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1 Publications: Pawson, D.L Distribution patterns of New Zealand echinoderms. Tuatara 9(1): Pawson, D.L. 1962a. A new sea cucumber from Macquarie Island. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Zoology) 2(7): Pawson, D.L. 1962b. Chiridota mortenseni n.sp., a new apodous holothurian from New Zealand. Ibid., 2(10): Pawson, D.L The holothurian fauna of Cook Strait, New Zealand. Victoria University of Wellington Zoology Publications 36: Pawson, D.L. 1964a. A new cidaroid from New Zealand waters. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Zoology) 5(6): Pawson, D.L. 1964b. The echinoid genus Caenopedina in New Zealand. Ibid., 5(5): Pawson, D.L. 1964c. The Holothuroidea collected by the Royal Society Expedition to Southern Chile Pacific Science 18(4): Pawson, D.L. 1965a. New sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from New Zealand waters. Records of the Dominion Museum, Wellington 5(11): Pawson, D.L. and H.B. Fell 1965b. A revised classification of the dendrochirote holothurians. Breviora 214: 1-7. Pawson, D.L. 1965c. Some echinozoans from north of New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Zoology) 5(15): Pawson, D.L Pawson, D.L. 1965d. The distribution of echinoderms along the east coast of New Zealand. Ibid. 6(24): Pawson, D.L. 1965e. New records of echinoderms from the Snares Islands to the south of New Zealand. Ibid. 6(25): Pawson, D.L. 1965f. The bathyal holothurians of the New Zealand region. Victoria University of Wellington Zoology Publications 36: Fell, H.B. and D.L. Pawson, 1966a. Order Diadematoida. In: R.C. Moore (Ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence. Part U, Echinodermata 3(2): Fell, H.B. and D.L. Pawson, 1966b. Echinacea. Ibid.:

2 Pawson, D.L. 1966c. Phylogeny and evolution of holothuroids. Ibid.: Pawson, D.L. 1966d. The Echinoidea collected by the Royal Society of London Expedition to Southern Chile, Pacific Science 29(2): Fell, H.B. and D.L. Pawson, 1966e. General biology of echinoderms. In: R.A. Boolootian (Ed.) Physiology of Echinodermata. Wiley Interscience, New York. Pp Pawson, D.L. 1966f. Ecology of holothurians. Ibid Squires, D.F., D.L. Pawson, and L.W. Yeater 1966g. Benthic invertebrate collections. Antarctic Journal of the U.S. 4: 128. Pawson, D.L. 1967a. The psolid holothurian genus Lissothuria. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum 122: Pawson, D.L. 1967b. Protankyra grayi new species and Labidoplax buski (McIntosh) from off North Carolina (Holothuroidea: Synaptidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 80: Pawson, D.L. 1967c. Redescription of Cucumaria semperi Bell, an Indo-West-Pacific holothurian echinoderm. Ibid.: Rowe, F.W.E. and D.L. Pawson, 1967d. A new genus in the holothurian Family Synaptidae, with a new species from Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 101: Pawson, D.L. 1968a. The Echinozoan fauna of the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands, Macquarie Island and the Chatham Rise. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 187: Pawson, D.L. 1968b. Some holothurians from Macquarie Island. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand (Zoology) 10(15): Pawson, D.L. 1968c. Echinoderms. Australian Natural History 16(4): Pawson, D.L. 1968d. A new psolid sea cucumber from the Virgin Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 81: Dartnall, A.J., D.L. Pawson, E.C. Pope and B.J. Smith 1969a. Replacement name for the preoccupied genus-name Odinia Perrier, 1885 (Echinodermata: Asteroidea). Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales 93(2). Donnay, G.D.H. and D.L. Pawson, 1969b. X-Ray study of Echinodermata. Acta Crystallographica A25:S11.

