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D-Index
35
Citations
3649
World Ranking
1792
National Ranking
515

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1986 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Richard W. Thorington was affiliated with the National Museum of Natural History in the United States. Over the course of their career, they contributed to the field of natural history through the collection, identification, and deposition of specimens.

Their recent scholarly work includes publications focused on the documentation and curation of natural history specimens. Notable papers authored by them in 2023 are:

  • Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited. (2023) - Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited. (2023) - Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

These works were published in the venue Zenodo, operated by the CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research, which appears to be the primary publication platform used by them recently.

Frequent co-authors are not listed in the available data, indicating that their recent works may have been authored independently or with collaborators whose data was not documented.

Their career received recognition with the award of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1986, reflecting formal acknowledgment from the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • A Preliminary Analysis of a Neotropical Mammal Fauna

    John F. Eisenberg;Richard W. Thorington

  • Squirrels of the World

    Richard W. Thorington;John L. Koprowski;Michael A. Steele;James F. Whatton

  • Body Proportions and Gliding Adaptations of Flying Squirrels (Petauristinae)

    Richard W. Thorington;Richard W. Thorington;Lawrence R. Heaney;Lawrence R. Heaney

  • Descriptive and comparative osteology of the oldest fossil squirrel Protosciurus (Rodentia: Sciuridae)

    Robert J. Emry;Richard W. Thorington

  • Eocene plesiadapiform shows affinities with flying lemurs not primates

    Richard F. Kay;Richard W. Thorington;Peter Houde

  • Squirrels: The Animal Answer Guide

    Richard W. Thorington;Katie E. Ferrell

  • A study of a black howling monkey (<i>Alouatta caraya</i>) population in northern Argentina

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  • The demography of Howler Monkeys (Alouatta palliata) on Barro Colorado Island, Panamá

    J. W. Froehlich;R. W. Thorington;J. S. Otis

  • Gliding behavior of japanese giant flying squirrels (Petaurista leucogenys)

    Brian J. Stafford;Brian J. Stafford;Richard W. Thorington;Takeo Kawamichi

  • Comparative myology of the forelimb of squirrels (Sciuridae).

    Richard W. Thorington;Karolyn Darrow;Aimee D.K. Betts

  • Ecology of Neotropical Red-Tailed Squirrels, Sciurus granatensis, in the Panama Canal Zone

    Lawrence R. Heaney;Lawrence R. Heaney;Richard W. Thorington;Richard W. Thorington

  • Karyotypes of squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) from different geographic regions

    T. C. Jones;R. W. Thorington;M. M. Hu;E. Adams

  • Forelimb anatomy of New World monkeys: myology and the interpretation of primitive anthropoid models.

    S. S. Dunlap;R. W. Thorington;M. A. Aziz

  • Flying squirrels are monophyletic.

    Richard W. Thorington

  • POSTNATAL ONTOGENY OF MARMOT (RODENTIA, SCIURIDAE) CRANIA: ALLOMETRIC TRAJECTORIES AND SPECIES DIVERGENCE

    Andrea Luigi Cardini;Andrea Luigi Cardini;R. W. Thorington

  • Detecting biological distinctiveness using geometric morphometrics: an example case from the Vancouver Island marmot

    A. Cardini;D. Nagorsen;P. O'Higgins;P.D. Polly

  • Phylogeography of vertebrates on the Sunda Shelf: a multi‐species comparison

    Jennifer A. Leonard;Jennifer A. Leonard;Robert-Jan den Tex;Melissa T. R. Hawkins;Melissa T. R. Hawkins;Melissa T. R. Hawkins;Violeta Muñoz-Fuentes;Violeta Muñoz-Fuentes

  • Morphological evolution in marmots (Rodentia, Sciuridae): size and shape of the dorsal and lateral surfaces of the cranium

    A. Cardini;Robert S. Hoffmann;Richard W. Thorington

  • Phylogenies of flying squirrels (Pteromyinae)

    Richard W. Thorington;Diane Pitassy;Sharon A. Jansa

  • Validity of Three Genera of Flying Squirrels: Eoglaucomys, glaucomys, and Hylopetes

    Richard W. Thorington;Amy L. Musante;Charles G. Anderson;Karolyn Darrow

  • Gliding Mammals: Taxonomy of Living and Extinct Species

    Stephen M. Jackson;Richard W. Thorington Jr.

  • Seasonal and age-related differential mortality by sex in the Mantled Howler monkey,Alouatta palliata

    Jeffrey S. Otis;Jeffery W. Froehlich;Richard W. Thorington

  • How to make a flying squirrel: Glaucomys Anatomy in Phylogenetic Perspective

    Richard W. Thorington;Erica M. Santana

  • Lability of tail length of the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis.

    Richard W. Thorington

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer A. Leonard
Jennifer A. Leonard Spanish National Research Council
Jesús E. Maldonado
Jesús E. Maldonado Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Lawrence R. Heaney
Lawrence R. Heaney Field Museum of Natural History
Terry L. Erwin
Terry L. Erwin National Museum of Natural History
Louis L. Jacobs
Louis L. Jacobs Southern Methodist University
Mark F. Teaford
Mark F. Teaford RMIT University
Christopher B. Ruff
Christopher B. Ruff Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jonathan A. Coddington
Jonathan A. Coddington National Museum of Natural History
Paul O'Higgins
Paul O'Higgins Hull York Medical School
Robert S. Hoffmann
Robert S. Hoffmann National Museum of Natural History

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