OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Marine Biodiversity is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Systematic review of Neanthes Kinberg, 1865 (Annelida: Errantia: Nereididae) from southern Africa, including a preliminary molecular phylogeny of the genus	24
Calcareous sponges (Porifera, Calcarea) from the Northeastern Brazilian coast: integrative taxonomy and support for the creation of a marine park	24
Epipelagic cnidarian fauna in the Western Equatorial Atlantic Ocean off the Amazon River Delta	20
Genetic polymorphism and phylogenetic relationships of the brushtooth lizardfish (Saurida undosquamis) (Aulopiformes: Synodontidae) based on mitochondrial DNA markers	17
Insights into the trophic interactions of the endemic shark Cephalurus cephalus: diet composition and first infection records of Anisakis and other nematodes	14
A new species of Fissidentalium (Scaphopoda: Dentaliidae) in association with an actinostolid anemone from the abyssal Labrador Sea	11
A corallimorpharian barren in southwestern Kochi, Japan	9
Biodiversity and distribution of corals in Chile	9
Genetic structure and historical demography of the Pacific rudderfish Psenopsis anomala in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean	9
Spatial occurrence and abundance of marine zooplankton in Northeast Greenland	9
Correction to: Fluke-less pygmy killer whale spotted on the central Atlantic	9
Opportunistic feeding behaviour of Trachurus mediterraneus	9
Exploring abyssal solenogastres (Mollusca, Aplacophora) diversity with the study of a collection from the Brazil Basin and the description of three new species	9
Shallow water octocoral associated with a distinctive coral garden in the Argentine Sea	9
Geometric pattern of burrow openings produced by Acanthocepola limbata	8
Integrative taxonomy of Anoplogaster cornuta (Trachichthyiformes, Anoplogastridae) from western North Atlantic: new insights	8
Characterization of the plastic encountered in the South Polar Skua (Stercorarius maccormicki) regurgitate	8
Unveiling the diversity of thaliaceans (Chordata, thaliacea) from the South Brazilian Bight and Southern Subtropical Shelf (22°-33°S)	8
Benthos meets plankton: isopods sampled in the Japan Trench by means of plankton nets fixed to large bottom trawls	8
Towards a broader perspective on marine biodiversity change	8
Confirming the occurrence of two fish (Family: Hemiramphidae) species, Euleptorhamphus viridis (van Hasselt, 1823) and Oxyporhamphus micropterus (Valenciennes, 1847) by morpho-meristic and molecular c	8
On Synagoga mira Norman, 1888 (Crustacea, Ascothoracida), associated with the black coral Parantipathes larix (Esper, 1788)	8
Resurrection of the parasitic isopod genus Cryptione Hansen, 1897 (Epicaridea: Bopyridae) and description of a new species of parasitic isopod (Epicaridea: Bopyridae) from the deep-sea shrimp Notostom	8
Functional arrangement and temporal analyses of the coastal fish community of the southern Gulf of Mexico	7
The 15th International Scientific Wadden Sea Symposium—the challenge of talking about real nature in a virtual environment	7

Thresholds and tipping points are tempting but not necessarily suitable concepts to address anthropogenic biodiversity change—an intervention	7
Comparisons of genetic population structures of copepods Pseudocalanus spp. in the Okhotsk Sea: the first record of P. acuspes in coastal waters off Japan	7
Comparison of DNA metabarcoding and microscopy in analysing planktonic protists from the European Arctic	7
Unexpected recovery of Laminaria ochroleuca in the Strait of Messina	7
On dwarf males in the deep-sea acorn barnacle Bathylasma hirsutum (Thoracica: Bathylasmatidae)	7
Morphological and molecular clue resolves confusion in Pisodonophis boro complex with re-description of Pisodonophis boro (Hamilton 1822) from type locality and description of a new species from India	7
Aurelia profunda (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa): a new species from the Gulf of Mexico	7
DNA barcoding for different egyptian and qatari common snappers reveals unexpected cryptic lineages in the blackspot snapper Lutjanus ehrenbergii	7
Thrissina katana sp. nov., a new thryssa from the western Pacific Ocean, and redescription of Thrissina hamiltonii (Gray, 1835) (Teleostei: Clupeiformes: Engraulidae)	7
Unraveling the two unknown storm-petrels of South America: a review about the white-vented storm-petrel (oceanites gracilis) and pincoya storm-petrel (Oceanites pincoyae)	6
