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Platnick, Norman I.
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Curator (AMNH Entomology)
Norman I. Platnick was a Curator Emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, Division of Invertebrate Zoology and Professor Emeritus, Richard Gilder Graduate School. Dr. Norman Platnick’s latest research focused on the spider family Oonopidae (the goblin spiders). He headed a National Science Foundation-funded Planetary Biodiversity Inventory project that completed a global revision of these spiders. Over 30 arachnologists in ten countries were involved in the project. Although only about 500 species of these small spiders had been described, Dr. Platnick and his colleagues estimated that there are about 2,500 species, most of which are expected to have very small geographic ranges and are therefore likely to be highly informative for studying historical biogeography and establishing conservation priorities. (source: AMNH website 2015).