William B. "Bill" Rudman (born 1944)The natural history of Sydney on Google Books, p. 121Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (2009). 2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed., February 15, 2009, 830 pp. + 32 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society: http://www.malacological.org/publications/2400_malacology.html is a malacologist from New Zealand and Australia. In particular he studies sea slugs, opisthobranch gastropod molluscs, and has named many species of nudibranchs.
Rudman has a PhD from the University of Auckland, gained with a thesis on bullomorph opisthobranchs. Rudman ran the Sea Slug Forum, a website affiliated with the Australian Museum. In Rudman's words, the forum "aims to generate more interest in these fascinating animals by sharing information with a worldwide audience."Sea Slug Forum, accessed 4 March 2010. Sea Slug Forum has information and numerous images of nudibranchs, bubble-snails, sea hares and other kinds of sea slugs. It was discontinued in 2010 after 14,523 messages had been posted.Rudman, W.B., 2010 (Jun 3) The end of the Sea Slug Forum ?. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. It is still online as a resource, but not accepting new messages.
Taxa Species named in honour of this malacologist include: Aplysia rudmani Bebbington, 1974 Cadulus rudmani Lamprell & Healy, 1998 Hypselodoris rudmani Gosliner & R. F. Johnson, 1999 Phyllidiella rudmani Brunckhorst, 1993 Phyllodesmium rudmani Burghardt & Gosliner, 2006 Trapania rudmani M. C. Miller, 1981
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) lists 186 marine species named by Rudman.WoRMS: Species named by Rudman.
Bibliography Rudman's bibliography includes:Rudman, William B.. ZooBank, accessed 28 December 2016. Rudman, W. B. 1968 "Three new species of the opisthobranch family Aglajidae from New Zealand." Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology 10(23): 211–216.
See also :Category:Taxa named by William B. Rudman
References
Further reading Loch I. (1988). W. B. Rudman – Malacological bibliography and described Taxa. Sydney: Australian Museum, 8 pp. Miller A. (1998). "Shellebrities, W. B. Rudman, BSc. MSc. (Hons) PhD. DSc". Australian Shell News 101: 7. (with portrait).
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