Robert James Baker

Robert James Baker (1942–2018), U.S. mammalogist.

Museum and Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States.

Taxon names authored

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Baker, R.J. & Genoways, H.H. 1975. A new subspecies of Geomys bursarius (Mammalia: Geomyidae) from Texas and New Mexico. Occasional papers, Museum of Texas Tech University 29: 1–18. BHL Reference page.
Genoways, H.H. & Baker, R.J. 1975. A New Species of Eptesicus from Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Occasional papers, Museum of Texas Tech University 34: 1–7. BHL Reference page.

Baker, R.J., O’Neill, M.B. & McAliley, L.R. 2003. A new species of desert shrew, Notiosorex, based on nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data. Occasional Papers, Museum of Texas Tech University 222: i + 1–12. BHL Reference page.
Hoffmann, F.G., Owen, J.G. & Baker, R.J. 2003. mtDNA perspective of chromosomal diversification and hybridization in Peters’ tent-making bat (Uroderma bilobatum: Phyllostomidae). Molecular Ecology 12(11): 2981–2993. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2003.01959.x Reference page.

O’Neill, M.B., Nagorsen, D.W. & Baker, R.J. 2005. Mitochondrial DNA variation in water shrews (Sorex palustris, Sorex bendirii) from western North America: implications for taxonomy and phylogeography. Canadian Journal of Zoology 83(11): 1469–1475. DOI: 10.1139/z05-146 Reference page.

Solari, S. & Baker, R.J. 2006. Mitochondrial DNA sequence, karyotypic, and morphological variation in the _Carollia castanea_ species complex (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), with description of a new species. Occasional Papers, Museum of Texas Tech University 254:1-16. BHL Reference page.

McAliley, L.R., O’Neill, M.B. & Baker, R.J. 2007. Molecular evidence for genetic subdivisions in the desert shrew, Notiosorex crawfordi. The Southwestern Naturalist 52(3): 410–417. DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2007)52[410:MEFGSI]2.0.CO;2 Reference page.

Baird, A.B., Marchán-Rivadeneira, M.R., Pérez, S.G. & Baker, R.J. 2012. Morphological analysis and description of two new species of Rhogeessa (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from the Neotropics. Special Publications, Museum of Texas Tech University 307: 1–25. BHL Reference page.

Korstian, J.M., Stevens, R.D., Lee, Jr., T.E., Baker, R.J. & Ray, D.A. 2024. Unraveling the Myotis morass: ultraconserved-element analysis reveals introgression, cryptic diversity, and taxonomic trouble. Journal of Mammalogy 105(2): 259–276. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyad119 Reference page.

Genoways, H.H., Bradley, R.D., Schmidly, D.J., Bradley, L.C., Bull, J.J., McBee, K., Hamilton, M. & Larsen, P.A. 2018. Obituary: Robert James Baker (1942–2018). Journal of Mammalogy 99(4): 983–1012. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyy072