The Echinoderm Newsletter - Recent scientific publications

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Al-Rashdi, Khalfan M.

Khalfan M. Al-Rashdi, Michel R. Claereboudt and Saud S. Al-Busaidi, 2007. Density and size distribution of the sea cucumber, Holothuria scabra at six exploited site in Mahout Bay, Sultanate of Oman. Agr. and Mar. Sci.,12: 43-51

Khalfan M. Al-Rashdi, Michel R. Claereboudt and Saud S. Al-Busaidi and Isam H. Al-Rassadi. 2007.  Status of the sea cucumber fishery in the Sultanate of Oman. SPC Beche de mer Information bulletin 25: 17-21

Alcock, Niki

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Alvarado, Juan José

Alvarado, J.J.,  J. Cortés, C. Fernández & J. Nivia. 2005. Coral communities and coral reefs of Ballena Marine National Park, Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Ciencias Marinas 31 (4): 641-651.

Alvarado, J.J. & C. Fernández. 2005. Equinodermos del Parque Nacional Marino Ballena, Pacífico, Costa Rica. Rev. Biol. Trop. 53 (Suppl. 3): 275-284.

Ameziane, Nadia

Améziane N & Roux M.(soumis). The complexities of ontogenetic analysis and its interpretation : the example of the development of the stalk in the Guillecrinus (Stalked crinoid: Echinodermata). Journal of Natural History,

Améziane N., Eléaume M., & Chao S.M.(soumis). The stalked crinoid fauan (Crinoidea: Echinodermata) from Taiwan. Journal of ?.

Eléaume M., Améziane N. & Park Y.H.(sous presse). Re-evaluation of the systematics of two deep-sea species of Thalassometra (Echinodermata/ Crinoidea) and its biogeographical implications. Journal of Natural History.

Cohen B.L. Améziane N., Eléaume M. & Richer de Forges B.? (sous presse). Crinoid phylogeny : a preliminary analysis (Echinodermata : Crinoidea). Marine Biology.

Anderson, Owen

Anderson, O.F. 2009. The giant purple pedinid—a new species of Caenopedina (Echinodermata: Echinoidea: Pedinidae) from New Zealand and Australia. Zootaxa, 2007: 43-57.

Arumugam, Preyan

Thandar, A.S., Zettler, M.L., Arumugam, P. 2010. Additions to the sea cucumber fauna of Namibia and Angola, with descriptions of new taxa (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Zootaxa 2655, 1–24.

Thandar, A.S., & Arumugam, P. 2011. A new family within the holothuroid order Dactylochirotida with description of a new species from South Africa and comments on the dendrochirotid genus Neoamphicyclus Hickman, 1962 and the molpadid genus Cherbonniera Sibuet, 1974 (Echinodermata). Zootaxa 2971, 40–48.

Thandar, A.S., & Arumugam, P. 2011. On some rhopalodinid sea cucumbers in the collections of the Natural History Museum, U.K. (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Dactylochirotida). Zootaxa 2982, 49–58.

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Baumiller, Thomasz

Baumiller, T. K.  2008. Crinoid ecological morphology. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences 36:221–49

Baumiller, T. K., Mooi R. and Messing, C. G. 2008. Urchins in the meadow: paleobiological and evolutionary implications of cidaroid predation on crinoids. Paleobiology.  34: 22-34

Baumiller, T. K., Gahn*. F. J., Hess, H., and Messing, C. G. 2008. Chapter 1: Taphonomy as an indicator of behavior among fossil crinoids. Pp.7-20. In: Ausich, W. I. and Webster, G. (eds), Echinodermata Paleobiology. Indiana University Press.

Baumiller, T. K. and Messing, C. G. 2007. Stalked crinoid locomotion and its ecological and evolutionary implications. Palaeontologia Electronica 10 (1): 2A;10p, 12MB; http://palaeo-electronica.org/paleo/2007_1/crinoid/index.html

Messing, C. G., David, J., Roux, M., Améziane N., and Baumiller, T. K. 2007 In situ stalk growth rates in tropical western Atlantic sea lilies (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 353:211-220.

