Robert 'Bob' Evan Mesibov (born 9 March 1946)[1] is an American born and educated Australian myriapod specialist.
[1] He migrated to Australia in 1973, settling in Tasmania where he became a curatorial assistant at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery[1] in Launceston.
[1] His earliest publications were in the field of chemotaxis,[2][3][4] but in 1990–1991, while working as a forest ecology and zoology consultant, he published his first zoological papers, on velvet worms in the family Peripatopsidae).
[5][6][7] In later life he has become increasingly concerned with problems in digital databases, from concerns about inconsistencies and errors in aggregated databases,[8][9] to problems with specimens' GPS coordinates.
[10] His zoological author abbreviation is Mesibov.