Staff Spotlight
Robert H. Robins
Ichthyology Collection Manager
273A Dickinson Hall
Museum Road & Newell Drive
Gainesville, FL 32611
(352) 273-1957
Email: rhrobins@flmnh.ufl.edu
M. S., University of Florida, 2005
Research Interests
Natural history of fishes, reptiles (snakes in particular) and amphibians. Fish systematics/classification.
Ongoing Fieldwork
- Systematic Revision of dusky darter complex (Percina sciera)
- Assistant to All Catfish Species Inventory field projects headed by Larry Page, Ichthyology Curator
- Assistant to ongoing ichthyofauna study of the Florida Keys region conducted by George Burgess and Buck Snelson.
Representative Publications
Robins, R. H. and L. M. Page. 2007. Taxonomic status of the Guadalupe Darter, Percina apristis (Teleostei: Percidae). Zootaxa 1618:51-60.
Page, L. M., R. K. Hadiaty, J. A. Lopez, I. Rachmatika, and R. H. Robins. 2007. Two New Species of the Akysis variegatus Species Group (Siluriformes; Akysidae) from Southern Sumatra and a Redescription of Akysis variegatus Bleeker 1846. Copeia (2): 292-303.
Page, L. M. & R. H. Robins. 2006. Identification of Sailfin Catfishes (Teleostei: Loricariidae) in Southeastern Asia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 54(2): 455-457.
Frederick, P.C., M. G. Spalding, M.S. Sepulveda, G. E. Williams Jr., L. Nico and R. Robins. 1999. Exposure of Great Egret nestlings to mercury through diet in the Everglades of Florida. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
Nico, L.G., S. J. Walsh, and R. H. Robins. 1996. An Introduced Population of the South American Callichthyid Catfish Hoplosternum littorale in the Indian River Lagoon System, Florida. Florida Scientist. 59(3): 189-200.