Prashant P. Sharma

Prashant P. Sharma, U.S. evolutionary biologist.

• Department of Integrative Biology, University of Madison-Wisconsin, 352 Birge Hall, 430 Lincoln Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 7 taxon names authored by Prashant P. Sharma

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2007

• Giribet, G., Sharma, P. & Bastawade, D.B. 2007. A new genus and species of Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida: Opiliones) from the north-eastern states of India. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 151(4): 663–670. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00347.x Reference page. 

2009

• Sharma, P. & Giribet, G. 2009. The family Troglosironidae (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) of New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 198: 205–246. Reference page. 
• Sharma, P. & Giribet, G. 2009. A relict in New Caledonia: phylogenetic relationships of the family Troglosironidae (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi). Cladistics 25: 279–294. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00252.x Reference page. 
• Sharma, P., Karunarathna, I. & Giribet, G. 2009. On the endemic Sri Lankan genus Pettalus (Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Pettalidae) with a description of a new species and a discussion of its diversity. Journal of Arachnology 37(1): 60–67. DOI: 10.1636/H08-56.1 Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

2010

• Giribet G., Vogt L., González A.P., Sharma P. & Kury A.B. 2010. A multilocus approach to harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones) phylogeny with emphasis on biogeography and the systematics of Laniatores. Cladistics 26(4): 408-437. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00296.x. Reference page. 

2011

• Sharma, P.P., Prieto, C.E. & Giribet, G. 2011. A new family of Laniatores (Arachnida: Opiliones) from the Afrotropics. Invertebrate Systematics 25(2): 143–154. DOI: 10.1071/IS11003. Reference page. 
• Sharma P. & Giribet G. 2011. The evolutionary and biogeographic history of the armoured harvestmen – Laniatores phylogeny based on ten molecular markers, with the description of two new families of Opiliones (Arachnida). Invertebrate Systematics 25(2): 106-142. DOI: 10.1071/is11002. Reference page. 

2012

• Sharma, P.P., Buenavente, P.A.C., Clouse, R.M., Diesmos, A.C. & Giribet, G. 2012. Forgotten gods: Zalmoxidae of the Philippines and Borneo (Opiliones: Laniatores). Zootaxa 3280: 29–55. Preview Reference page. 
• Sharma, P.P., González, V.L., Kawauchi, G.Y., Andrade, S.C.S., Guzmán, A., Collins, T.M., Glover, E.A., Harper, E.M., Healy, J.M., Mikkelsen, P.M., Taylor, J.D., Bieler, R. & Giribet, G. 2012 Phylogenetic analysis of four nuclear protein-encoding genes largely corroborates the traditional classification of Bivalvia (Mollusca). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65(1): 64–74. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.05.025 Reference page. 
• Giribet, G., Sharma, P.P., Boyer, S.L., Clouse, R.M., de Bivort, B.L., Dimitrov, D.. Kawauchi, G.Y., Murienne, J.Y. & Schwendinger, P.J., 2012. Evolutionary and biogeographical history of an ancient and global group of arachnids (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) with a new taxonomic arrangement. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 105: 92–130. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01774.x . Reference page. 

2013

• Sharma, P.P., Zardus, J.D., Boyle, E.E., González, V.L., Jennings, R.M., McIntyre, E., Wheeler, W.C., Etter, R.J. & Giribet, G. 2013. Into the Deep: A phylogenetic approach to the bivalve subclass Protobranchia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69(1): 188–204. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.05.018 Reference page. 

2014

• Bieler, R., Mikkelsen, P.M., Collins, T.M., Glover, E.A., González, V.L., Graf, D.L., Harper, E.M., Healy, J., Kawauchi, G.Y., Sharma, P.P., Staubach, S., Strong, E.E., Taylor, J.D., Tëmkin, I., Zardus, J.D., Clark, S., Guzmán, A., McIntyre, E., Sharp, P. & Giribet, G. 2014. Investigating the Bivalve Tree of Life – an exemplar-based approach combining molecular and novel morphological characters. Invertebrate Systematics 28(1): 32–115. DOI: 10.1071/IS13010 Reference page. 
• Clouse, R.M., Janda, M., Blanchard, B., Sharma, P., Hoffmann, B.D., Andersen, A.N., Czekanski-Moir, J.E., Krushelnycky, P., Rabeling, C., Wilson, E.O., Economo, E.P., Sarnat, E.M., General, D.M., Alpert, G.D. & Wheeler, W.C. 2014. Molecular phylogeny of Indo-Pacific carpenter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae, Camponotus) reveals waves of dispersal and colonization from diverse source areas. Cladistics 31(4): 424–437. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12099 . Reference page. 

2016

• Jay, K., Popkin-Hall, Z., Coblens, M., Oberski, J., Sharma, P. & Boyer, S. 2016. New species of Austropurcellia, cryptic short-range endemic mite harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) from Australia’s Wet Tropics biodiversity hotspot. ZooKeys 586: 37–93. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.586.6774 Reference page. 
• Pérez-González, A., Sharma, P. & Proud, D.N. 2016. Morphological tricks and blessed genitalia: rectifying the family placement of Fijicolana tuberculata (Opiliones: Laniatores: Zalmoxidae). Zootaxa 4061(3): 253–260. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.3.3 Reference page. 
• Giribet, G., Boyer, S.L., Baker, C.M., Fernández, R., Sharma, P., de Bivort, B.L., Daniels, S.R.., Harvey, M.S. & Griswold, C.E. 2016. A molecular phylogeny of the temperate Gondwanan family Pettalidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) and the limits of taxonomic sampling. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178: 523–545. Reference page. 

2018

• Zhang, C., Zhang, F. & Sharma, P.P. 2018. Two new species of Petrobunus from China (Opiliones: Laniatores: Petrobunidae). Zootaxa 4524(1): 51–64. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4524.1.3 Reference page. 

2019

• Aharon, S., Ballesteros, J.A., Crawford, A.R., Friske, K., Gainett, G., Langford, B., Santibáñez-López, C.E., Ya’aran, S., Gavish-Regev, E. & Sharma, P.P. 2019. The anatomy of an unstable node: a Levantine relict precipitates phylogenomic dissolution of higher-level relationships of the armoured harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores). Invertebrate Systematics 33: 697–717. DOI: 10.1071/IS19002 . Reference page. 
• Schmidt, S.M., Perry A. C. Buenavente, Blatchley, D.D., Diesmos, A.C., Diesmos, M.L., General, D.E.M., Mohagan, A.B., Mohagan, D.J., Clouse, R.M. & Sharma, P.P. 2019. A new species of Tithaeidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores) from Mindanao reveals contemporaneous colonisation of the Philippines by Sunda Shelf opiliofauna. 33(1): 237–251 Invertebrate Systematics 33: 237–251. DOI: 10.1071/IS18057 . Reference page. 

2020

• Schmidt, S.M., Clouse, R.M. & Sharma, P.P. 2020. A new Miopsalis from Mindanao supports a biogeographic umbilicus between Borneo and the southern Philippines (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi: Stylocellidae). Zootaxa 4779(3): 379–390. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.6 Reference page.