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Education

Ph.D. (Systematics and Ecology): University of Kansas, 1992
M.Phil. (Systematics and Ecology): University of Kansas, 1986
M.S. (Geology): University of Iowa, 1982
B.A. (Geology): Earlham College, 1980

Research Interests

Taxonomy, phylogenetic systematics, and biogeography of mammals, with a focus on shrews and bats; membership and community structure of tropical mammalian faunas.

Recent Publications

Sargis, Eric J., Woodman, Neal, Reese, Aspen T. and Olson, Link E. 2013. Using hand proportions to test taxonomic boundaries within the Tupaia glis species complex (Scandentia, Tupaiidae). Journal of Mammalogy, 94(1): 183-201. doi:10.1644/11-MAMM-A-343.1

Feinstein, Sandy and Woodman, Neal 2012. Shrews, Rats, and a Polecat in the "Pardoner's Tale". In: Van Dyke, Carolynn, Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts: The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, pp.49-66.

Woodman, Neal 2012. This shrew is a jumping mouse (Mammalia, Dipodidae): Sorex dichrurus Rafinesque, 1833 is a synonym of Zapus hudsonius (Zimmermann, 1780). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 125(3): 308-316. doi:10.2988/12-05.1

Woodman, Neal 2012. Taxonomic status and relationships of Sorex obscurus parvidens Jackson, 1921, from California. Journal of mammalogy, 93(3): 826-838. doi:10.1644/11-MAMM-A-354.1

Woodman, Neal, Matson, John O., McCarthy, Timothy J., Eckerlin, Ralph P., Bulmer, Walter and Ordóñez-Garza, Nicté 2012. Distributional records of shrews (Mammalia, Soricomorpha) from northern Central America, with the first record of Sorex from Honduras. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 80(3): 207-237.

Woodman, Neal 2011. Patterns of morphological variation among semi-fossorial shrews in the highlands of Guatemala, with the description of a new species (Mammalia, Soricomorpha, Soricidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 163(4): 1267-1288.

Woodman, Neal 2011. Nomenclatural notes and identification of small-eared shrews (Mammalia: genus Cryptotis) from Cobán, Guatemala, in the Natural History Museum, London. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 124(4): 249-258.

Woodman, Neal and Stephens, Ryan B. 2010. At the foot of the shrew: manus morphology distinguishes closely-related Cryptotis goodwini and Cryptotis griseoventris (Mammalia: Soricidae) in Central America. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 99(1): 118-134.

Woodman, Neal 2010. History and dating of the publication of the Philadelphia (1822) and London (1823) editions of the Edwin James's Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains. Archives of Natural History, 37(1): 28-38.

Woodman, Neal 2010. Two new species of shrews (Soricidae) from the western highlands of Guatemala. Journal of mammalogy, 91(3): 566-579.

Woodman, Neal and Beavan Athfield, Nancy 2009. Post-Clovis survival of American Mastodon in the southern Great Lakes Region of North America. Quaternary Research, 72(3): 359-363.

Woodman, Neal 2009. The Stephen H. Long Expedition (1819–1820), Titian R. Peale’s field illustrations, and the lost holotypes of the North American shrews Sorex brevicaudus Say and Sorex parvus Say (Mammalia: Soricidae) from the Philadelphia Museum. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 122(1): 117-129.

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