Robert Price Higgins

Robert Price Higgins (1932–2022), U.S. invertebrate zoologist and crustacean ecologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 20 taxon names authored by Robert Price Higgins

plus

• Cryptorhagina Higgins, 1968
• Neocentrophyes Higgins, 1969
• Neocentrophyidae Higgins, 1969
• Paracentrophyes Higgins, 1983
• Sphenoderes Higgins, 1969
• Sphenoderes indicus Higgins, 1969

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1975

• Renaud-Mornant, J. & 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 "Dottore Marco de Marchi" 32(Supplement): 325–332. (International Symposium on Tardigrades, Pallanza, Italy, June 17-19, 1974).

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, H. 1988. Introduction to the Study of Meiofauna. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988 – 488

1995

• Thomas, M.B., Edwards, N.C. & Higgins, R.P. 1995. Cryptohydra thieli n. gen., n. sp.: a meiofaunal marine hydroid (Hydroida, Athecata, Capitata). Invertebrate Biology 114(2): 107–118. DOI: 10.2307/3226883, JSTOR Reference page. 

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. 

2007

• Kristensen, R.M., I. Heiner & Higgins, R.P. 2007. Morphology and life cycle of a new loriciferan from the Atlantic coast of Florida with an emended diagnosis and life cycle of Nanaloricidae (Loricifera). Invertebrate Biology 126(2): 120–137.

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.