Michael D. Carleton

Michael Dean Carleton (born December 27, 1944 in Decatur , Illinois ) is an American zoologist. His research focus is mammalogy , especially the order of rodents (Rodentia).

Life

Carleton completed from 1962 to 1966 a degree in biology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst , from which he completed a Bachelor of Science. To obtain his doctorate , he attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 1968 to 1973 and from 1977 to 1979 , where he wrote his Phylogenetic Relationships in Neotomine-Peromyscine Rodents and a Reappraisal of the Dichotomy in New World Cricetinae. for Ph.D. PhD.

In 1966 he received a scholarship under the National Defense Education Act , with which he taught at the Department of Zoology at the University of Massachusetts until 1968 . In 1969 he was a visiting lecturer in the Department of Zoology at the University of Michigan. In 1970 he became a research fellow at the University of Michigan's Museum of Zoology and in 1973 he was appointed manager of the museum's mammal collection, where he worked until 1978. In 1979 he moved to Washington DC, where he accepted a position as assistant curator in the vertebrate zoology department at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History . From 1982 he started as a research assistant in the department of mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, at the same time he continued his work at the Smithsonian Institution.

Carleton's particular interest is the systematics of rodents as well as their anatomy, their biological function and their phylogenetic analysis. He is also a passionate nature photographer. For his research he traveled to Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and the United States.

In 1993 and 2005, Carleton and Guy Musser wrote the section on the order of rodents in the reference work Mammal Species of the World , in which numerous genera and species were revised.

Carleton is a member of the American Society of Mammalogists , the Society for the Study of Evolution, and the Society of Systematic Zoology .

Dedication names

2009 named Steven M. Goodman and his colleagues Bilchschwanzart Eliurus carle toni in honor of Michael D. Carleton.

literature

• Matthew C. Perry: Washington Biologists' Field Club Member Biography

Web links

• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History employee profile
• List of publications by Michael D. Carleton at Google Scholar