Ilya TëmkinResearch Collaborator

• Phone: 202-633-1749
• Fax: 202-633-0182
• E-mail: temkini@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 Collaborator

Education:
B.S. (Honors), Columbia University, New York, 1998
Ph.D., New York University/American Museum of Natural History, New York, 2007

Research Interests: Evolution, phylogeny, and systematics of pterioidean bivalves (pearl oysters and their relatives) using morphological, molecular, and paleontological data; evolution and ontogeny of bivalve ligament systems; evolution of material culture; evolutionary theory.

Selected Publications:
Lutikov, O.A., I. Tëmkin, and B.N. Shurygin. In press. Phylogeny and evolution of ontogeny of the family Oxytomidae Ichikawa, 1958 (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation.

Tëmkin, I., M. Glaubrecht, and F. Köhler. 2009. Wilhelm Dunker, his collection, and pteriid systematics. Malacologia 51(1): 39-79.

Printrakoon, C. and I. Tëmkin. 2008. Comparative ecology of two parapatric species of Isognomon (Bivalvia: Iognomonidae) of Khung Krabaen Bay, Thailand. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (Suppl.) 18: 75-94.

Wada, K. and I. Tëmkin. 2008. Taxonomy and phylogeny. In P. C. Southgate & J. S. Lucas (eds.), The Pearl Oyster. Elsevier. Pp. 37-75.

Tëmkin, I. and N. Eldredge. 2007. Phylogenetics and material cultural evolution. Current Anthropology 48(1): 146-153.

Tëmkin, I. 2006. Anatomy, shell morphology, and microstructure of the living fossil Pulvinites exempla (Hedley, 1914) (Bivalvia: Pulvinitidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148: 523-552.

Tëmkin, I. 2006. Morphological perspective on classification and evolution of Recent Pterioidea (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148: 253-312.

Mikkelsen, P. M., I. Tëmkin, R. Bieler, and W. G. Lyons. 2004. Pinctada longisquamosa (Dunker, 1852) (Bivalvia: Pteriidae), an unrecognized pearl oyster in the western Atlantic. Malacologia 46(2): 473-501.

Tëmkin, I. 2004. Evolution of the Baltic psaltery: a case for phyloorganology? The Galpin Society Journal 57: 219-230.