Robert HershlerResearch Zoologist

• Phone: 202-633-1747
• Fax: 202-633-0182
• E-mail: hershlerr@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 Mollusca

Education:



B.S., Biology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1975.
M.A., Ecology and Evolution, Johns Hopkins University, 1980.
Ph.D., Ecology and Evolution, Johns Hopkins University, 1983.


Research Interests:

Systematics, morphology, and evolution of brackish-coastal and freshwater gastropods, particularly the superfamily Rissooidea; aquatic biogeography, focusing on North America; conservation of freshwater mollusks.


Recent Publications:

Wilke, Thomas, Haase, Martin, Hershler, Robert, Liu, Hsiu-Ping, Misof, Bernhard and Ponder, Winston 2013. Pushing short DNA fragments to the limit: Phylogenetic relationships of 'hydrobioid' gastropods (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 66(3): 715-736. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.10.025

Liu, Hsiu-Ping, Hershler, Robert, Lang, Brian and Davies, Justin 2013. Molecular evidence for cryptic species in a narrowly endemic western North American springsnail (Pyrgulopsis gilae). Conservation Genetics, doi:10.1007/s10592-013-0483-x

Liu, Hsiu-Ping, Walsh, Jessica and Hershler, Robert 2013. taxonomic clarification and phylogeography of Fluminicola coloradensis Morrison, a widely ranging western North American pebblesnail. Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist, 6: 87-110.

Hershler, Robert and Liu, Hsiu-Ping 2012. Molecular phylogeny of the western North American pebblesnails, genus Fluminicola (Rissooidea: Lithoglyphidae), with description of a new species. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 78(4): 321-329. doi:10.1093/mollus/eys017

Liu, Hsiu-Ping and Hershler, Robert 2012. Phylogeography of an endangered western North American springsnail. Conservation Genetics, 13(1): 299-305. doi:10.1007/s10592-011-0288-8

Kroll, Oliver, Hershler, Robert, Albrecht, Christian, Terrazas, Edmundo M., Apaza, Roberto, Fuentealba, Carmen, Wolff, Christian and Wilke, Thomas 2012. The endemic gastropod fauna of Lake Titicaca: correlation between molecular evolution and hydrographic history. Ecology and Evolution, 2(7): 1517-1530. doi:10.1002/ece3.280

Hershler, Robert, Liu, Hsiu-Ping and Clark, William H. 2012. Comments on ''The absence of genotypic diversity in a successful parthenogenetic invader'' by Mark Dybdahl and Devin Drown. Biological Invasions, 14(8): 1643-1645. doi:10.1007/s10530-012-0184-2

Liu, H. P., Hershler, Robert, Marn, J. and Worsfold, T. M. 2012. Microsatellite evidence for Tetraploidy in invasive populations of the New Zealand mudsnail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1843). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 78(2): 227-230. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr055

Kabat, Alan R., Hershler, Robert and González-Guillén, Adrian 2012. Resolution of taxonomic problems associated with the complex publication history of the seminal Torre and Bartsch monograph on Cuban Urocoptidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Zootaxa, 3362: 43-53.

Hershler, Robert and Liu, Hsiu-Ping 2012. A new species of springsnail (Pyrgulopsis) from the Owyhee River basin, Nevada. Western North American Naturalist, 72(1): 21-31.

Hershler, Robert and Liu, Hsiu-Ping 2011. Redescription of Marstonia comalensis (Pilsbry & Ferriss, 1906), a poorly known and possibly threatened freshwater gastropod from the Edwards Plateau region (Texas). ZooKeys, 77: 1-16.

Hershler, Robert and Liu, Hsiu-Ping 2011. Comments on the paper “Is the track of the Yellowstone hotspot driven by a deep mantle plume? — Review of volcanism, faulting, and uplift in light of new data” by Kenneth Pierce and Lisa Morgan [J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. 188 (2009), 1–25]. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 202(3-4): 262-263.

Hershler, Robert, Liu, Hsiu-Ping and Landye, J. Jerry 2011. New species and records of springsnails (Caenogastropoda: Cochliopidae: Tryonia) from the Chihuahuan Desert (Mexico and United States), an imperiled biodiversity hotspot. Zootaxa, 3001: 1-32.

Hershler, Robert, Thompson, Fred G. and Liu, Hsiu-Ping 2011. A large range extension and molecular phylogenetic analysis of the monotypic North American aquatic gastropod genus Cincinnatia (Hydrobiidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 77(3): 232-240. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr008

Hershler, Robert, Liu, Hsiu-Ping and Landye, J. Jerry 2011. Two new genera and four new species of freshwater cochliopid gastropods (Rissooidea) from northeastern Mexico. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 77(1): 8-23.

Hershler, Robert, Liu, Hsiu-Ping and Lang, Brian K. 2010. Transfer of Cochliopa texana to Pyrgulopsis (Hydrobiidae) and description of a third congener from the lower Pecos River basin. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 76(3): 245-256.

Hershler, Robert and Liu, Hsiu-Ping 2010. Two new, possibly threatened species of Pyrgulopsis (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) from southwestern California. Zootaxa, 2343: 1-17.

Hershler, Robert 2010. Microsatellite evidence of invasion and rapid spread of divergent New Zealand mudsnail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) clones in the Snake River basin, Idaho, USA. Biological Invasions, 12(6): 1521-1532.

Hershler, Robert and Liu, Hsiu-Ping 2009. New species and records of Pyrgulopsis (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) from the Snake River basin, southeastern Oregon: further delineation of a highly imperiled fauna. Zootaxa, 2006: 1-22.

Liu, Hsiu-Ping and Hershler, Robert 2009. Genetic diversity and population structure of the threatened Bliss Rapids snail (Taylorconcha serpenticola). Freshwater Biology, 54(6): 1285-1299.

Hershler, Robert and Jayko, Angela S. 2009. A mactrid bivalve from Pleistocene deposits of Lake Russell, Mono Basin, California. Journal of Paleontology, 83(3): 496-499.



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