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Ticul Alvarez
1935–2001
A Mexican zoologist and paleozoologist, he wrote and coauthored works that opened up Mexico’s mammal and vertebrate history for both specialists and curious readers. His career joined field research, teaching, and museum work in a way that left a lasting mark on Mexican natural history.
3 Audiobooks
Taxonomic Status of Some Mice of The Peromyscus boylii Group in Eastern Mexico, With Description of a New Subspecies
by Ticul Alvarez
Noteworthy Mammals from Sinaloa, Mexico
by J. Knox Jones, Ticul Alvarez, M. Raymond Lee
The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, México
by Ticul Alvarez
About the author
Born in Mexico City on February 26, 1935, José Ticul Álvarez Solórzano was a Mexican vertebrate zoologist often cited simply as Ticul Álvarez. Memorial and reference sources describe him as the son of ichthyologist José Álvarez del Villar, and note that from an early age he showed strong interests in drawing and the natural sciences.
Over the course of his career, he became a senior professor at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional and curator of the Mammals Collection at the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas. He is also remembered for founding the Paleozoology Laboratory at Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, where he helped build the study of archaeozoology and fossil vertebrates in Mexico.
Álvarez published extensively on mammals, paleontology, and comparative vertebrate anatomy, and he coauthored books including Diccionario de Anatomía Comparada de Vertebrados. He died in Mexico City on October 16, 2001, but his name remains closely tied to the growth of Mexican mammalogy and paleozoology.