Guy Musser

Who is Guy Musser?

Guy Graham Musser is an American zoologist. His main research field is the subfamily Murinae, in which he has described many new species.

Musser was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He attended elementary and secondary public schools until 1955 and in 1967 obtained a PhD at the University of Michigan with a thesis about the taxonomy of the Mexican Gray Squirrel. In 1966 he joined the American Museum of Natural History where he became curator of mammals. Since his retirement in 2002 he is curator emeritus.

In the 1960s and 1970s he published numerous articles on squirrels, Neotominae and Murinae. In the 1970s he conducted a three year expedition to Sulawesi where he discovered several mice and rat species which were new to science. The results of this expedition are still not fully published.