Competitive overgrowth of the zoantharian Savalia savaglia by the sponge Crambe crambe in the Mediterranean Sea	6
Habitat shift of a basket star during a coral bleaching event	6
New iEcology records and range extension for the clown wedgefish Rhynchobatus cooki	6
Forty years of a salt marsh formation in the Wadden Sea: surface elevation, sediments, vegetation and bottom fauna	6
First record of multi-species synchronized sea cucumber spawning in the Mariana Islands	6
Pelagic tunicates (Chordata) in two seasons in the Santos Basin, tropical Southwestern Atlantic: horizontal and vertical distributions	6
Fluke-less pygmy killer whale spotted on the central Atlantic	6
Platyhelminth fauna of the Island of Sylt: a meta-analysis of distributional patterns and description of 19 new species	6
A morphological assessment of Paracyathus and Polycyathus corals (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) from the Gulf of Thailand	6
Appreciation to reviewers	6
Morphology and occurrence of early stages of icefishes from the largest estuary of northern Vietnam	5
Deep-sea ecosystems in the north-eastern Alboran Sea (western Mediterranean): quantifying assemblages and anthropogenic activity in the Seco de los Olivos Bank	5
The first report of adult blue shark surviving severe head impalement by a swordfish, with an overview of similar incidents	5
Opercular dimorphism in Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Annelida: Serpulidae): cytochrome b genotype, sex, or size do not explain opercular spine arrangement	5
Collection of stomatopod larvae unveiled the existence of an undescribed genus in Lysiosquillidae around Japanese waters	5
Population dynamics of three species of the genus Aplysina (Porifera, Demospongiae, Verongiida) in a tropical bay in the Western Atlantic Ocean	5
Aggression of an orange-fin anemonefish to a blacktip reef shark: a potential example of fish mobbing?	5
Anvil use by the bird wrasse, Gomphosus varius, on an Okinawan coral reef	5
From physics to fish: 50 Years of research at Great Meteor Seamount, NE Atlantic	5
Molecular reassessment of the phylogeny of Coelogynoporidae (Platyhelminthes, Proseriata), with the description of two new genera and three new species from Cuba and the Pacific coast of Panama	5
Location of sea turtle nesting sites in the Madagascar northeastern coast: case of Loky-Manambato protected area	5
Hyperdiversity of the genus Halgerda Bergh, 1880 (Nudibranchia: Discodorididae) with descriptions of fourteen new species	4
The molluscan assemblage of a pristine Posidonia oceanica meadow in the eastern Mediterranean	4
Mollusc shell detritus affects benthic subtidal community dynamics in the Northern Wadden Sea	4
First record of chafing behavior by silky sharks (Carcharhinus falciformis) on oceanic manta rays (Mobula birostris) at Malpelo Island, Colombia	4
A novel feeding association between blackeye thicklip wrasse (Hemigymnus melapterus) and lyretail hogfish (Bodianus anthioides)	4
Status and occurrence of the non-indigenous dwarf surf clam Mulinia lateralis (Say, 1822) in the central Wadden Sea (southern North Sea)—a systematic survey	4
Diet of the Cortez damselfish Stegastes rectifraenum (Gill, 1862) in the Gulf of California assessed by stomach content analysis	4
Intense bioturbation by the irregular sea urchin Spatangus purpureus in a Mediterranean maërl bed	4
Trophic ecology and seasonal occurrence of two Red List fish species in the Western Baltic Sea—two of a kind?	4
Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus) in Russia with note on Xenobalanus globicipitis	4
Endemism or synonymy in genus Belone (Belonidae)? An integrative analysis on North-Eastern Mediterranean populations	4
Occurrences of the elusive Hippopus porcellanus in Malaysian waters	4
Antholoba fabiani sp. nov. (Actiniaria, Metridioidea, Antholobidae fam. nov.), a new species and family of sea anemone of the southwestern Atlantic, Brazil	4
Effects of environmental and climatic drivers on abyssal macrobenthic infaunal communities from the NE Pacific nodule province	4
As little as we know: current understanding and future outlook of benthic tanaid diversity and distribution in the Clarion–Clipperton Zone (CCZ)	4
Temporal change in phytoplankton diversity and functional group composition	4
Food components of the thornback guitarfish Platyrhinoidis triseriata on the western coast of Baja California Peninsula	4
Ophiothela mirabilis associating with a scleractinian coral (Madracis decactis) at the edge of its invasive range	4
