List of works by Robert Mesibov

"Look what they've done to our data!" — How Aggregators Change Data Items in Collection Records

scientific article published in 2018

A dataset for examining trends in publication of new Australian insects

scientific article

A new and cryptic species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

A new and unusual species of Amastigogonus Brölemann, 1913 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Iulomorphidae)

scientific article

A new genus and four new species of millipedes from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae), with notes on male leg setae in some Tasmanian dalodesmids

scientific article (publication date: 26 June 2004)

A new genus and species of dalodesmid millipede from New South Wales, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae).

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A new genus and species of narrow-range millipede (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia

scientific article published in September 2020

A new genus and species of native exotic millipede in Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

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A new genus of Tasmanian millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) with unusual spiracles and a mosaic distribution

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A new genus of burrowing and cave-dwelling millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia

scientific article published in 2005

A new genus of millipede (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania with a pseudo-articulated gonopod telopodite

scientific article (publication date: 15 October 2005)

A new genus of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia with a mosaic distribution

scientific article (publication date: April 2004)

A new genus of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) from wet forests in southern Victoria, with brief remarks on the Victorian Polydesmida

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A new millipede genus and a new species of Asphalidesmus Silvestri, 1910 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidea) from southern Tasmania, Australia

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A new species of Tridactylogonus Jeekel, 1982 from South Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae).

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A new, alpine species of Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae)

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A remarkable case of mosaic parapatry in millipedes

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A replacement name for Dalodesmus sakalava (de Saussure & Zehntner, 1901) (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae)

scientific article published on 23 April 2018

A second remarkable case of parapatry in a Tasmanian millipede genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae)

scientific article published on 28 April 2020

A specialist's audit of aggregated occurrence records

scientific article

A zoogeographical singularity at Weavers Creek, Tasmania

An Australian collector's authority file, 1973–2020

scientific article published on 28 July 2021

An annotated list of the millipede (Diplopoda) species described by Johann Carl

scientific article published on 4 June 2020

An archived taxonomic website:

scientific article published in 2019

An audit of some processing effects in aggregated occurrence records.

scientific article

An update on the identity, distribution and biogeography of the remarkable centipede Craterostigmus tasmanianus

scholarly article

Annotated catalogue of South American Dalodesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida).

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

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

scientific article published in 1997

Australian chordeumatidan millipeds. I. New observations on the genus Peterjohnsia Mauries, with the description of the a new species from Tasmania (Diplopoda : Chordeumatida : Peterjohnsiidae)

Australian collecting events for Robert Mesibov, 1973-2020

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Biogeography in a continental island: population structure of the relict endemic centipede Craterostigmus tasmanianus (Chilopoda, Craterostigmomorpha) in Tasmania using 16S rRNA and COI.

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Cambaloid millipedes of Tasmania, Australia, with remarks on family-level classification and descriptions of two new genera and four new species (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida)

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Chemotaxis Toward Amino Acids in Escherichia coli

scientific article published on October 1, 1972

Data Auditing, Cleaning and Quality Assurance Workflows from the Experience of a Scholarly Publisher

scientific article published in 2019

Dirt-encrusted and dragon millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae) from Queensland, Australia

scholarly article

Distribution and ecology of the centipede Craterostigmus tasmanianus Pockock, 1902 (Chilopoda: Craterostigmomorpha: Craterostigmidae) in Tasmania

scholarly article

Distribution and ecology of the centipede Craterostigmus tasmanianus Pocock, 1902 (Chilopoda: Craterostigmomorpha: Craterostigmidae) in Tasmania

scholarly article

Diversity and abundance of some ground-dwelling invertebrates in plantation vs. native forests in Tasmania, Australia

scientific article published in 2002

Diversity of Queensland paradoxosomatid millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)

scientific article published in March 2008

Ecology and conservation of Tasmanipatus barretti and T. anophthalmus, parapatric onychophorans (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae) from northeastern Tasmania

scholarly article

Escherichia coli mutants defective in chemotaxis toward specific chemicals

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Faunal breaks in Tasmania and their significance for invertebrate conservation

scholarly article

Hoplatessara luxuriosa (Silvestri, 1895) (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) is native to Australia, not New Guinea

scientific article

Iulomorphid millipedes (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Iulomorphidae) of Tasmania, Australia

