Robert Mesibov

Robert 'Bob' Evan Mesibov (born 9 March 1946) is an American born and educated Australian myriapod specialist. He earned a B.A. from New York University in 1966 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).

In later life he has become increasingly concerned with problems in digital databases, from concerns about inconsistencies and errors in aggregated databases, to problems with specimens' GPS coordinates.

His zoological author abbreviation is Mesibov. He has authored over a hundred taxa.