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List of works by William A. Shear

A NEW BLIND CAVERNICOLOUS LYGROMMA (ARANEAE, GNAPHOSIDAE) FROM THE GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS

A NEW EYELESS, STRIDULATING THERIDION SPIDER FROM CAVES IN THE GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS (ARANEAE, THERIDIIDAE)

A New Record for the Rare Opilionid Fumontana deprehendor (Opiliones, Triaenonychidae)

scientific article published in 1978

A Synopsis of the Cave Millipeds of the United States, With an Illustrated Key to Genera

scholarly article by William A. Shear published 1969 in Psyche

A Terrestrial Alicorhagiid Mite (Acari: Acariformes) from the Devonian of New York

article

A cladistic analysis of the opilionid superfamily Ischyropsalidoidea, with descriptions of the new family Ceratolasmatidae, the new genus Acuclavella, and four new species ⬇️

scientific article published in 1986

A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome

scientific article published on 13 August 2021

A millipede missing link: Dobrodesmidae, a remarkable new polydesmidan millipede family from Brazil with supernumerary rings (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), and the establishment of a new suborder Dobrodesmidea

scientific article (publication date: 25 October 2016)

A new genus and species of callipodidan milliped from Vietnam (Callipodida, Schizopetalidae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2000

A new genus and two new species of millipedes from the Cape Range, Western Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) ⬇️

scholarly article

A new milliped of the genus Stenozonium Shelley 1998 from Washington State, U. S. A.: first record of the genus and family from North of the Columbia River (Polyzoniida: Polyzoniidae)

scientific article (publication date: 12 July 2005)

A new millipede, Austrotyla awishoshola n. sp., (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Conotylidae) from New Mexico, USA, and the importance of cave moss gardens as refugial habitats

scientific article

A new miniature species of the milliped genus Cleidogona from Costa Rica (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Cleidogonidae), with a review of Central American Cleidogonidae

scientific article (publication date: 25 March 2013)

A new species of Illacme Cook & Loomis, 1928 from Sequoia National Park, California, with a world catalog of the Siphonorhinidae (Diplopoda, Siphonophorida) ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 20 October 2016)

A new troglobitic milliped of the genus Nepalella from China (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Megalotylidae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1999

A redescription of the leggiest animal, the millipede Illacme plenipes, with notes on its natural history and biogeography (Diplopoda, Siphonophorida, Siphonorhinidae).

scientific article published on 14 November 2012

A review of the Cyphophthalmi of the United States and Mexico, with a proposed reclassification of the suborder (Arachnida, Opiliones) ⬇️

scientific article published in 1980

Australian Chordeumatidan Millipedes. III. A Review of the Millipede Family Metopidiotrichidae Attems in Australia (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida)

scientific article published in 1997

Australian chordeumatidan millipeds. II. A new species of Reginaterreuma Mauriès from Tasmania (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Metopidiotrichidae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1995

Branneria bonoculus (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Brannerioidea): New to The Milliped Fauna of Texas

scientific article published in September 2009

Branneria bonoculus, n. sp., a second species in the North American milliped family Branneriidae (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Brannerioidea)

scientific article (publication date: 9 July 2003)

Brazilian cave heritage under siege ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 March 2022

Breaking no new ground

scientific article published in Nature

Cabraca unigon, n. gen., n. sp., a remarkable new cleidogonid milliped from Mexico (Chordeumatida: Cleidogonidae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1982

Case 3688charinidaeGray 1849 (Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes): proposed suppression

scientific article published in March 2016

Cave Millipeds of the United States. IX. A New Species of the Genus Taiyutyla (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Conotylidae) from Caves in Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks, California, USA

scientific article published in 2011

Cave millipedes of the United States. XIII. A new, troglobiotic species of Austrotyla from Colorado (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Conotylidae).

scientific article

Cave millipedes of the United States. XV. Coloradesmus gen. nov. (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Macrosternodesmidae), and four new species from caves in Colorado, USA

scholarly article

Cave millipedes of the United States. XVI. Two new species from Oregon Caves National Monument, Oregon (Chordeumatida, Conotylidae and Caseyidae)

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

Cave millipeds of the United States. III. Two new species from the western states (Diplopoda: Polydesmida, Chordeumatida) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1984

Cave millipeds of the United States. IV. A new genus and species from a high altitude cave in Colorado (Diplopoda, Chordeumatidae, Tingupidae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1998

