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2008
  • Geiger, D. L. [2008]. Haliotidae. Scissurellidae & Anatomidae. In: Philippine Marine Mollusks (G. Poppe, ed.). Conchbooks, Hackenheim.
  • Geiger, D. L., A. Nützel, & T. Sasaki. 2008. Vetigastropoda. Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca (W. Ponder & D. Lindberg, eds.). University of California Press, Berkeley: 297-330.
  • Geiger, D. L. & B. Ruthensteiner 2008. Editors' preface. In: Geiger, D. L. & B. Ruthensteiner (Editors). Micromolluscs: Methodological Challenges - Exciting Results. Zoosymposia 1: iii.
  • Geiger, D. L. & C. E. Thacker. (2008: ). Micromollusks in molecular systematic: experiences and best practices. In: Geiger, D. L. & B. Ruthensteiner (Editors). Micromolluscs: Methodological Challenges - Exciting Results. Zoosymposia 1: 39-46. Abstract
  • Geiger, D. L. (2008). Monographing micromolluscs: a case studies on Scissurellidae s.l. (Vetigastropoda). In: Geiger, D. L. & B. Ruthensteiner (Editors). Micromolluscs: Methodological Challenges - Exciting Results. Zoosymposia 1: 133-146. Abstract
  • Geiger, D. L. & T. Sasaki. (2008). Four new species of Anatomidae (Mollusca: Vetigastropoda) from the Indian Ocean (Reunion, Mayotte) and Australia, with notes on a novel radular type for the family. In: Geiger, D. L. & B. Ruthensteiner (Editors). Micromolluscs: Methodological Challenges - Exciting Results. Zoosymposia 1: 247-264. Abstract
  • Zelaya, D. G. & D. L. Geiger (2008). The identity of the enigmatic Scissurella dalli Bartsch, 1903 (Gastropoda: Scissurellidae). In: Geiger, D. L. & B. Ruthensteiner (Editors). Micromolluscs: Methodological Challenges - Exciting Results. Zoosymposia 1: 265-270. Abstract
  • 2007
  • Geiger, D. L., B. Marshall, W. Ponder, T. Sasaki & A. Warén. 2007. Techniques for collecting, handling, and preparing small molluscan specimens. Molluscan Research 27 (Special Issue): 1-50. Abstract
  • Zelaya, D. G. & D. L. Geiger. 2007. Species of Scissurellidae and Anatomidae from Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic waters (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 49: 393-443. Abstract
  • 2006
  • Geiger, D. L. & C. E. Thacker. 2006. Molecular phylogeny of basal gastropods (Vetigastropoda) shows stochastic vent colonization at least from the mid Triassic. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 46: 343-346. Abstract
  • Nützel, A. & D. L. Geiger. 2006. A new scissurelloid genus and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Late Triassic Cassian Formation. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 80: 277-283. Abstract
  • Geiger, D. L. 2006. A new blind Anatoma species from the bathyal of the northeastern Pacific (Vetigastropoda: Anatomidae). Molluscan Research 28: 108-112. Abstract
  • Degnan, S. D., Imron, D. L. Geiger & B. M Degnan. 2006. Evolution in temperate and tropical seas: disparate patterns in southern hemisphere abalone (Mollusca: Vetigastropoda: Haliotidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 41: 249-256.
  • Geiger, D. L. 2006. Chapter 7. Applied film photography in systematic malacology. In: The Mollusks, A Guide to their Study, Collection, and Preservation,  Universal Publishers, Inc., Boca Raton, Florida. C. F. Sturm, T. A. Pearce and A. Valdes (eds.). 73-100.
  • Geiger, D. L. 2006. Chapter 10. Taxonomic writing on mollusks: a primer. In: The Mollusks, A Guide to their Study, Collection, and Preservation,  Universal Publishers, Inc., Boca Raton, Florida. C. F. Sturm, T. A. Pearce and A. Valdes (eds.). 147-159.
  • Geiger, D. L. 2006. Chapter 24. Marine Gastropoda. In: The Mollusks, A Guide to their Study, Collection, and Preservation,  Universal Publishers, Inc., Boca Raton, Florida. C. F. Sturm, T. A. Pearce and A. Valdes (eds.). 295-312.
