Richard W. Heard

Richard W. Heard, US carcinologist

Department of Coastal Sciences, Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Ocean Springs, MS 39566-7000, USA

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Sieg, J. & Heard, R.W. 1985. Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Gulf of Mexico. IV. On Nototanoides trifurcatus gen. nov., sp. nov., with a key to the genera of the Nototanaidae. Gulf Research Reports 8: 51–62. DOI: 10.18785/grr.0801.08 Reference page.

Heard, R.W.; Manning, R.B. 1997: Austinixa, a new genus of pinnotherid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), with the description of A. hardyi, a new species from Tobago, West Indies. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 110(3): 393–398. BHL Reference page.

Larsen, K. & Heard, R.W. 2001: A new tanaidacean subfamily, Bathytanaidinae (Crustacea: Paratanaididae), from the Australian continental shelf and slope. Zootaxa 19: 1–22. Abstract & excerpt . Reference page.
Hansknecht, T., Heard, R.W., Martin, J.W. 2001: Saltipedis navassensis, a new species of apseudomorph tanaidacean (Crustacea: Peracarida: Parapseudidae) from the tropical north- western Atlantic. Zootaxa 18(1): 1–11. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.18.1.1 . Reference page.

Heard, R.W.; Vargas, R. 2015: Cyathura odaliscae, a new species of anthurid isopod (Crustacea: Peracarida) from a brackish habitat on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Zootaxa 3915(3): 423–432. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3915.3.7. Full article.Reference page.
Morales-Núñez, A.G. & Heard, R.W. 2015. Cacoheterotanais rogerbamberi, a new genus and species of leptocheliid Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from shelf-waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Zootaxa 3995(1): 169–188. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3995.1.16. Preview (PDF) Reference page.

Morales-Núñez, A.G., Pelleteri, S. & Heard, R.W. 2016. Two new paratanaid Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida) from the Hawaiian Islands, with illustrated taxonomic keys. Zootaxa 4150(4): 467–492. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.4.5. Reference page.

Morales-Núñez, A.G., Ulrich, S. & Heard, R.W. 2017. Brachylicoa lui, a new species of Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida: Parapseudidae), from the Hawaiian Islands, with a taxonomic key. Zoosystematics and Evolution 93(2): 1–23. DOI: 10.3897/zse.93.13824. Reference page.

Heard, R.W., Stępień, A., Drumm, D.T., Błażewicz, M. & Anderson, G. 2018. Systematic and taxonomic observations on the subfamily Synapseudinae Guţu, 1972 and related metapseudid taxa (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Apseudomorpha), with the erection of a new genus and descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa 4370(4): 301–344. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4370.4.1 Reference page.
Price, W.W., Heard, R.W., Vargas, R. 2018. Heteromysis cocoensis n. sp. (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae) from coastal waters of Isla del Coco, Costa Rica. Nauplius. 26: e2018012. DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e2018012 Reference page.

Morales-Núñez, A.G., Heard, R.W. & Bird, G.J. 2019. Two new apseudomorphan species (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Metapseudidae) from Mo‘orea Island (Society Islands, French Polynesia) with taxonomic keys. Zootaxa 4564(1): 213–247. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4564.1.8 Reference page.

Scripter, M.J., Price, W.W. & Heard, R.W.. 2020. Redescription of Deltamysis holmquistae Bowman & Orsi, 1992 (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae), a mysid species new to the Atlantic Ocean with observations on the taxonomic status of Kochimysis Panampunnayil & Biju, 2007. Zootaxa 4729(4): 501–518. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4729.4.3 pdf Reference page.