Robert Van Syoc

• Robert Van Syoc
• US marine zoologist, specializes in sponge, coral and bryozoan symbionts
• California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA USA

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 37 taxon names authored by Robert Van Syoc

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1988

• Van Syoc, R.J. 1988. Description of Membranobalanus robinae, a new species of sponge barnacle (Cirripedia, Archaeobalanidae) from Baja California, with a key to the genus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101(4): 832-837. BHLReference page. 

1992

• Van Syoc, R. 1992: Living and Fossil Populations of a Western Atlantic Barnacle, Balanus subalbidus Henry, 1974, in the Gulf of California Region. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History, no. 12: 1-7. BHL Reference page. 

1999

• Van Syoc, R.J. & Winther, R. 1999: Sponge-inhabiting barnacles of the Americas: A new species of Acasta (Cirripedia, Archaeobalanidae), first record from the Eastern Pacific, including discussion of the evolution of cirral morphology. Crustaceana 72(5): 467-486. JSTORReference page. 

2010

• Fernandes, J.N., Cruz, T. & Van Syoc, R. 2010. Pollicipes caboverdensis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Scalpelliformes), an intertidal barnacle from the Cape Verde Islands. Zootaxa 2557: 29–38. Preview. DOI: 10.11646/%25x Reference page. 
• Van Syoc, R. J.; Newman, W.A. 2010: Morphology and evolutionary ecology of a sponge-barnacle symbiosis: Four new genera of barnacles (Archaeobalanidae, Bryozobiinae). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 392(1): 65-88. DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2010.04.011 pdf Reference page. 

2011

• van Soest, R. W. M., Kaiser, K. L. & Van Syoc, R. J., 2011. Sponges from Clipperton Island, East Pacific. Zootaxa 2839: 1–46.
• Van Syoc, R. & Dekelboum, A.M. 2011: Oxynaspididae (Crustacea, Cirripedia): phylogenetics and evolutionary ecology, with descriptions of three new genera and six new species. Zootaxa 3103: 1–32. Preview Reference page. 

2012

• Van Syoc, R.J. & Dekelboum, A.M. 2012: Scleraspis nom. nov., replacement name for Pycnaspis Van Syoc & Dekelboum, 2011. Zootaxa 3296: 68–68. Preview PDF Reference page. 

2013

• Carrison-Stone, D., Van Syoc, R., Williams, G. & Simison, W.B. 2013. Two new species of the gorgonian inhabiting barnacle, Conopea (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica), from the Gulf of Guinea. ZooKeys 270: 1–20. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.270.3736 Reference page. 

2014

• Van Syoc, R.J., Carrison-Stone, D., Madrona, L., & Williams, G.C. 2014. Barnacle symbionts of gorgonian sea fans: Description of Seven New Species (Archaeobalanidae:Cirripedia) from the Philippines, Including a Key to Western Pacific Species of Conopea. Pp. 171–211 In Williams, G.C. & Gosliner, T.M., (eds.) 2014. The Coral Triangle: The 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, 94118, USA, 592 p. ISBN 0-940228-75-0. BHL Reference page.  Reference page. 

2015

• Van Syoc, R.J., van Soest, R.W.M., Xavier, J.R. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2015. A phylogenetic overview of sponge-inhabiting barnacles and their host specificity (Crustacea, Cirripedia). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences ser. 4, 62(11): 331–357. PDF Reference page. 

2021

• Buckeridge, J.S., Carlton, J.T., Van Syoc, R.J., Achituv, Y., Bauer, R.T., Buhl-Mortensen, L., Chan, B.K-K., Coletti, G., Collareta, A., Grygier, M.J., Hendrickx, M.E., Høeg, J.T., Jones, D.S., Kerckof, F., Koči, T., Kolbasov, G.A., Laguna, J.E., Perreault, R.T., Pitombo, F.B., Poltarukha, O.P., Portell, R.W., House, G., Southward, E.C., Spivey, H.R., Standing, J.D., Wares, J.P. & Yamaguchi, T. 2021. William Anderson Newman (November 13, 1927 -- December 26, 2020) In Memory of the Distinguished Invertebrate Zoologist, and Mentor, Colleague and Friend. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, series 4; 67(3): 55–83. Reference page.