Robert F. Burn

Robert F. Burn, Australian naturalist and citizen scientist.

(List may be incomplete)

• 13 taxon names authored by Robert F. Burn

(List may be incomplete)

• 1958(1957). A new species of Opisthobranchia from Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 74: 115–117. [not seen] Reference page. 
• 1957. On some Opisthobranchia from Victoria. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1-1: 11-29, pls. 1–3.

• 1958. Further Victorian Opisthobranchia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(2): 20-36, pls. 6–7.

• 1960. Australian bivalve gastropods. Nature 187(4731): 44–46.
• 1960. New names for two Victorian opisthobranch molluscs. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(4).

• 1961: Drepaniella mapae gen. et spec. nov., a new goniodoridid nudibranch from south-eastern Australia. Veliger 3(4): 102–104. BHL Reference page. 
• 1961: Eucrairia nom. nov. for Drepaniella Burn. Veliger 4(1): 51. BHL Reference page. 
• 1961. A new doridid nudibranch from Torquay, Victoria. The Veliger 4(2): 55-56, pl. 15.
• 1961. A common Victorian nudibranch. The Victorian Naturalist Melbourne. 77(11): 316–317.
• 1961. Two new species and a new genus of opisthobranch molluscs from New South Wales. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1958-59: 131–135.

• 1962. Descriptions of Victorian nudibranchiate Mollusca, with a comprehensive review of the Eolidacea. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria (25): 95–128. BHL Reference page. 
• 1962. On the new pleurobranch subfamily Berthellinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda); A revision and new classification of the species of New South Wales and Victoria. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 25: 129–148.
• 1962. Notes on a collection of Nudibranchia (Gastropoda: Dorididae and Dendrodorididae) from South Australia with remarks on the species of Basedow and Hedley, 1905. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 25: 149–171, pl. 1.

• 1963. Australian Runcinacea (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Australian Zoologist 13(1): 9–22. BHL Reference page. 
• 1963. Descriptions of Australian Eolidacea (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(7): 12–20. DOI: 10.1080/00852988.1963.10673794 Reference page. 

• 1964. Descriptions of Australian Eolidacea (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia) 2. The genera Nossis, Eubranchus, Trinchesia and Toorna. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(8): 10–22. DOI: 10.1080/00852988.1964.10673803 Reference page. 
• 1964. Australian sea-slugs. Australian Natural History 14(12): 396–399.
• 1964. Comments on the possible use of the plenary powers and other recommendations to the commission by Dr. Henning Lemche, Z.N.(S.) 1044 and Z.N.(S.) 1102–1107. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 21(410).

• 1965. A centennial commentary and zoogeographical remarks on Angas' Sydney nudibranchs (molluscs Gastropoda). Journal de conchyliologie 104: 85–93.
• 1965. Rediscovery and taxonomy of Edenttellina typica Gatliff and Gabriel. Nature 206(4985): 735–736.

• 1966: Descriptions of Australian Eolidacea (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). 4. The genera Pleurolidia, Fiona, Learchis and Cereberilla from Lord Howe Island. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 1(10): 21–34. DOI: 10.1080/00852988.1957-1969.12067137 Reference page. 
• 1966: Port Philip survey 1957-1963. Opisthobranchia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 27: 265–288. BHL Reference page. 
• 1966. Notes on opisthobranchs mainly from South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum 15: 329–352. BHL Reference page. 
• 1966. Descriptions of Australian Eolidacea (Mollusca: Opisthobranchia). 3. The genera Tularia, Embletonia and Austraeolis, with a note on Tergipes pauculas Burn, 1962. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 1(9): 25–35. DOI: 10.1080/00852988.1966.10673810 Reference page. 
• 1966. Some Opisthobranchs from Southern Queensland. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia, 1(9): 96–109. DOI: 10.1080/00852988.1966.10673816 Reference page. 
• 1966. The Opisthobranchs of a Caulerpan Microfauna from Fiji. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 37: 45–65. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a064974 Reference page. 
• 1966. The identity of Maplestone's opisthobranchs. Victorian Naturalist 83(4): 76–78. BHL Reference page. 
• 1966. Prawn-trawling and sea-slugs. Victorian Naturalist 83(10): 253–254. Reference page. 
• 1966. On three new Chromodoridinae from Australia (Opisthobranchia: Nudibranchia). The Veliger 8(3): 191–197 Reference page. 

