Robert Mesibov

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Robert 'Bob' Evan Mesibov (born March 9, 1946) is an American-born Australian scientist who specializes in millipede taxonomy and other myriapods. He earned a BA from New York University in 1966 and a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1971. He moved to Australia in 1973, settled in Tasmania, and worked as a curatorial assistant at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston. He became an Australian citizen in 1976. His early research was on chemotaxis, but around 1990–1991 he published his first zoological papers on velvet worms in the family Peripatopsidae. In later years he has focused on problems with digital databases, including errors in aggregated databases and inaccurate GPS coordinates for specimens. His zoological author abbreviation is Mesibov, and he has described or edited more than 100 taxa.