Louise H. Emmons
Louise H. Emmons is an American zoologist.
Her best known work is the field guide Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide, first published in 1990, with a second edition in 1997.Louise H. Emmons described several new taxa of mammals:
- three genera of spiny rats, Callistomys, in 1998, and Pattonomys and Santamartamys, in 2005.
- one genus and one species of abrocomid, Cuscomys ashaninka, in 1999.
- one species of spiny rat, Phyllomys pattoni, in 2002.
- two species of oryzomyine rodents, Oryzomys acritus, in 2005, and Oecomys sydandersoni, in 2009.
- one species of rat, Pithecheirops otion, in 1993.
- one species of didelphid marsupial, , in 2012.
She also introduced the new taxon name Olallamys for a genus of spiny rats.Taxonomic patronym
In honor of Louise H. Emmons, one taxonomic patronym was given for a rodent with the species name emmonsae:
