• Dispersion fields reveal the compositional structure of South American vertebrate assemblages 

  Borregaard, Michael K.; Graves, Gary R.; Rahbek, Carsten (2020)

  The causes of continental patterns in species richness continue to spur heated discussion. Hypotheses based on ambient energy have dominated the debate, but are increasingly being challenged by hypotheses that model richness ...
• Fishes collected during the 2017 MarineGEO assessment of Kane'ohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i 

  Parenti, Lynne R.; Pitassy, Diane E.; Jaafar, Zeehan; Vinnikov, Kirill; Redmond, Niamh E.; Cole, Kathleen S. (2020)

  Abstract We report the results of a survey of the fishes of Kane'ohe Bay, O'ahu, conducted in 2017 as part of the Smithsonian Institution MarineGEO Hawaii bioassessment. We recorded 109 species in 43 families. The most ...
• The Gateways Project 2019: Excavations at Hart Chalet, Grand Isle, and Bonne Esperance 

  Fitzhugh, William W. (Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 2020)
• Collections Research Practicum in Cultural Anthropology 

  Shannon, Jen (University of Colorado, Boulder and Smithsonian Institute in Museum Anthropology, 2019)

  This course introduces students to collections research and exhibition content. The goal is to engage students in independent research and provide opportunities for them to think critically about collection and interpretation ...
• Arctic Studies Center Newsletter; no.26 

  Unknown author (2019)
• Arctic Studies Center Newsletter; No. 27 

  Unknown author (2020)
• Morphological and molecular taxonomy of <I>Timea</I> (Porifera: Timeidae) from the Gulf of Mexico with the description of a new species and re-description of <I>T. hechteli</I> 

  Cruz-Barraza, José A.; Vega, Cristina; Rützler, Klaus; Salas-Castañeda, Manuel (2020)

  Abstract We present the description of a new species of genus Timea and the re-description of T. hechteli from cryptic habitats in the Gulf of Mexico. Timea alcoladoi sp. nov. is an encrusting, pale orange sponge, with ...
• Comparative Analyses of Vertebrate Gut Microbiomes Reveal Convergence between Birds and Bats 

  Song, Se Jin; Sanders, Jon G.; Delsuc, Frédéric; Metcalf, Jessica; Amato, Katherine; Taylor, Michael W.; Mazel, Florent; Lutz, Holly L.; Winker, Kevin; Graves, Gary R.; Humphrey, Gregory; Gilbert, Jack A.; Hackett, Shannon J.; White, Kevin P.; Skeen, Heather R.; Kurtis, Sarah M.; Withrow, Jack; Braile, Thomas; Miller, Matthew; McCracken, Kevin G.; Maley, James M.; Ezenwa, Vanessa O.; Williams, Allison; Blanton, Jessica M.; McKenzie, Valerie J.; Knight, Rob (2020)

  Diet and host phylogeny drive the taxonomic and functional contents of the gut microbiome in mammals, yet it is unknown whether these patterns hold across all vertebrate lineages. Here, we assessed gut microbiomes from ...
• Two new species and two new combinations in Saphenista Walsingham from western North America (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). 

  Brown, John W. (2019)
• A new species of bat (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from the early Oligocene global cooling period, Brule Formation, North Dakota, USA 

  Czaplewski, Nicholas; Person, Jeff; Boyd, Clint; Emry, Robert (2019)

  We report the first confirmed fossil bats from North Dakota, including a new species referable to the Vespertilionidae represented by a maxilla with P4-M3 from the Brule Formation, Fitterer Ranch local fauna, early Oligocene, ...
• From Greenland to the Pacific: New International Program for the Centennial of the 5th Thule Expedition, 1921-1924 

  Krupnik, Igor (2019)

  In 2018, the Smithsonian Institution's Arctic Studies Center in Washington, D.C., together with partners from Canada, USA, Denmark, Greenland, and Russia began preparations for an international program dedicated to the ...
• The Gateways Project 2019. Excavations at Hart Chalet, Grand Isle, and Bonne Esperance 

  Fitzhugh, William W. (Smithsonian Institution, 2019)

  This report documents archaeological fieldwork along the Quebec Lower North Shore in the northeastern Gulf of St. Lawrence between Blanc Sablon and Mutton Bay in 2019. The Hart Chalet 17th century Inuit winter village ...
• In Search of Changing Tradition (Making of the First Volume of the Handbook of North American Indians Series) 

  Krupnik, Igor (2019)

  The paper presents almost 50-year story of the monumental series, Handbook of North American Indians produced by the Smithsonian Institution. The 20-volume series was started in 1966 and was originally planned to be published ...
• Type localities of Mexican land mammals, with comments on taxonomy and nomenclature 

  Gardner, Alfred L.; Ramirez-Pulido, Jose (2020)

  This report is a compilation of all species and subspecies names proposed for land mammals for which type localities are in Mexico. These names are organized alphabetically by state and listed under locality place names ...
• AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BORNEAN EARLESS MONITOR, LANTHANOTUS BORNEENSIS STEINDACHNER, 1877 

  Sprackland, Robert (Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, 2019-12-18)

  The bibliography of Lanthanotus is a chronological listing of published references of substance to Lanthanotus as of June 2018. I have not included citations that are extremely peripheral (e.g., a book that includes a ...
• An instance of Boiga dendrophila dendrophila (Boie, 1827) (Reptilia: Colubridae) being parasitized by Amblyomma helvolum Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae), with comments about the attachment sites of this tick species 

  Mao, Jean-Jay; Norval, Gerrut; Robbins, Richard G.; Wong, Siew Te (2019)
• Annotated List of the Hard Ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of New Jersey 

  Occi, James L.; Egizi, Andrea M.; Robbins, Richard G.; Fonseca, Dina M. (2019)
• A pictorial key to differentiate the recently detected exotic Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann, 1901 (Acari, Ixodidae) from native congeners in North America 

  Egizi, Andrea M.; Robbins, Richard G.; Beati, Lorenza; Nava, Santiago; Evans, Colleen R.; Occi, James L.; Fonseca, Dina M. (2019)

  Until recently, only two haemaphysaline species, Haemaphysalischordeilis (Packard, 1869) and Haemaphysalisleporispalustris (Packard, 1869), were known to occur in the United States, and neither was considered to be of ...
• Plant Cultivation and Domestication at the Vegas Sites: New Evidence from Starch Grain Studies of Human Teeth 

  Piperno, Dolores R. (University of Pittsburgh, 2020)
• Comparative functional skeletal morphology among three genera of shrews: implications for the evolution of locomotor behavior in the Soricinae (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) 

  Woodman, Neal; Wilken, Alec T. (2019)

  The clade comprising the soricid tribes Blarinellini (Blarinella) and Blarinini (Blarina and Cryptotis) is notable within the Soricidae (Eulipotyphla) for the large proportion of reportedly semifossorial species. To better ...

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