Gahn*, F. J. and Baumiller, T. K. 2006. Platyceratid gastropod behaviour as a guide to camerate crinoid functional morphology. Historical Biology 18: 397-404

Gahn*, F. J. and Baumiller, T. K. 2005. Arm regeneration in Mississippian crinoids-evidence of intense predation pressure in the Paleozoic? Paleobiology 31: 151-164.

Becker, Pierre

Becker P., Gillan D., Lanterbecq D., Jangoux M., Rasolofonirina R., Rakotovao J. and Eeckhaut I. The skin ulceration disease in cultivated juveniles of Holothuria scabra (Holothuroidea, Echinodermata). Aquaculture, available on internet (no paper version yet).

Benavides-Serrato, Milena

Borrero-Pérez G. H., M. Benavides-Serrato, O. D. Solano and G. R. Navas S. Brittle-stars
(Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from the continental shelf and upper slope of the Colombian
Caribbean. Rev. Biol. Trop. (Int. J. Trop. Biol. ISSN-0034-7744) Vol. 56 (Suppl. 3): 169-
204, December 2008.

Benavides-Serrato, M. and T. D. O’Hara. A new species in the Ophiocoma erinaceus
complex from the South-west Pacific Ocean (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea:
Ophiocomidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria ISSN 1447-2546 (Printed) 1447-2554 (On-
Line). 65: 1–6. 2008.

Benavides-Serrato, M., P. Mark O’Loughlin and Chris Rowley. A new fissiparous micro-
asteriid from southern Australia (Echinodermata: Asteroidea: Asteriidae). Memoirs of
Museum Victoria ISSN 1447-2546 (Printed) 1447-2554 (On-Line). 64: 71-78. 2007.

Benavides-Serrato, M., Borrero-Pérez G. H, G. Navas and O. D. Solano. Listado
taxonómico de los asteroideos (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) de la plataforma y el talud
superior del Caribe colombiano. Rev. Biol. Trop. (Int. J. Trop. Biol. ISSN-0034-7744) Vol.
53 (Suppl. 3): 171-194. 2005.

Bigatti, Gregorio

Billett, Dave

Bundrick Benejam, Carla

Byrne, Maria

Byrne, M. 2005. Viviparity in the sea star Cryptasterina hystera (Asterinidae) - conserved and modified features in reproduction and development. Biol. Bull. 208: 81-90

Colgan, D.J., M. Byrne, E. Rickard and L.R. Castro 2005. Limited nucleotide divergence over large spatial scales in the asterinid sea star Patiriella exigua. Mar. Biol. 146: 263-270

Styan, C.A., M. Byrne and E. Franke (2005). Evolution of egg size and sperm resistance in sea stars: large eggs are not fertilised more readily than small eggs in Patiriella (Echinodermata: Asteroidea). Mar. Biol. 146: 235-242

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Cameron, R. Andrew

Brown, C. Titus, Xie, Yuan, Davidson, Eric H., and Cameron. R. Andrew. (2005) Paircomp, FamilyRelationsII and Cartwheel: tools for interspecific sequence comparison. BMC Bioinformatics 6:70

Cameron R. A., Rowen L., Nesbitt, R., Bloom S., Rast, J. P., Berney, K., Arenas-Mena, C, Martinez, P., Lucas, S., Richardson, P. M., Davidson E. H., Peterson K, J., and Hood, L. (2005) Unusual Gene Order and Organization of the Sea Urchin Hox Cluster. J. Exp. Zool. (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 304B:1–14.

Cameron, R. A., Chow, S. H., Berney, K., Chiu, T-Y., Yuan, Q-A., Krämer, A., Helguero, A., Ransick, A., Yun, M., and Davidson, E. H. (2005) An evolutionary constraint: strongly disfavored class of change in DNA sequence during divergence of cis-regulatory modules. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102: 11769-11774.

Catarino, Ana Isabel

Catarino, A. I.; Cabral, H. N. ; Peeters, K., Pernet, P.; Punjabi, U.; Dubois, P. In press. Metal concentrations, sperm motility and Rna/Dna ratio in two echinoderm species from a highly contaminated fjord (Sørfjord, Norway). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

Hughes, A. D.; M. S. Kelly; D. K. A. Barnes; A. I. Catarino & K. D. Black, 2006. The dual functions of sea urchin gonads are reflected in the temporal variations of their biochemistry. Marine Biology, 148 (4), 789-798.

