Ulyses FJ Pardiñas

Ulyses Francisco José Pardiñas (* 1969 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine mammalogist and paleontologist . His research focus is on recent and fossil genera and species from the subfamily Sigmodontinae .

Life

Pardiñas holds a Licenciatura in Life Sciences with a paleontological orientation and a PhD from the Natural Science Faculty of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata . Since 1999 he has been a research assistant at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). In 2001 he settled in Puerto Madryn in the Patagonian province of Chubut , where he head of research at Instituto de Diversidad y Evolución Austral of the Centro Nacional Patagónico is (CENPAT) and two collections care, the preparations of mammals and Gewöllproben include.

The research projects of Pardiñas include methods for determining the Sigmodontinae in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego , the collection of fossil Sigmodontinae and the reconstruction of their paleoenvironment , studies of recent representatives of the Sigmodontinae and their adaptation to environmental and climatic conditions as well as the taxonomy and systematics of the Sigmodontinae in the Mata Atlântica and similar biomes .

To carry out his projects, Pardiñas combines fossil and current information in a comprehensive morphological and genetic approach. He is supported by an extensive working network of scientists from the Universidad de Concepción in Chile , the Universidad de la República in Uruguay and various Argentine centers, including the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales , the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and the Instituto Miguel Lillo.

From 2005 to 2007 Pardiñas was President of the Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mamíferos (SAREM), from 2009 to 2014 he was editor-in-chief of the journal Mastozoología Neotropical .

Pardiñas is co-author of the books Mamiferos terrestres Patagonia - Sur de Argentina y Chile (with Juan Carlos Chebez, Pablo Teta and Dario Podesta, 2014) and Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents (with James L. Patton and Guillermo D'Elía) . In 2017, he was next to Philip Myers , Livia Leon Paniagua, Nicté Ordóñez Garza, Joseph Cook, Boris Krystufek , Rudolf Haslauer, Robert Bradley, Gregory Shenbrot and James L. Patton co-author of the chapter on Wühler (Cricetidae) in the seventh volume of Handbook of the Mammals of the World . He has also published over 200 articles in scientific journals and over 50 book chapters.

Pardiñas described, among others, the Argentina Ruschi rat ( Abrawayaomys chebezi ), the Man Andean field mouse ( Abothrix manni ), Myers prairie mouse ( Akodon philipmeyersi ), the polop prairie mouse ( Akodon polopi ), the lagiglia swamp rat ( Holochilus ), the Francisco tree oryzomys ( Oecomys Francis corum ), the Kirchner-viscacha rat ( tympanoctomys kirchnerorum ), the gorges grave mouse ( Oxymycterus wayku ) which Diamantina-Weißschwanz mouse ( Calassomys apicalis ) as well as the fossil genus Carletonomys .

In the course of his career, Pardiñas has received several awards for his work on mammals, including the Miguel Fernando Soria Prize of the Asociación Paleontológica Argentina in 1994/1995 , the Oliver P. Pearson Award of the American Society of Mammalogists in 2004, and in 2005 with the Premio Hermann Burmeister from the Academia Nacional de Ciencias , in 2016 and 2017 with the Premium Cabrera and in 2017 with the Premium SAREM of the Sociedad Argentina para el Estudio de los Mamíferos.

Dedication names

In the years 2006 and 2011 were nematode species Trichuris pardinasi and Litomosoides pardinasi by Ulyses FJ Pardiñas named.

Web links

• Profile at CENPAT (Spanish)
• Short biography on the website VIII Congreso Boliviano de Mastozoología y IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Mastozoología (Spanish)