Centiped legs (Arthropoda, Chilopoda, Scutigeromorpha) from the Silurian and Devonian of Britain and the Devonian of North America ⬇️

scholarly article by William A. Shear et al published 1998 in American Museum Novitates

Centipeds (Chilopoda) and Symphyla of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador

scientific article published in November 1992

Chemical defenses in the opilionid infraorder Insidiatores: divergence in chemical defenses between Triaenonychidae and Travunioidea and within travunioid harvestmen (Opiliones) from eastern and western North America

article

Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844 ⬇️

scientific article

Contributions to arachnid systematics in honor of Willis J. Gertsch, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday ⬇️

scientific article published in 1981

Cretaceous arachnid Chimerarachne yingi gen. et sp. nov. illuminates spider origins

article

Cyrtodesmus baerti, n. sp., a cryptic millipede from the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Cyrtodesmidae)

scientific article

DESCRIPTION OF THE FEMALE OF ACROPSOPILIO CHOMULAE (GOODNIGHT & GOODNIGHT 1948) FROM CHIAPAS, MEXICO (OPILIONES, CADDIDAE, ACROPSOPILIONINAE)

article

Devonobiomorpha, a new order of centipeds (Chilopoda) from the Middle Devonian of Gilboa, New York State, USA, and the phylogeny of centiped orders ⬇️

scientific article published in 1988

Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Caseyidae, Opiona columbiana Chamberlin, 1951: distribution extensions into the Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, USA, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada, and eastern & southern Washington State, USA;… ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2007

Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Cleidogonidae, Pseudotremia salisae Lewis: distribution extension north of the Ohio River in Ohio and Illinois, U. S. A. ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2007

End of the 'Uniramia' taxon

scientific article published in Nature

Fossil evidence for the origin of spider spinnerets, and a proposed arachnid order

scientific article

Fossils of large terrestrial arthropods from the Lower Devonian of Canada

scientific article published in Nature

Fumontana deprehendor, n. gen., n. sp., the First Triaenonychid Opilionid from Eastern North America (Opiliones: Laniatores: Triaenonychidae)

scientific article published in 1975

Glomerin and homoglomerin from the North American pill millipede Onomeris sinuata (Loomis, 1943) (Diplopoda, Pentazonia, Glomeridae)

scientific article published in 2011

Golovatchia, new genus, and Golovatchiidae, from the Far East of the Russian Republic, with a comment on Hoffmaneumatidae (Diplopoda: Chordeumatidae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1992

Harvestmen: the Biology of Opiliones Pinto-da-Rocha Ricardo, Machado Glauco, Giribet Gonzalo . Harvestmen: the Biology of Opiliones. 2007. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 597 pp. ISBN: 13:978-0-674-02343-7. US$125.

scientific article published in 2008

Hesperonemastoma Smilax, N. SP., A Remarkable New Harvestman from a Cave in West Virginia, with Comments on other Reported Cave-Dwelling Hesperonemastoma Species (Opiliones, Ischyropsalidoidea, Sabaconidae)

Huitaca ventralis, n. gen., n. sp., with a Description of a Gland Complex New to Cyphophthamlmids (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi)

scientific article published in 1979

Identity of the Indian cave milliped Typhlopygmaeosoma hazeltonae Turk (Polydesmida: Opisthotretidae?): another case of ordinal misplacement in the Diplopoda ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1986

Japanese chordeumatid millipeds. I. On the genus Speophilosoma Takakuwa (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Speophilosomatidae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1994

Japanese chordeumatid millipeds. II. The new genus Nipponothrix (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Metopidiotrichidae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1994

Japanese chordeumatid millipeds. III. Yasudatyla, a new genus of alpine conotylid millipeds (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida,Conotylidae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1995

Japanese chordeumatid millipeds. IV. The new genus ]apanoparvus (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Hoffmaneumatidae). ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1997

Lineagona, a new millipede genus (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Cleidogonidae) from Texas, USA, and Nuevo León, México

scientific article published in 2024

Male of the Blind Cave Gnaphosoid Lygromma anops (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea, Prodidomidae) from Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

scholarly article by William A. Shear & Stewart B Peck published 1992 in Journal of Arachnology

Martensolasma jocheni, a new genus and species of harvestman from Mexico (Opiliones: Nemastomatidae: Ortholasmatinae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 September 2006

Marwe coarctata : a remarkable new cyphophthalmid from a limestone cave in Kenya (Arachnida, Opiliones) ⬇️

scientific article published in 1985

Metopidiothrix shelleyi, n. sp., the first chordeumatid milliped from the Philippines (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Metopidiotrichidae). ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1994

