Robert W. Thacker

Robert W. Thacker, US spongiologist.

• Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1300 University Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

Taxon names authored

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• 6 taxon names authored by Robert W. Thacker

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2007

• Díaz, M.C., Thacker, R.W., Rützler, K. & Piantoni, C. 2007. Two new haplosclerid sponges from Caribbean Panama with symbiotic filamentous cyanobacteria, and an overview of sponge-cyanobacteria associations. pp 31-39 In Custódio, M.R., Lôbo-Hajdu, G., Hajdu, E. & Muricy, G. (eds). Porifera Research. Biodiversity, Innovation and Sustainability. Série Livros 28. Museu Nacional: Rio de Janeiro. 684 pp. Reference page. 

2013

• Alvizu, A., Díaz, M.C., Bastidas, C., Rützler, K., Thacker, R.W. & Márquez, L.M. 2013. A skeleton-less sponge of Caribbean mangroves: invasive or undescribed?. Invertebrate Biology 132(2): 81–94. DOI: 10.1111/ivb.12015 Reference page. 
• Redmond, N.E., Morrow, C.C., Thacker, R.W., Díaz, M.C., Boury-Esnault, N., Cárdenas, P., Hajdu, E., Lôbo-Hajdu, G., Picton, B.E., Pomponi, S.A., Kayal, E. & Collins, A.G. 2013. Phylogeny and Systematics of Demospongiae in Light of New Small-Subunit Ribosomal DNA (18S) Sequences. Integrative and Comparative Biology 53(3): 388–415. DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict078 Reference page. 

2015

• Díaz, M.C., Thacker, R.W., Redmond, N.E., Pérez, T. & Collins, A.G. 2015. Vansoestia caribensis gen. nov., sp. nov.: first report of the family Ianthellidae (Verongida, Demospongiae) in the Caribbean. Zootaxa 3956(3): 403–412. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.3.5. Preview (PDF). Reference page.