Research

Freshwater Snails of Florida – A project seeking to identify, illustrate and map all freshwater snails in Florida.

PEET: Sea cucumbers on coral reefs, systematics of aspidochirotid holothurians – A project aimed to greatly improve our understanding of aspidochirotid systematics through large-scale, collaborative phylogenetic efforts, monographic revisions, and training.

Landsnails of New Guinea – A project seeking to identify, illustrate and map the land snails of New Guinea.

Land and freshwater snails of Mexico and Central America – Fred G. Thompson published in June 2008 an annotated checklist and bibliography of the land and freshwater snails of Mexico and Central America.

Urocoptid land snails of the genus Holospira from southern Mexico – Research featured by Fred G. Thompson on Urocoptids land snails.

Cowrie Genetic Database Project – A comprehensive guide to cowrie snails with images and distribution information.

Biogeography and speciation of IWP marine fauna – A project investigating the process of speciation in marine organisms, using Turbo, Astralium and Scutellastra snails as exemplars.

Landsnails of Madagascar – An ongoing biodiversity survey of the unique and gravely threatened snails of Madagascar.

Publications

In Press

• Malay. M. C. & Paulay, G. Peripatric speciation drives diversification and distributional pattern of reef hermit crabs (Decapoda: Diogenidae: Calcinus). Evolution. 64(3): 634-662.
• Samyn, Y., Kerr, A., O’Loughlin, M., Massin, C., Pawson, D.L., Rowe, F.W.E., Smiley, S., Solis-Marin, F, Thandar, A., VandenSpiegel, D., Paulay, G. 2010. Using sea cucumbers to illustrate the basics of zoological nomenclature. SPC Beche-de-mer Information Bulletin 30: 33-40
• Thompson, F. G. Four species of land snails from Costa Rica and Panama (Pulmonata, Spiraxidae, Spiraxinae). Revista de Biologia Tropical.
• Thompson, F. G. & A, Correa-Sandoval. Another new species of the urocoptid landsnail genus Hendersoniella from northeastern Mexico (Pulmonata, Urocoptidae, Holospirinae). Veliger.

2009

• Poupin, J. & M.C.D. Malay. 2009. Identification of a Ciliopagurus strigatus (Herbst, 1804) species-complex, with description of a new Ciliopagurus from French Polynesia (Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae). Zoosystema 31(2): 209-232.
• Emberton, K. C. 2009. Operculate land snails from three rainforest transects in northeastern Madagascar, with descriptions of nine new species and one new subspecies (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda). Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 138: 1-41.
• Emberton, K. C. & O. L. Griffiths 2009a. Pulmonate land mollusks from three rainforest transects in northeastern Madagascar: Part 1 of 2, with descriptions of 12 new species and one new subspecies. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 138: 137-167.
• Emberton, K. C. & O. L. Griffiths 2009b. Pulmonate land mollusks from three rainforest transects in northeastern Madagascar: Part 2 of 2, with descriptions of 21 new species. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 138: 169-203.
• O’Loughlin, P.M., Paulay, G., Davey, N., Michonneau, F. 2009. Diversity and distribution of holothuroid species south of the Antarctic Convergence (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). Proceedings of the 13th International Echinoderm Conference.
• Paulay, G., Starmer, J. 2009. Evolution, insular restriction, and extinction of oceanic land crabs, exemplified by the loss of an endemic Geograpsus in Hawai’i. PLoS One
• Plaisance, L., Knowlton, N., Paulay, G., Meyer, C. 2009. Reef-associated crustacean fauna: Biodiversity estimates using semi-quantitative sampling and DNA barcoding. Coral Reefs 28: 977-986
• Slapcinsky, J. 2009. A new species of Paryphantopsis (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Charopidae) from Crater Mountain, Simbu (Chimbu) Province, Papua New Guinea. The Nautilus. 123(2): 53-58.
• Thompson, F.G. 2009. Five land snails of the Family Spiraxidae from southeastern Mexico (Pulmonata, Spiraxidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 138: 63-70.
• Thompson, F.G., M.W. Heyn & D.N. Campbell. 2009. Thiara scabra (O. F. Müller, 1774): The introduction of another Asian freshwater snail into the United States. The Nautilus. 123: 21-22.
• Williams, J.D., A.E. Bogan, J.T. Garner. 2009 A new species of freshwater mussel, Anodonta hartfieldorum (Bivalvia: Unionidae), from the Gulf Coastal Plain drainages of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi, USA. The Nautilus. 123(3): 25-33.

2008

• Juinio-Meñez, M.A., H.G.P. Bangi, & M.C.D. Malay. 2008. Effect of type of feed, stocking density and grow-out site on gonad yield, growth and survivorship of cultured sea urchin. Philippine Agricultural Scientist 91(4): 439-449.
• Juinio-Meñez, M.A., H.G.P. Bangi, M.C.D. Malay, & D. Pastor. 2008. Enhancing the Recovery of Depleted Tripneustes gratilla Stocks Through Grow-out Culture and Restocking. Reviews in Fisheries Science 16(1-3): 35-43.
• Sandin, S.A., J.E. Smith, E.E. DeMartini, E.A. Dinsdale, S.D. Donner, A.M. Friedlander, T. Konotchick, M. Malay, J.E. Maragos, D. Obura, O. Pantos, G. Paulay, M. Richie, F. Rohwer, R.E. Schroeder, S. Walsh, J.B.C. Jackson, N. Knowlton, & E. Sala. 2008. Baselines and degradation of coral reefs in the northern Line Islands. PLoS ONE 3(2): e1548. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001548
• Thompson, F.G. 2008. An annotated checklist and bibliography of the land and freshwater snails of Mexico and Central America. 903 pp. PDF (permanent)
• Thompson, F.G. 2008. The clausiliid landsnail genus Columbinia in Venezuela, and the description of a new species. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 137: 127-132.
• Williams, J.D, A.E. Bogan & J.T. Garner. 2008. Freshwater Mussels of Alabama & the Mobile Basin in Georgia, Mississippi & Tennessee. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 908 pp.

2007

• Emberton, K.C. 2007. Twenty-nine new land-snail species of the genus Kalidos from Northern Madagascar (Pulmonata: Helicarionidae. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 136(2): 245-289.
• O’Loughlin, P. M.; Paulay, G.; Van den Spiegel, D.; Samyn, Y. 2007. New Holothuria species from Australia (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Holothuriidae), with comments on the origin of deep and cool holothuriids. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 64: 35-52.
• Paulay, G. 2007. Metopograpsus oceanicus (Crustacea: Brachyura) in Hawai’i and Guam: another marine invasive? Pacific Science 61: 295-300.
• Slapcinsky, J. & R. Lasley. 2007. Three new species of Paryphantopsis (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Charopidae) from the Nakanai Mountains, New Britain, Papua New Guinea. The Nautilus, 121(4): 182-190.

2006

• Paulay, G. & C. Meyer. 2006. Dispersal and divergence across the greatest ocean: Do larvae matter? Integrative & Comparative Biology 46: 269-281.
• Slapcinsky, J. 2006. Paryphantopsis (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Charopidae) from the Louisiade Archipelago of New Guinea. The Nautilus. 120(4): 119-130.
• Thompson, F.G. 2006. Some landsnails of the genus Humboldtiana from Chihuahua and western Texas. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, 46: 61-98.
• Thompson, F.G. 2006. A new landsnail of the genus Humboldtiana (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Humboldtianidae) from Nuevo León, Mexico. The Nautilus, 120: 21-24.
• Thompson, F.G. & O. Mejia. 2006. Two new land snails of the genus Humboldtiana (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Humboldtianidae) from Chihuahua, Mexico. Nautilus, 120: 25-29.

2005

• Meyer, C. P.; Paulay, G. 2005. DNA Barcoding: error rates based on comprehensive sampling. Public Library of Science, Biology 3(12): e422. PDF (permanent)
• Asami, R.; Yamada, T.; Iryu, Y.; Quinn, T. M.; Meyer, C. P.; Paulay, G. 2005. Interannual and decadal variability of the western Pacific sea surface condition for the years 1787-2000: Reconstruction based on stable isotope record from a Guam coral. Journal of Geophysical Research 110: No. C5, C05018, 10.1029/2004JC002555
• Thompson, F. G., and E. L. Mihalcik. in press-a. Concerning the availability of the names Melania curvicostata Reeve, 1861, Melania densicostata Reeve, 1861 andGoniobasis doolyensis Lea, 1862. (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pleuroceridae). (Case 3232; see BZN 60: 109-112, 300-302; BZN 61: 1-3). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
• Thompson, F. G., and E. L. Mihalcik. in press-b. Urocoptid land snails of the genus Holospira from southern Mexico. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History
• Townsend, J. H., J. Slapcinsky, K. L. Krysko, E. M. Donlan, and E. A. Golden. 2005. Predation of a tree snail Drymaeus multilineatus (Gastropoda: Bulimulidae) by Iguana iguana (Reptilia: Iguanidae) on Key Biscayne, Florida. Southeastern Naturalist. 4(2): 361-364
• Meyer, C. P., J. B. Geller, and G. Paulay. 2005. Fine scale endemism on coral reefs: archipelagic differentiation in turbinid gastropods. Evolution 59:113-125.
• Robinson, D., and J. Slapcinsky. 2005. Recent introductions of alien gastropods into North America. American Malacological Bulletin 20:89-93.
• Slapcinsky, J. 2005. Six new species of Paryphantopsis from the Papuan Peninsula, New Guinea. Nautilus 119:27-42.
• Thompson, F. G. 2005. Two new species of hydrobiid snails of the genusMarstonia from Alabama and Georgia. Veliger 47:175-182.

