Jon L. NorenburgResearch Zoologist

• Phone: 202-633-1783
• Fax: 202-357-3043
• E-mail: norenburgj@si.edu


• Mailing Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  PO Box 37012, MRC 163
  Washington, DC 20013-7012
  


• Courier Delivery Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  National Museum of Natural History
  10th and Constitution Ave, NW
  Washington, DC 20560-0163
  

Responsibilities: Research Zoologist and Curator of Nemertea

Education: B.A. (1973), M.S. (1976) Acadia University; Ph.D. (1983) Northeastern University.

Research Interests: Nemertean worms, worldwide - morphological and molecular phylogeny, taxonomy, phylogeography, biogeography and functional anatomy; soft-bodied marine interstitial fauna, worldwide – biology, taxonomy and zoogeography.

Professional Activities: Evolutionary diversification of Nemertea

Selected Publications:

Roe, P., J.L. Norenburg & S.A. Maslakova. 2007. Nemertea. Pp. 221-233 in J.T. Carlton, ed.,The Light and Smith Manual. Fourth Edition.

Ritger, R.K. & J.L. Norenburg. 2006. A new species of palaeonemertean, Tubulanus riceae n. sp. (Nemertea), from South Florida, Belize and Panama. Journal of Natural History 40: 931-942.

Santos, C., J.L. Norenburg & S.L. de Siqueira Bueno. 2006. Three new species of Carcinonemertes (Nemertea, Carcinonemertidae) from the southeastern coast of Brazil. Journal of Natural History 40: 915-930.

Maslakova, S.A., M.Q. Martindale & J.L. Norenburg. 2004. Fundamental properties of the spiralian developmental program are displayed by the basal nemertean Carinoma tremaphoros (Palaeonemertea, Nemertea). Developmental Biology 267:342-360.

Maslakova, S.A., M.Q. Martindale & J.L. Norenburg. 2004. The vestigial prototroch in a basal nemertean Carinoma tremaphoros (Nemertea; Palaeonemertea). Evolution and Development 6:219-226.

Schwartz, M. & J.L. Norenburg. 2005. Three new species of Micrura (Nemertea: Heteronemertea) and a new type of Heteronemertean larva from the Caribbean Sea. Caribbean Journal of Science 41: 528-543.

Thollesson, M. & J.L. Norenburg. 2003. Ribbon worm relationships – A phylogeny of the phylum Nemertea. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lon., B 270:407-415.

Envall, M. & J.L. Norenburg. 2001. Morphology and phylogenetics in mesopsammic nemerteans of the genus Ototyphlonemertes (Nemertea, Hoplonemertea, Ototyphlonemertidae). Hydrobiologia 456:145-163.

Norenburg, J.L. & S.A. Stricker. 2001. Phylum Nemertea. Pp. 163-177 in C.M. Young, M. Rice & M.A. Sewell, Atlas of Marine Invertebrate Larvae, Academic Press.

Norenburg, J.L. & P. Roe. 1998. Reproductive biology of several species of recently collected pelagic nemerteans. Hydrobiologia 365:73-91.

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