Fenton Peter David Cotterill

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Fenton Peter David "Woody" Cotterill (born September 6, 1964 in Shurugwi , Zimbabwe ) is a Zimbabwean biologist. His main research interests are mammals .

Life

Cotterill obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Cape Town in South Africa in 1986 . From 1992 to 2004 he was curator for mammals at the Natural History Museum in Bulawayo , Zimbabwe. This was followed by a scientific collaboration within the Africa Earth Observatory Network (AEON) and in the geosciences, molecular biology and cell biology departments at the University of Cape Town. In 2006 he was with the dissertation The evolutionary history and taxonomy of the species Kobus leche complex of South-Central Africa in the context of palaeo-drainage dynamics at the University of Stellenbosch for Ph.D. PhD. In the same year he became a research assistant at the University of Cape Town.

In 2002, Cotterill wrote the first scientific description of the Sakeji horseshoe bat ( Rhinolophus sakejiensis ). In 2003 he described the Bangweulu Sassaby , which is considered by some scientists to be the subspecies Damaliscus lunatus superstes of the Sassaby . Two years later, Cotterill introduced the Upemba litchi , which in turn is partially considered a subspecies ( Kobus leche anselli ) of the lychee . In 2010 he was involved in the work Bats of Southern and Central Africa: A Biogeographic and Taxonomic Synthesis alongside Peter John Taylor, Ara Monadjem and M. Corrie Schoeman . In 2012, Cotterill was one of the first to describe the four bat species Rhinolophus smithersi , Rhinolophus mossambicus , Rhinolophus cohenae and Rhinolophus mabuensis, alongside Peter John Taylor, M. Corrie Schoeman and Ara Monadjem . In 2013, together with Meredith Happold , he wrote the sections on the families of the horseshoe bat (Rhinolophidae) and the bulldog bat (Molossidae) in Kingdons Mammals of Africa . In 2015 he co-authored the book Rodents of Sub-Saharan Africa: A biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis alongside Christiane Denys , Ara Monadjem and Peter John Taylor . In 2016, he described the species Nothobranchius sainthousei from the genus of the lavender from Luapula in northern Zambia. Cotterill was also involved in a high-profile debate on the hornbeam taxonomy that sparked a systematic revision by Colin P. Groves and Peter Grubb in 2011.

Fonts (selection)

  • Fenton PD Cotterill: Notes on mammal collections and biodiversity conservation in the Ikelenge Pedicle, Mwinilunga district, northwest Zambia , 2001
  • Fenton PD Cotterill: Species concepts and the real diversity of antelopes. In: A. Plowman (Ed.): Ecology and Conservation of Mini-antelope: Proceedings of an International Symposium on Duiker and Dwarf Antelope in Africa. Fuerth. 2003, pp. 59-118
  • Ara Monadjem, Peter John Taylor , Fenton PD Cotterill, Martinus Corrie Schoeman: Bats of Southern and Central Africa: A Biogeographic and Taxonomic Synthesis , Witwatersrand University Press, South Africa, 2010, ISBN 1-86814-508-5 . (2nd edition 2013)
  • Ara Monadjem, Christiane Denys, Peter J. Taylor, Fenton PD Cotterill: Rodents of Sub-Saharan Africa: A biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis , De Gruyter, 2015. ISBN 3-11-030166-0

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FPD Cotterill: A new species of horseshoe bat (Microchiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from south-central Africa: with comments on its affinities and evolution, and the characterization of rhinolophid species. Journal of Zoology, London 256, 2002, pp. 165-179.
  2. ↑ Fenton PD Cotterill: Insights into the taxonomy of tsessebe antelopes Damaliscus lunatus (Bovidae: Alcelaphini) with the description of a new evolutionary species in south-central Africa. Durban Museum Novitates 28, 2003, pp. 11-30.
  3. ↑ Patrick Duncan: Damaliscus lunatus. In: Jonathan Kingdon, David Happold, Michael Hoffmann, Thomas Butynski, Meredith Happold, Jan Kalina (eds.): Mammals of Africa. Volume VI: Hippopotamuses, Pigs, Deer, Giraffe and Bovids. A&C Black, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4081-2257-0 , pp. 502-510
  4. ^ Fenton PD Cotterill: The Upemba lechwe, Kobus anselli: an antelope new to science emphasizes the conservation importance of Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo. Journal of Zoology, London 265, 2005, pp. 113-132
  5. ↑ Richard Jeffrey and Rory Nefdt: Kobus leche. In: Jonathan Kingdon, David Happold, Michael Hoffmann, Thomas Butynski, Meredith Happold, Jan Kalina (eds.): Mammals of Africa. Volume VI: Hippopotamuses, Pigs, Deer, Giraffe and Bovids. A&C Black, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4081-2257-0 , pp. 449-455
  6. ↑ Peter J. Taylor, Samantha Stoffberg, Ara Monadjem, Martinus Corrie Schoeman, Julian Bayliss, Fenton PD Cotterill: Four New Bat Species (Rhinolophus hildebrandtii Complex) Reflect Plio-Pleistocene Divergence of Dwarfs and Giants across an Afromontane Archipelago. PLoS ONE 7 (9): e41744, pp. 1-23. doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0041744
  7. ↑ Bela Nagy, Fenton PD Cotterill, Dirk U. Bellstedt: Nothobranchius sainthousei, a new species of annual killifish from the Luapula River drainage in northern Zambia (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 27 (3), 2016, pp. 233-254.
  8. ↑ Spartaco Gippoliti, Fenton PD Cotterill and Colin P. Groves: Mammal taxonomy without taxonomists: a reply to Zachos and Lovari. Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy 24 (2), 2013, pp. 145-147
  9. ↑ Fenton PD Cotterill, Peter J. Taylor, Spartaco Gippoliti, Jaqueline M. Bishop and Colin P. Groves: Why One Century of Phenetics is Enough: Response to "Are There Really Twice As Many Bovid Species As We Thought?" Systematic Biology 63 (5), 2014, pp. 819-832
  10. ↑ Colin Groves and Peter Grubb: Ungulate Taxonomy. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011, pp. 1-317 (pp. 108-280)
personal data
SURNAME Cotterill, Fenton Peter David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cotterill, Woody (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Zimbabwean biologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Shurugwi , Zimbabwe