Connor Burgin
connorjburgin.bsky.social
Connor Burgin
@connorjburgin.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the University of New Mexico. I’m a little to into mammals, especially evolution and systematics! he/him
Reposted by Connor Burgin
Taxonomic revision of the Long-tailed Mole (Talpidae: Scaptonyx) with description of a new species from the Gaoligong Mountains
doi.org/10.1093/jmam...
Taxonomic revision of the Long-tailed Mole (Talpidae: Scaptonyx) with description of a new species from the Gaoligong Mountains
We reviewed the journey of Armand David from 1868 to 1869. On these grounds, we clarify the type locality of Scaptonyx fusicauda Milne-Edwards, 1872 within
doi.org
March 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Checkout out the new MDD v2.0 website and our preprint publication making the announcement! Over 7 years of work from the MDD team went into this, and we hope the mammal community is able to benefit from these efforts!
Does your feed need more MAMMALS?! Just in time for #2025MMM, we have what you need:

All new v2.0 of the Mammal Diversity Database just launched!

What's new?
- Preprint on MDD2: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Re-vamped website: mammaldiversity.org
- 50,230 species-level synonyms
- 6,759 species total
March 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM