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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2019-03-12 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-04-15 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006315b.htm person Raven Robert J. AACR2 Arachnologist Museum curator Robert Raven is one of Australia's foremost arachnologists. Having started by researching the behaviour and ecology of spiders in the Brisbane region, he moved on to the taxonomy of spiders. He has described over 450 new species in more than 40 genera from Australia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific islands, and Central and South America. Having joined the staff of the Queensland Museum in 1974 he became Head of Terrestrial Biodiversity and Principal Curator. Raven has been Spider Bite Consultant for the Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane for many years. He serves as Chairman of the World Spider Catalog Committee for the International Society of Arachnology and was founder of the Australasian Arachnological Society. In 2018 he was awarded the Queensland Museum Medal. 1974 1982 Career position - Arachnologist, Queensland Museum 1981 1981 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Queensland 1983 1984 Award - CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship at American Museum of Natural History, New York, U.S.A. and CSIRO, Canberra 1985 2021 Career position - Curator, Queensland Museum 1991 1991 Career position - President, Entomological Society of Queensland 2000 2000 Career position - President, International Society for Arachnology 2018 2018 Award - Queensland Museum Medal Entomological Society of Queensland (1923 - )

President 1991

 Queensland Museum

Arachnologist 1974 - 1982, Curator 1985 - 2021

 Queensland Museum Medal (1987 - )

Awarded the Medal 2018

 'Raven, Robert J.', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Raven, Robert J. Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: A new species of funnel-web spider (Hadronyche, Hexathelidae, Mygalomorphae) from north Queensland Raven, R. J. A new species of funnel-web spider (<span style="font-style:italic">Hadronyche</span>, Hexathelidae, Mygalomorphae) from north Queensland 2000 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46 1 225-30 Journal Article: Mygalmorph spiders of the Barychelidae in Australia and the western Pacific Raven, Robert J. Mygalmorph spiders of the Barychelidae in Australia and the western Pacific 1994 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 35 2 291-706 Journal Article: Obituary: Graham Wishart (1937 - 2015) Raven, Robert Obituary: Graham Wishart (1937 - 2015) 2015 Australasian arachnology 86 12-3 Resource: Australia's Spiderman wins 2018 Queensland Museum Medal [Robert Raven] Australia's Spiderman wins 2018 Queensland Museum Medal [Robert Raven] Brisbane Queensland Museum 2018