Robert Mesibov
Australian myriapodologist
Robert 'Bob' Evan Mesibov (born 9 March 1946) is an American born and educated Australian myriapod specialist. He earned a B.A. from New York University in 1966 and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1971.
He migrated to Australia in 1973, settling in Tasmania where he became a curatorial assistant at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston. He became an Australian citizen in 1976.
Work
His earliest publications were in the field of chemotaxis, but in 1990–1991, while working as a forest ecology and zoology consultant, he published his first zoological papers, on velvet worms in the family Peripatopsidae).
In later life he has become increasingly concerned with problems in digital databases, from concerns about inconsistencies and errors in aggregated databases, to problems with specimens' GPS coordinates.
His zoological author abbreviation is Mesibov. He has authored over a hundred taxa.
See also
Taxa named by Robert Mesibov
References
External links
Wikidata query of taxa he named.
A data cleaner's cookbook
BASHing data
Tasmanian millipedes
Millipedes of Australia (archived 2019)
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