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:

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.

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

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

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

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.

Reheis, M. C., Hershler, Robert and Miller, D. M. 2008. Late Cenozoic drainage history of the southwestern Great Basin and lower Colorado River region: geologic and biologic perspectives Denver, CO: Geological Society of America.

Hershler, Robert and Liu, Hsiu-Ping 2008. Phylogenetic relationships of Assimineid gastropods of the Death Valley-lower Colorado River region: relicts of a late Neogene marine incursion?. Journal of Biogeography, 35(10): 1816-1825.

Hershler, Robert and Liu, Hsiu-Ping 2008. Ancient vicariance and recent dispersal of springsnails (Hydrobiidae: Pyrgulopsis) in the Death Valley system, California-Nevada. In: Reheis, M. C., Hershler, Robert and Miller, D. M., Late Cenozoic drainage history of the southwestern Great Basin and lower Colorado River region: geologic and biologic perspectives. Denver, CO: Geological Society of America Special Paper 439, pp.91-101.

Hershler, Robert, Liu, Hsiu-Ping and Gustafson, Daniel L. 2008. A second species of Pyrgulopsis (Hydrobiidae) from the Missouri River basin, with molecular evidence supporting faunal origin through Pliocene stream capture across the northern continental divide. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 74(4): 403-413.

Liu, Hsiu-Ping and Hershler, Robert 2008. Microsatellite markers for the threatened Bliss Rapids snail (Taylorconcha serpenticola) and cross-amplification in its congener, T. inspirata. Molecular Ecology Resources, 8(2): 418-420.



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