Jon L. NorenburgResearch Zoologist

• Phone: 202-633-1783
• Fax: 202-633-0182
• E-mail: norenburgj@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 and Curator of Nemertea

Education: B.A. (1973), M.S. (1976) Acadia University; Ph.D. (1983) Northeastern University.

Research Interests: Nemertean worms, worldwide - morphological and molecular phylogeny, taxonomy, phylogeography, biogeography and functional anatomy; soft-bodied marine interstitial fauna, worldwide – biology, taxonomy and zoogeography.

Professional Activities: Evolutionary diversification of Nemertea

Recent Publications:

Mahon, A.R., Thornhill, D.J., Norenburg, J. and Halanych, K.M. 2010. DNA uncovers Antarctic nemertean biodiversity and exposes a decades-old cold case of asymmetric inventory, Polar Biology, 33(2):193-202

Chen, H., Sundberg, P., Norenburg, J.L. and Sun, S. 2009. The complete mitochondrial genome of Cephalothrix simula (Iwata) (Nemertea: Palaeonemertea), Gene, 442(1-2):8-17

Norenburg, J. 2009. "Nemertea of the Gulf of Mexico". Pp. 553-558 in Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters and Biota Vol. 1, Biodiversity (Felder, D.L. and Camp, D.K.). Texas A&M University Press

Collins, A.G., Bentlage, B., Lindner, A., Lindsay, D., Haddock, S.H.D., Jarms, G., Norenburg, J.L., Jankowski, T. and Cartwright, P. 2008. Phylogenetics of Trachylina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) with new insights on the evolution of some problematical taxa, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 88:1673-1685

Thornhill, D.J., Mahon, A.R., Norenburg, J.L. and Halanych, K.M. 2008. Open-ocean barriers to dispersal: a test case with the Antarctic Polar Front and the ribbon worm Parborlasia corrugatus (Nemertea: Lineidae), Molecular ecology, 17(23):5104-5117

Maslakova, S.A. and Norenburg, J.L. 2008. Revision of the smiling worms, genus Prosorhochmus Keferstein, 1862, and description of a new species, Prosorhochmus belizeanus sp nov (Prosorhochmidae, Hoplonemertea, Nemertea) from Florida and Belize, Journal of Natural History, 42(17-20):1219-1260

Maslakova, S.A. and Norenburg, J.L. 2008. Revision of the smiling worms, genera Prosadenoporus Burger, 1890 and Pantinonemertes Moore and Gibson, 1981 and description of a new species Prosadenoporus floridensis sp nov (Prosorhochmidae; Hoplonemertea; Nemertea) from Florida and Belize, Journal of Natural History, 42(25-26):1689-1727

Santos, C., Norenburg, J.L. and Bueno, L.S. 2006. Three new species of Carcinonemertes (Nemertea, Carcinonemertidae) from the southeastern coast of Brazil, Journal of Natural History, 40(15-16):915-930

Santos, C., Bueno, L.S. and Norenburg, J.L. 2006. Infestation by Carcinonemertes divae (Nemertea: Carcinonemertidae) in Libinia spinosa (Decapoda: Pisidae) from Sao Sebastiao Island, SP, Brazil, Journal of Natural History, 40(15-16):999-1005



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