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List of works by William A. Shear

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The first Permian centipedes from Russia

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The milliped family Tingupidae (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Brannerioidea)

scientific article published in 1981

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

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

scholarly article published in 1995

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

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

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

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

scientific article published in November 1992

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

scientific article

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

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

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

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

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

scholarly article published in 1986

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

scientific article published in 1974

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

scientific article published in 1975

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

scholarly article published in 2004

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

The Milliped Family Rhiscosomididae (Diplopoda: Chordeumida: Striarioidea)

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Millipeds (Diplopoda) from Mexican and Guatemalan caves

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The opilionid subfamily Ortholasmatinae (Opiliones, Troguloidea, Nemastomatidae)

scientific article published in 1983

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

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

scholarly article published in 1999

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

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

scholarly article published in 1982

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

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

A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome

scientific article published on 13 August 2021

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

scholarly article published in 1997

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

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

scholarly article published in 1987

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

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

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

Brazilian cave heritage under siege

scientific article published on 18 March 2022

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

scientific article published in 1976

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

scholarly article published in 1994

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

scientific article published in 2024

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

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

scholarly article published in 2000

The Milliped Genus Bollmanella (Diplopoda, Chordeumida, Conotylidae)

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

scientific article published in 1987

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

scientific article published in 1985

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

scientific article published in March 2016

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

scholarly article published in 1981

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

scientific article published in 1979

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

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

scholarly article published in 1995

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 1975

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)

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

scholarly article published in 1988