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Eremoryzomys[edit]

I saw your comment in 2009 regarding Eremoryzomys. Both the IUCN and Encyclopedia of Life refer to the species as Gray Rice Rat. English Wikipedia for mammals refers to the common name whenever possible and practical. The name for Eremoryzomys should be moved to Gray Rice Rat?....Pvmoutside (talk) 13:34, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This point was discussed in great detail a few years ago. In summary, the most common name for obscure animals like this is in fact the scientific name, in the sense that it is the name that most people who know about these animals will recognize and use. Names like "Gray Rice Rat" are primarily book names used only in compilations that feel the need to list a non-scientific name for every species. Ucucha (talk) 16:12, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Vintana[edit]

Your wonderful article Mesozoic mammals of Madagascar is going to need a revision with the publication of Vintana. I'd gladly do it but I don't have a subscription to Nature, so at the the moment the best sources I've been able to find are a New York Times article and a segment of the TetZoo podcast... I'll check if I have access to the sources you cite about the "cat-sized mammal" (which I assume is Vintana) from my university. Anyway, thanks again for your great work and happy new year. JaneStillman (talk) 20:10, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I had read about Vintana but haven't had time to add it on Wikipedia. There is also a whole special issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology dedicated to it.

Vintana is not in fact the "cat-sized mammal". That specimen was mentioned already in 2000 and consists of a skull and full skeleton, and Vintana was only discovered in 2010 and is a skull only. In one of the papers in the JVP special issue Krause says about the cat-sized mammal that "Description and analysis of this specimen has been delayed and complicated by a variety of factors, but now continues in earnest." Hopefully he'll get around to publishing it soon. Ucucha (talk) 21:35, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

FAC and FAR coordinator proposal[edit]

Hi Ucucha, following the closure of the FAC and FAR coordinator proposal earlier today, I've removed your name from the FAC instructions and the @FAC template. This in no way prevents your return to the team if and when you feel you can contribute on a regular basis again. It was great working with you at FAC, and I hope we can do so again soon! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 09:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, and sorry for not responding earlier—I felt like I had little to add without reviewing a lot more WT:FAC discussions than I had time for. Good luck running FAC! Ucucha (talk) 21:37, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Would you please consider unprotecting Maya Angelou?[edit]

Hello Ucucha, I tried to have Maya Angelou open to IP edits via RFPP, but an admin declined and said to ask you first. Anyway I think it's about time to let the Angelou page be unlocked (but still move protected) since it's been indefinitely semi protected for nearly 5 years now (Feb. 5, 2010 in fact). And BLP no longer applies to Angelou. Arbor to SJ (talk) 04:52, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for contacting me. I don't think I should continue to exert ownership over an admin action I made almost five years ago, and I haven't been active enough recently to judge what would currently be the appropriate level of protection for an article like Angelou's. I think admins at WP:RFPP would be better placed to make that decision. Given that the article still receives a significant amount of views and the talk page is vandalized every so often, personally I'm afraid the article would perhaps receive similar levels of juvenile vandalism as it did before I semi-protected it.

I'm sorry for sending you back where you came from. Ucucha (talk) 06:28, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thomomys bulbivorus[edit]

Thank you for the thoughtful comments on the Camas pocket gopher article at FAC. You raised some good points. I started working my way through the issues raised, none of which seem particularly insurmountable. I don't fully understand how FA works as compared to GA or peer review. On the GA review of this article, User:FunkMonk was able to make a tremendous contribution with guidance on improving the article and mentoring me as an editor. At FA, the review was archived 60 hours after your comments, even as I was working my way through them. The closing comments also suggest that I need to do some FA reviews in order to get this article reviewed. Anyway, I'll continue working through the issues that you raised in the review. You mentioned that ITIS is not a reliable source. Can you tell me what I should use instead? I have a degree in biochemistry, and am a practicing physician, so academic mammalogy is not necessarily my strong suit. But it is more fun than my day job... Thank you again, --Gaff (talk) 04:30, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 24, 2015[edit]

