Alfred Lunt Gardner

Alfred Lunt Gardner (born November 10, 1937), U.S. mammalogist, primarily studying species of the western hemisphere.

Curator, New World Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Wildlife Biologist, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, United States Geological Survey, Laurel, Maryland

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Gardner, A.L. & Carter, D.C. 1972. A new stenodermine bat (Phyllostomatidae) from Peru. Occasional Papers, The Museum Texas Tech University 2: 1–4. BHL Reference page.
Gardner, A.L. & Patton, J.L. 1972. New species of Philander (Marsupialia: Didelphidae) and Mimon (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Peru. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology of Louisiana State University 43: 1–12. PDF Reference page.

Musser, G.G. & Gardner, A.L. 1974. A new species of the ichthyomyine Daptomys from Peru. American Museum Novitates 2537: 1–23. hdl: 2246/2740 Reference page.

Gardner, A.L. & Creighton, G.K. 1989. A new generic name for Tate's (1933) Microtarsus group of South American mouse opossums (Marsupialia: Didelphidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 102(1): 3–7. BHL Reference page.

Gardner, A.L. & Ferrell, C.S. 1990. Comments On The Nomenclature Of Some Neotropical Bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 103(3): 501–508. BHL Reference page.

Gardner, A.L. & Romo R., M. 1993. A new Thomasomys (Mammalia : Rodentia) from the Peruvian Andes. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 106(4): 762–774. BHL Reference page.
Leo L., M. & Gardner, A.L. 1993. A new species of a giant Thomasomys (Mammalia: Muridae: Sigmodontinae) from the Andes of northcentral Peru. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 106(3): 417–428. BHL Reference page.

Musser, G.G., Carleton, M.D., Brothers, E.M. & Gardner, A.L. 1998. Systematic studies of Oryzomyine rodents (Muridae, Sigmodontinae): diagnoses and distributions of species formerly assigned to Oryzomys "capito". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 236: 1–376. hdl: 2246/1630 Reference page.

Voss, R.S., Gardner, A.L. & Jansa, S.A. 2004. On the relationships of Marmosa formosa Shamel, 1930 (Marsupialia, Didelphidae), a phylogenetic puzzle from the Chaco of northern Argentina. American Museum Novitates 3442: 1–18. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2004)442<0001:OTROMF>2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/2807 Reference page.

Albuja V., L. & Gardner, A.L. 2005. A new species of Lonchophylla Thomas (Chiroptera: Phyllostomatidae) from Ecuador. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 118(2): 442–449. PDF Reference page.

Gardner, A.L. & Carleton, M.D. 2009. Chapter 5. A New Species of Reithrodontomys, Subgenus Aporodon (Cricetidae: Neotominae), from the Highlands of Costa Rica, with Comments on Costa Rican and Panamanian Reithrodontomys. In Voss, R.S. & Carleton, M.D. (eds.) Systematic Mammalogy: Contributions in Honor of Guy G. Musser. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 331: 157–182. DOI: 10.1206/582-5.1 ; hdl: 2246/6035 Reference page.
Velazco, P.M. & Gardner, A.L. 2009. Description of a new species of Platyrrhinus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from western Colombia and Ecuador, with emended diagnoses of Platyrrhinus aquilus and P. umbratus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 122(3): 249-281. DOI: 10.2988/08-40.1 Reference page.

Velazco, P.M., Gardner, A.L. & Patterson, B.D. 2010. Systematics of the Platyrrhinus helleri species complex (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), with descriptions of two new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 159(3): 785–812. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00610.x Reference page.

Velazco, P.M. & Gardner, A.L. 2012. A new species of Lophostoma d’Orbigny, 1836 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from Panama. Journal of Mammalogy 93(2): 605–614. DOI: 10.1644/11-MAMM-A-217.1 Reference page.

Moratelli, R., Gardner, A.L., Oliveira, J.A. & Wilson, D.E. 2013. Review of Myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) from northern South America, including description of a new species. American Museum Novitates 3780: 1–36. DOI: 10.1206/3780.2 ; hdl: 2246/6444 Reference page.

Tavares, V.C., Gardner, A. L., Ramírez-Chaves, H.E. & Velazco, P.M. 2014. Systematics of Vampyressa melissa Thomas, 1926 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), with descriptions of two new species of Vampyressa. American Museum Novitates 3813: 1–27. DOI: 10.1206/3813.1 Reference page.