Robert Burn (naturalist)


Robert Burn is an Australian naturalist and citizen scientist. He has described approximately 100 species of nudibranchs and has co-authored around 100 papers published in scientific journals spanning sixty years. He is the leading living discoverer of nudibranch species in Victoria, Australia. His first solo publication, Nudibranchs and related molluscs, was published by CSIRO Publishing in February 2016. The nudibranch genus Burnaia is named in his honor.