3 Pawson, D.L. 1969c. Astrothrombus rugosus Clark, new to New Zealand, with notes on Ophioceres huttoni (Farquhar), Hemilepis norae (Benham) and Ophiuroglypha irrorata (Lyman) (Echinodermata:Ophiuroidea). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 3(1): Pawson, D.L. 1969d. Holothuroidea from Chile. Sarsia 38: Pawson, D.L. 1969e. Echinoidea In: Antarctic Map Folio Series, American Geographical Society, New York. Folio 11, Marine Invertebrates: Pawson, D.L. 1969f. Holothuroidea. Ibid Donnay, G.D.H.and D.L. Pawson 1969g. X-Ray diffraction study of echinoderm plates. Science 166: Pawson, D.L. 1970a. The marine fauna of New Zealand: sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 201: Pawson, D.L. 1970b. Echinoderm studies in Southern Chile. Antarctic Journal of the U.S. 5(5):192. Pawson, D.L. and G.D.H. Donnay 1970c. X-Ray study of echinoderm skeletons. Carnegie Institution of Washington Yearbook 68: Pawson, D.L. 1971a. Ekkentropelma brychium n.g., n.sp., an Antarctic psolid holothurian with a functionally lateral sole. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 84: Pawson, D.L. 1971b. Siniotrochus phoxus new genus, new species, a myriotrochid holothurian new to the United States east coast. Ibid. 84(28): Pawson, D.L. 1971c. The Western Australian psolid holothurian Ceto cuvieria (Cuvier). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 54(2): Pawson, D.L. 1971d. Holothuroidea. In E.M. van Zinderen Bakker et al. (Eds.) Marion and Prince Edward Islands. South African Biological-Geological Expedition A.A. Balkema, Cape Town. Pawson, D.L. 1971e. A second New Zealand record of the giant holothurian larva Auricularia nudibranchiata Chun. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 5(2): Pawson, D.L. 1972a. Class Rotifera. Pp in A.J. Marshall and W.D. Williams (Eds.) Parker and Haswell's Textbook of Zoology, 7th edition. Macmillan, London.

4 Pawson, D.L. 1972b. Class Gastrotricha. Ibid., pp Pawson, D.L. 1972c. Class Kinorhyncha. Ibid., pp Pawson, D.L. 1972d. Phylum Priapuloidea. Ibid., pp Pawson, D.L Echinodermata. Pp in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th Edition. Pawson, D.L. and G.D.H. Donnay Iron phosphate deposits in molpadiid holothurians. Biomineralization Research Reports 8: Pawson, D.L. 1976a. Two new sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from the eastern United States. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 89(34): Pawson, D.L. 1976b. Shallow-water sea cucumbers from Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. Ibid. 89(31): Barnes, A.T., L.B. Quetin, J.J. Childress, and D.L. Pawson 1976c. Deep-sea macroplanktonic sea cucumbers: suspended sediment feeders captured from deep submergence vehicle. Science194: Pawson, D.L. 1977a. Molpadiid sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the southern Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Antarctic Research Series 26(3): Rowe, F.W.E. and D.L. Pawson 1977b. Type-specimens of echinoderms in the Australian Museum, Sydney. Records of the Australian Museum 30: Pawson, D.L. 1977c. Marine flora and fauna of the northeastern United States. Echinodermata, Holothuroidea. NOAA Technical Report, NMFS Circular 405: Pawson, D.L. 1977d. Occurrence of the subgenus Holothuria (Holothuria) in the Gulf of Mexico (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 90(4): Cohen, D.M. and D.L. Pawson 1977e. Observations from the DSRV Alvin on populations of benthic fishes and selected larger invertebrates in and near DWD-106. Pp in: Baseline report of environmental conditions in Deepwater Dumpsite 106. NOAADumpsite Evaluation Report 77-1, Vol. II, Biological Characteristics. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, National Ocean Survey, Rockville, Maryland. Pawson, D.L. 1978a. Some aspects of the biology of deep-sea echinoderms. Thalassia Jugoslavica 12(1):

