Peter John Taylor

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Peter John Taylor (born January 25, 1963 in Zimbabwe ) is a South African Mammaloge of Zimbabwean origin. His main research interests are the African small mammals , especially bats , shrews and rodents .

Life

In 1981 Taylor began studying zoology at the University of Cape Town , where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1984 . From January 1985 to December 1990 he studied at the University of Natal in Durban , where he in 1991 with a thesis Infra Specific systematics of the yellow mongoose penicillata Cynictis for Ph.D. received his doctorate. From 1989 to 2010 he was curator of mammals and assistant director at the Durban Natural Science Museum . From 2010 to 2012 he was an associate professor and since 2012 he has been a professor at the University of Venda . Since 2013 he has headed the research chair “Biodiversity and Change in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve” at the University of Venda. Taylor serves on the editorial board of several international scientific journals, including Mammalia . He is a committee member in various scientific societies, including the International Federation of Mammalogists, where he was elected to the board from 2008 to 2013. From 2001 to 2003 he was in the specialist group for bats (Chiroptera) and since 2009 he has been active in the specialist group for non-volant small mammals of the IUCN Species Survival Group. In 2005 he was a founding member of the Southern African Society of Systematic Biology. From 2010 to 2012 he was President of the Zoological Society of Southern Africa .

In 2013 Taylor wrote the genus entry and the species contributions to the lamellar tooth rats ( Otomys ) in Kingdon's Mammals of Africa . In 2015 he published the book Rodents of Sub-Saharan Africa: A biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis together with Christiane Denys , Ara Monadjem and Fenton PD Cotterill . In 2017 he co-authored the chapter on the family of long-tailed mice (Muridae) in the seventh volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of the World, alongside Denys and Ken Aplin .

Taylor was among the first to describe several bat species, including Rhinolophus smithersi , Rhinolophus mossambicus , Rhinolophus cohenae and Rhinolophus mabuensis in 2012 , Neoromicia roseveari in 2013 and Otomops harrisoni in 2015 . In 2013 he was one of the first descriptors of the shrew Myosorex meesteri .

Fonts (selection)

  • Peter Taylor: The Smaller Mammals of Kwazulu-Natal . University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0869809426
  • Peter John Taylor: Bats of Southern Africa: Guide to Biology, Identification, and Conservation . University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg, 2000. ISBN 0-86980-982-2
  • Ara Monadjem, Peter John Taylor, Fenton PD Cotterill, M. 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. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ Ara Monadjem, Leigh Richards, Peter J. Taylor, Samantha Stoffberg: High diversity of pipistrelloid bats (Vespertilionidae: hypsugo, Neoromicia, and Pipistrellus) in a West African rainforest with the description of a new species . In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 167 (1), 2013, pp. 191-207. doi : 10.1111 / j.1096-3642.2012.00871.x
  3. ^ Taryn MC Ralph, Leigh Rosanne Richards, Peter J. Taylor, Melanie C. Napier, Jennifer M. Lamb: Revision of Afro-Malagasy Otomops (Chiroptera: Molossidae) with the description of a new Afro-Arabian species. Zootaxa, Vol. 4057, No 1, 2015
  4. ↑ Peter John Taylor, Teresa Catherine Kearney, Julian C Kerbis Peterhans, Roderick M Baxter, Sandi Willows-Munro: Cryptic diversity in forest shrews of the genus Myosorex from southern Africa, with the description of a new species and comments on Myosorex tenuis , Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Oxford University Press, 169 (4), 2013, pp. 881-902
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Peter John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African Mammaloge of Zimbabwean origin
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Zimbabwe