William D. Anderson, Jr.
Grice Marine Laboratory
205 Fort Johnson
Charleston, SC 29412
(843) 953-9182
andersonwd@cofc.edu
Ph.D., 1960, University of South Carolina
Research emphasis: Systematics of fishes and history of biology
Current and planned research projects:
- Systematics of fishes: Symphysanodontidae (slopefishes) -- worldwide; Anthiinae (anthiine seabasses, family Serranidae) -- Atlantic and eastern Pacific; Callanthiidae (splendid perches) -- worldwide; Lutjanidae (snappers) --worldwide
- History of biology: history of natural history investigations in South Carolina; history of the evolution-creationism controversy
Selected Publications:
- Anderson, W.D., Jr. 2008. A new species of the perciform fish genus Plectranthias (Serranidae: Anthiinae) from the Nazca Ridge in the eastern South Pacific. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Vol. 121, No. 4, pp. 429-437.
- Anderson, W. D., Jr. 2006. Meganthias carpenteri, new species of fish from the eastern Atlantic Ocean, with a key to eastern Atlantic Anthiinae (Perciformes: Serranidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Vol. 119, No. 3, pp. 404-417.
- Anderson, W. D., Jr., and V. G. Springer. 2005. Review of the perciform fish genus Symphysanodon (Symphysanodontidae), with descriptions of three new species, S.mona, S. parini, and S. rhax. Zootaxa, 996, pp. 1-44.
- Anderson, W. D., Jr. 2002. Andrew C. Moore's "Evolution Once More": The evolution-creationism controversy from an early 1920s perspective. Bulletin Alabama Museum of Natural History, No. 22, pp. iii-iv + 1-35.
- Sanders, A. E., and W. D. Anderson, Jr. 1999. Natural history investigations in South Carolina from colonial times to the present. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia. xl + 333 pp.