Hughes, A. D.; A. I. Catarino; M. S. Kelly; D. K. A. Barnes & K. D. Black, 2005. Gonad fatty acids and trophic interactions of the echinoid Psammechinus miliaris. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 305, 101-111.

Chenuil, Anne

Chenuil, A.  2006. Choosing the right Molecular Genetic Markers for studying biodiversity: from molecular evolution to practical aspects (review). Genetica 127:101-120 (free online access).

Gérard, K; Roby, C.; Chevalier, N.; Thomassin, B.; Chenuil, A. & Féral, J.-P. 2008. Assessment of three mitochondrial loci variability for the crown-of-thorn starfish: a first insight of Acanthaster phylogeography. Comptes-rendus Biologies 331:137-143

Boissin, E. ; Féral, J-P ; Chenuil, A. 2008. Defining reproductively isolated units in a cryptic and syntopic species complex using mitochondrial and nuclear markers: the brooding brittle star Amphipholis squamata (Ophiuroidea). Molecular Ecology 17(7):1732-1744.

Boissin, E. ; Hoareau, T.; Féral, J-P ; Chenuil, A. 2008. Extreme selfing rates in the cosmopolitan brittle star species complex Amphipholis squamata (Ophiuroidea, Echinodermata): data from progeny-array and heterozygote deficiency. Marine Ecology Progress Series 361:151-159.

Chenuil, A. ; Egea, E. ; Rocher, C. ; Touzet, H. ; Féral, J-P. 2008. Does hybridization increase evolutionary rate ? Data from the 28S-rDNA D8 domain in echinoderms. Journal of Molecular Evolution 67: 539–550.

Gérard, K. ; Bierne, N. ; Borsa, P.; Chenuil, A.; Féral, J.-P. 2008. Pleistocene separation of mitochondrial lineages of Mytilus spp. mussels from Northern and Southern Hemispheres and strong genetic differentiation among southern populations. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 49:84-91.

Stöhr, S.; Boissin, E.; Chenuil, A. 2009. Potential cryptic speciation in Mediterranean populations of Ophioderma (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea). Zootaxa 2071:1-20

Clements, Lee Ann

Price, Janice & Clements, Lee Ann J. (2006) Hydrodynamic Stress and its Effect on Arm Regeneration in the Brittlestar, Ophiophragmus filograneus, Proceedings of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, April 6-8, 2006.

Conand, Chantal

CONAND C., 2005 COMMERCIAL SEA CUCUMBERS AND TREPANG MARKETS, in Fisheries and Aquaculture, from Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford ,UK, [http://www.eolss.net] [Retrieved November 6, 2005]

CONAND C. 2006a Sea cucumber biology: taxonomy; distribution; biology; conservation status.:33-50 in Bruckner, A.W.  (ed).  2006. The Proceedings of the CITES workshop on the conservation of sea cucumbers in the families Holothuriidae and Stichopodidae. NOAA Technical  Memorandum , 244 pp.

CONAND C. 2006b Harvest and trade: utilization of sea cucumbers; sea cucumber fisheries; current international trade; illegal, unreported and unregulated trade; bycatch; socio-economic characteristics of the trade in sea cucumbers: 51-73 in Bruckner, A.W.  (ed).  2006. The Proceedings of the CITES workshop on the conservation of sea cucumbers in the families Holothuriidae and Stichopodidae. NOAA Technical  Memorandum , 244 pp.

Conand C. and Muthiga N. (Eds) 2007 Commercial Sea Cucumbers: A Review for the Western Indian Ocean. WIOMSA Book Series No. 5, 66 pp.

Conand C. and Frouin P. 2007. Sea cucumbers in La Reunion: 21-29. In: Conand C. and Muthiga N. (Eds) 2007 Commercial Sea Cucumbers: A Review for the Western Indian Ocean. WIOMSA Book Series No. 5, 66 pp.

