William T. Stanley (ca. 1957 – October 6, 2015), American zoologist.

Science and Education, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, 60605, USA.

Taxon names authored

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• 6 taxon names authored by William T. Stanley

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Kerbis Peterhans, J., Stanley, W.T., Hutterer, R., Demos, T.C. & Agwanda, B. 2009. A new species of Surdisorex Thomas, 1906 (Mammalia, Soricidae) from western Kenya. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 56(3): 175–183. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Carleton, M.D., Banasiak, R.A. & Stanley, W.T. 2015. A new species of the rodent genus Hylomyscus from Angola, with a distributional summary of the H. anselli species group (Muridae: Murinae: Praomyini). Zootaxa 4040(2): 101–128. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.2.1. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Stanley, W.T., Hutterer, R., Giarla, T.C. & Esselstyn, J.A. 2015. Phylogeny, phylogeography and geographical variation in the Crocidura monax (Soricidae) species complex from the montane islands of Tanzania, with descriptions of three new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174(1): 185-215. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12230 Reference page. 
• Ndiaye, A., Tatard, C., Stanley, W. & Granjon, L. 2016. Taxonomic hypotheses regarding the genus Gerbillus (Rodentia, Muridae, Gerbillinae) based on molecular analyses of museum specimens. ZooKeys 566: 145–155. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.566.7317.Reference page.