5 Pawson, D.L. 1978b. The echinoderm fauna of Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences 2:1-31. Pawson, D.L. and J.E. Miller 1979a. A new subspecies of Holothuria lentiginosa Marenzeller from the Western Atlantic Ocean (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 91: Pawson, D.L. and J.E. Miller 1979b. Secondary sex characters in Coelopleurus floridanus A.Agassiz (Echinodermata: Echinoidea). Bulletin of Marine Science 29(4): Pawson, D.L. 1979c. Clypeaster kieri, a new species of clypeasteroid (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) from off Bombay, India. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 92(4): Pawson, D.L. and I.E. Caycedo 1980a. Holothuria (Thymiosycia) thomasi new species, a large Caribbean coral reef inhabiting sea cucumber (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Bulletin of Marine Science 30(2): Pawson, D.L. 1980b. Holothuroidea. Pp in T.W. Broadhead and J.A. Waters (Eds.) Echinoderms: Notes for a short course. University of Tennessee Studies in Geology 3. Pawson, D.L. and J.F. Valentine 1981a. Psolidium prostratum new species, from off the east coast of the U.S.A. (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94(2): Pawson, D.L. and J.E. Miller 1981b. Western Atlantic sea cucumbers of the genus Thyone, with description of two new species (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Ibid. 94(2): Pawson, D.L. and C. Gust 1981c. Holothuria (Platyperona) rowei, a new sea cucumber from Florida (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Ibid. 94(3): Pawson, D.L. 1982a. Echinodermata. Pp in: T.C. Schwartz (Ed.) Encyclopedia of beaches and coastal marine environments. Hutchinson Ross, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Pawson, D.L. 1982b. Deep-sea echinoderms in the Tongue of the Ocean, Bahama Islands: a survey, using the research submersible Alvin. Australian Museum Memoir 16: Pawson, D.L. 1982c. Holothuroidea. Pp in: Sybil P. Parker (Ed.) Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York.

6 Pawson, D.L. and J.E. Miller 1982d. Studies of genetically controlled phenotypic characters in laboratory-reared Lytechinus variegatus (Lamarck) from Bermuda and Florida (Echinodermata:Echinoidea). Pp in J.M. Lawrence (Ed.) International Echinoderm Conference, Tampa Bay. Balkema, The Netherlands. Pawson, D.L., J.E. Miller and C.M. Hoskin 1982e. Distribution of Holothuria lentiginosa enodis Miller and Pawson in relation to a deep-water Oculina coral reef off Fort Pierce,Florida (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Ibid., p Pawson, D.L. and J.E. Miller 1983a. Systematics and ecology of the sea urchin genus Centrostephanus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) from the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences 20: Pawson, D.L. 1983b. Ocnus sacculus new species (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea), a brood-protecting holothurian from southeastern New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 17: Pawson, D.L. 1983c. Psychronaetes hanseni, a new genus and species of elasipodan sea cucumber (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from the eastern central Pacific. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 96(1): Miller, J.E. and D.L. Pawson 1984a. Holothuroidea. Memoirs of the Hourglass Cruises, Florida Department of Natural Resources 7(1): Pawson, D.L. and E.J. Foell 1984b. An annotated atlas of abyssal echinoderms from the Clipperton-Clarion Fracture Zone, equatorial eastern North Pacific. P. 168 in B.F. Keegan and B.D.S. O'Connor (Eds.) Proceedings, Fifth International Echinoderm onference, Galway, Ireland. A.A. Balkema, The Netherlands. Rowe, F.W.E. and D.L. Pawson 1985a. Loisettea amphictena new genus, new species,from the sublittoral of northwestern Australia (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 98(3): Pawson, D.L. 1985b. Psychropotes hyalinus new species, a swimming elasipod sea cucumber (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from the north central Pacific Ocean. Ibid. 98(2): Pawson, D.L. 1985c. Review of "Echinoid paleobiology... by Andrew Smith...". Bulletin of Marine Science 36(7): Pawson, D.L. 1986a. Phylum Echinodermata. Pp in W.E. Sterrer (Ed.) Marine fauna and flora of Bermuda. John Wiley, New York. Pawson, D.L. and E.J. Foell 1986b. Photographs of invertebrate megafauna from abyssal depths of the northeastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. Ohio Journal of Science 86(3):