2004

• Asami, R., T. Yamada, Y. Iryu, C. P. Meyer, T. M. Quinn, and G. Paulay. 2004. Carbon and oxygen isotopic composition of a Guam coral and their relationships to environmental variables in the western Pacific. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 212:1-22.
• Emberton, K. C. 2004. Madagascan Georissa, Omphalotropis, Cyclotus, and so-called Chondrocyclus (Caenogastropoda). Archiv fuer Molluskenkunde 133:69-107.
• Fukami, H., A. F. Budd, G. Paulay, A. Sole Cava, C. A. Chen, K. Iwao, and N. Knowlton. 2004. Conventional taxonomy obscures deep divergence between Pacific and Atlantic corals. Nature 427:832-835.
• Kirkendale, L., T. Lee, B. Baker, and D. O’Foighil. 2004. Oysters of the Conch Republic (Florida Keys): A molecular phylogenetic study of Parahyotissa mcgintyi, Teskeyostrea weberi and Ostreola equestris. Malacologia 46:309-326.
• Kirkendale, L. A., and C. P. Meyer. 2004. Phylogeography of the Patelloida profunda group (Gastropoda: Lottidae): diversification in a dispersal-driven marine system. Molecular Ecology 13:2749-2762.
• Lydeard, C., R. H. Cowie, W. F. Ponder, A. E. Bogan, P. Bouchet, S. A. Clark, K. S. Cummings, T. J. Frest, O. Gargominy, D. G. Herbert, R. Hershler, K. E. Perez, B. Roth, M. Seddon, E. E. Strong, and F. G. Thompson. 2004. The global decline of nonmarine mollusks. Bioscience 54:321-330.
• Meyer, C. P. 2004. Toward comprehensiveness: increased molecular sampling within Cypraeidae and its phylogenetic implications. Malacologia 46:127-156.
• Slapcinsky, J., and B. Coles. 2004. Revision of the genus Pilsbryna (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Gastrodontidae) and comments on the taxonomic status of Pilsbryna tridens Morrison, 1935. Nautilus 118:55-70.

2003

• Asakura, A.; Paulay, G. 2003. Pylopaguropsis lemaitrei, a new species of hermit crab (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from French Polynesia. Crustacean Research 32: 13-25.
• Emberton, K. C. 2003a. Fischerpietteus, a new genus of streptaxid land snails from northern Madagascar. Veliger 46:225-238.
• Emberton, K. C. 2003b. Madagascan Cyathopoma sensu lato (Gastropoda: Cyclophoridae). Archiv fuer Molluskenkunde 132:9-91.
• Emberton, K. C. 2003c. Two aberrant new helicarionid land snail species from northern Madagascar. Veliger 46:329-331.
• Emberton, K. C. 2003d. Unusual new species of pomatiasid land snails from northern Madagascar. Veliger 46:60-68.
• Keegan, W.F., Portell, R.W. & Slapcinsky, J. 2003. Changes in invertebrate taxa at two pre-Columbian sites in southwestern Jamaica, AD 800-1500. Journal of Achaeological Science 30:1607-1617.
• Kelly, M.; Hooper, J.; Paul, V. J.; Paulay, G.; van Soest, R.; de Weerdt, W. 2003. Taxonomic inventory of the sponges (Porifera) of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Micronesica 35-36: 100-120.
• Matsukuma, A., Paulay, G.; Hamada, N. 2003. Chama cerion n. sp. a new chamid bivalve (Mollusca) from Polynesia and Melanesia. Venus 62: 19-27.
• Meyer, C. P. 2003. Molecular systematics of cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) and diversification patterns in the tropics. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 79:401-459.
• Newman, L.; Paulay, G.; Ritson-Williams, R. 2003. Checklist of polyclad flatworms (Platyhelminthes) from Micronesian coral reefs. Micronesica 35-36: 189-199.
• Paulay, G. (ed.) 2003. The marine biodiversity of Guam and the Marianas. Micronesica 35-36: 1-682.
• Paulay, G. 2003. The Asteroidea, Echinoidea, and Holothuroidea (Echinodermata) of the Mariana Islands. Micronesica 35-36: 563-583.
• Paulay, G. 2003. Miscellaneous marine invertebrates and protists from the Mariana Islands. Micronesica 35-36: 676-682.
• Paulay, G. 2003. Marine biodiversity of Guam and the Marianas: overview. Micronesica 35-36: 3-25.
• Paulay, G. 2003. The Bivalvia (Mollusca) of Guam. Micronesica 35-36: 218-243.
• Paulay, G.; Kropp, R.; Ng, P.; Eldredge, L. 2003. The crustaceans and pycnogonids of the Mariana Islands. Micronesica 35-36: 456-513.
• Paulay, G.; Puglisi, M., Starmer, J. 2003. The non-scleractinian Anthozoa (Cnidaria) of the Mariana Islands. Micronesica 35-36: 138-155.
• Paulay, G., Ross, A. 2003. An annotated check-list of the shallow water Cirripedia of Guam. Micronesica 35-36: 303-314.
• Starmer, J. A. 2003. An annotated checklist of ophiuroids (Echinodermata) from Guam. Micronesica 35-36: 547-562.
• Wallace, C.C.; Paulay, G.; Hoeksema, B.W.H.; Bellwood, D.R.; Hutchings, P.; Barber, P. ; Erdmann, M.; Wolstenholme, J. 2003. Nature and origins of unique high diversity reef faunas in the bay of Tomini, central Sulawesi: the ultimate “centre of diversity”. Proceedings of the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium 1:185-192.