• 1967: Descriptions of two new species of Okenia (Nudibranchia, Doridacea) from south-eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, [86]: 52–57, plates X-XI. BHL Reference page. 
• 1967. Notes on an overlooked nudibranch genus, Roboastra Bergh 1877, and two allied genera (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Australian Zoologist 14: 212–221. BHL Reference page. 
• 1967. First record of a pelagic eolid from Victoria. The Victorian Naturalist 84(1): 116–117. Reference page. 
• 1967. Revision of the genus Herviella (Opisthobranchia: Eolidacea). Malacologia 6(1-2): 223–230. Reference page. 

• 1968. Archidoris odhneri (MacFarland, 1966) comb, nov, with some Comments on the Species of the Genus on the Pacific Coast of North America. The Veliger 11(2): 90–92.
• 1968. Chromodoris quadricolor westraliensis, a common western Australian nudibranch. The Western Australian Naturalist 10(8): 173–178.

• & Miller, M.C. 1969. A new genus, Caldukia, and an extended description of the type species, Proctonotus? affinis Burn, 1958 (Mollusca Gastropoda: Arminacea, Antiopellidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia (12): 23–31. Reference page. 
• & Miller, M.C. 1969. A new genus, Caldukia, and an extended description of the type species, Proctonotus? affinis Burn, 1958 (Mollusca Gastropoda: Arminacea, Antiopellidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1–12. Reference page. 
• 1969. A memorial report on the Tom Crawford collection of Victorian Opisthobranchia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(12): 64-106, pl. 4.

• 1970. Eight additional opisthobranch molluscs for New South Wales. Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 1968-69: 51–54.
• 1970. Phyllidia (Phyllidiella) zeylanica Kelaart, a rare nudibranch from the Indian subcontinent. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria (31): 37-40, pl. 6.

• 1971. Comment on the proposed addition to the official list of Okenia Menke, 1830, and Idaliella Bergh, 1881. Z.N.(S.) 1931. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 28(5-6): 141–142.

• 1972. A guide to the Ascoglossa or sap-sucking sea-slugs of Australia. Australian Natural History March 1972: 173-175, 15 figs.
• 1972. The genus Polycera in Australian waters. Australian Newsletter (new series) (16): 8–9.

• 1973: Pearson lsland Expedition 1969 - 10. Opisthobranchs. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 97(3): 201–205. PDF Reference page. 
• 1973. Opisthobranch molluscs from the Australian sub-Antarctic territories of Macquarie and Heard Islands. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 86(1): 39–46.

• & Bell, K.N. 1974. Description of Retusa chrysoma Burn sp nov. (Opisthobranchia) and its food resources from Corner Inlet, Victoria. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 35: 115–119.
• & Bell, K.N. 1974. Description of Retusa pelyx Burn sp nov. and its food resources from Swan Bay, Victoria. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3: 37–42.
• 1974. The taxonomy and distribution of Marianina rosea (Pruvot-Fol, 1930) and Thecacera pacifica (Bergh, 1883) comb. nov. (Opisthobranchia: Dendronotacea and Doridacea). The Veliger 16(3): 305–306.
• 1974. Notes on some benthonic opisthobranchs from Port Philip Bay, Victoria. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3(1): 43–57.

• 1978. A review of Australian species of Austrocylichna, Nipponatys, Cylichnatys and Diniatys (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Haminoeidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 4: 93–112.

• 1997. What is Cominella eburnea filicea? Victoria Branch Bulletin (Malacological Society of Australasia) 191: 4.

• Willan, R.C.; 2003: On the publication date, authorship, and type species of Umbraculum and Tylodina (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Tylodinoidea): a rejoinder. Nautilus 117(1): 23-29. BHL Reference page. 

• 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia. Museum Victoria Science Reports, (10) DOI: 10.24199/j.mvsr.2006.10 .Reference page. 

• 2010. Melanochlamys handrecki sp. nov.: an addition to the opisthobranch fauna (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of south-eastern Australia. Victorian Naturalist 127(6): 231–235. abstract and pdf (on informit) Reference page. 

• 2017. Paphies (Amesodesma): angusta versus elongata and first reviser problems. Victoria Branch Bulletin (Malacological Society of Australasia) 287: 5–6.
• 2017. Joseph Verco, Rottnest Island and some Trochidae name changes. Victoria Branch Bulletin (Malacological Society of Australasia) 289: 5–6.

• 2018. Flabellina McMurtrie, 1831. The earliest valid Latinization?. The Nautilus 132(1): 33–34.

• 2022. What is Diaphanna nivea Petterd, 1886. Victoria Branch Bulletin (Malacological Society of Australasia) 308: 3–4.