Josep Antoni Alcover

Josep Antoni Alcover (aka Josep Antoni Alcover Tomás), Spanish ornithologist and paleontologist.

• Departament de Biodiversitat i Conservació, Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats, Cr Miquel Marquès 21, 07190 Esporles, Mallorca, Balearic Islands (Spain).
• Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Madrid
• Universitat de Barcelona, Departament de Biologia Animal

Taxon names authored (en)

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• 5 taxon names authored by Josep Antoni Alcover

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1981

• Mayol, J. & Alcover, J.A. 1981. Survival of Baleaphryne Sanchíz and Adrover, 1979 (Amphibia: Anura: Discoglossidae) on Mallorca. Amphibia-Reptilia 1(3): 343–345. DOI: 10.1163/156853881X00438 Reference page. 

1982

• Sanchíz, F.B. & Alcover, J.A. 1982. Un Nou discoglòssid "(Amphibia: Anura)"; de l’Holocè de Menorca. Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d’Història Natural. Secció de Geologia 48(3): 99–105. Reference page. 

1998

• Alcover, J.A., Campillo, X., Macias, M. & Sans, A. 1998. Mammal species of the world: additional data on insular mammals. American Museum Novitates 3248: 1–29. hdl: 2246/3233 Reference page. 

2012

• Rando, J.C., Pieper, H., Alcover, J.A. & Olson, S.L. 2012. A new species of extinct fossil scops owl (Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae: Otus) from the Archipelago of Madeira (North Atlantic Ocean). Zootaxa 3182: 29–42. Preview Reference page. 

2013

• Rando, J.C., Alcover, J.A., Olson, S.L. & Pieper, H. 2013. A new species of extinct scops owl (Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae: Otus) from São Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago, North Atlantic Ocean). Zootaxa 3647(2): 343–357. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.6 Reference page. 

2015

• Alcover, J.A., Pieper, H., Pereira, F. & Rando, J.C. 2015. Five new extinct species of rails (Aves: Gruiformes: Rallidae) from the Macaronesian Islands (North Atlantic Ocean). Zootaxa 4057(2): 151–200. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.1. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

2016

• Alcover, J.A., Pieper, H., Pereira, F. & Rando, J.C. 2016. Rallus nanus nomen novum: a replacement name for Rallus minutus Alcover et al. 2015. Zootaxa 4085(1): 141–142. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.8 Reference page. 

2017

• Rando, J.C., Pieper, H., Olson, S.L., Pereira, F. & Alcover, J.A. 2017. A new extinct species of large bullfinch (Aves: Fringillidae: Pyrrhula) from Graciosa Island (Azores, North Atlantic Ocean). Zootaxa 4282(3): 567–583. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4282.3.9. Reference page. 

2021

• Torres-Roig, E., Mitchell, K.J., Alcover, J.A., Martínez-Freiría, F., Bailón, S., Heiniger, H., Williams, M.P., Cooper, A., Pons, J. & Bover, P. 2021. Origin, extinction and ancient DNA of a new fossil insular viper: molecular clues of overseas immigration. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192(1): 144–168. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa094 Reference page.