Robert 'Bob' Evan Mesibov (born 9 March 1946)^[1] is an American born and educated Australian myriapod specialist. He earned a B.A. from New York University in 1966^[1] and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1971.^[1]

He migrated to Australia in 1973, settling in Tasmania where he became a curatorial assistant at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery^[1] in Launceston. He became an Australian citizen in 1976.^[1]

His earliest publications were in the field of chemotaxis,^[2][3][4] 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).^[5][6][7]

In later life he has become increasingly concerned with problems in digital databases, from concerns about inconsistencies and errors in aggregated databases,^[8][9] to problems with specimens' GPS coordinates.^[10]

His zoological author abbreviation is Mesibov.^[11] He has authored over a hundred taxa.^{[citation needed]}

• Taxa named by Robert Mesibov