Guy Graham Musser[1] (August 10, 1936 – October 2019)[1] was an American zoologist. His main research was in the field of the rodentsubfamilyMurinae, in which he has described many new species.
In the 1960s and 1970s he published numerous articles on squirrels, Neotominae and Murinae. In the 1970s he conducted a three-year expedition to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi where he discovered several new mice and rat species.[2] The results of this expedition are still not fully published.
In the early 1980s he published some of his most important works including Notes on systematics of Indo-Malayan murid rodents, and descriptions of new genera and species from Ceylon, Sulawesi, and the Philippines (1981), The giant rat of Flores and its relatives east of Borneo and Bali (1981), Crunomys and the small-bodied shrew rats native to the Philippine Islands and Sulawesi (Celebes) (1982) and Malaysian murids and the giant rat of Sumatra (1983, together with Cameron Newcomb). These works led to a change within the taxonomy of the Asian Murinae and to the splitting of the genus Rattus into several new genera.
Later he published many articles on various Asian and Australasian Murinae, and also some articles about Sigmodontinae, a subfamily of South American rodents.
1968: Musser, G. G. "A systematic study of the Mexican and Guatemalan gray squirrel: Sciurus aureogaster F. Cuvier (Rodentia: Sciuridae)". Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. 137: 1–112. hdl:2027.42/56381.
1982: Musser, G. G. "Crunomys and the small-bodied shrew rats native to the Philippine Islands". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 174: 1–95. hdl:2246/1021.
1983: Musser, G. G.; Newcomb, C. "Malaysian murids and the giant rat of Sumatra". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 175: 329–598. hdl:2246/572.
1992: Musser, G. G.; Heaney, M. R. "Philippine rodents: definitions of Tarsomys and Limnomys plus a preliminary assessment of phylogenetic patterns among native Philippine murines (Murinae, Muridae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 211: 1–138. hdl:2246/906.
1993/2005: Order Rodentia In: Don E. Wilson & DeAnn M. Reeder (eds): Mammal Species of the World (w/ Michael D. Carleton)[5]
1998: Musser, G. G.; Carleton, M. D.; Brothers, E. M.; Gardner, A. L. "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.
