David Leo Pawson

David Leo Pawson (David L. pawson, 1938– ), marine biologist.

Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, United States of America

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Pawson, D.L. 1962: Chiridota mortenseni n.sp., a new apodous holothurian from New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, zoology 2(10): 61–64. Reference page.

Pawson, D.L. 1965: New sea-cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from New Zealand waters. Records of the Dominion Museum 5(11): 75–82. Reference page.

Rowe, F.W.E., Pawson, D.L. 1967. A new genus in the holothurian family Synaptidae, with a new species from Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 101: 31–35. PDF Reference page.

Pawson, D.L. 1968: Some holothurians from Macquarie Island. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, zoology 10(15): 141–150. Reference page.

Dartnall, A.J., Pawson, D.L., Pope, E.C., Smith, B.J. 1969. Replacement name for the preoccupied genus name Odinia Perrier 1885 (Echinodermata: Asteroidea). The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 93(2): 211. BHL Reference page.

Rowe, F.W.E. & Pawson, D.L. 1977. A catalogue of echinoderm type-specimens in the Australian Museum, Sydney. Records of the Australian Museum 30(14): 337–364. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.30.1977.392 .

Roux, M., Pawson, D.L. 1999. Two New Pacific Ocean Species of Hyocrinid Crinoids (Echinodermata), with Comments on Presumed Giant-Dwarf Gradients Related to Seamounts and Abyssal Plains. Pacific Science. 53(3): 289–298. hdl: 10125/2187 Reference page.

Liao, Y. & Pawson, D.L. 2001. Dendrochirote and dactylochirote sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of China, with descriptions of eight new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 114(1): 58–90. BHL Reference page.

Pawson, D.L. 2004. Ovalidota milleri, a new genus and species of bathyal sea cucumber from the Caribbean Sea (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Zootaxa. 561(1): 1–6. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.561.1.1 Reference page.
Pawson, D.L., Vance, D.J. 2004. Chiridota heheva, new species, from Western Atlantic deep-sea cold seeps and anthropogenic habitats (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Zootaxa. 534(1): 1–13. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.534.1.1 Reference page.

Pawson, D.L., Vance, D.J. 2005. Rynkatorpa felderi, new species, from a bathyal hydrocarbon seep in the northern Gulf of Mexico (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Zootaxa. 1050(1): 15–20. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1050.1.2 Reference page.

Pawson, D.L., Vance, D.J. 2007. Heteromolpadia joyceae, a new species of sea cucumber from New Zealand, with a key to New Zealand Molpadiidae (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Molpadiida). Zootaxa. 1608(1): 35–39. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1608.1.5 Reference page.
Pawson, D.L. 2007. Narcissia ahearnae, a new species of sea star from the Western Atlantic (Echinodermata: Asteroidea: Valvatida). Zootaxa. 1386(1): 53–58. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1386.1.6 Reference page.
Liao, Y., Pawson, D.L., Liu, W. 2007. Rediscovery of the sea cucumber “Toxodora” pacifica Ohshima, 1915 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Zootaxa. 1435(1): 37–40. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1435.1.4 Reference page.
Liao, Y., Pawson, D.L., Liu, W. 2007. Phyllophorus (Phyllophorus) maculatus, a new species of sea cucumber from the Yellow Sea (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida). Zootaxa. 1608(1): 31–34. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1608.1.4 Reference page.
Pawson, D.L. 2007. Phylum Echinodermata*. Zootaxa. 1608(1): 749–764. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.31 .

Donovan, S.K. & Pawson, D.L. 2008. A new species of the sessile crinoid Holopus d'Orbigny from the tropical western Atlantic, with comments on holopodid ecology (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Holopodidae). Zootaxa 1717(1): 31–38. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1717.1.3 . Reference page.

Mironov, A.N. & Pawson, D.L. 2010. A new genus and species of Western Atlantic sea lily in the family Septocrinidae (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Bourgueticrinida). Zootaxa 2449: 49–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2449.1.2 Reference page.

Amon, D.J., Ziegler, A.F., Kremenetskaia, A., Mah, C.L., Mooi, R., O'Hara, T., Pawson, D.L., Roux, M. & Smith, C.R. 2017. Megafauna of the UKSRL exploration contract area and eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean: Echinodermata. Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e11794. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.5.e11794. Reference page.

Baker, A.N., Okanishi, M. & Pawson, D.L. 2018. Euryalid brittle stars from the International Indian Ocean Expedition 1963–64 (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea: Euryalida). Zootaxa 4392(1): 1–27. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.1.1. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Pawson, D.L. 2018. A new species of the remarkable brittle star genus Astrophiura (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the western Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa 4378(2): 257–264. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4378.2.4. Full article (PDF) Reference page.