Guy G. Musser

Guy Graham Musser (August 10, 1936 – October 2019) The results of this expedition are still not fully published.

In the early 1980s he published some of his most important works including Notes on systematics of Indo-Malayan murid rodents, and descriptions of new genera and species from Ceylon, Sulawesi, and the Philippines (1981), The giant rat of Flores and its relatives east of Borneo and Bali (1981), Crunomys and the small-bodied shrew rats native to the Philippine Islands and Sulawesi (Celebes) (1982) and Malaysian murids and the giant rat of Sumatra (1983, together with Cameron Newcomb). These works led to a change within the taxonomy of the Asian Murinae and to the splitting of the genus Rattus into several new genera.

Later he published many articles on various Asian and Australasian Murinae, and also some articles about Sigmodontinae, a subfamily of South American rodents.

Musser was among the authors of the publication Mammal Species of the World (1993 and 2005) where he co-wrote the section about the order Rodentia in collaboration with Michael D. Carleton. He also frequently contributed to the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Guy Musser is married to Mary Ellen Holden, a zoologist herself and directress of the Upper Elementary in the Trinity Montessori Christian School in Charleston, South Carolina. They have three children and live on James Island (South Carolina).

Guy Musser received the Clinton Hart Merriam Award of the American Society of Mammalogists in 1992.

Musser died on October 20, 2019, in Windermere, Florida. He is remembered eponymously in the names of several mammals, including the rodents Coryphomys musseri, Neacomys musseri, Pattonimus musseri, Pseudohydromys musseri, Reithrodontomys musseri, Soricomys musseri and Volemys musseri, and also in the shrew Crocidura musseri.

Selected works 1968: 1981: 1982: 1983: 1992: 1993/2005: Order Rodentia In: Don E. Wilson & DeAnn M. Reeder (eds): Mammal Species of the World (w/ Michael D. Carleton) 1998: