Violaine Nicolas

Violaine Nicolas, French mammalogist.

• Department of Systematics and Evolution, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Ile de France, France.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 8 taxon names authored by Violaine Nicolas

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2008

• Nicolas, V., Wendelen, W., Barrière, P., Dudu, A. & Colyn, M. 2008. Morphometric variation in Hylomyscus alleni and H. stella (Rodentia: Muridae), and description of a new species. Journal of Mammalogy 89(1): 222–231. DOI: 10.1644/06-MAMM-A-286.1 Reference page. 

2010

• Nicolas, V., Olayemi, A., Wendelen, W. & Colyn, M. 2010. Mitochondrial DNA and morphometrical identification of a new species of Hylomyscus (Rodentia: Muridae) from West Africa. Zootaxa 2579(1): 30–44. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2579.1.2 Reference page. 

2011

• Kennis, J., Nicolas, V., Hulselmans, J., Katuala, P., Wendelen, W., Verheyen, E., Dudu, A.M. & Leirs, H. 2011. The impact of the Congo River and its tributaries on the rodent genus Praomys: speciation orgin or range expansion limit? Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163(3): 983–1002. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00733.x Reference page. 

2012

• Granjon, L., Colangelo, P., Tatard, C., Colyn, M., Dobigny, G. & Nicolas, V. 2012. Intrageneric relationships within Gerbilliscus (Rodentia, Muridae, Gerbillinae), with characterization of an additional West African species. Zootaxa 3325: 1–25. Preview 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. 
• Nicolas, V., Martínez-Vargas, J. & Hugot, J.-P. 2015. Preliminary note: Talpa aquitania nov. sp. (Talpidae, Soricomorpha) a new mole species from southwest France and north Spain. Bulletin de l'Académie Vétérinaire de France 4(4): 329–334. DOI: 10.4267/2042/58283 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

• Nicolas, V., Martínez-Vargas, J. & Hugot, J.-P. 2017. Talpa aquitania sp. nov. (Talpidae, Soricomorpha), a new mole species from SW France and N Spain. Mammalia 81(6): 641–642. DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2017-0057 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. 
• Nesi, N., Tsagkogeorga, G., Tsang, S.M., Nicolas, V., Lalis, A., Scanlon, A.T., Riesle-Sbarbaro, S.A., Wiantoro, S., Hitch, A.T., Juste, J., Pinzari, C.A., Bonaccorso, F.J., Todd, C.M., Lim, B.K., Simmons, N.B., McGowen, M.R. & Rossiter, S.J. 2021. Interrogating phylogenetic discordance resolves deep splits in the rapid radiation of Old World Fruit Bats (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Systematic Biology 70(6): 1077–1089. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syab013 Reference page. 
• Nicolas, V., Mikula, O., Lavrenchenko, L.A., Šumbera, R., Bartáková, V., Bryjová, A., Meheretu, Y., Verheyen, E., Missoup, A.D., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M. & Bryja, J. 2021. Phylogenomics of African radiation of Praomyini (Muridae: Murinae) rodents: First fully resolved phylogeny, evolutionary history and delimitation of extant genera. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 163: 107263. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107263 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.