Robertus Wilhelmus Maria van Soest

Robertus Wilhelmus Maria van Soest (born 1946), Dutch spongiologist.

• Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

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• 406 taxon names authored by Robertus Wilhelmus Maria van Soest

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• 1979. A catalogue of the Coelenterate type specimens of the Zoological Museum of Amsterdam. IV. Gorgonacea, Actiniaria, Scleractinia. Beaufortia 29(353): 81–126. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• , Díaz, M.C. & Pomponi, S.A. 1990. Phylogenetic classification of the Halichondrids (Porifera, Demospongiae). Beaufortia 40(2): 15–62. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Helmy, T., El Serehy, H., Mohamed, S.Z. & 2004. Description and classification of dictyoceratid sponges from the northern Red Sea. Beaufortia 54(6): 81–91. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Helmy, T. & 2005. Amphimedon species (Porifera: Niphatidae) from the Gulf of Aqaba, Northern Red Sea: Filling the gaps in the distribution of a common pantropical genus. Zootaxa 859: 1–18. Abstract & excerpt. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.859.1.1 Reference page. 

• 2009. New sciophilous sponges from the Caribbean (Porifera: Demospongiae). Zootaxa 2107(1): 1–40. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2107.1.1 Reference page. 

• , Beglinger, E., De Voogd, N.J. 2010. Skeletons in confusion: a review of astrophorid sponges with (dicho–)calthrops as structural megascleres (Porifera, Demospongiae, Astrophorida). ZooKeys 68: 1–88. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.68.729 Reference page. 

• van Soest, R.W.M., Boury-Esnault, N., Vacelet, J., Dohrmann, M., Erpenbeck, D., de Voogd, N.J., Santodomingo, N., Vanhoorne, B., Kelly, M. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2012. Global Diversity of Sponges (Porifera). PLoS One 7(4): e35105.
• Erpenbeck, D., Sutcliffe, P., Cook, S. de C., Dietzel, A., Maldonado, M., , Hooper, J.N. & Wörheide, G. 2012. Horny sponges and their affairs: On the phylogenetic relationships of keratose sponges. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63(3): 809–816. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.024 Reference page. 
• , Beglinger, E., de Voogd, N.J. 2012. Sponges of the family Esperiopsidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from Northwest Africa, with the descriptions of four new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 18: 1–21. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2012.18 Reference page. 

• , Meesters, E.H.W.G. & Becking, L.E. 2014. Deep-water sponges (Porifera) from Bonaire and Klein Curaçao, southern Caribbean. Zootaxa 3878(5): 401–443. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3878.5.1 Reference page. 
• Rützler, K., Piantoni, C., & Díaz, M. C. 2014. Diversity of sponges (Porifera) from cryptic habitats on the Belize barrier reef near Carrie Bow Cay. Zootaxa 3805(1): 1–129. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3805.1.1 Reference page. 

• Kelly, M., Erpenbeck, D., Morrow, C. & 2015. First record of a living species of the genus Janulum (Class Demospongiae) in the Southern Hemisphere. Zootaxa 3980(2): 255–266. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.2.6 Reference page. 
• & de Voogd, N.J. 2015. Calcareous sponges of Indonesia. Zootaxa 3951(1): 1–105. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3951.1.1 Reference page. 
• , Hoeksema, B.W., Reimer, J.D. & De Voogd, N.J. 2015. New records of the rare calcareous sponge Paragrantia waguensis Hôzawa, 1940. ZooKeys 546: 1–20. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.546.6122 Reference page. 
• Van Syoc, R.J., , Xavier, J.R. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2015. A phylogenetic overview of sponge-inhabiting barnacles and their host specificity (Crustacea, Cirripedia). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences ser. 4, 62(11): 331–357. PDF Reference page. 

• Alvarez, B., de Voogd, N.J. & 2016. Sponges of the family Axinellidae (Porifera: Demospongiae) in Indonesia. Zootaxa 4137(4): 451–477. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.4.1 Reference page. 
• Santos, G.G., Pinheiro, U., Hajdu, E. & 2016. New Genus and species of Heteroxyidae from Brazil (Axinellida: Demospongiae: Porifera), with a revised identification key for the family. Zootaxa 4158(1): 105–116. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4158.1.6 Reference page. 

• Hooper, J.N.A., & Pisera, A. 2011. Phylum Porifera Grant, 1826. Pp 13–18 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• 2017. Sponges of the Guyana Shelf. Zootaxa 4217(1): 1–225. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4217.1.1 . Reference page. 
• 2017. Flagellia, a new subgenus of Haliclona (Porifera, Haplosclerida). European Journal of Taxonomy 351: 1–48. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• 2018. Mycale (Oxymycale) klausjanusorum sp. nov. (Porifera: Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida) from Flores Sea deep water, Indonesia. Pp 49–60 In Klautau, M., Pérez, T., Cárdenas, P. & de Voogd, N.J. (eds.). Deep Sea and Cave Sponges. Zootaxa 4466(1): 1–237. Reference page.  Zootaxa 4466(1): 49–60. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4466.1.6 Reference page. 
• & de Voogd, N.J. 2018. Calcareous sponges of the Western Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Zootaxa 4426(1): 1–160. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4426.1.1. Reference page. 

• George, A.M., , Sluka, R.D. & Lazarus, S. 2020. A checklist of marine sponges (Porifera) of peninsula India. Zootaxa 4885(2): 277–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.2.10 Reference page. 
• , Hooper, J.N.A. & Butler, P.J. 2020. Every sponge its own name: removing Porifera homonyms. Zootaxa 4745(1): 1–93. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4745.1.1 Reference page. 

• , Aryasari, R. & de Voogd, N.J. 2021. Mycale species of the tropical Indo-West Pacific (Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida). Zootaxa 4912(1): 1-212. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4912.1.1 Reference page. 

• Erpenbeck, D., , Wörheide, G. & Kelly, M. 2023. Genetic data confirms the enigmatic demosponge Janulum as haplosclerid. Zootaxa 5254(1): 147–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5254.1.10 Reference page. 

• 2024. Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1 Reference page. 

• dr. R.W.M. (Rob) van Soest. [CV.] 2012. Faculteit der Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Informatica. Universiteit van Amsterdam.