William MoserMuseum Specialist

• Phone: 301-238-1761
• Fax: 301-238-1833
• E-mail: moserw@si.edu


• Mailing and Courier Delivery Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  Department of Invertebrate Zoology
  Museum Support Center, MRC 534
  4210 Silver Hill Road
  Suitland, MD 20746
  

Responsibilities: Collections care and maintenance, data, website and transaction management, and GIS.

Education:
M.S. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
B.S. University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Selected Publications:
Moser, W.E., D.J. Richardson, C.I. Hammond, and E. Lazo-Wasem. 2013. Redescription of Placobdella papillifera (Verrill, 1872) (Hirudinida: Glossiphoniidae). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 54(1):125-131.

Moser, W.E., D.J. Richardson, C.I. Hammond, and E. Lazo-Wasem. 2012. Resurrection and Redescription of Placobdella rugosa (Verrill, 1874) (Hirudinida: Glossiphoniidae). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 53(2):375-381.

Richardson, D.J., W.E. Moser, K.E. Richardson, C.I. Hammond, and E. Lazo-Wasem. 2012. New Host and Geographic Distribution Records for the Fish Leeches Placobdella translucens (Sawyer and Shelley, 1976) and Myzobdella reducta (Meyer, 1940)(Hirudinida). Comparative Parasitology. 79(2):293-297.

Moser, W.E., D.J. Richardson, C.I. Hammond, and E. Lazo-Wasem. 2012. Redescription of Placobdella ornata (Verrill, 1872) (Hirudinida: Glossiphoniidae). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 53(1):325-330.

Moser, W.E., D.J. Richardson, C.I. Hammond, and E. Lazo-Wasem. 2012. Molecular Characterization of Glossiphonia elegans (Verrill,1872) (Hirudinida:Glossiphoniidae) from its type locality, West River, New Haven County, Connecticut,USA. Zootaxa 3195:57-60

Moser, W.E., D.J. Richardson, C.I. Hammond, and E. Lazo-Wasem. 2011. Molecular Characterization of Helobdella modesta (Verrill,1872) (Hirudinida:Glossiphoniidae) from its type locality, West River and Whitneyville Lake, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA. Zootaxa 2834:65-68.

Richardson, D.J., W.E. Moser, C.I. Hammond, A.C. Shevchenko, and E. Lazo-Wasem. 2010. New Geographic Distribution Records and Host Specificity of Placobdella ali (Hirudinida: Glossiphoniidae). Comparative Parasitology. 77(2):202-206.

Govedich, F.R., B.A. Bain, W.E. Moser, S.R. Gelder, R.W. Davies and R.O. Brinkhurst. 2009. Annelida (Clitellata): Oligochaeta, Branchiobdellida, Hirudinida, and Acanthobdellida. In: Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates (3rd Edition). J.H. Thorp and A.P. Covich (eds). Academic Press. 385-436 p.

Moser, W.E., F.R. Govedich and D.J. Klemm. 2009. Annelida, Hirudinida (Leeches). In: Enclyopedia of Inland Waters, volume 2. Gene E. Likens (ed.). Elsevier Press. 116-123 p.

Moser, W.E., D.J. Richardson, B.A. Wheeler, K.J. Irwin, B.A. Daniels, S.A. Trauth, and D.J. Klemm. 2008. Placobdella cryptobranchii (Rhynchobdellida: Glossiphoniidae) on Crytobranchus alleganiensis bishopi (Ozark Hellbender) in Arkansas and Missouri. Comparative Parasitology. 75(1):98-101.

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