William H. Heard

William H. Heard in 2002.

For the clergyman and diplomat, see William H. Heard (ambassador).

William Henry Heard (born about 1930 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.

Selected publications

• Comparative life histories of North American pill clams (Sphaeriidae: Pisidium). 1965. Malacologia, 2: 381-411

• Recent Eupera (Pelecypoda; Sphaeriidae) in the United States. 1965. Amer. Midland Nat. 74(2): 309-317

• A re-evaluation of the recent Unionacea (Pelecypoda) of North America. Malacologia, 10(2): 333-355 (with R. H. Guckert)

• Anatomical systematics of freshwater mussels. 1974. Malacol. Rev., 7: 41-42

• Reproduction of fingernail clams (Sphaeriidae: Sphaerium and Musculium). 1977. Malacologia, 16: 421-455

• Identification Manual of the Freshwater Clams of Florida. 1979. Fla. Dept. Environmental Regulation, Technical Series 4(2): 1-83. (available for download: )

• Bivalvia I. 1998. 145pp. Soc. Experimental and Descriptive Malacology. (editor, with John B. Burch)]

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