Conand C. 2007. Introduction: 1-7. In: Conand C. and Muthiga N. (Eds) 2007 Commercial Sea Cucumbers: A Review for the Western Indian Ocean. WIOMSA Book Series No. 5, 66 pp.

Conand C. and Muthiga N. 2007. Conclusion and recommandations: 57-63. In: Conand C. and Muthiga N. (Eds) 2007 Commercial Sea Cucumbers: A Review for the Western Indian Ocean. WIOMSA Book Series No. 5, 66 pp.

Conand C. 2008. Population status, fisheries and trade of sea cucumbers in Africa and Indian ocean 153-205.. In : Toral-Granda, V.; Lovatelli, A.; Vasconcellos, M. (eds) Sea cucumbers. A global review on fishery and trade. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No. 516. Rome, FAO. 2008. 319 p.

Aumeeruddy R. & Conand C. 2008. Seychelles : a hotspot of sea cucumber fisheries in Africa and Indian ocean 207-221. In : Toral-Granda, V.; Lovatelli, A.; Vasconcellos, M. (eds) Sea cucumbers. A global review on fishery and trade. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No 516. Rome, FAO. 2008. 319p.

EMERAS J, FALQUET M-P AND C. CONAND 2004 - Acanthaster planci on La Reunion Reefs (Western Indian Ocean). Reef  Encounter  32: 26-27.

MANGION P. TADDEI D., FROUIN P. and CONAND C. (2004) Feeding rate and impact of sediment reworking by two deposit feeders Holothuria leucospilota and Holothuria atra on fringing reef (Reunion Island, Indian Ocean), Echinoderms: München - Heinzeller & Nebelsick (eds), Taylor & Francis Group, London,  pp 311-317

FLAMMANG P. and CONAND C. (2004) Functional morphology of the tentacles in the apodid holothuroid Synapta maculata, Echinoderms: München - Heinzeller & Nebelsick (eds), Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp 327-333

KOJADINOVIC J., FALQUET M-P., MANGION P. and CONAND C. (2004) Distribution, abundance, and asexual reproduction of Asterina burtoni (Asteroidea: Echinodermata) from Reunion reefs (Western Indian Ocean), Echinoderms: München - Heinzeller & Nebelsick (eds), Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp 225-230

UTHICKE S., CONAND C. 2005 -  Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis indicates importance of both asexual and sexual reproduction in the fissiparous holothurian Stichopus chloronotus (Aspidochirotida) in the Indian and Pacific Ocean. Coral reefs, 24(1): 103–111

BIGOT L., CONAND C., AMOUROUX J-M , FROUIN P., BRUGGEMANN H. , GREMARE A. 2006 Effects of industrial outfalls on tropical macrobenthic sediment communities in Reunion Island (Southwest Indian Ocean) MAR. POLL. BULL. 52 : 865-880

BIGOT L. QUOD J-P & CONAND C. 2006 Bathymetric distribution of soft bottom tropical macrobenthos from the exposed east coast of Reunion Island (Southwest Indian Ocean) Western Indian Ocean J. Mar. Sci. 5 (1) :1-15

CONAND F., MARSAC F., TEISSIER E. & CONAND C. 2007 A Ten-year Period of Daily Sea Surface Temperature at a Coastal Station in Reunion Island, Indian Ocean (July 1993 ­ April 2004): Patterns of Variability and Biological Responses Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science, Volume 6 Number 1 : 1-16.

HOAREAU T., LECOMTE-FININGERR., GRONDIN H., CONAND C.& BERREBI P. 2007 Oceanic larval life and genetic structure of La Reunion « bichiques », amphidromous gobiids post-larvae. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 333 : 303-308

ROOS D., ROUX O., CONAND F. 2007 Notes on the biology of the bigeye scad , Selar crumenophthalmus (carangidae) at Reunion Island, south-west Indian Ocean. Scientia marina 71 (1)

Stohr S., Boissin E. & Conand C. 2008. Brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from La Réunion and the systematic position of Ophiocanops Koehler, 1922. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153 : 545-560

GAUDRON S., KOHLER S. and CONAND C. 2008. Reproduction of the sea cucumber Holothuria leucospilota in the fringing reef of Reunion Island (Western Indian Ocean): biological and ecological aspects. Invert Reproduction Dev. .51 (1) :19-31.