  • Geiger, D. L. 2006. Sasakiconcha elegantissima new genus and species (Vetigastropoda: Anatomidae?) with disjointly coiled base. The Nautilus 120: 45-51. Abstract
  • Geiger, D. L. 2006. Eight new species of Scissurellidae and Anatomidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) from around the world, with discussion of two new senior synonyms. Zootaxa 1128: 1-33. Abstract.
  • Streit, K., D. L. Geiger, & B. Lieb. 2006. Molecular phylogeny and the geographic origin of Haliotidae traced by hemocyanin sequences. Journal of Molluscan Studies 72: 111-116. Abstract.
  • 2005

    Geiger, D. L. & C. E. Thacker. 2005. Molecular phylogeny of Vetigastropoda reveals non-monophyletic Scissurellidae, Trochoidea, and Fissurelloidea. Molluscan Research 25: 47-55. Abstract

    2004
  • Geiger, D. L. & P. Jansen. 2004b. New species of Australian Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with remarks on Australian and Indo-Malayan species. Zootaxa 714: 1-72. Abstract
  • Geiger, D. L. & P. Jansen. 2004a. Revision of the Australian species of Anatomidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Zootaxa 414: 1-35. Abstract
  • 2003
  • Geiger, D. L. 2003. Phylogenetic assessment of characters proposed for the generic classification of Recent Scissurellidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) with description of one new genus and six new species from Easter Island and Australia. Molluscan Research 23: 21-83. Abstract
  • Geiger, D. L. 2003. A. A. H. Lichtenstein's (1794) Catalogus rerum naturalium rarissimarum sectio secunda on mollusks: an appraisal of taxa described in an overlooked tome. Archives of Natural History 30: 75-84. Abstract | Web site | Lichtenstein (1794) pdf [77.3 MB]
  • 2002
  • Geiger, D. L. & R. L. Zimmer. 2002. Anchoring rootlets in Bowerbankia imbricata (Bryozoa: Ctenosomata). Bulletin of Marine Science 70: 791-797. Abstract
  • Geiger, D. L. 2002. Stretch coding and block coding: two new strategies to represent questionably aligned DNA sequences. Journal of Molecular Evolution 54: 191-199. Abstract
  • 2001
  • Geiger, D. L. & B. Owen. 2001. The identity of Haliotis stomatiaeformis Reeve, 1846, from the Mediterranean Sea (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Haliotidae). The Nautilus 115: 77-83. Abstract
  • Geiger, D. L., K. Fitzhugh & C. E. Thacker. 2001. Timeless characters: a response to Vermeij (1999). Paleobiology 27: 179-180.
  • 2000
  • Geiger, D. L & G. T. Poppe. 2000. Haliotidae. in Conchological Iconography. G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds.). Conchbooks, Hackenheim. 135 pp., 83 pls. Sample pages.
  • Geiger, D. L. 2000. Distribution and biogeography of the Haliotidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) world-wide. Bollettino Malacologico 35: 57-120. Abstract | Web site
  • Singer, B. S., H. K. Mienis & D. L. Geiger. 2000. Clanculus korkosi sp. nov. from the Red Sea (Gastropoda, Vetigastropoda, Trochidae). La Conchiglia 32(294-296): 32-38. Abstract
  • 1999
  • Geiger, D. L. 1999. A Total Evidence Cladistic Analysis of the Family Haliotidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Ph.D. Thesis, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. xix, 423 pp. Download dissertation in pdf format.
  • Geiger, D. L. 1999. Description of Haliotis fatui new species, from the tropical western Pacific region. The Nautilus 113: 73-77. Abstract
  • Geiger, D. L. & L. T. Groves. 1999. Review of fossil abalone (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Haliotidae) with comparison to Recent species. Journal of Paleontology 73: 872-885. Abstract
  • Geiger, D. L. & J. W. Martin. 1999. The pea crab Orthotheres haliotidis new species (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) in the Australian abalone Haliotis asinina Linnaeus, 1758 and H. squamata Reeve, 1846 (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Haliotidae). Bulletin of Marine Science 64: 269-280. Abstract
  • Stewart, K. A. & D. L. Geiger. 1999. Designation of Lectotype for Haliotis crebrisculpta Sowerby, 1914, with a discussion of H. clathrata Reeve, 1846 (non Lichtenstein, 1794). The Veliger 42: 85-96. Abstract
  • Herz, C. M., B. W. Meyers, J. Gemmell & D. L. Geiger. 1999. A discussion of three Fusinus species in the northern Golfo de California at San Felipe. The Festivus 31: 75-84. Abstract
  • 1998
  • Geiger, D. L. & K. A. Stewart. 1998. Case 3036. Haliotis clathrata Reeve, 1846 (non Lichtenstein, 1794) and H. elegans Philippi, 1844 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): proposed conservation of the specific names. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 55: 209-211. Abstract
    The case has been accepted under Opinion 1950 (2000: BZN 57: 124-125).
