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    Joel Asaph Allen (July 19, 1838 – August 29, 1921) was an American zoologist, mammalogist, and ornithologist. He became the first president of the American...
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    differs in dentition and habits. Allen's swamp monkey was named after American zoologist Joel Asaph Allen. Allen's swamp monkey lives in the Congo Basin...
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    Allen's rule is an ecogeographical rule formulated by Joel Asaph Allen in 1877, broadly stating that animals adapted to cold climates have shorter and...
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    Odobenidae (category Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen)
    Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Clade: Pinnipedia Superfamily: Otarioidea Family: Odobenidae Allen, 1880 Genera Odobenus (walrus) (see text for more)...
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    (minor updates) have been published in the last 127 years. According to Joel Asaph Allen, the Codes of Nomenclature set out in the first edition of the Checklist...
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    Eastern cottontail (category Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen)
    Georgetown, SC: Clemson University, Belle W. Baruch Forest Science Institute Allen, A. W. (1984). "Habitat suitability index models: eastern cottontail". FWS/OBS...
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    Bassaricyon (category Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen)
    Order: Carnivora Family: Procyonidae Subfamily: Potosinae Genus: Bassaricyon Allen, 1876 Type species Bassaricyon gabbii Species Bassaricyon alleni Bassaricyon...
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    Red-crested tree-rat (category Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen)
    originally described as Isothrix rufodorsalis by American biologist Joel Asaph Allen in 1899, and was transferred to genus Diplomys in 1935 by George Henry...
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  • Joan Allen (born 1956), American actress Joe Allen (born 1990), Welsh footballer Joel Asaph Allen (1838–1921), American zoologist John J. Allen (judge)...
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    olingo species found east of the Andes. The Latin species name honors Joel Asaph Allen, the American zoologist who first described the genus Bassaricyon....
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    Central American tapeti (category Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen)
    Leporidae Genus: Sylvilagus Species: S. gabbi Binomial name Sylvilagus gabbi (J.A. Allen 1877) Synonyms Sylvilagus brasiliensis gabbi J.A. Allen (1877)...
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    Isolobodon (category Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen)
    Echimyidae Subfamily: Capromyinae Tribe: †Isolobodontini Woods, 1989 Genus: †Isolobodon J. A. Allen, 1916 Species Isolobodon montanus Isolobodon portoricensis...
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    Nelson's sparrow (category Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen)
    Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Passerellidae Genus: Ammospiza Species: A. nelsoni Binomial name Ammospiza nelsoni (Allen, JA, 1875)...
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    was shot in the San Francisco Mountains. Lynx texensis proposed by Joel Asaph Allen in 1895 to replace the earlier name Lynx rufus var. maculatus. Lynx...
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    Yellow-pine chipmunk (category Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen)
    Rodentia Family: Sciuridae Genus: Neotamias Species: N. amoenus Binomial name Neotamias amoenus (J. A. Allen, 1890) Synonyms Tamias amoenus J.A. Allen, 1890...
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    Transandinomys talamancae (category Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen)
    chromosomes varies from 34 to 54. The species was first described in 1891 by Joel Asaph Allen and thereafter a variety of names, now considered synonyms, were applied...
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    Uinta chipmunk (category Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen)
    Neotamias Species: N. umbrinus Binomial name Neotamias umbrinus (J. A. Allen, 1890) Subspecies 7 (see text) Synonyms Tamias umbrinus J. A. Allen, 1890...
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    were specimens from Sumatra and Java. Arctictis whitei proposed by Joel Asaph Allen in 1910 were skins of two female binturongs collected in Palawan Island...
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    Hodgson for the dhole. In 1876 the zoologist Joel Asaph Allen discovered the remains of Canis mississippiensis (Allen 1876) and associated these with C. dirus...
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    century. The leopard was designated as the type species of Panthera by Joel Asaph Allen in 1902. In 1917, Reginald Innes Pocock also subordinated the tiger...
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    Mexican mole (category Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen)
    the Database". www.mammaldiversity.org. Retrieved 2021-11-02. Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph); Thurber, E. C.; Anthony, A. W. (Alfred Webster) (1893). "On a...
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  • existence of allopatrically distributed pairs of species in nature such as Joel Asaph Allen (who coined the term "Jordan's Law", whereby closely related, geographically...
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    Brown weeper capuchin (category Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen)
    Order: Primates Suborder: Haplorhini Infraorder: Simiiformes Family: Cebidae Genus: Cebus Species: C. brunneus Binomial name Cebus brunneus (Allen, 1914)...
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    name Pinnipedia to both a family and an order. American zoologist Joel Asaph Allen reviewed the world's pinnipeds in an 1880 monograph, History of North...
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    Talamanca canton in Costa Rica. F. maripensis and F. sanctaemartae by Joel Asaph Allen in 1904 were skins of two adult female ocelots from Maripa, Venezuela...
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  • Nephelomys maculiventer (category Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen)
    14 to 1.42 in). On average, males are slightly larger than females. Joel Asaph Allen, who named the species, classified it as a member of Oryzomys, Oryzomys...
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    Grayish mouse opossum (category Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen)
    Voss & Jansa, 2003 Species: T. canescens Binomial name Tlacuatzin canescens (J. A. Allen, 1893) Grayish mouse opossum range Synonyms Marmosa canescens...
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    Utah prairie dog (category Taxa named by Joel Asaph Allen)
    Genus: Cynomys Species: C. parvidens Binomial name Cynomys parvidens J. A. Allen, 1905 Utah prairie dog range in 1920 (ochre), 1970 (yellow) and 1991 (red)...
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    Allen's chipmunk (Neotamias senex), also known as the shadow chipmunk, is a species of chipmunk native to the western United States. Occurring in California...
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    in 1901 was a large jaguarundi skull from Yucatán. F. panamensis by Joel Asaph Allen in 1904 was a dusky gray skin of a young adult female jaguarundi collected...
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