Microdecemplicida, a new order of minute arthropleurideans (Arthropoda: Myriapoda) from the Devonian of New York State, U.S.A

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Microlympiidae, a new milliped family from North America, and Microlympia echina, new genus and species (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Brannerioidea)

scientific article (publication date: 21 July 2003)

Millipede phylogeny revisited in the light of the enigmatic order Siphoniulida

scholarly article by P. Sierwald et al published April 2003 in Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

Millipedes from the Grès à Voltzia, Triassic of France, with comments on Mesozoic millipedes (Diplopoda: Helminthomorpha: Eugnatha)

scientific article published in June 2009

Millipeds (Diplopoda) from Mexican and Guatemalan caves

scholarly article

Millipeds (Diplopoda) of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

scientific article published in November 1987

New Canadian records of Nemastoma bimaculatum (Fabricius), and a brief summary of introduced Eurasian harvestmen in North America (Arachnida, Opiliones)

scientific article

New species and records of ortholasmatine harvestmen from México, Honduras, and the western United States (Opiliones, Nemastomatidae, Ortholasmatinae) ⬇️

scientific article

New terrestrial arachnids from the Devonian of Gilboa, New York (Arachnida, Trigonotarbida) ⬇️

scientific article published in 1987

Observations on the Natural History of Sphodros abboti and Sphodros rufipes (Araneae, Atypidae), with Evidence for a Contact Sex Pheromone

scientific article published in 1981

Observations on the Predatory Behavior of the Spider Hypochilus Gertschi Hoffman (Hypochilidae)

article

Occurrence of the milliped Sinocallipus simplipodicus Zhang, 1993 in Laos, with reviews of the Southeast Asian and global callipodidan faunas, and remarks on the phylogenetic position of the order (Callipodida: Sinocallipodidea: Sinocallipodidae)

scientific article (publication date: 29 November 2003)

On the milliped family Heterochordeumatidae, with comments on the higher classification of the order Chordeumatida (Diplopoda)

article

One hundred million years of stasis: Siphonophora hui sp. nov., the first Mesozoic sucking millipede (Diplopoda: Siphonophorida) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

scientific article published in 2019

Palaeontology: An insect to fill the gap.

scientific article published in August 2012

Record of Palaeozoic pseudoscorpions

scientific article published in Nature

Recovery of the family status of Pericambalidae Silvestri, 1909, stat. nov. (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Cambalidea), with a revision of the genera and species from China ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 January 2023

Redescription of the South African millipede Cylichnogaster lawrencei Verhoeff, 1937 and notes on the family Siphonotidae (Diplopoda, Polyzoniida)

scientific article

Solved after 140 years: the identity of the millipede Polydesmus cavicola Packard, 1877, and proposal of Packardesmus n. gen. (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Macrosternodesmidae)

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Step-wise evolution of complex chemical defenses in millipedes: a phylogenomic approach

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Stridulation in Acanthophrynus Coronatus (Butler) (Amblypygi, Tarantulidae)

article

Systematic position of the milliped Japanosoma scabrum Verhoeff (Chordeumatida, Conotylidae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1987

Systematic position of the milliped family Niponiosomatidae (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Brannerioidea) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1988

Systematic position of the milliped species Alloiopus solitaries Attems and the genus Ghilarovia Gulicka (Chordeumatida, Anthroleucosomatidae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1988

Taracus aspenae, n. sp. (Opiliones: Taracidae) a new long-jawed harvestman from a cave in northeastern Oregon, U.S.A.

scientific article

Taxonomic notes on the armored spiders of the families Tetrablemmidae and Pacullidae ⬇️

scientific article published in 1978

The Chemistry of Some Dalodesmidean Millipedes from Tasmania (Diplopoda, Polydesmida).

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

The Genus Chileogovea (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Petallidae)

scientific article published in 1993

The Genus Siro Latreille, 1796 (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Sironidae), in North America with a Phylogenetic Analysis Based on Molecular Data and the Description of Four New Species

scientific article published in October 2010

The Genus Troglosiro and the New Family Troglosironidae (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi)

scientific article published in 1993

The Milliped Family Rhiscosomididae (Diplopoda: Chordeumida: Striarioidea)

article

The Milliped Genus Bollmanella (Diplopoda, Chordeumida, Conotylidae)

article

The Opilionid Family Caddidae in North America, with Notes on Species from Other Regions (Opiliones, Palpatores, Caddoidea)

