Subgenus Micoureus)

    Open AccessRobert S Voss, Thomas C Giarla et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the American Museum…2020

    In this report, the second of a revisionary series on mouse opossums (Marmosa), we analyze cytochrome b sequence data from 166 specimens of the subgenus Micoureus and delimit putative species using the multirate Poisson Tree Processes (mPTP) method. That analysis identifies 21 putative species, many of which can be matched with available names, including alstoni, constantiae, demerarae, limae, germana, meridae, paraguayana, parda, perplexa, phaea…

  • Mammalian Diversity and Matses Ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru Part 3

    Open AccessRobert S Voss, David W Fleck et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the American Museum…2019

    This report is the third in our monographic series on mammalian diversity and Matses ethnomammalogy in the Yavarí-Ucayali interfluvial region of northeastern Peru. Based on taxonomic analysis of specimens collected in the region, we document the occurrence of 19 species of marsupials in the genera Caluromys, Glironia, Hyladelphys, Marmosa, Monodelphis, Metachirus, Chironectes, Didelphis, Philander, Gracilinanus, and Marmosops. Our principal taxon…

  • Mammalian Diversity and Matses Ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru Part 2

    Open AccessRobert S Voss, David W FleckARTICLEBulletin of the American Museum…2017Cited by: 2References: 5

    This report continues our monographic analysis of mammalian diversity and Matses ethnomammalogy in the Yavarí-Ucayali interfluvial region of northeastern Peru. Based primarily on specimens collected in the region from 1926 to 2003, interviews with Matses hunters, and published sight surveys of large mammals, we document the local occurrence of 33 species of xenarthrans, carnivores, perissodactyls, artiodactyls (including cetaceans), and sirenians…

  • A Revision of the Didelphid Marsupial Genus Marmosops, Part 1. Species of the Subgenus Sciophanes

    Open AccessJuan F Díaz-Nieto, Juan F Díaz‐Nieto et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the American Museum…2016

    In this report, the first installment of a comprehensive revision of the didelphid marsupial genus Marmosops, we revise the species of the subgenus Sciophanes. Based on morphological character variation among almost 300 examined specimens—which we interpret in the context of a previously published analysis of molecular sequence data—this revision recognizes 12 valid species in three monophyletic species groups: the Parvidens Group (including M. p…

  • Mammalian Diversity and Matses Ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru Part 1

    Open AccessRobert S Voss, David W FleckARTICLEBulletin of the American Museum…2011

    This report is the first installment of a monographic study of mammalian diversity and ethnomammalogy in a sparsely inhabited rainforest region between the Yavarí and Ucayali rivers in northeastern Peru. Our study is based on several large collections of mammals (totaling about 3500 specimens) made at various localities in this region between 1926 and 2003, and on our long-term ethnobiological and linguistic fieldwork with the Matses, a Panoan-sp…

  • Species Limits and Phylogenetic Relationships in the Didelphid Marsupial Genus Thylamys Based on Mitochondrial DNA Sequences and Morphology

    Open AccessThomas C Giarla, Robert S Voss et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the American Museum…2010

    Species of the didelphid marsupial genus Thylamys, commonly known as fat-tailed mouse opossums, are broadly distributed in the open habitats of central and southern South America. In this report we examine species limits in the genus and infer phylogenetic relationships among Thylamys species using both molecular phylogenetic and morphological methods. We assessed species limits using a broad geographic sample of DNA sequences from the mitochondr…

  • A Revision of the Didelphid Marsupial Genus Marmosa Part 1. The Species in Tate's ‘Mexicana’ and ‘Mitis’ Sections and Other Closely Related Forms

    Open AccessRogério Vieira Rossi, Robert S Voss et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the American Museum…2010

    We revise the nominal species of mouse opossums currently synonymized with Marmosa mexicana Merriam, 1897, and M. robinsoni Bangs, 1898, which include all of the trans-Andean taxa currently assigned to the nominotypical subgenus of Marmosa. In addition, we redescribe two other species that appear to be closely related to M. mexicana and M. robinsoni based on morphological or molecular citeria: M. rubra Tate, 1931, and M. xerophila Handley and Gor…

  • Preface

    Open AccessRobert S Voss, Michael D CarletonARTICLEBulletin of the American Museum…2009

  • Chapter 11. The Six Opossums of Félix de Azara

    Open AccessRobert S Voss, Philip Myers et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the American Museum…2009

    Six species of Paraguayan didelphid marsupials (opossums) were described by the Spanish naturalist Félix de Azara (1742–1821), whose nontechnical accounts were the basis for Latin binomials in current use for several species. Unfortunately, some of Azara's descriptions are problematic and have long been a source of taxonomic confusion. In particular, the names currently used for two species of Thylamys are difficult to reconcile with Azara's text…

  • Phylogenetic Relationships and Classification of Didelphid Marsupials, an Extant Radiation of New World Metatherian Mammals

    Open AccessRobert S Voss, Sharon A JansaARTICLEBulletin of the American Museum…2009

    This report summarizes a decade of morphological and molecular research on the phylogenetic relationships of didelphid marsupials (opossums), a substantially intact radiation of New World metatherian mammals. We review the comparative morphology of Recent opossums, emphasizing those anatomical systems from which taxonomically useful information is available for the majority of living genera and species, namely the integument, cranium, and dentiti…

  • Phylogenetic Studies on Didelphid Marsupials Ii. Nonmolecular Data and New Irbp Sequences

    Open AccessRobert S Voss, Sharon A JansaARTICLEBulletin of the American Museum…2003

  • The Mammals of Paracou, French Guiana

    Open AccessRobert S Voss, Darrin P Lunde et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the American Museum…2001References: 3

    This report describes the results of nonvolant mammal inventory fieldwork at Paracou, a lowland rainforest locality in northern French Guiana, and concludes the faunal analysis introduced by our previous monograph on the bats of Paracou (Simmons and Voss, 1998). Working within a 3–km radius over the course of 202 sampling dates from 1991 to 1994, we recorded a total of 64 nonvolant species by conventional trapping, arboreal platform trapping, pit…

  • Biological Basis of Saki (Pithecia) Folk Species Recognized by the Matses Indians of Amazonian Perú

    Open AccessDavid W Fleck, Robert S Voss et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…1999Cited by: 3References: 25