Michael Westerman

Michael "Mike" Westerman, Australian mammalogist.

• Department of Environment and Genetics, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 1 taxon names authored by Michael Westerman

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1995

• Painter, J., Krajewski, C. & Westerman, M. 1995. Molecular phylogeny of the marsupial genus Planigale (Dasyuridae). Journal of Mammalogy 76(2): 406–413. DOI: 10.2307/1382351 Reference page. 

1999

• Westerman, M., Springer, M.S., Dixon, J. & Krajewski, C. 1999. Molecular Relationships of the Extinct Pig-Footed Bandicoot Chaeropus ecaudatus (Marsupialia: Perameloidea) Using 12S rRNA Sequences. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 6: 271–288. DOI: 10.1023/A:1020565724799 Reference page. 

2000

• Westerman, M. & Krajewski, C. 2000. Molecular relationships of the Australian bandicoot genera Isoodon and Perameles (Marsupialia: Peramelina). Australian Mammalogy 22(1): 1–8. DOI: 10.1071/AM00001 Reference page. 
• Krajewski, C., Blacket, M.J. & Westerman, M. 2000. DNA Sequence Analysis of Familial Relationships Among Dasyuromorphian Marsupials. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 7: 95–108. DOI: 10.1023/A:1009454515671 Reference page. 

2001

• Westerman, M., Springer, M.S. & Krajewski, C. 2001. Molecular Relationships of the New Guinean Bandicoot Genera Microperoryctes and Echymipera (Marsupialia: Peramelina). Journal of Mammalian Evolution 8: 93–105. DOI: 10.1023/A:1011302314000 Reference page. 

2003

• Krajewski, C. & Westerman, M. 2003. Molecular systematics of Dasyuromorphia. pp. 3–20 In: Jones, M., Dickman, C. & Archer, M. (eds.). Predators with pouches: the biology of carnivorous marsupials. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood, Australia. ISBN 978-0-643-06986-2 Reference page. 

2009

• Meredith, R.W., Westerman, M. & Springer, M.S. 2009. A phylogeny of Diprotodontia (Marsupialia) based on sequences for five nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 51(3): 554–571. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.02.009 Reference page. 

2016

• Westerman, M., Krajewski, C., Kear, B.P., Meehan, L., Meredith, R.W., Emerling, C.A. & Springer, M.S. 2016. Phylogenetic relationships of dasyuromorphian marsupials revisited. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176(3): 686–701. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12323 Reference page. 

2022

• Westerman, M., Loke, S., Tan, M.H. & Kear, B.P. 2022. Mitogenome of the extinct Desert ‘rat-kangaroo’ times the adaptation to aridity in macropodoids. Scientific Reports 12(1): 5829. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-09568-0 Reference page. 

2023

• Umbrello, L.S., Cooper, N.K., Adams, M., Travouillon, K.J., Baker, A.M., Westerman, M. & Aplin, K.P. 2023. Hiding in plain sight: two new species of diminutive marsupial (Dasyuridae: Planigale) from the Pilbara, Australia. Zootaxa 5330(1): 1–46. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.1.1 Reference page. 
• Westerman, M., Umbrello, L.S. & Woolley, P.A. 2023. On the composition of Antechinomys (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae): how many species?. Australian Journal of Zoology 70(3): 95–103. DOI: 10.1071/ZO22041 Reference page. 

2025

• Dodd, C.S., Catullo, R.A., Travouillon, K.J., Baker, A.M., Westerman, M. & Umbrello, L.S. 2025. Cryptic kultarr: Integrative taxonomy reveals unrecognized species of carnivorous marsupial (Dasyuridae: Antechinomys) in arid Australia. Ecology and Evolution 15(7): e71618. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.71618 Reference page.