Animals Named for Richard Archbold - Archboldomys luzonensis-1, Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, Florida, 26 February 2007, Fred E. Lohrer.

Archbold Biological Station founded in 1941 by Richard Archbold

Animals named for Richard Archbold: Archboldomys luzonensis Musser (Rodentia: Muridae). Mount Isarog Shrew Rat.

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Archboldomys luzonensis Musser (Rodentia: Muridae). Mount Isarog Shrew Rat.--Musser, G.G. 1982. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 110. Crunomys and the small-bodied shrew rats native to the Philippine Islands and Sulawesi (Celebes). Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 174:1-95. <http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1021> -- The type specimen of this shrew rat was collected at Mt. Isarog, 6560 feet, southeastern Luzon Island, Camarines Sur Province, Philippine Islands, on 24 April 1961 by D. S. Rabor. The genus was named for "The late Mr. Richard Archbold. His interest in adventure and natural history stimulated him to share his resources for expeditions to the Far East and research in museums, usually associated with the New Guinea Area. Richard Archbold, through the auspices of Archbold Expeditions, never imposed geographic limits or a particular focus on his associates. Naming a Philippine endemic after him points up the past breadth of his patronage and commitment to indifferent inquiry of whatever and wherever" (page 31). "This rodent is a member of the Philippine Old Endemics most closely related to Cruonomys, but the relationship of the monophyletic group formed by Archboldomys and Crunomys is presently unresolvable" (Wilson, D. E. and D. M. Reeder, editors. 1993. Mammal species of the world, second edition. Smithsonian Institution Press). See also; Mammalian Fauna of the Philippine Islands, Field Museum of Natural History.