William (Bill) A. Shear, PhD
Affiliations: | Biology | Hampden-Sydney College |
Area:
systematics, ecology, millipedes, evolutionWebsite:
http://www.hsc.edu/Academics/Academic-Majors/Biology/Professors/William-Shear.htmlGoogle:
"William (Bill) Shear"Bio:
Dr. Shear is currently the Charles Patterson Distiguished Professor in Biology at Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia. He completed an A. B. at Wooster College, a M. A. at the University of New Mexico, and a PhD at Harvard Univeristy under Dr. Herbert Levi.
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Shear WA, Richart CH, Wong VL. (2020) The millipede family Conotylidae in northwestern North America, with a complete bibliography of the family (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Heterochordeumatidea, Conotyloidea). Zootaxa. 4753: zootaxa.4753.1.1 |
Shear WA. (2020) The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893: I. Introduction to the family, synonymy of Vaferaria Causey with Amplaria Chamberlin, the new subfamily Trisariinae, the new genus Trisaria, and three new species (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea). Zootaxa. 4758: zootaxa.4758.2.4 |
Mcalpine DF, Shear WA. (2018) The millipede Craspedosoma raulinsii Leach, 1814 (Chordeumatida: Craspedosomatidae) in North America with comments on the derivation of its binomial name. Zootaxa. 4455: 389-394 |
Shear WA. (2018) The centipede family Anopsobiidae new to North America, with the description of a new genus and species and notes on the Henicopidae of North America and the Anopsobiidae of the Northern Hemisphere (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha). Zootaxa. 4422: 259-283 |
Wang B, Dunlop JA, Selden PA, et al. (2018) Cretaceous arachnid Chimerarachne yingi gen. et sp. nov. illuminates spider origins. Nature Ecology & Evolution |
Marek PE, Krejca JK, Shear WA. (2016) A new species of Illacme Cook & Loomis, 1928 from Sequoia National Park, California, with a world catalog of the Siphonorhinidae (Diplopoda, Siphonophorida). Zookeys. 1-43 |
Shear WA, Ferreira RL, Iniesta LF, et al. (2016) A millipede missing link: Dobrodesmidae, a remarkable new polydesmidan millipede family from Brazil with supernumerary rings (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), and the establishment of a new suborder Dobrodesmidea. Zootaxa. 4178: 371-390 |
Wynne JJ, Shear WA. (2016) A new millipede, Austrotyla awishoshola n. sp., (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Conotylidae) from New Mexico, USA, and the importance of cave moss gardens as refugial habitats. Zootaxa. 4084: 285-292 |
Shear WA. (2013) A new miniature species of the milliped genus Cleidogona from Costa Rica (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Cleidogonidae), with a review of Central American Cleidogonidae. Zootaxa. 3635: 87-93 |
Marek PE, Shear WA, Bond JE. (2012) A redescription of the leggiest animal, the millipede Illacme plenipes, with notes on its natural history and biogeography (Diplopoda, Siphonophorida, Siphonorhinidae). Zookeys. 77-112 |