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.
