Rudman has a PhD from the
University of Auckland, gained with a thesis on bullomorph opisthobranchs.[3] Rudman ran the Sea Slug Forum, a website affiliated with the
Australian Museum. In Rudman's words, the forum "aims to generate more interest in these fascinating animals by sharing information with a worldwide audience.".[4] Sea Slug Forum has information and numerous images of nudibranchs, bubble-snails,
sea hares and other kinds of sea slugs. It was discontinued in 2010 after 14,523 messages had been posted.[5] It is still online as a resource, but not accepting new messages.
Taxa
Species named in honour of this malacologist include:
Rudman, W. B. 1968 "Three new species of the opisthobranch family
Aglajidae from New Zealand." Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Zoology10(23): 211–216.
Rudman, W. B. (1980). "Aeolid opisthobranch molluscs (Glaucidae) from the Indian Ocean and the south-west Pacific". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 68 (2): 139–172.
doi:
10.1111/j.1096-3642.1980.tb01923.x.
Rudman, W. B. (1982). "The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: Chromodoris quadricolor, C. Lineolata and Hypselodoris nigrolineata colour groups". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 76 (3): 183–241.
doi:
10.1111/j.1096-3642.1982.tb02182.x.
Rudman, W. B. (1982). "The taxonomy and biology of further aeolidacean and arminacean nudibranch molluscs with symbiotic zooxanthellae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 74 (2): 147–196.
doi:
10.1111/j.1096-3642.1982.tb01146.x.
Rudman, W. B. (1984). "The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: A review of the genera". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 81 (2–3): 115–273.
doi:
10.1111/j.1096-3642.1984.tb01174.x.
Rudman, W. B. (1985). "The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: Chromodoris aureomarginata, C. Verrieri and C. Fidelis colour groups". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 83 (3): 241–299.
doi:
10.1111/j.1096-3642.1985.tb00875.x.
Rudman, W.B. (1987). "The Genus Trapania (Nudibranchia: Goniodorididae) in the Indo-West Pacific". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 53 (2): 189–212.
doi:
10.1093/mollus/53.2.189.
Rudman, W. B. (1988). "The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: The genus Ceratosoma J. E. Gray". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 93 (2): 133–185.
doi:
10.1111/j.1096-3642.1988.tb01531.x.
Rudman, W. B. (1990). "The Chromodorididae (Opisthobranchia: Mollusca) of the Indo-West Pacific: Further species of Glossodoris, Thorunna and the Chromodoris aureomarginata colour group". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 100 (3): 263–326.
doi:
10.1111/j.1096-3642.1990.tb01864.x.
Rudman, W. B. (2004). "Further species of the opisthobranch genus Okenia (Nudibranchia: Goniodorididae) from the Indo-West Pacific". Zootaxa. 695: 1.
doi:
10.11646/zootaxa.695.1.1.
S2CID89226554.
Rudman, William B. (2007). "Two new species of Okenia (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Goniodorididae) from eastern Australia and Tanzania". Zootaxa. 1657: 57–67.
doi:
10.11646/zootaxa.1657.1.4.
S2CID92483221.
Gordon, D. P.; Rudman, W. B. (2006). "Integripelta acanthus n. sp. (Bryozoa: Eurystomellidae) — a tropical prey species of Okenia hiroi (Nudibranchia)". Zootaxa. 1229: 41.
doi:
10.11646/zootaxa.1229.1.3.
S2CID86265256.