Louis S. KornickerResearch Zoologist

• Phone: 202-633-0666
• Fax: 202-357-3043
• E-mail: kornickl@si.edu


• Mailing Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  PO Box 37012, MRC 163
  Washington, DC 20013-7012
  


• Courier Delivery Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  National Museum of Natural History
  10th and Constitution Ave, NW
  Washington, DC 20560-0163
  

Responsibilities: Research Zoologist, Curator of Ostracoda

Education:
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1957 (Department of Geology)
M.A., Columbia University, 1954 (Department of Geology)
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Alabama, 1942
B.S. in Chemistry, Metallurgy and Ceramics, University of Alabama, 1941

Research Interests: Class Ostracoda: mainly Superorder Myodocopa, which includes three Orders of benthic and pelagic marine species: systematics, morphology, ontogeny, phylogeny, ecology, distribution, behavior.

Professional Activities:
Member of: Sigma Xi: 1957–present
The International Research Group on Ostracoda, 1963–present. Biological Society of Washington: 1964–present. (Councilor 1983–1984) The Crustacean Society: Since inception, 1980–present
American Society of Zoological Nomenclature, 2005–present


Honors:
Biographical record included in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the Southwest, 1957–1964, Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World ca. 1975 to present, and Marquis’ Who’s Who in America, 1998 to present.

Honored by having one genus and 14 species named for him (1965–2007)

Selected Publications:

Kornicker, Louis S., Elizabeth Harrison-Nelson, and S. L. Coles. 2007. Ostracoda (Myodocopina) from O’ahu and French Frigate Shoals, Hawaiian Islands. Bishop Museum Bulletin in Zoology 8, 127 pp. [67 figures, 3 maps, 8 tables]. Bishop Museum Press: Honolulu

Kornicker, Louis, Barry W.M. van Bakel, René H.B. Fraaije and John W.M. Jagt. 2006. Revision of Mesozoic Myodocopina (Ostracoda) and a new genus and species, Mesoleberis hollandica, from the Upper Cretaceous of Belgium and The Netherlands. Zootaxa, 1246:15–54, figures 1–6.

Richter, Stefan, and Louis S. Kornicker. 2006. The Mandibles of a Halocyprid Ostracode (Halocypridae; Halocypridina; Ostracoda)—A New Record of Mandibular Gnathal Edges with a "Lacinia Mobilis". Journal of Crustacean Biology, 26(2):113–118, 4 figures.

Kornicker, L. S. and E. Harrison-Nelson. 2006. Ostracoda, Myodocopa. In Desbryères, D., Segonzac, M. and M. Bright (Editors), Handbook of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna. Denisia, 18, 544 pages. Oberösterriches Landesmuseum: Linz, Austria. Pages 207–212.

Kornicker, Louis S. and Elizabeth Harrison-Nelson. 2005. Ostracoda (Myodocopina) from Johnston Atoll, Pacific Ocean, and Proposal of a New Tribe Bruuniellini (Myodocopina: Cylindroleberididae). Pacific Science, 59(3):323–362, figures 1–23.

Kornicker, Louis S. Thomas M. Iliffe, and Elizabeth Harrison-Nelson. 2002. Ostracoda (Myodocopa) from Bahamian Blue Holes. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 616: 99 pages, 69 figures, 8 tables.

Kornicker, Louis S. and I.G. Sohn. 2000. Myodocopid Ostracoda from the Late Permian of Greece and a Basic Classification for Paleozoic and Mesozoic Myodocopida. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 91: 33 pages, 22 figures.

Kornicker, Louis S., and Gary C.B. Poore. 1996. Ostracoda (Myodocopina) of the SE Australian Continental Slope, Part 3. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 573: 186 pages, 102 figures, 17 tables.

Kornicker, Louis S. 1981. Revision, Distribution, Ecology, and Ontogeny of the Ostracode Subfamily Cyclasteropinae (Myodocopina: Cylindroleberididae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 319, 548 pages, 174 figures, 185 plates, 23 tables.

Kornicker, Louis S. 1975. Antarctic Ostracoda (Myodocopina) Parts 1 and 2. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 163: 720 pages, 432 figures, 9 plates, 21 tables.

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