James C. Cokendolpher

		Graduate Studies, Texas Tech Univ., systematics 1978-1980, electron microscopy 2008   M.S., Biology, Midwestern State Univ., 1978   B.S., Biology, Midwestern State Univ., 1976   A.A.S., Chemical Technology, Midwestern State Univ., 1976
Image Courtesy Dr. Jean Krejca

My training as a biologist covers both invertebrates and vertebrates as well as botany. I am a world authority on two orders of arachnids and have published papers and books on a variety of arthropods, protozoa, vertebrates, and plants.

Although, I am most interested in arachnid taxonomy and museum collections, I have keen interests in biospeleology and  insect plant interactions: especially those of the carnivious plants and orchids.  I am also very interested in the ex situ breeding of endangered or "extinct in the wild" plants and animals: especially Nepenthes and Cyprinodon.

My interests are broad and therefore my publications have dealt with a variety of topics: archaeology, behavior, conservation, documentation, ecology, exocrine gland chemistry, faunal surveys, history of arachnology, karyology, morphology, natural history, paleontology, parasitology, pathology, phylogenetics, physiology, pollenation, speleology, taxonomy, ultrastructure, human and veterinary medicine.

Current Research and Long-term Projects:

	Biological Data of the Rolling and High Plains of Texas
	Collection/indentification of the isopods and arachnids from the British Virgin Islands
	Identification of arthropods associated with WWW-B.Dahl bluestem grass
	Identification/distribution of harvestmen and pseudoscorpions of the southern Appalachian Mountains
	Taxonomic studies of Cheiridium pseudoscorpions from North America
	Taxonomic studies of harvestmen from Iran
	Taxonomic studies of neopilionid harvestmen from Argentina, Brasil, Chile, and New Caledonia.
	Taxonomic studies of new harvestmen from caves in Mexico
	Taxonomic study of a new Leptobunus harvestmen from Alaska
	Taxonomic studies of schizomids from southeastern Asia

Selected Publications:

Cokendolpher, J. C., 2007. Tropical pitcher plant (Nepenthes: Nepenthaceae) pollen germinability and storage: conservation implications. Journal of the International Carnivious Plant Society, 35:23-29.
Cokendolpher, J. C., R. W. Peck, & C. G. Niwa, 2005. Mygalmorph spiders from southwestern Oregon, USA, with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa, 1058: 1-34.
Cokendolpher, J. C. & W. D. Sissom, 2001. A new troglobitic Paraphrynus from Oaxaca, Mexico (Amblypygi, Phrynidae). Texas Memorial Museum, Speleological Monographs, 5:17-23.
Polyak, V. J., J. C. Cokendolpher, R. A. Norton & Y. Asmeron, 2001. Wetter and cooler late Holocene climate in the southwestern United States from mites preserved in stalagmites. Geology, 29(7):643-646.
Cokendolpher, J. C., 2000. First Cryptocellus from Suriname (Arachnida: Ricinulei). Mem. Soc. Entomol. Ital., 78(2):515-520.
Sissom, W. D. & J. C. Cokendolpher, 1998. A new troglobitic scorpion of the genus Typhlochactus (Superstitionidae) from Veracruz, Mexico. J. Arachnol., 26(3):285-290.
Cokendolpher, J. C. & J. F. Haukos, 1996. The Practical Application of Disinfection and Sterilization in Health Care Facilities. American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services and American Society for Healthcare Central Service Professionals of the American Hospital Association, Chicago, Illinois, 258 pp.
Blaszak, J., J. C. Cokendolpher & V. J. Polyak, 1995. Paleozercon cavernicolous, a new genus and new species of fossil mite from a cave in the southwestern U.S.A. (Acari, Gamasida: Zerconidae). International Journal of Acarology, 21(4):253-259.
Reddell, J. R. & J. Cokendolpher, 1995. Catalogue, bibliography, and generic revision of the order Schizomida (Arachnida). Texas Memorial Museum, Speleological Monographs, No. 4, 170 pp.
Cokendolpher, J. C., 1993. Pathogens and parasites of Opiliones (Arthropoda: Arachnida). Journal of Arachnology, 21(2):120-146.
Cokendolpher, J. C. & G. O. Poinar, Jr., 1992. Tertiary harvestmen from Dominican Republic amber (Arachnida: Opiliones: Phalangodidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 9(2):53-56.

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	Cokendolpher's Résumé
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