  • McLean, J. H. & D. L. Geiger. 1998. New genera and species having the Fissurisepta shell form, with a generic level phylogenetic analysis (Gastropoda: Fissurellidae). Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Science Series 475: 1-32.Abstract
  • Geiger, D. L. 1998. Recent genera and species of the family Haliotidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). The Nautilus 111: 85-116. Abstract
  • Geiger, D. L. 1998. Note on the identity of Haliotis clathrata Lichtenstein, 1794 (not Reeve, 1846). Molluscan Research 19: 157-159.
  • 1996
  • Geiger, D. 1996. Haliotids in the Red Sea with neotype designation for Haliotis unilateralis Lamarck, 1822 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 103: 339-354. Abstract
  • Geiger, D. L. & P. Jung. 1996. A shell of the seahare Floribella aldrichi (Dall, 1890) (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia: Aplysiidae). Journal of Conchology 35: 437-444. Abstract
  • 1995
  • Ellis, J. R., P. S. Cadman, S. B. Piertney & D. L. Geiger. 1995. The marine fauna of the St. Kilda archipelago (Outer Hebrides). Scottish Naturalist 107: 53-70.
  • 1993 WWF logo
  • Cadman, P., J. Ellis, D. Geiger & S. Piertney. 1993. A survey of the marine fauna of the St. Kilda archipelago. Expedition report, supported by World Wildlife Fund. 38 pp. Summary
  • Geiger, D. 1993. The influence of monospecific and dispecific food on the growth of Bowerbankia imbricata (Bryozoa: Ctenostomata). Diplomarbeit, University of Basel, Switzerland. 83 pp. Abstract, Zusammenfassung, Résumé
  • 1991
  • Geiger, D. 1991. Red Sea Malacology: A third species of Haliotis in the Red Sea: probably a curious form of Haliotis ovina Gmelin, 1791. Gloria Maris 29(6): 95-103. pdf availble under http://www.vetigastropoda.com/abstracts/GloriaMaris1991 dot pdf [replace "dot" with period in URL]
  • 1990
  • Morel, P., T. Bircheler & D. Geiger. 1990. Holozäne Tierknochenfunde von einem Greifvogelhorst im Wermutseingang der Schrattenhöhle, Melchsee-Frutt (Kerns, OW). [Findings of animal bones from the Holocene from a nest of a bird of prey in the Wermuts entrance of the Schratten cave, Melchsee-Frutt (Kerns, Obwalden)] Stalactite 40(2): 76-86.
  • 1989
  • Geiger, D. 1989. Elenco della Fauna die Montecristo: Mollusca 10.7 Classe - Gastropoda (Specie presenti nel mare) + Classe - Bivalvia pp. 80-85 In: Isola di Montecristo riserve naturale. [List of the fauna of Montecristo: Mollusca 10.7 Class - Gastropoda (Species found in the sea) + Class Bivalvia pp. 80-85 In. Nature reserve of the Island of Montecristo.] Collana Verde 77: 7-125.
  • In Review/Revision
  • Geiger, D. L. in revision. The types of Scissurellidae s.l. (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). 1. Primary types in the Muséum national d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, and The Natural History Museum, London. Zoosystema.
  • Geiger, D. L. (in review). New species of scissurellids from the Austral Islands, French Polynesia, and beyond  (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Scissurellidae, Anatomidae, Larocheidae).
  • Sasaki, T., Geiger, D. L., & Okutani, T. (in review) A new species of Anatoma (Vetigastropoda: Anatomidae) from a hydrothermal vent in Myojin Knoll, Japan.
  • In Preparation
  • Marshall, B. & D. L. Geiger. Scissurellidae of New Zealand.
  • Luque, A. A., Geiger, D. L. & Rolán, E. Revision of the genus Satondella Bandel, 1998.
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