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About the authors
Daniel L. Geiger is Research Curator of Electron
Microscopy at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural
History. His award-winning dissertation from 1999 on
abalone systematics and evolution was overseen by coadvisors
Dr. Russel Zimmer and Dr. James H. McLean at the
University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles,
California. Following a post-doctoral fellowship in
molecular systematics at the Los Angeles County Museum
of Natural History and teaching appointments at USC, he
moved to his current position. He is working on systematics
and evolution of Vetigastropoda, currently focusing on the
exclusively minute Scissurellidae, Anatomidae and
associated families, using light and electron microscopy on
shells and radulae, 3D reconstruction of histological
sections, as well as molecular phylogenetics. His field
experience ranges from the Irish Sea to Papua New Guinea;
photography and digital imaging are keen interests. He is
associate editor with Molluscan Research and the senior
editor for Mollusca with Zootaxa. He is the organizer of the
symposium on micromolluscs at the Unitas Malacologia
2007 conference in Antwerp, Belgium.
Bruce Marshall is Malacologist and collection manager of
Mollusca at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa,
Wellington, which he joined in 1975. He specialises in the
fauna of New Zealand and surrounding areas and has
published extensively on various groups of small gastropods
and monoplacophorans. He is an associate editor with
Molluscan Research.
Winston Ponder retired in 2005 after many years as a
Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Museum,
Sydney. He carried out a major study of rissooidean
microgastropods in New Zealand for his Master of Science
degree. After finishing his PhD on neogastropods he moved
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to the Australian Museum in 1968 after briefly taking up a
position in the National Museum of New Zealand. He was
awarded a DSc in 1992 and is the author of over 200
publications on molluscs, many of them on micromolluscs,
particularly marine and freshwater Rissooidea. His current
primary interests include the taxonomy, distribution and
conservation of freshwater and estuarine molluscs, higher
systematics of gastropods and building interactive keys. He
is also writing a book on molluscan biology and evolution
together with Prof. David Lindberg and is the Managing
Editor of Molluscan Research.
Takenori Sasaki is a curator of paleontology and zoology at
The University Museum, The University of Tokyo. He
received his master’s degree in Prof. Okutani’s laboratory at
the Tokyo University of Fisheries with work on
patellogastropod systematics and a Ph. D. degree in the
paleobiological laboratory at The University of Tokyo
carrying out cladistic analyses of ‘archaeogastropods’. After
a post-doctoral fellowship at The University of Tokyo, he has
been in the current position since 1999. His main interests
are: comparative anatomy and phylogeny of whole
molluscan groups, serial sectioning of soft parts, larval shell
morphology and shell microstructure, biodiversity studies of
Japanese molluscs, taxonomic revision of patellogastropods,
and faunal research on deep-sea chemosynthesis-based
biological communities (hydrothermal vents and seeps).
Since 2002 he has especially worked on deep-sea molluscs
as a visiting scientist of JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for
Marine-Earth Science and Technology).
Anders Warén is senior curator at the Swedish Museum of
Natural History in Stockholm. He undertook his doctoral
studies at Göteborg University and has worked extensively
on eulimid gastropods. He has recently worked on deep sea
molluscs of the North-Eastern Atlantic and the Arctic as well
as hydrothermal vent taxa.