A literature review of the marine annelids of the Ryukyu Islands: still at the “early-bird” stage	4

A comprehensive record of fishes and crustaceans in a poorly known tropical estuary-Kavvayi from the west coast of India	4
Climate and de-eutrophication affect abundance of benthos-feeding waterbirds in the Wadden Sea during stop-over	4
Systematic revision of the speciose sea slug genus Doto (Heterobranchia: Nudibranchia) − from the Mediterranean to South America	4
The meso- and bathypelagic cephalopod fauna of the Gully submarine canyon	4
Euphausiid species spatial distribution in the Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank Marine-protected area: impacts of oceanographic variability in autumn	4
Novel species discrimination method elucidates colony growth form variation between the New Zealand soft corals Kotatea aurantiaca and Kotatea lobata	3
A new species of wood-boring bivalve (Mollusca: Xylophagaidae) from the Eastern Arabian Sea	3
Evidence of two species within the corallivore gastropod Drupella cornus and new Drupella records in the Indo-Pacific	3
Attachment of juvenile calcareous sponges (Porifera, Calcarea) to an adult’s spicules	3
Hydrothermal vent fauna of the Galápagos Rift: updated species list with new records	3
Aggregations of free-living corals facilitate reef expansion at upper mesophotic depth off Poivre Island, Seychelles	3
Morphological and genetic differentiation of the native crab Nasima dotilliformis in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman	3
Two new species of Xouthous Thomson, 1883 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Pseudotachidiidae) from the Caribbean	3
Spatio-temporal patterns in the distribution of juvenile elasmobranchs in a tropical Indian Ocean estuary, Zuari- India	3
Biogeographic patterns in sea pens (Octocorallia: Pennatulacea)	3
First report of interspecific cleaning in a Pseudochromid, the dusky dottyback (Pseudochromis fuscus)	3
Appreciation to reviewers	3
Diversity of heterotrophic picoeukaryotes in the ice of the Kandalaksha Gulf (White Sea, Russia) based on rRNA gene high-throughput sequencing	3
Effects and perception of marine introduced species by stakeholders in the Wadden Sea—an exploratory approach	3
Chafing behavior by scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini), including an unusual scratching of claspers	3
The effect of substrate and depth on hydroid assemblages: a comparison between two islands of the Tuscan Archipelago (Tyrrhenian Sea)	3
Rapid shift in benthic assemblages following coral bleaching at an upper mesophotic habitat in Taiwan	3
High levels of genetic connectivity in the corallivorous gastropod Drupella cornus (Rӧding, 1798) in an expanding latitudinal range along Western Australia	3
First observation of a leucistic false catshark Pseudotriakis microdon	3
Holocene deep-sea ostracods of the São Paulo Ridge, São Paulo Plateau, and Rio Grande Rise, southwestern Atlantic Ocean	3
New insights into the population structure of the stone flounder, Platichthys bicoloratus (Pisces, Pleuronectidae), in the northwestern Pacific using morphological and molecular methods	3
Feeding ecology of the common horse mackerel Trachurus trachurus L., 1758 (Teleostei: Carangiformes: Carangidae) off the Moroccan Atlantic coastal waters: spatial and seasonal variations	3
Prevalence of parasitic copepods (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida) from the bluefish Pomatomus saltatrix (Teleostei: Pomatomidae) and first records in the southern Gulf of Mexico	3
Copula lucentia sp. nov., a new box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Carybdeida) from Western Mediterranean Sea	3
Feeding habits of three sparid breams, Argyrops spinifer Forsskål, 1775, Sparidentex hasta Valenciennes, 1830, and Rhabdosargus niger Tanaka & Iwatsuki, 2013 (family: Sparidae) in the coastal wate	3
New findings and two new species of the genus Colossendeis Jarzynsky, 1870 (Pycnogonida, Colossendeidae), with a morphometric analysis for species from the Southern Ocean	3
First record of a piebald leucistic smallspotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula in a special area of conservation, UK	3
Occurrence of Carybdea xaymacana Conant, 1897 off the Mexican coasts	3
Deep-sea anglerfish (Lophiiformes: Ceratioidei) diversity from the western North Atlantic throughout morphology and DNA barcoding	3
Assessment of decadal changes in the tidepool fish assemblage of Danjo Islands in the northern East China Sea	3