Nathaniel F Shoobs
Summary
I am a museum-based systematic invertebrate zoologist and evolutionary biologist interested in the taxonomy, biogeography, and morphological evolution of land snails on oceanic islands. I use an integrative taxonomic approach grounded in collection-based revisionary systematics, comparative anatomy, and phylogenomics in order to understand the generation and maintenance of species-level diversity in the non-marine Mollusca through evolutionary time.
Though my taxonomic expertise is in the Orthalicoid snails of the Neotropics (specifically the Galápagos Archipelago, northern South America, and the Caribbean Basin), I have broad interests in documenting, describing, and conserving terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate biodiversity across the globe.
Anatomy & Physiology Biodiversity Biogeography Ecology Evolutionary Studies Taxonomy Zoology