Hi Ucucha. A summary of a Featured Article you nominated at WP:FAC will appear on the Main Page soon. Does the article need more work before hitting the Main Page? I had to squeeze the summary down to a little over 1200 characters; was there anything I left out you'd like to see put back in? - Dank (push to talk) 17:29, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that's a nice birthday present! Ucucha (talk) 05:21, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You can tell your co-workers that we put it on the Main Page just for your birthday :) I'll never tell. - Dank (push to talk) 06:38, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I heard you, Dank ;) - Happy birthday, Ucucha (today or 30 January?)! - Precious again, the little creatures, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:27, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

HarvErrors.js[edit]

Seems like a variant of this could be made to check any link or anchor. Would you help with that? -- Gadget850^talk 21:34, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A new tool, repeated cites[edit]

I've come across many articles where the authors have added cites to practically every sentence. In many cases these are repeated, so you might have a single para with the same cite listed over and over. Would it be difficult to modify the duplinks script to handle this case? Maury Markowitz (talk) 21:12, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 5, 2015[edit]

Hi Ucucha. A summary of a Featured Article you nominated at WP:FAC will appear on the Main Page soon. Was there anything I left out you'd like to see put back in? - Dank (push to talk) 04:20, 24 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Persondata templates without name parameter[edit]

Category:Persondata templates without name parameter, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. WOSlinker (talk) 16:16, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Persondata templates without short description parameter[edit]

Category:Persondata templates without short description parameter, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. WOSlinker (talk) 16:16, 30 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oriya->Odia[edit]

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Oriya_language#Requested_move_17_June_2015. Thanks. Cpt.a.haddock (talk) 21:28, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 27, 2015[edit]

Ucucha, a summary of a Featured Article you nominated at WP:FAC will appear on the Main Page soon. It mostly follows the lead section; how does it look? - Dank (push to talk) 10:53, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The article looks great to me today, thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:42, 27 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 21, 2015[edit]

Here's another one, Ucucha, I should get it done today. - Dank (push to talk) 17:05, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Verwijdernominatie w:nl:Lijst van zoogdieren in Nationaal Park Manú[edit]

Hoi Ucucha,

Ik heb op de Nederlandse Wikipedia jouw w:nl:Lijst van zoogdieren in Nationaal Park Manú ter verwijdering genomineerd omdat het een bronloze en incomplete lijst is die al tien jaar lang inhoudelijk nauwelijks veranderd is. Omdat je tegenwoordig vooral hier actief bent geef ik je een seintje hier. De discussie is te vinden op w:nl:Wikipedia:Te beoordelen pagina's/Toegevoegd 20150917.

Groet, FakirNL (talk) 14:28, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 22, 2015[edit]

Ucucha, a summary of another Featured Article you nominated at WP:FAC will appear on the Main Page soon. It mostly follows the lead section; how does it look? - Dank (push to talk) 02:35, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Dank, the summary looks good. It's a pretty boring bat. Ucucha (talk) 08:25, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Precious again, your "pretty boring" but genetically distinctive bat!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:53, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year![edit]

Warmest Wishes for Health, Wealth and Wisdom through the Holidays and the Coming Year! Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 01:30, 25 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Myotis alcathoe[edit]

Hi Ucucha, I just wanted to thank you for the impressive work you did on Myotis alcathoe. I mean, among other articles you developped, this one is particularly impressive. I was really astonished that a Californian engineer (nothing mean here! but we are talking about european bats!) managed to dig in such a literature and synthesize the data as you did. I had to let you know about this feeling! I translated the article into French, with some amendments (for example a super-large Myotis phylogeny was published in 2013, plus two books in French on french and swiss bats last year), and I am trying to illustrate the subject (I re-drew a skull, and trying to have some pictures from colleagues as I kinda am a "bat-researcher"). Wish you all the best, Totodu74 (talk) 22:16, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! It was a really large and complex piece of work and I'm glad it was of help to you. I need to update it more—a bunch of additional records have been published. Ucucha (talk) 03:35, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

