Christiane Denys

Christiane Denys (1958–), French mammalogist and palaeontologist.

• Institut de Systématique et Evolution de la Biodiversité, ISYEB UMR 7205 CNRS, MNHN, SU, MNHN, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 11 taxon names authored by Christiane Denys

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1994

• Denys, C., Gautun, J.-C., Tranier, M. & Volobouev, V. 1994. Evolution of the genus Acomys (Rodentia, Muridae) from dental and chromosomal patterns. Israel Journal of Zoology 40(2): 215–246. DOI: 10.1080/00212210.1994.10688749 Reference page. 

1995

• Denys, C., Michaux, J., Catzeflis, F.M., Ducrocq, S. & Chevret, P. 1995. Morphological and molecular data against the monophyly of Dendromurinae (Muridae: Rodentia). Bonner zoologische Beiträge 45(3–4): 173–190. BHL Reference page. 

2002

• Lecompte, É., Granjon, L. & Denys, C. 2002. The phylogeny of the Praomys complex (Rodentia: Muridae) and its phylogeographic implications. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 40(1): 8–25. DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0469.2002.00172.x Reference page. 
• Lecompte, É., Granjon, L., Kerbis Peterhans, J.C. & Denys, C. 2002. Cytochrome b-based phylogeny of the Praomys group (Rodentia, Murinae): a new African radiation? Comptes rendus. Biologies 325(7): 827–840. DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0691(02)01488-9 Reference page. 

2003

• Denys, Ch., Viriot, L., Daams, R., Peláez-Campomanes, P., Vignaud, P., Andossa, L. & Brunet, M. 2003. A new pliocene xerine sciurid (Rodentia) from Kossom Bougoudi, Chad. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3): 676–687. DOI: 10.1671/2311 Reference page. 
• van der Straeten, E., Lecompte, É. & Denys, C. 2003. Praomys petteri: une nouvelle espèce des Muridae africains (Mammalia, Rodentia). Bonner zoologische Beiträge 50(4): 329–345. BHL Reference page. 

2005

• Veyrunes, F., Britton-Davidian, J., Robinson, T.J., Calvet, E., Denys, C. & Chevret, P. 2005. Molecular phylogeny of the African pygmy mice, subgenus Nannomys (Rodentia, Murinae, Mus): implications for chromosomal evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 36(2): 358–369. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2005.02.011 Reference page. 

2008

• Lecompte, É., Aplin, K.P., Denys, C., Catzeflis, F.M., Chades, M. & Chevret, P. 2008. Phylogeny and biogeography of African Murinae based on mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences, with a new tribal classification of the subfamily. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8(199): 1–21. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-199 Reference page. 

2011

• Denys, C., Lalis, A., Lecompte, É., Cornette, R., Moulin, S., Makundi, R.H., Machang'u, R.S., Volobouev, V. & Aniskin, V.M. 2011. A faunal survey in Kingu Pira (south Tanzania), with new karyotypes of several small mammals and the description of a new murid species (Mammalia, Rodentia). Zoosystema 33(1): 5–47. DOI: 10.5252/z2011n1a1 Reference page. 

2012

• Denys, C. & Aniskin, V. 2012. On a new species of Dendromus (Rodentia, Nesomyidae) from Mount Nimba, Guinea. Mammalia 76(3): 295–308. DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2011-0012 Reference page. 

2013

• Jacquet, F., Hutterer, R., Nicolas, V., Decher, J., Colyn, M., Coulox, A. & Denys, C. 2013. New status for two African giant forest shrews Crocidura goliath goliath and C. goliath nimbasilvanus (Mammalia, Soricomorpha) inferred from molecular and geometic morphometric analyses. African Zoology 48(1): 13–29. DOI: 10.3377/004.048.0108 Reference page. 

2015

• Ceríaco, L.M.P., Marques, M.P., Jacquet, F., Nicolas, V., Colyn, M., Denys, C., Sardinha, P.C. & Bastos-Silveira, C. 2015. Description of a new endemic species of shrew (Mammalia, Soricomorpha) from Príncipe Island (Gulf of Guinea). Mammalia 79(3): 325–341. DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2014-0056 Reference page. 
• Monadjem, A., Taylor, P.J., Denys, C. & Cotterill, F.D.P. 2015. Rodents of Sub-Saharan Africa. A biogeographic and taxonomic synthesis. De Gruyter: Berlin. 1092 pp. ISBN 9783110301663 Reference page. 

2016

• Missoup, A.D., Nicolas, V., Eiseb, S., Chung, E.K. & Denys, C. 2016. Phylogenetic position of the endemic Mount Oku rat, Lamottemys okuensis (Rodentia: Muridae), based on molecular and morphological data. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177(1): 209–226. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12361 Reference page. 

2017

• Denys, C., Lecompte, É., Dubois, A. & Taylor, P.J. 2017. Diagnoses and contents of new African and Eurasian Murinae (Rodentia, Muridae) tribes. Dumerilia 7: 82–90. PDF Reference page. 

2021

• Mikula, O., Nicolas, V., Šumbera, R., Konečný, A., Denys, C., Verheyen, E., Bryjová, A., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M. & Bryja, J. 2021. Nuclear phylogenomics, but not mitogenomics, resolves the most successful Late Miocene radiation of African mammals (Rodentia: Muridae: Arvicanthini). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 157: 107069. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107069 Reference page. 
• Voelker, G., Huntley, J.W., Bryja, J., Denys, C., Šumbera, R., Demos, T.C., Lavrenchenko, L.A., Nicolas, V., Gnoske, T.P. & Kerbis Peterhans, J.K. 2021. Molecular systematics and biogeographic history of the African climbing-mouse complex (Dendromus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 161: 107166. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107166 Reference page. 

2025

• Denys, C., Bryjová, A. & Bryja, J. 2025. Phylogenetic position of Leimacomys, an enigmatic African rodent genus, reconsidered in the light of morphological and its first genetic data. Mammalia 89(2): 207–219. DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2024-0040 Reference page. 
• Bryja, J., Kerbis Peterhans, J.K., Lavrenchenko, L.A., Nicolas, V., Denys, C., Bryjová, A., Šumbera, R. & Mikula, O. 2024. Integrative taxonomic revision of the African thicket rats (Murinae: Grammomys): how genomics decreases the number of currently recognized species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 206(2): zlae057. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae057 Reference page. 

2026

• Voet, I., Delapre, A., Denys, C., Lalis, A., Cornette, R. & Nicolas, V. 2026. Integrative taxonomy resolves a new West African Crocidura (Mammalia: Soricidae) species, cryptic to Crocidura grandiceps in color, but distinct in size. European Journal of Taxonomy 1039(1): 297–322. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1039.3197 Reference page.