Louis S. KornickerResearch Zoologist, Emeritus

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)

Recent Publications:

Harrison-Nelson, Elizabeth, Orr, John M., Tarmann, Margaret E. and Kornicker, Louis S. 2011. Review and Catalog of the Ostracode Family Rutidermatidae (Crustacea: Myodocopa). ISRN Zoology, 2011: 1-47. doi:10.5402/2011/128528

Kornicker, Louis S., Harrison-Nelson, Elizabeth and Coles, S. L. 2010. Ostracoda (Myodocopina) of the Hawaiian Islands. Pacific Science, 64(2): 233-284.

Kornicker, Louis S., Humphreys, W. F., Danielopol, D. L. and Harrison-Nelson, Elizabeth 2010. Ontogeny of an Anchialine Ostracod from Western Australia and Comments on the Origin and Distribution of Halocyprididae. Crustaceana, 83(6): 715-752. doi:10.1163/001121610X498872

Rudjakov, Jury A. and Kornicker, Louis S. 2010. Review of species and species groups of the genus Cypridinodes (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Myodocopa: Cypridinidae: Cypridininae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 123(4): 274-288.

Humphries, William F., Kornicker, Louis S. and Danielopol, Dan L. 2009. On the Origin of Danielopolina baltanasi SP. N. (Ostracoda, Thaumatocyprioidea) from three Anchialine Caves on Christmas Island, a Seamount in the Indian Ocean. Crustaceana, 82(9): 1177-1203.

Iliffe, Thomas M. and Kornicker, Louis S. 2009. Worldwide Diving Discoveries of Living Fossil Animals from the Depths of Anchialine and Marine Caves. In: Lang, Michael A., Macintyre, Ian G. and Rützler, Klaus, Proceedings of the Smithsonian Marine Science Symposium. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, pp.269-280.

Harrison-Nelson, Elizabeth and Kornicker, Louis S. 2009. Myodocopan Ostracoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico. In: Felder, Darryl L. and Camp, David K., Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters and Biota Vol. 1, Biodiversity. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, pp.871-876.

Kornicker, Louis S., Iliffe, Thomas M. and Harrison-Nelson, Elizabeth 2009. Ontogeny of Deeveya medix Kornicker, 1990, collected in anchialine and marine caves in the Bahama Islands (Ostracoda: Halocypridae: Deeveyinae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 122(2): 171-205.



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