William James Woelkerling or Bill Woelkerling (born 1941), phycologist.

IPNI standard form: Woelk.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 47 taxon names authored by William James Woelkerling

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Woelkerling, W.J. 1978. Mastophoropsis canaliculata (Harvey in Hooker) gen. et comb. nov. (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) in southern Australia. British Phycological Journal 13: 209–225.

• Woelkerling, W.J. 1983. A taxonomic reassessment of Lithothamnium (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) based on studies of R. A. Philippi's original collections. British Phycological Journal 18(2): 165–197, 33 figs, IV tables. Reference page. 

• Woelkerling, W.J. 1985. A taxonomic reassessment of Spongites (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) based on studies of Kützing's original collections. British Phycological Journal 20: 123–153, 51 figs, 3 tables. Reference page. 

• Woelkerling, W.J., Chamberlain, Y.M. & Silva, P.C. 1985. A taxonomic and nomenclatural reassessment of Tenarea, Titanoderma and Dermatolithon (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) based on studies of type and other critical specimens. Phycologia 24: 317–337, 39 figs, 2 tables. Reference page. 
• Woelkerling, W.J. & Irvine, L.M. 1986. The typification and status of Phymatolithon (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). British Phycological Journal 21: 55–80, 18 figs.

• Irvine, L.M. & Woelkerling, W.J. 1986. Proposal to conserve Phymatolithon against Apora (Rhodophyta: Corallinaceae). Taxon 35: 731–733. Reference page. 
• Woelkerling, W.J. 1987. The genus Choreonema in southern Australia and its subfamilial classification within the Corallinaceae (Rhodophyta). Phycologia 26: 111–127, 25 figs, 2 tables.

• Penrose, D. & Woelkerling, W.J. 1988. A taxonomic reassessment of Hydrolithon Foslie, Porolithon Foslie and Pseudolithophyllum Lemoine emend. Adey (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) and their relationships to Spongites Kützing. Phycologia 27: 159–176, 27 figs, 2 tables. DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-27-1-159.1 Reference page. 

• Woelkerling, W.J. & Foster, M.S. 1989. A systematic and ecographic account of Synarthrophyton schielianum sp. nov. (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Chatham Islands. Phycologia 28: 39–60. Reference page. 

• Wilks, K.M. & Woelkerling, W.J. 1994. An account of southern Australian species of Phymatolithon (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) with comments on Leptophytum. Australian Systematic Botany 7: 183–223, 18 figs, 2 tables. DOI: 10.1071/SB9940183 Reference page. 

• Woelkerling, W.J. & Womersley, H.B.S. 1994. Order Acrochaetiales Feldmann 1953: 12. In: The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Rhodophyta - Part IIIA. (Womersley, H.B.S. Eds), pp. 42–76. Canberra. online Reference page. 

• Harvey, A.S. & Woelkerling, W.J. 1995. An account of Austrolithon intumescens gen. et. sp. nov. and Boreolithon van-heurckii (Heydrich) gen. et. comb. nov. (Austrolithoideae subfam. nov., Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 34: 362–382. DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-34-5-362.1 Reference page. 

• Woelkerling, W.J., Sartoni, G. & Boddi, S. 2002. Paulsilvella huveorum gen. et sp. nov. (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Holocene of Somalia and Kenya, with a reassessment of Lithothrix antiqua from the Late Pleistocene of Mauritius. Phycologia 41: 358–373. DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-41-4-358.1 Reference page. 

• Harvey, A.S., Woelkerling, W.J. & Millar, A.J.K. 2003. An account of the Hapalidiaceae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in south-eastern Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 16: 647–698. Reference page. 
• Harvey, A.S., Broadwater, S.T., Woelkerling, W.J. & Mitrovski, P.J. 2003. Choreonema (Corallinales, Rhodophyta): 18S rDNA phylogeny and resurrection of the Hapalidiaceae for the subfamilies Choreonematoideae, Austrolithoideae and Melobesioideae. Journal of Phycology 39: 988–998. DOI: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2003.02158.x

• Iryu, Y., Bassi, D. & Woelkerling, W.J. 2009. Re-assessment of the type collections of fourteen Corallinalean species (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) described by W.Ishijima (1942–1960). Palaeontology (Oxford) 52: 401–427. Reference page. 

• Woelkerling, W.J., Bassi, D. & Iryu, Y. 2012. Hydrolithon braganum sp. nov. (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta), the first known exclusively fossil semi-endophytic coralline red alga. Phycologia 51(6): 604–611. DOI: 10.2216/11-119.1 Reference page. 

• Woelkerling, W.J., Granier, B. & Dias-Brito, D. 2014. Heydrichia (?) poignantii, sp. nov. (Sporolithaceae, Sporolithales, Rhodophyta), a 100 million year old fossil coralline red alga from north-eastern Brazil, and a new Hauterivian record of Sporolithon from Switzerland. Carnets de Géologie 14(7): 139–158. DOI: 10.4267/2042/53736 Reference page. 

Eponyms

• Heydrichia woelkerlingii R.A.Townsend, Y.M.Chamberlain & Keats, 1994
• Woelkerlingia Alongi, Cormaci & G.Furnari, 2007