Curriculum Vitae

Burgin, C. J., Zijlstra, J. S., Becker, M. A., Handika, H., Widness, J., Liphardt, S., Huckaby, D. G., and Upham, N. S. 2025. How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge. Journal of Mammalogy, gyaf047. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyaf047

Giarla, T. C., Achmadi, A.S., Fabre, P. H., Handika, H., Chipps, A. S., Swanson, M.T., Nations, J. A., Morni, M. A., William-Dee, J., Inayah, N., Jayanti, E. D., Nurdin, M.R.T.J., Griffin, K. E., Khan, F. A. A., Heaney, L. R., Rowe, K. C., and Esselstyn, J. A. 2025. Systematics and historical biogeography of Crunomys and Maxomys (Muridae: Murinae), with the description of a new species from Sulawesi and new genus-level classification. Journal of Mammalogy, gyaf006. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyaf006

Adams, A.L., Achmadi, A.S., Mursyid, A., Handika, H., Nurdin, M.R.T., Esselstyn, J.A., Perkins, S.L., Rowe, K.M., and Rowe, K.C. 2025. Wildlife disease surveillance from village to peak: Trypanosome infections of mammals on Sulawesi revealed higher prevalence in intact montane forests. THERYA, 16(1), 125-141.

Handika, H. and Esselstyn, J. A. 2024. SEGUL: Ultrafast, memory-efficient and mobile-friendly software for manipulating and summarizing phylogenomic datasets. Molecular Ecology Resources, 24(7). https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13964

Nations, J.A., Kohli, B.A., Handika, H., Achmadi, A.S., Polito, M.J., Rowe, K.C., and Esselstyn, J. A. 2024. The roles of isolation and interspecific interaction in generating the functional diversity of an insular mammal radiation. Oikos, p.e10888. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10888

Nations, J. A., Handika, H., Mursyid, A., Butsa, R. D., Apandi, Achmadi, A. S., and Esselstyn, J. A. 2024. Three new species of shrew (Soricidae: Crocidura) from West Sumatra, Indonesia: elevational and morphological divergence in syntopic, sister taxa. Journal of Mammalogy, 105 (2), 372-389. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyad126

Mursyid, A., Achmadi, A.S., Novarino, W., Handika, H., Nugroho, H.A., Anita, S., Adams, A.L., Rowe, K.M.C., and Rowe, K.C. 2023. Trypanosoma (Euglenozoa: Kinetoplastea) infections in rodents, bats, and shrews along an elevation and disturbance gradient in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Records of the Australian Museum, pp.663-671. http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1786

Achmadi, A. S., Fahri, F., Gazzard, A., Handika, H., Inayah, N., Kennerley, R. J., Lanusi, A. A., Nangoy, M., Nurdin, M. R. T. J. P., Rowe, K. C., and Sheherazade. 2023. Conservation status and priorities for Sulawesi's unique small mammal fauna. Oryx, 57(6), pp.690-691. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605323001059

Swanson, M.T., Henson, M.W., Handika, H., Achmadi, A.S., Anita, S., Rowe, K.C., and Esselstyn, J.A. 2023. Mycoplasmataceae dominate microbial community differences between gut regions in mammals with a simple gut architecture. Journal of Mammalogy, 104(1), pp.146-158. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyac098

Esselstyn, J.A., Achmadi, A.S., Handika, H., Swanson, M. T., Giarla, T.C., and Rowe, K.C. 2021. Fourteen new, endemic species of shrew (genus Crocidura) from Sulawesi reveal a spectacular island radiation. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 454(1), pp.1-108. https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090.454.1.1

Nations, J.A., Mursyid, A., Busta, R.D., Adrian, S.P., Handika, H., Achmadi, A.S., and Esselstyn, J.A. 2021. The first report of albinism in a Sundaland endemic rodent. Mammalia, 85(2), pp.168-172. https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2020-0047

Harapan, T.S., Agung, A.P., Handika, H., Novarino, W., Tjong, D.H., and Tomlinson, K.W. 2020. New records and potential geographic distribution of Elongated Caecilian, Ichthyophis elongatus Taylor, 1965 (Amphibia, Gymnophiona, Ichthyophiidae), endemic to West Sumatra, Indonesia. Check List, 16(6), pp. 1695-1701. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.6.1695

Winterhoff, M.L., Achmadi, A.S., Roycroft, E.J., Handika, H., Putra, R.T.J., Rowe, K.M.C., Perkins, S., and Rowe, K.C. 2020. Native and introduced trypanosome parasites in endemic and introduced murine rodents of Sulawesi. The Journal of Parasitology, 106(5), pp.523-536. https://doi.org/10.1645/19-136

Esselstyn, J.A., Achmadi, A.S., Handika, H., Giarla, T.C., and Rowe, K.C. 2019. A new climbing shrew from Sulawesi highlights the tangled taxonomy of an endemic radiation. Journal of Mammalogy, 100(6), pp.1713-1725. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz077

Janra, M.N., Noske, R.A., Chornelia, A., Handika, H., Mursyid, A., Agung, A., and Saputra, A. 2018. A second breeding record of Chestnut-naped Forktails Enicurus ruficapillus in Sumatra, and observations suggesting females alone incubate. Kukila, 21, pp.13-16.

Demos, T.C., Achmadi, A.S., Handika, H., Rowe, K.C., and Esselstyn, J.A. 2017. A new species of shrew (Soricomorpha: Crocidura) from Java, Indonesia: possible character displacement despite interspecific gene flow. Journal of Mammalogy, 98(1), pp.183-193. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyw183

Demos, T.C., Achmadi, A.S., Giarla, T.C., Handika, H., Rowe, K.C., and Esselstyn, J.A. 2016. Local endemism and within‐island diversification of shrews illustrate the importance of speciation in building Sundaland mammal diversity. Molecular ecology, 25(20), pp.5158-5173. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.13820

Esselstyn, J.A., Achmadi, A.S., Handika, H., and Rowe, K.C. 2015. A hog-nosed shrew rat (Rodentia: Muridae) from Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. Journal of Mammalogy, 96(5), pp.895-907. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyv093

Handika, H., Nurdin, J., and Rizaldi. 2013. Small Terrestrial Mammals Community on Mount Singgalang, West Sumatra. Jurnal Biologi Universitas Andalas, 2(2), pp.103-109. https://doi.org/10.25077/jbioua.2.2.%25p.2013