scientific article published in 1974

The Opilionid Genera Sabacon and Tomicomerus in America (Opiliones, Troguloidea, Ischyropsalidae)

scientific article published in 1975

The Opilionid Genus Neogovea Hinton, with a Description of the First Troglobitic Cyphophthalmid from the Western Hemisphere (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi)

scientific article published in 1975

The centipede family Anopsobiidae new to North America, with the description of a new genus and species and notes on the Henicopidae of North America and the Anopsobiidae of the Northern Hemisphere (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha)

scientific article

The chemical defense of the Texas cave harvestman Chinquipellobunus madlae: first report on the family Stygnopsidae and on a North American troglobiont harvestman (Opilones: Gonyleptoidea)

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The chemical defenses of a stylocellid (Arachnida, Opiliones, Stylocellidae) from Sulawesi with comparisons to other Cyphophthalmi

article

The early development of terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article published in Nature

The ecology of Paleozoic terrestrial arthropods: the fossil evidence

scientific article published on 22 August 2008

The first Paleozoic pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpionida) ⬇️

scientific article published in 1991

The first Permian centipedes from Russia

article

The first true millipede—1306 legs long

scholarly article

The geological record and phylogeny of the Myriapoda

scientific article

The harvestman genus Taracus Simon 1879, and the new genus Oskoron (Opiliones: Ischyropsalidoidea: Taracidae)

scientific article (publication date: November 2016)

The identity of Amplaria nazinta (Chamberlin, 1910): a century-old millipede mystery resolved (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striariidae)

scientific article published on 23 August 2017

The milliped family Anthroleucosomatidae new to North America: Leschius mcallisteri, n. gen., n. sp. (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Anthroleucosomatoidea)

scientific article (publication date: 16 August 2004)

The milliped family Conotylidae (Diplopoda, Chordeumida) : revision of the genus Taiyutyla, with notes on recently proposed taxa ⬇️

scientific article published in 1976

The milliped family Tingupidae (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Brannerioidea) ⬇️

scientific article published in 1981

The milliped family Trichopetalidae, Part 1: Introduction and Genera Trigenotyla Causey, Nannopetalum n. gen., and Causeyella n. gen. (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida, Cleidogonoidea)

scientific article (publication date: 14 October 2003)

The milliped genus Diplomaragna confirmed for Taiwan, with the description of a new species (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Diplomaragnidae). ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1999

The millipede Craspedosoma raulinsii Leach, 1814 (Chordeumatida: Craspedosomatidae) in North America with comments on the derivation of its binomial name

article

The millipede family Conotylidae in northwestern North America, with a complete bibliography of the family (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Heterochordeumatidea, Conotyloidea)

scientific article published on 19 March 2020

The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. II. New records and species of the genus Amplaria Chamberlin, 1941 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea)

scientific article

The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. VII. Petra sierwaldae, n. gen., n. sp., a minute millipede from Idaho, USA (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striariidae)

scientific article published on 25 November 2022

The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893: I. Introduction to the family, synonymy of Vaferaria Causey with Amplaria Chamberlin, the new subfamily Trisariinae, the new genus Trisaria, and three new species (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Stria...

scientific article published on 30 March 2020

The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893: III. Four new species of Striaria Bollman, 1888 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striariidae) from Idaho, USA

scientific article

The millipede genus Metopidiothrix Attems (Diplopoda : Chordeumatida : Metopidiotrichidae)

The opilionid subfamily Ortholasmatinae (Opiliones, Troguloidea, Nemastomatidae) ⬇️

scientific article published in 1983

Tingupa tlingitorum, n. sp., a new milliped from Haines, Alaska, USA, with notes on the generic distribution and a revised key to species (Chordeumatida: Tingupidae)

scientific article (publication date: 18 January 2007)

Two fossil millipeds from the Dominican amber (Diplopoda: Chytodesmidae, Siphonophoridae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1981

Two new cave-dwelling harvestmen from Western Australia (Arachnida: Opiliones: Assamiidae and "Phalangodidae")

Two new species in the milliped genus Taiyutyla from British Columbia, Canada, and Washington, USA (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Conotylidae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2004

Urochordeumatidae Silvestri, 1909, a millipede family endemic to Washington State, USA (Chordeumatida, Striariidea, Striarioidea)

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Zoological results of the British Speleological Expedition to Papua New Guinea, 1975. Malayothrix papuara, n. sp., the first chordeumid milliped from New Guinea (Chordeumida, Metopidiotrichidae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 1980

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