College of Arts and Sciences

Education:

• BS, Geology, Princeton University, 1981
• PhD, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 1989

Curriculum Vitae:

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Research Interests:

My research centers on the magnitude and origin of species-level diversity in the Mollusca. Estimates of the total number of living mollusk species range from less than 100,000 to more than 200,000, but that the actual number known is about 85,000. I use an informatics approach to better document the known diversity of mollusks and to estimate their total diversity. I developed Malacolog, an online database of Western Atlantic marine gastropods, and am an editor for the Mollusca in the World Register of Marine Species. I work in the Philippines, which has the world’s highest diversity of marine mollusks, in Jamaica, which has one of the most diverse faunas of terrestrial mollusks in the world, for which I developed an interactive key, and on the mollusks of Eastern Seaboard of the United States and Canada.

Bio:

Gary Rosenberg, PhD, is curator of mollusks at the Academy of Natural Sciences. He has published more than 75 peer-reviewed scientific articles. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals and formerly was a Commissioner on the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature. He won the Neptunea Award from the Conchologists of America and is an honorary life member of the American Malacological Society. He teaches courses in Evolution, Evolutionary Ecology, and Systematic Biology.

Selected Publications:

• Rosenberg, G. 2024. Range extension and conservation status of the endangered freshwater snail, Potadoma riperti (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae) in southeastern Cameroon. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 168(1): 189-195, doi, 10.1635/053.168.0106
• Rosenberg, G., K. Auffenberg, R. Bank, R. Bieler, P. Bouchet, D. Herbert, F. Köhler, T. A. Neubauer, E. Neubert, B. Páll-Gergely, I. Richling and S. Schneider. 2022. Adapting mark-recapture methods to estimating accepted species-level diversity: a case study with terrestrial Gastropoda. PeerJ 10 (e13139): 1-18, doi 10.7717/peerj.13139.
• Shipway, J. R., M. A. Altamia, G. Rosenberg, G. P. Concepcion, M. G. Haygood and D. L. Distel. 2019. A rock-boring and rock-ingesting freshwater bivalve (shipworm) from the Philippines. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286: 20190434, doi 10.1098/rspb.2019.0434.
• Rosenberg, G. and M. Khoo. 2018. Improving provenance data in natural history collection databases. American Malacological Bulletin 36: 215-231, doi 10.4003/006.036.0203.
• Sierwald, P., R. Bieler, E. K. Shea and G. Rosenberg. 2018. Mobilizing mollusks: Status update on mollusk collections in the U.S.A. and Canada. American Malacological Bulletin 36: 177-214, doi 10.4003/006.036.0202.
• Sei, M., D. G. Robinson, A. J. Geneva, and G. Rosenberg. 2017. Doubled helix: Sagdoidea is the overlooked sister group of Helicoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 122: 697–728, doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/blx082.
• Uit de Weerd, D., D. G. Robinson and G. Rosenberg. 2016. Evolutionary and biogeographical history of the land snail family Urocoptidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) across the Caribbean region. Journal of Biogeography 43: 763–777. doi 10.1111/jbi.12692.
• Rosenberg, G. 2014. A new critical estimate of named species-level diversity of the recent Mollusca. American Malacological Bulletin 32(2): 308-322. doi: 10.4003/006.032.0204.
• Rosenberg, G., E. F. García and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Gastropods (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico. Pp. 579-699 in D. L. Felder and D. K. Camp, eds., The Gulf of Mexico: Origins, Waters and Marine Life. Texas A&M University Press.
• Rosenberg, G. and I. V. Muratov. 2006. Status report on the terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 155: 117-161. doi 10.1635/i0097-3157-155-1-117.1.