Robert P. Higgins

Robert P. Higgins (1932 – United States), systematic invertebrate zoologist and crustacean ecologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 13 taxon names authored by Robert P. Higgins

plus

• Cryptorhagina Higgins, 1968
• Condyloderes Higgins, 1969
• Dracoderidae Higgins & Shirayama, 1990
• Dracoderes Higgins & Shirayama, 1990
• Nanaloricus gwenae Kristensen, Heiner & Higgins, 2007
• Neocentrophyes Higgins, 1969
• Neocentrophyidae Higgins, 1969
• Paracentrophyes Higgins, 1983
• Pliciloricidae Higgins & Kristensen, 1986
• Pliciloricus dubius Higgins & Kristensen, 1986
• Pliciloricus enigmaticus Higgins & Kristensen, 1986
• Pliciloricus gracilis Higgins & Kristensen, 1986
• Pliciloricus orphanus Higgins & Kristensen, 1986
• Pliciloricus profundus Higgins & Kristensen, 1986
• Pliciloricus Higgins & Kristensen, 1986
• Rugiloricus carolinensis Higgins & Kristensen, 1986
• Rugiloricus cauliculus Higgins & Kristensen, 1986
• Rugiloricus ornatus Higgins & Kristensen, 1986
• Rugiloricus Higgins & Kristensen, 1986
• Sphenoderes Higgins, 1969
• Sphenoderes indicus Higgins, 1969
• Zelinkaderes Higgins, 1990
• Zelinkaderidae Higgins, 1990

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1975

• Renaud-Mornant, J. and Higgins, R.P., eds., 1975. Occurrence of the genus Tanarctus Renaud-Debyser, 1959 in Northeastern Atlantic waters with a description of T. ramazzotti n. sp. (Arthrotardigrada). Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia Dott. Marco de Marchi, vol. 32, suppl.: International Symposium on Tardigrades, Pallanza, Italy, June 17-19, 1974: 325–332.

1976

• Higgins, Robert R.P. 1976: The Kinorhyncha of New-Caledonia. In: Expédition Française sur Récifs Coralliens de la Nouvelle Calédonia. 2:75-90.

1977

• Higgins, R.P. 1977. Two new species of Echinoderes (Kinorhyncha) from South Carolina. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 96(3): 340–354. DOI: 10.2307/3225864 Reference page. 

1983

• Higgins, Robert R.P. 1983: The atlantic barrier reef ecosistema at Carrie Bow cay, Belize, II: Kinorhyncha.Smithsonian Contribution to the Marine Sciences, 18 131p.

1984

• Kristensen, R.M. and Higgins, R.P., 1984. A New Family of Arthrotardigrada (Tardigrada: Heterotardigrada) from the Atlantic Coast of Florida, U.S.A. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, vol. 103, no. 3: 295–311. [1], Abstract

1986

• Higgins, R.P.; Kristensen, R.M. 1986: New Loricifera from southeastern United States coastal waters Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 438 Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington D.C.. III, 70 pp. ISSN 0081-0282

1988

• Higgins, R.P. and Thiel, Hjalmar. 1988: Introduction to the Study of Meiofauna. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988 – 488

2004

• Martorelli, S. & Higgins, R.P. 2004. Kinorhyncha from the stomach of the shrimp Pleoticus muelleri (Bate, 1888) from Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina. Zoologischer Anzeiger 243: 85–98. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2004.07.003 Reference page. 

2019

• Neuhaus, B., Dal Zotto, M., Yamasaki, H. & Higgins, R.P. 2019. Revision of Condyloderes (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida) including description of Condyloderes shirleyi sp. nov. Zootaxa 4561(1): 1–91. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4561.1.1 pdf Reference page.