7 Pawson, D.L. and E.J. Foell 1986c. Peniagone leander new species, an abyssal benthopelagic sea cucumber (Echinodermata:Holothuroidea) from the eastern central Pacific Ocean. Bulletin of Marine Science 38(2): Pawson, D.L. and J.E. Miller 1987a. Holothuria arenicola Semper, 1868 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea): proposed conservation of the specific name. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 44(2): Hendler, G. and Pawson, D.L. 1987b. Echinoderm nomenclature: not in need of repair. Systematic Zoology 36(4): Pawson, D.L. and J.E. Miller 1988a. Thyone tanyspeira, a new species of sea cucumber from the southern Caribbean Sea (Echinodermata:Holothuroidea). Bulletin of Marine Science 42(2): Pawson, D.L. 1988b. Holothuroidea. Pp in R.P. Higgins and H. Thiel (Eds.) Introduction to the study of meiofauna. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. Pawson, D.L. 1988c. Patterns of distribution of abyssal plain megafauna in the eastern central Pacific (Clarion-Clipperton fracture Zole). Abstract. Fifth Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Brest, France, Miller, J.E. and D.L. Pawson, 1988d. Analysis of swimming behavior in four species of bathyal holothurians. Abstract. Fifth Deep-Sea Biology Symposium, Brest, Miller, J.E. and D.L. Pawson, 1989a. Hansenothuria benti new genus, new species (Echinodermata:Holothuroidea) from the Bahama Islands: a bathyal, epibenthic holothurian with swimming abilities. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 102(4): Pawson, D.L. 1989b. Theodore Lyman, Pp in M. Jangoux and J.M. Lawrence (Eds.) Echinoderm Studies Volume 3. A.A. Balkema, The Netherlands. Foell, E.J., H.F. Hennigan Jr. and D.L. Pawson 1989c. Assessment of abyssal benthic megafauna on a ferromanganese nodule deposit using videotaped television survey data. Pp in Proceedings, Pawson, D.L Offshore Technology Conference. Hendler, G. and D.L. Pawson, 1989d. An electrophysiological and behavioral investigation of the ophiuroid photoreceptor system. P.33 in K. Ruetzler and S. Klontz (Eds.) Report , Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems. Smithsonian Institution. Miller, J.E. and D.L. Pawson Swimming sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea): a survey, with analysis of swimming behavior in four bathyal species. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences 35: 1-18.

8 Pawson, D.L. and J.E. Miller 1991a. Echinodermata. Pp in: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th Edition. Campos, L.S. and D.L. Pawson 1991b. Nutrition and gut contents of deep-sea echinoids from the Bahamas. p.144 in Yanagisawa, Yasumasu, Oguro, Suzuki and Motokawa (Eds.) Biology of Echinodermata. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. Pawson, D.L. and Y. Liao Molpadiid sea cucumbers of China, with description of five new species (Echinodermata:Holothuroidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 105(2): Pawson, D.L. and J.E. Miller, Phyllophorus (Urodemella) arenicola a new sublittoral sea cucumber from the southeastern United States (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 105(3): Liao, Y. and D.L. Pawson Caudina intermedia, a new species of sea cucumber from the South China Sea (Echinodermata:Holothuroidea:Molpadiida). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 106(2): Marsh, L.M. and D.L. Pawson Echinoderms of Rottnest Island. Pages in F.E. Wells, D.I. Walker, H. Kirkman and R. Lethbridge (Eds.): The marine flora and fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth. Pawson, D.L., Antarctic echinoderms: history, distribution, ecology, Pp in B. David, A. Guille, J.-P. Feral & M. Roux (Eds.). Echinoderms through time. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. Donovan, S.K. and D.L. Pawson, Skeletal morphology and paleontological significance of the stem of extant Phrynocrinus nudus A.H. Clark (Echinodermata: Crinoidea. Journal of Paleontology 68(6): Pawson, D. L Echinoderms of the Tropical Island Pacific: status of their systematics and notes on their ecology and biogeography. Pp in J.E. Maragos, M.N.A. Peterson, L.G. Eldredge, J.E. Bardach, and H.E.Takeuchi (Eds.) Marine and coastal biodiversity in the tropical island Pacific region. Volume 1. Species systematics and information management priorities. East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. 424 pages. Hendler, G., J.E. Miller, D.L. Pawson and P.M. Kier, Sea stars, sea urchins and allies: echinoderms of Florida and the Caribbean. Smithsonian Press, Washington DC. 390 pages. Donovan, S.K. and D.L. Pawson, proximal growth of the column in bathycrinid crinoids (Echinodermata) following decapitation. Bulletin of Marine Science 61(3):

