Professor
Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science
Drexel University
United States of America
Gary Rosenberg, PhD is curator of mollusks at the Academy of Natural Sciences. He has published more than 40 peer reviewed scientific articles, and is the author of the Encyclopedia of Seashells (1992). In support of his research on molluscan diversity, he developed Malacolog, an online database of Western Atlantic marine gastropods and is an editor for Mollusca in the World Register of Marine Species. He is currently president of the American Malacological Society, and will host its annual meeting in Cherry Hill, New Jersey in June 2012. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals and is a Commissioner on the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature, for which he chairs the editorial committee.
Magnitude and origin of species-level diversity in the Mollusca