Rachael King, Ph.D. Program Coordinator, Eastern Regional Taxonomic Center SC Department of Natural Resources Charleston, SC Ph.D., University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia KingR@dnr.sc.gov
Research: I am primarily interested in marine invertebrate systematics (specialized in peracarid crustaceans), benthic invertebrate biodiversity studies, and phylogenetic analyses. www.dnr.sc.gov/marine/sertc
Publications: King, R.A. 2008. A re-description of Accalathura crenulata (Richardson, 1901) from type material and the description of two new Accalathura species (Crustacea: Isopoda: Anthuridea) Zootaxa 1761: 17-29. R.W. Heard, R.A. King, D.M. Knott, B.P. Thoma, and S. Thornton-DeVictor, 2007. A guide to the Thalassinidea (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Decapoda) of the South Atlantic Bight. NOAA Professional Papers Series NMFS 8, 30 pp.(http://spo.nwr.noaa.gov/pp8.pdf) R.W. Heard and R.A. King. 2007. Crosniera wennerae, a new species of thalassinidean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thomasiniidae) from the South Atlantic Bight. Zootaxa 1644: 41-49. King R.A. and Cawood, A. 2007. A revision of the isopod genus Chiridotea (Valvifera: Chaetiliidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 27(1): 121-139. R.W. Heard, W. W. Price, D. M. Knott, R. A. King, and D. M. Allen. 2006. A taxonomic Guide to the mysids of the South Atlantic Bight. NOAA Professional Papers NMFS 4. 37 pp. (http://spo.nwr.noaa.gov/pp4.pdf) King, R.A. 2004. A description of Harpinia karamani sp. nov. (Amphipoda: Phoxocephalidae) from the Mediterranean, with a redescription of Harpinia truncata Sars, 1891. Zootaxa 724: 1-10 (15 November 2004) King, R.A., Myers, A.A. & McGrath, D. 2004. Review of Ampelisca aequicornis-type species from the British Isles. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 84: 155-164. King, R.A. and Holmes, J.M.C. 2004. A new species of Ischyrocerus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Ireland with a review of Ischyrocerus anguipes from the North East Atlantic. Journal of Natural History, 38 (14): 1757–1772. King, R.A., Myers, A.A. & McGrath, D., 2004. A review of shallow water Irish and British Harpinia Boeck (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Phoxocephalidae) species including the first detailed descriptions of the males of Harpinia laevis Sars and Harpinia pectinata Sars. Journal of Natural History, 38 (10): 1263 – 1286. King, R.A., 2003. Neastacilla Tattersall 1921 (comb. nov.) redefined with descriptions of eight new species (Crustacea: Isopoda: Arcturidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 60(2): 241-286.