The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals

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334 Rabor Palawan Montane Squirrel Sundasciurus rabori Heaney, 1979 Leyte Shrew-Rat Crunomys rabori Musser, 1982 Rabor’s Tube-nosed Bat Nyctimene rabori Heaney and Peterson, 1984 [Alt. Philippine Tube-nosed Fruit Bat] Visayan Leopard Cat Prionailurus bengalensis rabori Groves, 1997 Dr. Dioscoro S. (Joe) Rabor (1911–1996) was the preeminent Philippine zoologist and conservationist of the 20th century. He graduated from the University of the Philippines in 1934 and completed his Ph.D. at Yale under S. Dillon Ripley in 1958. He is best known for his work on birds and mammals, but his expertise also extended to herpetology and ichthyology. His career spanned 30 positions, mostly in academic and research posts. He led more than 50 expeditions between 1935 and 1977, his wife and, later, all six children usually going along, too. His love for nature was reflected in every aspect of his life, including the fact that all four of his daughters were named after the scientific names of animals (fish for Alectis Cyrene, birds for Iole Irena, Nectarinia Julia, and Ardea Ardeola ). His scientific bent clearly rubbed off, as all four became physicians. Rabor was responsible for the most thorough documentation of the mammals and birds of the Philippines ever. In 1977 he published Philippine Birds and Mammals : A Project of the U.P. Science Education Center . He found many new mammal taxa. He published nearly 90 books and articles and was also awarded a number of fellowships and other honors. From his collections, 61 subspecies and 8 full species of birds have been described; one was named after him in its binomial, Napothera rabori, and another for his wife Lina, Aethopyga linaraborae. All the mammals named after him are found in the Philippines. The squirrel comes from the island of Palawan and the shrew-rat from Leyte (though the latter is now regarded as conspecific with Crunomys melanius of Mindanao). The bat occurs on Negros, Cebu, and Sibuyan. The subspecies of Leopard Cat is found on Negros, Cebu, and Panay. Racey Racey’s Pipistrelle Pipistrellus raceyi Bates et al., 2006 Professor Paul Adrian Racey (b. 1944) is the Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Aberdeen, where he was Professor of Zoology from 1985 to 1993, having originally joined the department in 1973. His initial degree is from Cambridge, and after qualifying he worked in a number of posts, including at the Zoological Society of London from 1966 to 1970 and Liverpool University from 1970 to 1973. He is an expert in the biology of European and tropical bats, particularly those of Madagascar, and of Mexico and Trinidad, where he has had projects. The pipistrelle is a Madagascan endemic. Radde Ciscaucasian Hamster Mesocricetus raddei Nehring, 1894 Radde’s Shrew Sorex raddei Satunin, 1895 Gustav Ferdinand Richard Radde (1831–1903) was originally trained as an apothecary. Born in Danzig in Prussia (now Gdansk, Poland), he settled in Russia in 1852. He then participated in numerous expeditions through Siberia, Crimea , the Caucasus, the Trans-Caucasus, and other regions of Russia, and also through Iran R 335 and Turkey. During these trips he gathered an extensive zoological, botanical, and ethnographic collection. In 1863 he settled in Georgia and founded the Caucasian Museum in Tbilisi in 1867. He published Die Vogelwelt des Kaukasus, systematisch und biologischgeographisch beschrieben in 1888 and, in two volumes released in 1862 and 1863, Reisen im Süden von Ost-Sibirien in den Jahren 1855–1859. He is recognized as being the person to have first given a detailed description of the flora of the Caucasus. He wrote Ornis Caucasica in 1884. Toward the end of the 19th century he made two further journeys, both as part of the suite of members of the Russian Imperial family : to India and Japan in 1895 with the Grand Duke Michael, and to North Africa in 1897 with other members of the family. A species of viper, Vipera raddei, is also named after him, as are two birds, Radde’s Warbler Phylloscopusschwarzi and Radde’s Accentor Prunella ocularis. The hamster is found in the steppes of southern Russia, north of the Caucasus. The shrew comes from northeast Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Raffles Raffles’ Tarsier Tarsius bancanus Horsfield, 1821 [Alt. Horsfield’s Tarsier, Western Tarsier, Malaysian Tarsier] Raffles’ Banded Langur Presbytis femoralis femoralis Martin, 1838 Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (1781– 1826) was Lieutenant Governor of Java from 1811 until 1815 and Lieutenant Governor of an area of Sumatra from...