Robert Mesibov

Robert Mesibov, Australian myriapodologist

• Honorary Research Associate, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 7 taxon names authored by Robert Mesibov

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1986

• Mesibov, R. 1986. A Guide to Tasmanian Centipedes. Robert Mesibov, Hobart: 64 pages. Reference page. 

1995

• Mesibov, R. 1995. Distribution and ecology of the centipede Craterostigmus tasmanianus Pocock, 1902 (Chilopoda: Craterostigmomorpha: Craterostigmidae) in Tasmania. Tasmanian Naturalist, 117: 2–7. Reference page. 

2006

• Mesibov, R. 2006. Dirt-encrusted and dragon millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae) from Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 1354: 31–44. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

2009

• Mesibov, R. 2009. Revision of Agathodesmus Silvestri, 1910 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae). In: Golovatch, S.I.; Mesibov, R. (eds.) Advances in the systematics of Diplopoda II. ZooKeys 12: 87–110. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.12.206 Reference page. 

2012

• Mesibov, R. 2012: New species of Prosopodesmus Silvestri, 1910 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae) from Queensland, Australia. ZooKeys 190: 33–54. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.190.3276 . Reference page. 
• Mesibov, R. 2012a. The first native Pyrgodesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) from Australia. ZooKeys 217: 63–85. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.217.3809 Reference page. 
• Mesibov, R. 2012b. Known unknowns, Google Earth, plate tectonics and Mt Bellenden Ker: some thoughts on locality data. ZooKeys 247: 61–67. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.247.4195 Reference page. 

2013

• Mesibov, R. 2013. A specialist’s audit of aggregated occurrence records. ZooKeys 293: 1–18. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.293.5111 Reference page. 
• Mesibov, R. 2013a. New species of Agathodesmus Silvestri, 1910 from Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae). ZooKeys 325: 33–64. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.325.5932 Reference page. 
• Mesibov, R. 2013b. Two new monotypic genera of Queensland millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 58: 7–13. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Mesibov, R. & Car, C.A. 2013. Hoplatessara luxuriosa (Silvestri, 1895) (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) is native to Australia, not New Guinea. ZooKeys 329: 1–8. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.329.5976 Reference page. 

2014

• Mesibov, R. 2014. The millipede genus Solaenodolichopus Verhoeff, 1924 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). 1. New genus diagnosis and redescriptions of named species. European journal of taxonomy 83 DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.83 Reference page. 
• Mesibov, R. 2014a. A dataset for examining trends in publication of new Australian insects. Biodiversity data journal 2: e1160. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1160 Reference page. 
• Mesibov, R. 2014b. The Australian millipede Dicranogonus pix Jeekel, 1982 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae): a species with and without paranota. ZooKeys 454: 29–39. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.454.8625 Reference page. 

2015

• Mesibov, R. 2015. A new genus and species of dalodesmid millipede from New South Wales, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). Zookeys 517: 141–148. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.517.10187 Full article Reference page. 
• Mesibov, R. & Car, C.A. 2015. A new genus and species of native exotic millipede in Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). Zookeys 498: 7–16. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.498.9716 Reference page. 

2017

• Mesibov, R. 2017. Iulomorphid millipedes (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Iulomorphidae) of Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys 652: 1–36. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.652.12035. Reference page. 
• Mesibov, R. 2017. A new and unusual species of Amastigogonus Brölemann, 1913 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Iulomorphidae). ZooKeys 687: 45—51. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.687.14872. Reference page. 
• Mesibov, R. 2017. A new species of Tridactylogonus Jeekel, 1982 from South Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). ZooKeys 703: 97—107. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.703.20986. Reference page. 
• Mesibov, R. 2017. Annotated catalogue of South American Dalodesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Zootaxa 4338(3): 507–525. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.3.6. Reference page. 

2018

• Mesibov, R. 2018. A new, alpine species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). ZooKeys 754: 103–111. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.754.25704. Reference page. 
• Mesibov, R., Wesener, T. & Hollier, J. 2018. A replacement name for Dalodesmus sakalava (de Saussure & Zehntner, 1901) (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae). Zootaxa 4413(2): 389–391. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4413.2.11 Reference page. 

2019

• Mesibov, R. 2019. Cambaloid millipedes of Tasmania, Australia, with remarks on family-level classification and descriptions of two new genera and four new species (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida). Zookeys, 826: 1–17. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.827.32969 Reference page. 
• Mesibov, R. 2019. A new and cryptic species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia. Zookeys, 846: 31–41. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.846.35028 Reference page. 

2020

• Mesibov, R. 2020. A second remarkable case of parapatry in a Tasmanian millipede genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae). Pp 89–101 In Korsós, Z. & Dányi, L. 2020. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Myriapodology, Budapest, Hungary (25‒31 August 2019). ZooKeys, 930: 1–229. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.930.38031 Reference page. 
• Mesibov, R. & Roriguez, J. 2020. A new genus and species of narrow-range millipede (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia. ZooKeys, 966: 1–8. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.966.56308 Reference page.