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Known unknowns, Google Earth, plate tectonics and Mt Bellenden Ker: some thoughts on locality data

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Lineage mosaics in millipedes

scientific article published in August 2003

Native species dominate the millipede fauna in a second-rotation Pinus radiata plantation in Tasmania, Australia

New records for millipedes from southern Chile (Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae; Polyzoniida: Siphonotidae).

scientific article published on 9 September 2017

New species of Agathodesmus Silvestri, 1910 from Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae)

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New species of Asphalidesmus Silvestri, 1910 from Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidea)

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New species of Prosopodesmus Silvestri, 1910 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae) from Queensland, Australia

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Notes on Victorian Iulomorphidae (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida)

Observations on Ooperipatellus decoratus, an oviparous onychophoran from Tasmania (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae)

scholarly article

Patterns in pitfall captures of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae) at coastal heathland sites in Tasmania

Redescription of 'Paurodesmus sjoestedti' (Verhoeff, 1924), comb. n. (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae)

scientific article published in August 2008

Redescription of Brochopeltismjoebergi Verhoeff, 1924 and description of a second Brochopeltis species from Australia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

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Redescription of Tasmanodesmus hardyi Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae).

scholarly article published in 2004

Redescriptions of Asphalidesmus leae Silvestri, 1910 and A. parvus (Chamberlin, 1920) comb. nov. from Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Haplodesmidae)

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Relative efficiency of pitfall trapping and hand-collecting from plots for sampling of millipedes

article by Robert Mesibov et al published June 1995 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Revision of Agathodesmus Silvestri, 1910 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae)

scientific article

Revision of the Australian millipede genus Pogonosternum Jeekel, 1965, with descriptions of two new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

Spare a thought for the losers

Specimen records for the 10 currently known species of Asphalidesmus Silvestri, 1910. (.csv)

scientific article published on 29 April 2011

Specimen records for the 10 currently known species of Asphalidesmus Silvestri, 1910. (.xls)

scientific article published on 29 April 2011

Tasmanipatus barretti gen. nov., and T. anophthalmus, sp. nov.: two new and unusual Onychophorans (Onychophora : Peripatopsidae) from northeastern Tasmania

scholarly article

The Australian millipede Dicranogonuspix Jeekel, 1982 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae): a species with and without paranota

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

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

The Mersey Break: an unexplained faunal boundary on the north coast of Tasmania

The first native Pyrgodesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) from Australia

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The millipede genera Gephyrodesmus Jeekel, 1983 and Orthorhachis Jeekel, 1985 in southeastern Australia, a new Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 from Victoria, and observations on male leg setae, spinnerets and metatergite sculpture (Diplopoda: Polydesmid

scholarly article published 11 June 2008

The millipede genus Gasterogramma (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae) in Tasmania, Australia, with descriptions of seven new species

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The millipede genus Lissodesmus Chamberlin, 1920 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida:Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania and Victoria, with descriptions of a new genus and 24 new species

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The millipede genus Solaenodolichopus Verhoeff, 1924 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). 1. New genus diagnosis and redescriptions of named species

scientific article published on 15 May 2014

The millipede genus Tasmaniosoma Verhoeff, 1936 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia, with descriptions of 18 new species

scientific article published on 26 March 2010

The millipede genus Tasmaniosoma Verhoeff, 1936 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from Tasmania, Australia, with descriptions of 18 new species. Specimen records for the Tasmaniosoma species described in this paper.

scientific article published on 15 April 2010

The range of attractant concentrations for bacterial chemotaxis and the threshold and size of response over this range. Weber law and related phenomena

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Three new species of Cladethosoma Chamberlin, 1920 from southeast Queensland (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)

Three new species of Tasmaniosoma Verhoeff, 1936 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Dalodesmidae) from northeast Tasmania, Australia

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Two new and unusual genera of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida) from Tasmania, Australia

scientific article (publication date: 2 December 2003)

Two new millipede genera from northwest Tasmania, Australia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Dalodesmidae)

scientific article published in 2010

Two new monotypic genera of Queensland millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)

scholarly article

Two new monotypic genera of Queensland millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)

scientific article published in 2013

Velvet worms: a special case of invertebrate conservation

scholarly article