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Amélie H. Scheltema

38°C on the Arabian Sea - HMS DISCOVERY October 1994

Address: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Redfield 1-34 MS #34, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA

Telephone: 1 (508) 289 2337

Fax: 1 (508) 289 2134

e-mail: ascheltema@whoi.edu

Education:

• Dr. philos., University of Oslo, Norway, 1992
• A.B., Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 1950; major, geology

 

 
 




Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

• National Science Foundation grant, Partnerships for Enhancing Taxonomic Expertise (PEET) 1995-present
• Scholar, Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA, 1965-1967

Professional Societies:

• American Association for Zoological Nomenclature
• American Malacological Union
• Malacological Society of London
• Sigma Xi
• Unitas Malacologica
• Western Society of Naturalists
• American Microscopical Society
• Malacological Society of the Far East [Russia]

• Recent Publications
• 1993 Scheltema, A. H. Aplacophora as progenetic aculiferans and the coelomate origin of mollusks as the sister taxon of Sipuncula. Biological Bulletin 184: 57-78.
• 1994 Scheltema, A. H., M. Tscherkassky and A. M. Kuzirian. Aplacophora. Pp. 13-54 in: F. W. Harrison and A. J. Kohn eds., Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates. Vol. 5, Mollusca I. Wiley-Liss, Inc., New York.
• 1994 Scheltema, A. H. and M. Jebb. Natural history of a solenogaster mollusc from Papua New Guinea, Epimenia australis (Thiele) (Aplacophora, Neomeniomorpha). Journal of Natural History 28: 1297-1318.
• 1995 Buckland-Nicks, J. and A. H. Scheltema. Was internal fertilization an innovation of early Bilateria? Evidence from sperm structure of a mollusc. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 261: 11-18.
• 1997 Scheltema, A. H. Aplacophoran molluscs: deep-sea analogs to polychaetes. Bulletin of Marine Science 60: 575-583.
• 1998 Scheltema, A. H. Class Aplacophora. Pp. 145-159 in: Beesley, P.l., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds.) Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Vol. 5A. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.
• 1998 Scheltema, A. H. Class Aplacophora. Pp. 3-47 in: Scott, P. V. & Blake, J.A. (eds.), Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and the Western Santa Barbara Channel. Santa Barabara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA.
• 2000 Scheltema, A. H. Two solenogaster molluscs, Ocheyoherpia trachia sp. n. and Tegulaherpia tasmanica Salvini-Plawen from Bass Strait (Neomeniomorpha, Aplacophora). Records of the Australian Museum.
• Scheltema, A. H. New eastern Atlantic aplacophoran molluscs (Neomeniomorpha). Ophelia.
• 2000 Scheltema, A. H. & C. Schander. Discrimination and phylogeny of solenogaster species through the morphology of hard parts (Mollusca, Aplacophora, Neomeniomorpha). Biological Bulletin.

Research Interests:

Deep-sea ecology and biogeography, systematics of aplacophoran molluscs, evolution of Metazoa, and systematics of the Pinnidae