Robert S. Voss
Curator
PhD, University of Michigan (1983)
212-769-5482
voss@amnh.org
Adjunct Positions
  • Adjunct Professor,
    City University of New York
  • Adjunct Senior Research Faculty,
    Columbia University
Research Interests
  • Phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeography of marsupials
  • Systematics and biogeography of Neotropical mammals
  • Theory and practice of biological inventory and diversity estimation
  • Revisionary taxonomy of didelphids, sigmodontines, and erethizontids
Selected Publications
in press Simmons, N.B. and R.S. Voss. In press. Collection, preparation, and fixation of specimens and tissues. In: Ecological and behavioral methods for the study of bats, 2nd Edition (T. H. Kunz and S. Parsons, eds.). Johns Hopkins University Press.
2007 Fleck, D.W., and R.S. Voss ("2006") On the origin and cultural significance of unusually large synonym sets in some Panoan languages of western Amazonia. Anthropological Linguistics 48:335-368.
2007 Gruber, K.F., R.S. Voss, and S.A. Jansa. 2007. Base-compositional heterogeneity in the RAG1 locus among didelphid marsupials: implications for phylogenetic inference and the evolution of GC content. Systematic Biology 56: 1-14. [Click here to download PDF.]
2006 Jansa, S.A., J.F. Forsman, and R.S. Voss. 2006. Different patterns of selection on the nuclear genes IRBP and DMP-1 affect the efficiency but not the outcome of phylogeny estimation for Didelphid Marsupials. Mol. Phylogenetics and Evolution 38:363-380. [Click here to download PDF.]
2006 Weksler, M., A.R. Percequillo, and R.S. Voss. 2006. Ten new genera of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae). American Museum Novitates 3537: 29 pp. [Click here to download PDF.]
2005 Voss, R.S., D.P. Lunde, and S. A. Jansa. 2005. On the contents of Gracilinanus Gardner and Creighton, 1989, with the description of a previously unrecognized clade of small Didelphid Marsupials. Am. Mus. Novitates 3482: 34 pp. [Click here to download PDF.]
2005 Jansa, S.A. and R.S. Voss. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships of the marsupial genus Hyladelphys based on nuclear gene sequences and morphology. J. Mamm. 86(5):853-865. [Click here to download PDF.]
2004 Voss, R.S., A.L. Gardner, and S.A. Jansa. 2004. On the relationships of “Marmosa” formosa Shamel, 1930 (Marsupialia: Didelphidae), a phylogenetic puzzle from the Chaco of northern Argentina. American Museum Novitates 3442: 1-18. [Click here to download PDF.]
2004 Voss, R.S., T. Tarifa, and E. Yensen. 2004. An introduction to Marmosops (Marsupialia: Didelphidae), with the description of a new species and notes on the taxonomy and distribution of other Bolivian forms. Amer. Mus. Novitates 3466: 40 pp. [Click here to download PDF.]
2003 Voss, R.S. 2003. A new Ecuadorean species of Thomasomys (Rodentia: Muridae) with remarks on mammalian diversity and biogeography in the Cordillera Oriental. Am. Mus. Novitates 3421: 1–47. [Click here to download PDF.]
2003 Voss, R.S., and S.A. Jansa. 2003. Phylogenetic studies on didelphid marsupials II. Nonmolecular data and new IRBP sequences: separate and combined analyses of didelphine relationships with denser taxon sampling. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 276: 1–82. [Click here to download PDF.]
2002 Voss, R.S., M. Gomez-Laverde, and V. Pacheco. 2002. A new genus for Aepeomys fuscatus Allen, 1912 and Oryzomys intectus Thomas, 1921: enigmatic murid rodents from Andean cloud forests. Am. Mus. Novitates 3373: 1–42. [Click here to download PDF.]
2002 Fleck, D.W., R.S. Voss, and N.B. Simmons. 2002. Underdifferentiated taxa and sublexical categorization: an example from Matses classification of bats. J. Ethnobiol. 22: 61–102.
2002 Simmons, N.B., and R.S. Voss. 2002. A new Amazonian species of Micronycteris (Chiroptera: Phyllostomatidae), with notes on the roosting habits of sympatric congeners. Am. Mus. Novitates 3358: 1–14. [Click here to download PDF.]
2001 Voss, R.S., and M.N.F. da Silva. 2001. Revisionary notes on Neotropical porcupines (Rodentia: Erethizontidae). 2. A review of the Coendou vestitus group with descriptions of two new species from Amazonia. Am. Mus. Novitates 3351: 36 pp. [Click here to download PDF.]
2001 Voss, R.S., D.P. Lunde, and N.B. Simmons. 2001. Mammals of Paracou, French Guiana: a Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 2. Nonvolant species. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 263: 1–236. [Click here to download PDF.]
2001 Sánchez, J., J. Ochoa, and R.S. Voss. 2001. Rediscovery of Oryzomys gorgasi (Rodentia: Muridae) with notes on taxonomy and natural history. Mammalia 65: 201-214.
2000 Jansa, S. and R.S. Voss. 2000. Phylogenetic studies on didelphid marsupials. 1. Introduction and preliminary results from nuclear IRBP gene sequences. J. Mammal. Evol. 7: 43-77. [Click here to download PDF.]