HarvErrors script[edit]

G'day Ucucha, I was wondering if the script was playing up, it is taking a very long time to run on Chrome. First time I've struck it. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 09:25, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

please protect the page as it is a potential security hole. I suggest setting the level to template editor or admin. -- PBS (talk) 10:47, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I thought .js user subpages were automatically editable only by admins and the user. Is that not the case? Ucucha (talk) 16:58, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Protected them anyway though. Ucucha (talk) 17:04, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

you may be right (have not tested it and don't know) but belt and braces seems sensible. -- PBS (talk) 20:54, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you![edit]

I've just started using User:Ucucha/HarvErrors, which I noticed by chance when browsing threads at the Help Desk (link). It is proving to be very useful on an article I'm developing in userspace. Thanks for developing it! Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 11:47, 9 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your administrator and bureaucrat status on Wikispecies[edit]

Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc.) was adopted by community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing activity on wikis with no inactivity policy. You meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for 2 years) on the wiki listed above. Since that wiki does not have its own rights review process, the global one applies. If you want to keep your rights, you should inform the community of the wiki about the fact that the stewards have sent you this information about your inactivity. If the community has a discussion about it and then wants you to keep your rights, please contact the stewards at m:Stewards' noticeboard, and link to the discussion of the local community, where they express their wish to continue to maintain the rights. If you wish to resign your rights, you can reply here or request removal of your rights on Meta. If there is no response at all after approximately one month, stewards will proceed to remove your administrator and/or bureaucrat rights. In ambiguous cases, stewards will evaluate the responses and will refer a decision back to the local community for their comment and review. If you have any questions, please contact the stewards. Rs chen 7754 01:00, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know. I agree that it is reasonable to remove my rights in accordance with local or global policy, and I'll abide by whatever the community decides. Ucucha (talk) 19:14, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

LavaBaron's editing restrictions[edit]

I am writing this message to you because you put yourself down as a regular admin at DYK.

Per this AN thread, LavaBaron is given editing restrictions on DYK. Any hook nominated or reviewed by LavaBaron must be reviewed by a second editor before it may be promoted to the main page. The restrictions are reproduced below as follows:

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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 24, 2016[edit]

Hi, here's another one of yours at TFA, I'm working on it now. - Dank (push to talk) 15:22, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 3, 2016[edit]

Hi Ucucha, here's another one of your FAC nominations at TFA, I'll get to work on the TFA text today. - Dank (push to talk) 13:26, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikispecies[edit]

WS is now slowly developing with less conflicts. I guess you have moved away to other things, but would kindly like to ask you to support with vote here, so we can reach the 25-30 votes minimum rule in order to be able to get local Checkusers, and get a local policy for CU, which will be the first step of developing more local solutions on WS. Dan Koehl (talk) 22:45, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Myotis alcathoe for TFA[edit]

Hi Ucucha. This is just a friendly note to let you know that the Myotis alcathoe article, which you nominated at FAC, has been scheduled as today's featured article for March 5, 2017. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 5, 2017. Thanks! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 02:45, 19 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Akodon spegazzinii scheduled for TFA[edit]

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Macrotarsomys petteri scheduled for TFA[edit]

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Precious anniversary[edit]

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:55, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Lundomys scheduled for TFA[edit]

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Precious anniversary[edit]

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:55, 11 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for today's Voalavo, remaining "an intriguing example of unique and long-unrecognized Malagasy diversity"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:36, 24 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

... for today's Eremoryzomys, summarizing "what little information there is and I hope it does it in a clear and accessible way" about that rice rat! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:58, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

... and for today's Ferugliotheriidae, - all new to me! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:52, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

... and today Myotis alcathoe, - "You'd think that after centuries of systematic research, we would at least know all the mammal species occurring in Europe". Thank you for chasing the unknown! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:30, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

... and today's Akodon spegazzinii! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:41, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

... ps: and it's five years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:43, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

