Charles Lydeard

Degrees, Licensures and Certifications: B.S. Biology, Fitchburg State University; M.S. Zoology, University of Memphis; Ph.D. Systematics, Auburn University

Research Interests: Although Dr. Lydeard studied coyotes for his M.S. and freshwater fish systematics for his Ph.D., for the past 20+ years he has been studying the biodiversity and systematics of freshwater mollusks.

Selected Publications

• Lydeard, C. 2021. Letter from the editor. Malacologia 63.
• Brand, M. E., W. T. Rechkemmer, S. A. Clark, K. W. McCravy, C. Lydeard, S. T. Meiers, and S. E. Jenkins. 2020. The influence of fire and other environmental factors on terrestrial gastropod species composition in an oak-hickory woodland of West-Central Illinois. American Malacological Bulletin 38:39-49.
• Lydeard, C., and K. S. Cummings (eds). 2019. Freshwater Mollusks of the World: A Distribution Atlas. Johns Hopkins University Press. Lydeard, C. and K. S. Cummings. 2019. Introduction and Overview In: Freshwater Mollusks of the World – A Distribution Atlas, C. Lydeard and K. S. Cummings (eds), Pp. 1-26, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Strong, E. E., and C. Lydeard. 2019. Pleuroceridae P. Fischer, 1885. In: Freshwater Mollusks of the World – A Distribution Atlas, C. Lydeard and K. S. Cummings (eds), Pp. 74-80, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Wethington, A. R., and C. Lydeard. 2019. Physidae FItzinger, 1833. In: Freshwater Mollusks of the World – A Distribution Atlas, C. Lydeard and K. S. Cummings (eds), Pp. 175-180, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Campbell, D. C., S. A. Clark, and C. Lydeard. 2017. Phylogenetic analysis of the Lancinae (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae) with a description of the U.S. federally endangered Banbury Springs lanx. ZooKeys 663:107-132. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.663.11320.
• Campbell, D. C., S. A. Clark, E J. Johannes, C. Lydeard and T. J. Frest. 2016. Molecular phylogenetics of the freshwater gastropod genus Juga (Cerithioidea: Semisulcospiridae). Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 65:158-170.
• Lydeard, C., D. Campbell, and M. Golz. 2016. Physa acuta Draparnaud, 1805 should be treated as a native of North America, not Europe. Malacologia 59:347-350.
• Hauk, A., S. A. Clark, K. W. McCravy, S. E. Jenkins, and C. Lydeard. 2015. A survey of terrestrial gastropods of the Alice L. Kibbe Life Science Station in West-Central Illinois. Northeastern Naturalist 22:299-306.
• Campbell, D. C. and C. Lydeard. 2012. Molecular systematics of Fusconaia (Bivalvia: Unionidae: Ambleminae). American Malacological Bulletin 30:1-17.
• Campbell, D. C. and C. Lydeard. 2012. The genera of Pleurobemini (Bivalvia: Unionidae: Ambleminae). American Malacological Bulletin 30:19-38.
• Dillon, Jr., R. T., A. R. Wethington, and C. Lydeard. 2011. The evolution of reproductive isolation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite, the freshwater snail Physa. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:144.
• Strong, E. E., D. J. Colgan, J. M. Healy, C. Lydeard, W. F. Ponder, and M. Glaubrecht. 2011. Phylogeny of the gastropod superfamily Cerithioidea using morphology and molecules. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162:43-89.
• Holznagel, W. E., D. J. Colgan, and C. Lydeard. 2010. Pulmonate phylogeny based on 28S rRNA gene sequences: a framework for discussing habitat transitions and character transformations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57:1017-1025.
• Brown, K. M. and C. Lydeard. 2009. Mollusca: Gastropoda. In: Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates (Thorp & Covich, eds). Elsevier Inc.