Robin James Smith

Robin James Smith, ostracodologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Smith, R.J., Matzke-Karasz, R., Kamiya, T. & Ikeda, Y. 2002. Scottia birigida sp. nov. (Cypridoidea: Ostracoda) from western Honshu, Japan and a key to the subfamily Scottiinae Bronstein, 1947. Zootaxa 126: 1–20. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.

Smith, R.J. & Kamiya, T. 2006: Six new species of fresh and brackish water ostracods from Yakushima, Southern Japan. Hydrobiologia, 559: 331–355. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-005-0946-2
Smith, R.J., Kamiya, T. & Horne, D.J. 2006: Living males of the ‘ancient asexual’ Darwinulidae (Ostracoda: Crustacea). Proceedings of the Royal Society, B: Biological Sciences, 273: 1569–1578. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3452 (PDF)

Smith, R.J. 2011: Groundwater, spring and interstitial Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Shiga Prefecture, Japan, including descriptions of three new species and one new genus. Zootaxa, 3140: 15–37. Preview (PDF)
Smith, R.J., Janz, H. & Okubo, I. 2011: Recent Cyprididae and Ilyocyprididae (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Lake Biwa, Japan, including a summary of the lake’s ostracod fauna. Zootaxa, 2874: 1–37. Preview (PDF)

Smith, R.J.; Lee, J.; Choi, Y.G.; Chang, C.Y.; Colin, J.-P. 2012: A Recent species of Frambocythere Colin, 1980 (Ostracoda, Crustacea) from a cave in South Korea; the first extant representative of a genus thought extinct since the Eocene. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 31 (2): 131–138. DOI: 10.1144/0262-821X11-033

Matzke-Karasz, R., Neil, J.V., Smith, R.J., Godthelp, H., Archer, M. & Hand, S.J. 2013: Ostracods (Crustacea) with soft part preservation from Miocene cave deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, NW Queensland, Australia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2012.760007

Smith, R.J. & Kamiya, T. 2014: The freshwater ostracod (Crustacea) genus Notodromas Lilljeborg, 1853 (Notodromadidae) from Japan; taxonomy, ecology and lifestyle. Zootaxa 3841(2): 239–256. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3841.2.4

Smith, R.J., Kamiya, T., Choi, Y-G., Lee, J. & Chang, C.Y. 2017. A new species of Cavernocypris Hartmann, 1964 (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from caves in South Korea. Zootaxa 4268(3): 360–376. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4268.3.3. Reference page.

Meisch, C., Smith, R.J. & Martens, K. 2019. A subjective global checklist of the extant non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea). European journal of Taxonomy 492: 1-135. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.492 Reference page.
Smith, R.J., Zhai, D. & Chang, C.Y. 2019. Ilyocypris (Crustacea: Ostracoda) species in North East Asian rice fields; description of one new species, and redescriptions of Ilyocypris dentifera Sars, 1903 and Ilyocypris japonica Okubo, 1990. Zootaxa 4652(1): 56–92. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.1.2 Reference page.

Smith, R.J. & Chang, C.Y. 2020. Taxonomic assessments of some Cyprinotinae Bronstein, 1947 species (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Japanese and Korean rice fields, including (re-) descriptions of six species and a review of the type species of the subfamily. Zootaxa 4795(1): 1–69. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4795.1.1 Reference page.

Wang, Q-W., Horne, D.J., Fan, J-W., Wen, R-L., Smith, R.J., Wang, M. & Zhai, D-Y. 2022. Ilyocypris leptolinea Wang & Zhai, sp. nov., an ostracod (Ostracoda, Crustacea) from the late Quaternary of Inner Mongolia, northern China. Zookeys 1137ː 109–132. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1137.94224 Reference page.