... Thank you for today's Macrotarsomys petteri, saying that its "dramatic range shift may have been the result of climate change, and even its current tiny range is threatened by human activities"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:10, 13 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

... and today's Lundomys! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:10, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

E Museo Lundii publication date[edit]

Dear Ucucha, I've seen you changed the date of publication of Herluf Winge's original description of Lundomys back to 1887. But the correct date is 1888. Most sources cite the first parts wrongly as 1887. This is probably due the fact that this is the third part of the first volume of E Museo Lundii, and it doesn't carry the date in the frontspice. In Biodiversity Library you can see that it was handwritten. The preceding part, Oluf Winge's "Fugle fra Knoglehuler i Brasilien" (part II of Volume 1) is dated 1888 in the same site (http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13380#/summary), although it also carry the wrong handwritten date of 1887 in one of the pages. You can see in this example (http://geogenetik.ku.dk/pwlund/box/PW_Lund_endelig_udgave.pdf), from Statens Naturhistoriske Museum website, or consult "E Museo Lundii - Addendum" (by C. L. Hansen, 2012, published by Statens Naturhistoriske Museum), that E Museo Lundii was published from 1888 to 1915. I can provide more sources with the correct publicaton date if it is necessary.

Best regards Nascimentors (talk) 13:20, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation!

I'm still not really convinced though that your arguments outweigh the fact that the rodent literature universally (to my knowledge) uses 1887. Even the Mammals of South America, which is based on solid bibliographical research and cites Hansen (2012), gives the date for Winge as 1887. The ku.dk PDF you cite is unconvincing to me since it doesn't discuss bibliography. The publication date of Oluf's bird volume is interesting, but it wouldn't be inconceivable for the different parts to have been published out of sequence, and I'm not sure the evidence that that volume was published in 1888 is strong.

I don't have access to Hansen's book myself; does it give an explicit discussion of the publication date of Winge's rodent volume? If so, I'd be OK with changing Lundomys back; we should also change the other species that Winge named, such as Juliomys anoblepas and Pseudoryzomys. Ucucha (talk) 03:22, 24 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, it's not actually true that the rodent literature universally cites 1887, since these papers use 1888:

Abravaya, J.P. and Matson, J.O. 1975. Notes on a Brazilian mouse, Blarinomys breviceps (Winge). Contributions in Science 270:1-8.
Emmons, L. and Vucetich, M.ía Guiomar. 1998. The identity of Winge's Lasiuromys villosus and the description of a new genus of echimyid rodent (Rodentia, Echimyidae). American Museum Novitates 3223:1-12.

Haven't found any discussion of the discrepancy in the literature though. Ucucha (talk) 03:31, 24 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that the subdivisions of E Museo Lundii volumes were not supposed to circulate isolated, and this is why they bear no publication date in their frontspice. Some volumes in libraries then might have been added the wrong handwritten publication date and all subsequent works that used it as reference helped to disseminate. As far I know there is no discussion on literature about such discrepancy. Some works in paleornithology also cites Oluf's work wrongly too (even the publication name), and this might be the same reason, as the acess to such works was much harder in the past. I've made a montage with some reliable sources that mentions the 1888 date: https://ibb.co/kndURk

1 – K. L. Hansen, 2012, p. 5;
2 – k. L. Hansen, 2012, p. 42;
3 – J. A. P. Drenkpol, 1927, p. 2 ("Um Benemerito do Brasil, o Dinamarquês Herluf Winge classificador dos achados paleontológicos de Lund." Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 3 [1]: 1-14 ) – Which says that in volume I, published in 1888, Herluf Winge describes the Rodents from Brazilian caves;
4 – Frontspice of the first part of the first volume of E Museo Lundii (which is the only part that seems to be unavailable online), with 1888 date and including all the authors of the volume;
5 – B. Holten & M. Sterll, 2012, p. 255 (from the book "P. W. Lund e as grutas com ossos em Lagoa Santa", Portuguese translation from the Danish original);
6/7 – C. Paula Couto, 1950, p. 21-22 (from the book "Memórias da Paleontologia Brasileira", a review of Lund’s work, including biography of Herluf Winge);
8 – A frontspice included (seems to from a secondary binding) in my own copy of Winge’s work about the rodents. Nascimentors (talk) 12:36, 24 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Ucucha, have you seen my reply here? Nascimentors (talk) 10:51, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your listing is convincing to me. Let's change it to 1888. Sorry for missing your message for a while! Ucucha (talk) 07:07, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I just updated all articles about species named by Winge (1887) that I could find. Ucucha (talk) 07:16, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

