TIMOTHY A. PEARCE
Assistant Curator, Section of Mollusks
Phone: (412) 622-1916; fax: (412) 622-8837
e-mail: pearcet@CarnegieMNH.org

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
B.Sc., Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, Marine Biology, 1979
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, California, Paleontology, 1988
M.Sc., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Biology, 1991
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Biology, 1994
Postdoctoral Associate, SUNY, Stony Brook, Madagascar's land snails, 1995-1996

APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Curator of Mollusks, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 2002-present
Assistant Curator of Mollusks, Delaware Museum of Natural History, 1997-2001
Lecturer, University of Michigan Biological Station, summers, 1996-2000
Teaching Fellow, Department of Biology and Biological Station, U. Michigan, 1987-1994
Research Assistant, U. Michigan Biological Station; spider literature review, 1990
Teaching Assistant, Department of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, 1987
Senior Museum Preparator, Museum Paleontol., U. California, Berkeley, 1982-1987

Professional Affiliations
American Malacological Society (since 1981)
Unitas Malacologica (since 1986)
Western Society of Malacologists (since 1980)
California Malacozoological Society (since 1982)
Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland (since 1985)
Ecological Society of America (since 1984)

Current Research

• Land snail distribution on the Delmarva Peninsula, eastern USA (funded by US National Science Foundation), New York State (funded by NY Biodiversity Research Institute), and Pennsylvania (funded by PA Wild Resources Conservation Program).
• Biogeography of land snails on islands in the US Great Lakes.
• Systematics of North American land snails, including Polygyridae.

Roth, B. and T.A. Pearce. 1988. "Micrarionta" dallasi, a helicinid (prosobranch), not a helminthoglyptid (pulmonate), land snail: paleoclimatic implications. Southwestern Naturalist 33:117-119.

Pearce, T.A. 1989. Loping locomotion in terrestrial gastropods. Walkerana 3(10):229-237.

Burch, J. B. & Pearce, T. A. 1990. Terrestrial Gastropoda. Pp. 201-309 in D.L. Dindall (ed.), Soil Biology Guide. Wiley & Sons, Inc., New Jersey.

Pearce, T.A. 1990. Phylogenetic relationships of Micrarionta (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) and distinctness of the species on San Nicolas Island, California. Malacological Review 23:1-37.

Pearce, T.A. 1992 [1990]. Spool and line technique for tracing field movements of terrestrial snails. Walkerana 4(12):307-316.

Pearce, T.A. and D. Blanchard. 1993 [1992]. Arion hortensis s.s., an introduced slug in Michigan. Walkerana 6(16):243-244.

Pearce, T.A. 1993. Micrarionta (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) on San Nicolas Island, California. Evolutionary relationship among the species. Malacological Review 26:15-50.

Karowe, D.N., T.A. Pearce, and W.R. Spaller. 1993. Chemical communication in freshwater snails: Behavioral responses of Physa parkeri to mucous trails of P. parkeri (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) and Campeloma decisum (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). Malacological Review 26:9-14.

Pearce, T. A. 1994. Terrestrial gastropods of Mackinac Island, Michigan, U.S.A. Walkerana 7:47-53.

Pearce, T. A. and A. Gaertner. 1996. Optimal foraging and mucus-trail following in the snail-eating snail Haplotrema concavum (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Malacological Review 29:85-99.

Emberton, K. C., T. A. Pearce, and R. Randalana. 1996. Quantitatively sampling land-snail species richness in Madagascan rainforests. Malacologia 38:203-212.

Pearce, T. A. 1997. Interference and resource competition in two land snails: adults inhibit conspecific juvenile growth in field and laboratory. Journal of Molluscan Studies 63:389-399.

Emberton, K. C., T. A. Pearce, P. F. Kasigwa, P. Tattersfield, and Z. Habibu. 1997. High diversity and regional endemism in land snails of eastern Tanzania. Biodiversity and Conservation 6:1123-1136.

Emberton, K. C., T. A. Pearce, and R. Randalana. 1999. Molluscan diversity in the unconserved Vohimena and the conserved Anosy mountain chains, southeast Madagascar. Biological Conservation 89:183-188.

Emberton, K.C. and T.A. Pearce. 1999. Land caenogastropods of Mounts Mahermana, Ilapiry, and Vasiha, southeastern Madagascar, with conservation statuses of 17 species of Boucardicus. Veliger 42:338-372.

Emberton, K. C. and T. A. Pearce. 2000. Charopid snails of Mounts Mahermana, Ilapiry, and Vasiha, southeastern Madagascar, with description of a new genus and with conservation statuses of nine species. Veliger 43:248-264

Emberton, K. C. and T. A. Pearce. 2000. Helicarionid snails of Mounts Mahermana, Ilapiry, and Vasiha, southeastern Madagascar. Veliger 43:218-247.

Emberton, K.C. and T.A. Pearce. 2000. Small high-spired pulmonates from Mounts Mahermana, Ilapiry, and Vasiha, southeastern Madagascar, with description of a new genus, and with conservation statuses of 15 streptaxid species. Veliger 43:126-135.

Naranjo-García, E., O. J. Polaco, and T. A. Pearce. 2000. A new genus and species of semi-slug (Pulmonata: Helicoidea) from southern Chiapas, Mexico. Archiv für Molluskenunde 128:153-161.

Pearce, T.A., L.A. Prozorova, and Y. Kuwahara. 2002. Terrestrial Mollusca on the Kuril Islands: previous records and problems for study. Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society, 6:89-101. .

Pearce, T.A. & E.G. Bayne. 2003. Records of the Arion hortensis species complex in Delaware and Pennsylvania, eastern United States. Veliger, 46(4):362-363.

Pearce, T.A. 2004. Gastropoda, Terrestrial Snails. Pp. 529-574 in “Natural History of Madagascar” (S.M. Goodman and J.P. Benstead, eds.). University of Chicago Press.

Sayenko, E.M., T.A. Pearce, and E.K. Shea. 2005. Glochidial morphology of selected species of the genera Cristaria Schumacher, 1817 and Sinanodonta Modell, 1945 (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from Far Eastern Russia. American Malacological Bulletin, 20:11-21.

Örstan, A., Pearce, T.A., and Welter-Schultes, F. 2005. Land snail diversity in a threatened limestone district near Istanbul, Turkey. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 28(2): 181-188. .

Gilpin, D. [author], Pearce, T.A. [content adviser], and Young, T.E., Jr., [scientific adviser]. 2006. Snails, Shellfish & Other Mollusks. Compass Point Books, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 48 pp.

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