Dr. Eugene V. Coan

Dr. Eugene V. Coan is a researcher in the Zoology Invertebrate Department at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. He specializes in the systematics of mollusks.

Relevant to the biota of the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Coan has published the following:

Coan, E. V. 1990. The Recent eastern Pacific species of the bivalve family Thraciidae. The Veliger 33: 20–55.

Coan, E. V. 1996. Recent species of the genus Petricola in the eastern Pacific (Bivalvia: Veneroidea). Festivus 28(11): 18–124.

Coan, E. V. 1999. The eastern Pacific species of Sphenia (Bivalvia: Myidae). The Nautilus 113(4): 103–120.

Coan, E. V., P. V. Scott, and F. R. Bernard. 2000. Bivalve Seashells of Western North America: Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Arctic Alaska to Baja California. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs, Studies in Biodiversity, Number 2. viii + 764.

Turgeon, D. D, J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, P. M. Mikkelsen, R. J. Neves, C. F. E. Roper, G. Rosenberg, B. Roth, A. Scheltema, F. G. Thompson, M. Vecchione, and J. D. Williams. 1998. Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 26, Bethesda Maryland. 526 pp. + CD.