duplinks[edit]

I'm interested in using your script for highlighting duplicate links, I followed the installation instructions but don't seem to be seeing any affect. Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks! Gabriel syme (talk) 20:42, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake, it's working fine. Thanks for making a very useful tool. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gabriel syme (talk • contribs) 20:59, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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HarvErrors[edit]

I took the liberty of updating your script, to make use of mw.hook, instead of document ready, so that it will also work icw tools that don't reload the entire page, like JS page previewing, VE and the new wiki editor. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:54, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I won't be actively developing it any time soon, so feel free to move the script to a different location outside my user space or to make further fixes if it's still of interest to editors. Ucucha (talk) 03:34, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(CC: TheDJ) Note that there's a bug in the current version that produces spurious forward link errors on preview pages. On preview, the wikipage.content event gets fired before the content is added to the DOM, hence operations on the DOM will fail (in particular, document.getElementById() will return nil). The fix is to use $content.find() instead, since the $content provided by mw.hook will be populated.

I've put a fixed version at User:Xover/HarvErrors.js that you can copy from if you like, and I'll probably try to maintain (fsvo) this version going forward if you don't feel like updating yours. --Xover (talk) 00:52, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Request for help at User talk:Nortonius[edit]

Your help is requested at User talk:Nortonius regarding your HarvErrors script. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:52, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

TFA[edit]

Thank you for Ferugliotherium that "lived in Argentina just before the big dinosaurs went extinct", "part of an unusual group of extinct mammals—the gondwanatheres"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:12, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Euryoryzomys emmonsae scheduled for TFA[edit]

This is to let you know that the Euryoryzomys emmonsae article has been scheduled as today's featured article for July 12, 2018. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 12, 2018, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1100 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:50, 14 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Multituberculate FAC[edit]

Hi, don't know if you still frequent FAC, but since you're the only one who has previously brought similar mammals to FA status, I thought you might want to have a look at the current candidate Catopsbaatar[1], to ensure it's up to those standards (before it passes). FunkMonk (talk) 04:12, 18 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lagostrophinae listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Lagostrophinae. Since you had some involvement with the Lagostrophinae redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. – Joe (talk) 14:44, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Sfnm/core[edit]

Template:Sfnm/core has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:14, 17 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

HA![edit]

I was showing my daughter some Wikipedia thingies and of course we landed on the Key Largo Woodrat--what a marvelous piece of work that is. She was very charmed by the rat, and admires your expertise. I told her you left the poor knaagdieren to their own devices to go get some fancy job, and we moesten allebei een traantje wegpinken. All the best! Drmies (talk) 02:08, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo goede Doktor, nice to hear from you! Maybe I should go back to writing about mammals... one day... Ucucha (talk) 02:52, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Don't do it on my account--but I an happy to say I enjoyed working with you. I hope your professional life is fulfilling. Drmies (talk) 02:55, 12 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary[edit]

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:35, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for Euryoryzomys emmonsae, "a rice rat from some small area in the depths of Brazilian Amazonia. It took people some time to realize that it is a distinct species, so that it was only described in 1998"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:31, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today for Monticolomys, described: "In 1929, someone caught a nondescript little brown mouse on Madagascar, which landed in a museum full of nondescript little rodents. However, this particular little brown mouse turned out to be unknown to science, and in the 1990s it was found to be widespread and locally common in the mountains of Madagascar."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:08, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]