William H. Heard (biologist)

William H. Heard in 2002.

William Henry Heard (born 1935 in Michigan) is a malacologist, and an authority on freshwater mollusks, especially freshwater pelecypods (clams). He is an emeritus professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, at Florida State University.[1]

Heard was the winner of the "Lifetime Achievement Award" for 2001 from the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society.[2] He has had two species of mayflies named in his honor: Symbiocloeon heardi Müller-Liebenau[3] and Povilla heardi Hubbard.[4] Heard discovered these insects in Thailand, where they were living within the shells of freshwater clams.

  1. ^ "Dr. William H. Heard - FSU Biological Science Faculty Emeritus". fsu.edu.
  2. ^ Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society award recipients
  3. ^ Müller-Liebenau, I. and W. H. Heard. 1975. Symbiocloeon: a new genus of Baetidae from Thailand (Insecta, Ephemeroptera). Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Ephemeroptera. Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa-Kraków. pp. 57-65.
  4. ^ Hubbard, Michael D. 1984. A revision of the genus Povilla (Ephemeroptera: Polymitarcyidae). Aquatic Insects 6(1):17-35