Dr. G. Thomas Watters is the Curator of Molluscs at the Museum of Biological Diversity of The Ohio State University.

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

Watters, G. T. 1981. Two new species of Acanthochitona from the New World (Polyplacophora: Cryptoplacidae). The Nautilus 95: 171–177.

Watters, G. T. 1983. A new species of Caducifer (Monostiolum) from the Western Atlantic (Buccinidae). The Nautilus 97(4): 125–128.

Watters, G. T. 1990. A review of the Recent eastern Pacific Acanthochitoninae (Mollusca: Polyplacophora: Cryptoplacidae) with the description of a new genus, Americhiton. The Veliger 33: 241–271.

Watters, G. T. 2002. The status and identity of Papyridea soleniformis (Bruguière, 1789) (Bivalvia: Cardiidae). The Nautilus 116(4): 118–128.

Watters, G. T., and C. J. Finlay. 1989. A revision of the Western Atlantic Recent species of the genus Monostiolum Dall, 1904, and Bailya (Parabailya) new subgenus (Gastropoda: Buccinidae). The Veliger 32(1): 47–59.