Burton K. Lim

Burton K. Lim, Canadian mammalogist.

Assistant Curator of Mammalogy in the Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Lim, B.K. & Wilson, D.E. 1993. Taxonomic Status of Artibeus amplus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in Northern South America. Journal of Mammalogy 74(3): 763–768. DOI: 10.2307/1382300 Reference page.

Peters, S.L., Lim, B.K. & Engstrom, M.D. 2002. Systematics of Dog-Faced Bats (Cynomops) Based on Molecular and Morphometric Data. Journal of Mammalogy 83(4): 1097–1110. DOI: 10.1644/1545-1542(2002)083<1097:SODFBC>2.0.CO;2 Reference page.

Lim, B.K., Pedro, W.A. & Passos, F.C. 2003. Differentiation and Species Status of the Neotropical Yellow-Eared Bats Vampyressa pusilla and V. thyone (Phyllostomidae) with a Molecular Phylogeny and Review of the Genus. Acta Chiropterologica 5(1): 15–29. DOI: 10.3161/001.005.0102 Reference page.

Lim, B.K. 2007. Divergence times and origin of Neotropical sheath-tailed bats (tribe Diclidurini) in South America. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45(3): 777–791. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.09.003 Reference page.

Lim, B.K. 2008. Historical biogeography of New World emballonurid bats (tribe Diclidurini): taxon pulse diversification. Journal of Biogeography 35(8): 1385–1401. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.01888.x Reference page.
Lim, B.K. & Dunlop, J.M. 2008. Evolutionary Patterns of Morphology and Behavior as Inferred from a Molecular Phylogeny of New World Emballonurid Bats (Tribe Diclidurini). Journal of Mammalian Evolution 15: 79–121. DOI: 10.1007/s10914-007-9068-0 Reference page.
Lim, B.K., Engstrom, M.D., Bickham, J.W. & Patton, J.C. 2007. Molecular phylogeny of New World sheath-tailed bats (Emballonuridae: Diclidurini) based on loci from the four genetic transmission systems in mammals. Journal of the Linnean Society 93(1): 189–209. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00942.x Reference page.

Zhou, Z.-M., Guillén-Servent, A., Lim, B.K., Eger, J.L., Wang, Y.-X. & Jiang, X.-L. 2009. A New Species from Southwestern China in the Afro-Palearctic Lineage of the Horseshoe Bats (Rhinolophus). Journal of Mammalogy 90(1): 57–73. DOI: 10.1644/08-MAMM-A-048.1 Reference page.

Francis, C.M., Borisenko, A.V., Ivanova, N.V., Eger, J.L., Lim, B.K., Guillén-Servent, A., Kruskop, S.V., Mackie, I. & Hebert, P.D. 2010. The role of DNA barcodes in understanding and conservation of mammal diversity in Southeast Asia. PLoS ONE 5(9): e12575. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012575 Reference page.
Lim, B.K., Engstrom, M.D., Reid, F.A., Simmons, N.B., Voss, R.S. & Fleck, D.W. 2010. A new species of Peropteryx (Chiroptera, Emballonuridae) from western Amazonia with comments on phylogenetic relationships within the genus. American Museum Novitates 3686: 1–20. hdl: 2246/6070 Reference page.
Lim, B.K., Engstrom, M.D., Patton, J.C. & Bickham, J.W. 2010. Molecular phylogenetics of Reig's short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis reigi) and its distributional range extension into Guyana. Mammalian Biology 75(4): 287–293. DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2009.03.009 Reference page.
Taddei, V.A.† & Lim, B.K. 2010. A new species of Chiroderma (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) from Northeastern Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Biology 70(2): 381–386. DOI: 10.1590/S1519-69842010000200021. Reference page.

Eger, J.L. & Lim, B.K. 2011. Three New Species of Murina from Southern China (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Acta Chiropterologica 13(2): 227–243. DOI: 10.3161/150811011X624730 Reference page.

Velazco, P.M. & Lim, B.K. 2014. A new species of broad-nosed bat Platyrrhinus Saussure, 1860 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) from the Guianan Shield. Zootaxa 3796(1): 175–193. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3796.1.9 Reference page.

Baird, A.B., Braun, J.K., Engstrom, M.D., Holbert, A.C., Huerta, M.G., Lim, B.K., Mares, M.A., Patton, J.C. & Bickham, J.W. 2017. Nuclear and mtDNA phylogenetic analyses clarify the evolutionary history of two species of native Hawaiian bats and the taxonomy of Lasiurini (Mammalia: Chiroptera). PloS ONE 12(10): e0186085. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186085 Reference page.

Ruedi, M., Eger, J.L., Lim, B.K. & Csorba, G. [2017] 2018. A new genus and species of vespertilionid bat from the Indomalayan Region. Journal of Mammalogy 99(1): 209–222. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyx156 Reference page.
Loureiro, L.O., Lim, B.K. & Engstrom, M.D. 2018. A New Species of Mastiff Bat (Chiroptera, Molossidae, Molossus) from Guyana and Ecuador. Mammalian Biology 90: 10–21. DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2018.01.008 Reference page.

Loureiro, L.O., Engstrom, M., Lim, B., González, C.L. & Juste, J. 2019. Not All Molossus are Created Equal: Genetic Variation in the Mastiff Bat Reveals Diversity Masked by Conservative Morphology. Acta Chiropterologica 21(1): 51–64. DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2019.21.1.004 Reference page.

Lim, B.K., Loureiro, L.O. & Garbino, G.S.T. 2020. Cryptic diversity and range extension in the big-eyed bat genus Chiroderma (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae). ZooKeys 918: 41–63. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.918.48786 Reference page.
Garbino, G.S.T., Lim, B.K. & Tavares, V.C. 2020. Systematics of big-eyed bats, genus Chiroderma Peters, 1860 (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Zootaxa 4846(1): 1–93. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4846.1.1 Reference page.

Molinari, J., Gutiérrez, E.E. & Lim, B.K. 2023. Systematics and biogeography of Anoura cultrata (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae): a morphometric, niche modeling, and genetic perspective, with a taxonomic reappraisal of the genus. Zootaxa 5297(2): 151–188. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5297.2.1 Reference page.