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Louise Hickock Emmons is an american zoologist.

Her best known work is the field guide Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide, first published in 1990, with a second edition in 1997.

Description of new taxa
Louise H. Emmons described several new taxa of mammals:
 * three genera of spiny rats, Callistomys, in 1998, and Pattonomys and Santamartamys, in 2005.
 * one genus and one species of abrocomid, Cuscomys ashaninka, in 1999.
 * one species of spiny rat, Phyllomys pattoni, in 2002.
 * two species of oryzomyine rodents, Oryzomys acritus, in 2005, and Oecomys sydandersoni, in 2009.
 * one species of rat, Pithecheirops otion, in 1993.
 * one species of didelphid marsupial, Monodelphis gardneri, in 2012.

Taxonomic patronyms
In honor of Louise H. Emmons, one taxonomic patronym was given for a rodent with the species name emmonsae:
 * Euryoryzomys emmonsae, the Emmons's Rice Rat.