Maria Nazareth F. da Silva

Maria Nazareth Ferreira da Silva is a zoologist from Manaus, Brazil

Da Silva has, for many years, specialised in the study of Amazonian mammals. She has described several new species of rodents:
 * Proechimys echinothrix, the Tefe Spiny Rat
 * Proechimys gardneri, the Gardner's Spiny Rat
 * Proechimys pattoni, the Patton's spiny rat
 * Proechimys kulinae, the Kulina spiny rat.

She has written, and contributed to, many papers and articles on the subject, and currently works for the National Institute of Amazonian Research.

Partial list of works

 * Mammals of the Rio Juruá: Evolutionary and ecological diversification within Amazonia. (with Patton, J.L. and J.R. Malcolm) (pub.2000) Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 244:1-306
 * Population Genetic Structure of two ecologically distinct Amazonian Spiny Rats:Separating History and Current Ecology (with Marjorie D. Matocq and James L. Patton)
 * Definition of Species of Pouched Four-Eyed Opossums (Didelphidae, Philander) (with James L. Patton) Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 78, No. 1 (Feb., 1997), pp. 90–102
 * Rivers, Refuges, and Ridges: The Geography of Speciation of Amazonian Mammals (with James L. Patton)