Jose Ticul Alvarez Solorzano

Ticul Alvarez (1935–2001), a Mexican mammalogist, was born in Mexico City. He taught for many years at the School of Biological Sciences of the National Polytechnic Institute, where he founded its mammal specimen collection and pioneered Mexican zooarchaeology. His research focused on rodents and mammals of northeastern Mexico and Tamaulipas. His representative works include A New Species of Wood Rat from Northeastern Mexico, The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, México, and papers on the taxonomic status of some mice of the Peromyscus boylii group in eastern Mexico and on a new subspecies of ground squirrel from Tamaulipas. He described 22 new species and subspecies and was elected an Honorary Member of the American Society of Mammalogists in 1997. The library holds 4 of his works; classification information is unavailable, and public materials are limited, so this profile is based on the facts available.