Ooka S., Komatsu M. & Conand C. 2008. Sexual reproduction of the small fissiparous seastar Aquilonastra sp. (Asteroidea: Asterinidae) in La Réunion Island. Int Echinoderm Conf, Durham (in press).

Conand C. & Muthiga N. 2007 The sea cucumber resources and fisheries management in the Western Indian Ocean  : Current status and preliminary results from a WIOMSA regional research project. Int Echinoderm Conf, Durham (in press).

Tessier E., Bigot L., Chabanet P., Conand C., Cauvin B., Cadet C., Nicet J-B and Quod J-P 2008. Les récifs coralliens de La Réunion en 2007: état des lieux et réseaux de suivi. Rev. Ecol. (Terre Vie) 63: 85- 102.

MANGION P., TADDEI D., FROUIN P, CONAND C. . Feeding rate and impact of sediment reworking by two deposit feeders Holothuria leucospilota and Holothuria atra on a fringing reef (Reunion Island, Indian Ocean)." 11th International Echinoderm Conference, Munich (in press)

LOVATELLI A., CONAND C, PURCELL S., UTHICKE S., HAMEL J.-F. & MERCIER A. -eds. Advances in sea cucumber aquaculture and management. FAO, Rome. (in press)

UTHICKE S., CONAND C. - Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis indicates importance of both asexual and sexual reproduction in the fissiparous holothurian Stichopus chloronotus (Aspidochirotida) in the Indian and Pacific Ocean. (Coral reefs accepted)

EMERAS J, FALQUET M-P AND C. CONAND - Acanthaster on La Reunion Reefs. Reef Encounter (accepted)

Coppard, Simon

Coppard, S.E. & Campbell, A.C. In press. Taxonomic significance of tridentate pedicellariae in the echinoid genera Diadema and Echinothrix. Invertebrate Biology.

Coppard, S.E. & Campbell, A.C. In press. Taxonomic significance of test morphology in the echinoid genera Diadema and Echinothrix. Zoosystema.
Coppard, S.E. & Campbell, A.C. In press. Grazing preferences of diadematid echinoids in Fiji. Aquatic Botany.

Coppard, S.E. & Campbell, A.C. 2005. Lunar periodicities of diadematid echinoids breeding in Fiji. Coral Reefs, 24, 224-332.

Coppard, S.E. & Campbell, A.C. 2005. Echinoid species ditribution and abundance on Sosoikula Reef and Nukubuco Reef, Fiji. Micronesica, 37 (2), 249-269.

Coppard, S.E., Smith, A.B. & Barras, C. 2005. Stem group Neognathostomata and Cassiduloida. In:Smith, A.B. (editor). The echinoid directory. World wide web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/palaeontology/echinoids/CITING.HTM

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Dafni, Jacob

Dafni, J. (2008) Diversity and Recent Changes in the Echinoderm Fauna of the Gulf of Aqaba with Emphasis on the Regular Echinoids. in a recently issued book: Aqaba-Eilat, the Improbable Gulf : Environment, Biodiversity and Preservation.  F. D. Por (Ed.) Magnes Press Jerusalem. pp. 226-234  A PDF copy of my paper can be found in my website  http://www.dafni.com/jdafni/Dafni_2008.pdf .

Davey, Niki

David, Bruno

Dilman, Anna

Dilman A. B. 2005. The starfishes of the genus Myxaster (Echinodermata: Asteroidea). Zoologichesky zhurnal 84 (4): 455-463. (In Russian, English summary).

Drumm, Darrin

Drumm, D. J. and Loneragan, N. R., 2005. Reproductive biology of Holothuria leucospilota in the Cook Islands and the implications of traditional fishing of gonads on the population. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 39(1): 141&endash;156

Dynowski, Janina

Dynowski, J.F. 2012. Echinoderm remains in shallow-water carbonates at Fernandez Bay, San Salvador Island, Bahamas. PALAIOS 27: 183-191.

Dynowski, J.F. & Nebelsick, J.H. 2011. Ecophenotypic variations of Encrinus liliiformis (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) from the middle Triassic Muschelkalk of Southwest Germany. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 130(1): 53-67.

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