William H. Heard

Who is William H. Heard?

William Henry Heard is a malacologist, and an authority on freshwater mollusks, especially freshwater pelecypods. He is an emeritus professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, at Florida State University.

Heard was the winner of the "Lifetime Achievement Award" for 2001 from the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society. He has had two species of mayflies named in his honor: Symbiocloeon heardi Müller-Liebenau and Povilla heardi Hubbard. Heard discovered these insects in Thailand, where they were living within the shells of freshwater clams.