Jacob A. Esselstyn

Jacob A. Esselstyn, U.S. zoologist

Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, 119 Foster Hall, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

& Goodman, S.M. 2010. New species of shrew (Soricidae: Crocidura) from Sibuyan Island, Philippines. Journal of Mammalogy 91(6): 1467–1472. DOI: 10.1644/10-MAMM-A-002.1 Reference page.

Stanley, W.T., Robbins, L.W., Malekani, J.M., Gambalemoke Mbalitini, S., Migurimu, D.A., Mukinzi, J.C., Hulselmans, J., Prévot, V., Verheyen, E., Hutterer, R., Doty, J.B., Monroe, B.P., Nakazawa, Y.J., Braden, Z., Carroll, D., Kerbis Peterhans, J.C., Bates, J.M. & 2013. A new hero emerges: another exceptional mammalian spine and its potential adaptive significance. Biology letters 9(5) DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0486 Reference page.

, Achmadi, A.S. & Maharadatunkamsi 2014. A new species of shrew (Soricomorpha: Crocidura) from West Java, Indonesia. Journal of Mammalogy 95(2): 216–224. DOI: 10.1644/13-MAMM-A-215 Reference page.
Heaney, L.R., Balete, D.S., Veluz, M.J., Steppan, S.J., , Pfeiffer, A.W. & Rickart, E.A. 2014. Two new species of Philippine forest mice (Apomys, Muridae, Rodentia) from Lubang and Luzon Islands, with a redescription of Apomys sacobianus Johnson, 1962. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 126(4): 395–413. DOI: 10.2988/0006-324X-126.4.395 Reference page.
Rowe, K.C., Achmadi, A.S. & 2014. Convergent evolution of aquatic foraging in a new genus and species (Rodentia: Muridae) from Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. Zootaxa 3815(4): 541–564. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3815.4.5 ResearchGate Reference page.

Stanley, W.T., Hutterer, R., Giarla, T.C. & 2015. Phylogeny, phylogeography and geographical variation in the Crocidura monax (Soricidae) species complex from the montane islands of Tanzania, with descriptions of three new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174(1): 185-215. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12230 Reference page.
, Achmadi, A.S., Handika, H. & Rowe, K.C. 2015. A Hog-Nosed Shrew Rat (Rodentia: Muridae) from Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. Journal of Mammalogy 96(5): 895–907. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyv093 ResearchGate Reference page.

Rowe, K.C., Achmadi, A.S. & 2016. A new genus and species of omnivorous rodent (Muridae: Murinae) from Sulawesi, nested within a clade of endemic carnivores. Journal of Mammalogy 97(3): 978–991. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyw029 Reference page.

Demos, T.C., Achmadi, A.S., Handika, H., Maharadatunkamsi, Rowe, K.C. & 2016 [2017]. A new species of shrew (Soricomorpha: Crocidura) from Java, Indonesia: possible character displacement despite interspecific gene flow. Journal of Mammalogy 98(1): 183–193. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyw183 Reference page.

, Achmadi, A.S., Handika, H., Giarla, T.C., & Rowe, K.C. 2019. A new climbing shrew from Sulawesi highlights the tangled taxonomy of an endemic radiation . Journal of Mammalogy 100(6):1713–1725. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyz077 PDF Reference page.
Rickart, E.A., Balete, D.S., Timm, R.M., Alviola, P.A., & Heaney, L.R. 2019. Two new species of shrew-rats (Rhynchomys: Muridae: Rodentia) from Luzon Island, Philippines. Journal of Mammalogy 100(4): 1112–1129. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyz066 Reference page.

Handika, H., Achmadi, A.S., & Rowe, K.C. 2021. Molecular and morphological systematics of the Bunomys division (Rodentia: Muridae), an endemic radiation on Sulawesi. Zoologica Scripta 50(2): 141–154. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12460 Reference page.

Nations, J.A., Giarla, T.C., Morni, M.A., Dee, J.W., Swanson, M.T., Hiller, A.E., Khan, F.A.A. & 2022. Molecular data from the holotype of the enigmatic Bornean Black Shrew, Suncus ater Medway, 1965 (Soricidae, Crocidurinae), place it in the genus Palawanosorex. Zookeys 1137: 17–31. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1137.94217 Reference page.

Nations, J.A., Handika, H., Mursyid, A., Busta, R.D., Apandi, Achmadi, A.S. & 2024. Three new shrews (Soricidae: Crocidura) from West Sumatra, Indonesia: elevational and morphological divergence in syntopic sister taxa. Journal of Mammalogy 105(2): 372–389. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyad126 Reference page.

Hutterer, R., Swanson, M.T., & Heaney, L.R. 2025. Supplemental materials for 'The shrew of Nagaland : a remarkable new genus and species from northeast India, with a discussion of the phylogeny and classification of the Soricidae (Mammalia) (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 474)'. DOI: 10.5531/sd.sp.75 Reference page.
Giarla, T.C., Achmadi, A.S., Fabre, P.-H., Handika, H.H., Chipps, A.S., Swanson, M.T., Nations, J.A., Morni, M.A., William-Dee, J., Inayah, N., Dwijayanti, E., Nurdin, M.R.T.J.P., Griffin, K.E., Khan, F.A.A., Heaney, L.R., Rowe, K.C. & 2025. Systematics and historical biogeography of Crunomys and Maxomys (Muridae: Murinae), with the description of a new species from Sulawesi and new genus-level classification. Journal of Mammalogy 106(4): 832–858. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyaf006 Reference page.