9 Roux, M. and D.L. Pawson, Two new Pacific Ocean species of hyocrinid crinoids (Echinodermata), with comments on presumed giant-dwarf gradients related to seamounts and abyssal plains. Pacific Science 53(3): Hendler, G. and D.L. Pawson, Echinoderms of the Rhomboidal Keys, Belize: Biodiversity, distribution, and ecology. Atoll research bulletin 479: Hamel, J.-F., C. Conand, D.L. Pawson and A. Mercier, The sea cucumber Holothuria scabra (Holothuroidea: Echinodermata): its biology and its exploitation as beche-de-mer. Advances in Marine Biology, Vol. 41: Liao, Y. and D.L. Pawson, Dendrochirote and dactylochirote sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of China, with descriptions of eight new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 114(1): Pawson, D.L., D.J. Vance and C. Ahearn, Western Atlantic sea cucumbers of the Order Molpadiida (Echinodermata:Holothuroidea). Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 10: Pawson, D. L. and C. Ahearn, Bathyal echinoderms of the Galapagos Islands. Pp in M. Barker (Ed.) Echinoderms A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. Levin, L., Etter, R.J., Rex, M.A., Gooday, A.J., Smith, C.R., Pineda, J., Stuart, C.T., Hessler, R.R., and Pawson, D.L Environmental influences on regional deep-sea species diversity. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 32: Pawson, D.L A new species of bathyal elasipod sea cucumber from New Zealand (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). New Zealand Journal of marine and Freshwater Research 36: Pawson, D.L., J.D. Gage, G.M. Belyaev, A.N. Mironov and A.V. Smirnov, The deep-sea synaptid Protankyra brychia (Echinodermata:Holothuroidea) and its nearsurface-dwelling planktotrophic larva, Auricularia nudibranchiata. Sarsia 88: Pawson, D.L Deep-sea dreams: diary of a mad lophenteropneust watcher. Deep- Sea Newsletter 32:6-7. Pawson, D.L Ovalidota milleri, a new genus and species of bathyal sea cucumber from the Caribbean Sea (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Zootaxa 561: 1-6. Pawson, D.L. & D.J. Vance, Chiridota heheva new species, from Western Atlantic deep-sea cold seeps and anthropogenic habitats. (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Zootaxa 534: 1-12.

10 Holland, N.D., D. Clague, D. Gordon, A. Gebruk, D.L. Pawson & M. Vecchione, Lophenteropneust hypothesis refuted by collection and photos of new deep-sea hemichordates. Nature 434: Pawson, D.L. and D.J. Vance, Rynkatorpa felderi, new species, from a bathyal hydrocarbon seep in the northern Gulf of Mexico (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Zootaxa 1050: Pawson, D.L Narcissia ahearnae, a new species of sea star from the western Atlantic (Echinodermata: Asteroidea: Valvatida). Zootaxa 1386: Liao, Y., D.L. Pawson, and Wei Liu, Rediscovery of the sea cucumber Toxodora pacifica Ohshima, 1915 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Zootaxa 1435: Liao, Y., D.L. Pawson, and Wei Liu, in press. Phyllophorus (Phyllophorus) maculatus, a new species of sea cucumber from the Yellow Sea (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida). Zootaxa Pawson, D.L., D.J. Vance, C.G. Messing, F.A. Solis-Marin, and C. L. Mah, in press. Echinodermata of the Gulf of Mexico. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. Pawson, D.L., in press. Class Holothuroidea. In: S. de C. Cook (Ed.) New Zealand Coastal Invertebrates. University of Canterbury Press, Christchurch. Pawson, D.L. and D.J. Vance, in press. Austin Hobart Clark ( ); his echinoderm research and contacts with his contemporaries. In: L. Harris (Ed.) Proceedings of the 12 th International Echinoderms Conference, New Hampshire. Taylor & Francis, The Netherlands. McKnight, D.G., M.K. Eagle, D.L. Pawson, N. Améziane, H.E.S. Clark, N. Alcock, and D.J. Vance, in press. Phylum Echinodermata. Sea-stars, brittlestars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sea lilies, and kin. In D. Gordon (Ed.) Species New Zealand. NIWA, New Zealand.

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