Richard Brownlee Searles (born 1936), phycologist.

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

IPNI standard form: Searles

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 18 taxon names authored by Richard Brownlee Searles

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Searles, R.B. 1968. Morphological studies of red algae of the order Gigartinales. University of California Publications in Botany 43: vi (vii) + 100, 33 figs, 12 plates. Reference page. 
• Searles, R.B. 1972. North Carolina marine algae. I. Three new species from the continental shelf. Phycologia 11(1): 19–24. Reference page. 
• Schneider, C.W. & Searles, R.B. 1975. North Carolina marine algae. IV. Further contributions from the continental shelf, including two new species of Rhodophyta. Nova Hedwigia 26: 83–103, 4 plates. Reference page. 
• Schneider, C.W. & Searles, R.B. 1976. North Carolina marine algae. VII. New species of Hypnea and Petroglossum (Rhodophyta, Gigartinales) and additional records of other Rhodophyta. Phycologia 15: 51–60. Reference page. 
• Searles, R.B. & Leister, G.L. 1980. North Carolina marine algae. IX. Onslowia endophytica gen. et sp. nov. (Phaeophyta, Sphacelariales) and notes on other new records for North Carolina. Journal of Phycology 16: 35–40. Reference page. 
• Searles, R.B. 1983. Vegetative and reproductive morphology of Dudresnaya georgiana sp. nov. (Rhodophyta, Dumontiaceae). Phycologia 22: 309–316. Reference page. 
• Searles, R.B. & Lewis, S.M. 1983. North Carolina marine algae. XI. A new species of Helminthocladia (Liagoraceae,Nemaliales, Rhodophyta) with a reappraisal of the generic limits of Helminthocladia and Helminthora. Journal of Phycology 19: 164–172.
• Searles, R.B. & Ballantine, D.L. 1986. Dudresnaya puertoricensis sp. nov. (Dumontiaceae, Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 22: 389–394. Reference page. 
• Searles, R.B. & Schneider, C.W. 1989. New genera and species of Ceramiaceae (Rhodophyta) from the southeastern United States. Journal of Phycology 25: 731–740. Reference page. 
• Schneider, C.W. & Searles, R.B. 1997. Notes on the marine algae of the Bermudas. 1. New records of Antithamnieae and Dohrnielleae (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta), including Antithamnionella bermudica sp. nov.. Phycologia 36: 12–23, 23 figs, 1 table. Reference page. 
• Mateo-Cid, L.E., Mendoza-González, A.C. & Searles, R.B. 2002. New Mexican records of marine algae including Crouania mayae sp. nov. (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta). Caribbean Journal of Science 38: 205–221, 28 figs.

Eponyms

• Searlesia C.W.Schneider & N.J.Eiseman, 1979
• Frikkiella searlesii M.J.Wynne & C.W.Schneider, 1996
• Ochtodes searlesii Mendoza-González, Mateo-Cid & Sentíes, 2011